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[Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>]

Jonathan Lange wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> The last time I sat down with a keen potential Launchpad hacker and
> got them set up with Launchpad, it took about six hours.
> 
> Granted, this was on Karmic before Max Bowsher et al made it actually
> possible to use Karmic. But it's still a long time.
> 
> What can we do to make it easier to go from "I want to hack on
> Launchpad" to "I have a running development instance of Launchpad"?


This might be a minority view, but personally I'm of the opinion that
getting a Launchpad dev instance up and running is sufficiently simple
and documented already.

The hard part is not the setup, its learning enough about the code to
write useful changes.

Max.

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