[LightDM] Proposal: Move LightDM code hosting from Launchpad to GitHub

Fraser_Bell Fraser_Bell at openSUSE.org
Thu Sep 21 23:30:43 UTC 2017


On 09/20/2017 10:09 PM, Robert Ancell wrote:
> 
>     Op 20 sep 00:14 schreef Robert Ancell:
>      > I'm considering moving the LightDM code hosting from Launchpad to
>      > GitHub and am interested in feedback.
>      >
>      > Reasons for moving:
>      > - Many Canonical projects are now hosted on GitHub (e.g. snappy, lxd)
>      > - GitHub is pretty popular, so should hopefully make contributions
>      > easier.
>      > - The value of using the Launchpad bug tracker to link upstream and
>      > Ubuntu bugs is reduced, now 17.10 used GDM by default (for Ubuntu
>      > desktop, other flavours continue to use LightDM).
>      > - Easier to integrate tools with GitHub, e.g. continuous integration,
>      > static analysis.

I would definitely be in favour of the move.

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-Gerry Makaro
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