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[Karl Fogel <karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Florian Effenberger <floeff@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> well, maybe I got it wrong, but when the first announcements that
> LaunchPad will be open sourced reached the public, I had the
> impression that it will be suitable for own hosting, i.e.
> ready-to-deploy packages, stable releases and no hassles when putting
> it online on the Internet. 

>From my announcement when we released the code [1]:

  "From our point of view, we're doing this to improve our hosted
   service, so if you feel the need to run it on your own servers, that
   might mean we're doing something wrong, in which case we hope you'll
   tell us what."

> Maybe a short notice on the main page on who the intended target
> audience is would be good? I had some feedback from other folks who
> also tried to install it for production use, and in the end, just gave
> up...

Well, I'm reluctant to use precious front page real estate on that.
Instead, I've put some text on https://dev.launchpad.net/Running, in the
first section, on the theory that anyone looking for information about
running an instance would naturally come to that page early in the
process, and see the note.

Does it look like a good location to you?  I could put it somewhere
else, if you see an even more appropriate place.

Best,
-Karl

[1] https://lists.launchpad.net/launchpad-users/msg05118.html