Hi, thanks for the fast reply! I see... I thought LaunchPad was also offered for production use but now I get the point that it is mainly meant for developers. :-) Thanks for the fast help!
Florian 2009/10/25 Robert Collins <robe...@robertcollins.net>: > On Sun, 2009-10-25 at 13:36 +0100, Florian Effenberger wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have a second question regarding LaunchPad. As said, compiling it >> out of the sources worked well thanks to the help of the mailing list. >> However, I'm not convinced that for a production site, the open source >> edition is the right choice. Are there any stable branches or upgrade >> paths that can be applied for production sites? As far as I know, I >> only can get the bleeding edge version from time to time, wich means >> adjusting configuration files, checking for new features and the like. >> >> Honestly, is the open source LaunchPad ready for a production >> environment, or should it be considered just as an option for >> developers to work on the code, but not for hosting their own projects >> with it? > > https://code.edge.launchpad.net/launchpad has a list of the branches of > launchpad. Canonical doesn't carry a patchset outside of those branches > - though our deployed branch is not up to date with devel, as we do QA > at each release, but the patches landed to stablise production are all > published. > > Launchpad isn't designed or intended to be used by single developers as > a self-hosting site - its a gargantuan piece of code, with many moving > parts. If you just want to host your projects, its much easier to get a > high quality solution using the launchpad.net instance of Launchpad. If > you want a customised version, you can often get that by submitting > patches to make the launchpad.net instance behave how you want. > > If you do want to run a full hosting site, the the open source code - > the same code Canonical stablises and hosts - is totally suitable as a > base. However it cannot be deployed 'as-is'. > > Minimally, you *have to*: > - rebrand it > - QA your deployment > - develop the operation experience needed to admin the servers, do > backups etc. > > I looked on the faq for the rebranding stuff, but I couldn't see it > there - perhaps someone else knows where that is documented. > > -Rob > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
