Mark Shuttleworth writes: "We are a somewhat chaotic crowd, the software libre army. Thousands of projects (hundreds of thousands, if you consider Sourceforge as a reference point). Hundreds of thousands of contributing developers from virtually every country and timezone. We are a very loosely coupled bunch. But sometimes I wish it were easier to keep track of changes and have a slightly clearer view of progress across that whole galaxy." Eugenia agrees.
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Member since:2005-07-06
People have already brought a bug up about OpenID support in launchpad ( https://bugs.launchpad.net/products/launchpad/+bug/1169 ), though it's been a year with no change!
As for notifying downstream, this is what Malone does, it co-ordinates between launchpad and external projects.
Member since:2005-06-29
I don't especially care about Launchpad untill it's freed it will never get adopted outside of Ubuntu and related projects. Would you let a blackbox controlled by other people be your bug tracker.. I can't say I know many people who would be willing to do that, yet that is what Mark is asking the world to on nothing but his word. I doubt that will work to be honest, at least not anytime soon.
Thus the option we have is to integrate free solutions.
OpenID integration was debated on the Fedora Summit and Red Hat already has support for xmlrpc in their Bugzilla (it's just a matter of getting upstream to agree to it's integration and everyone will have it). I could see this working a whole lot sooner than the long promised but never acted upon liberation of Launchpad.
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2005-06-29
We need to solve two problems, having single sign-on for the bug trackers, luckily OpenID does that we just need to hook it up to the user handling and login. Then we need an easy way for downstream to clone a bug to upstream and again we have the solution, xmlrpc in bugzilla.
Bug-buddy already makes it trivially easy to file a bug (Some might say to easy: http://uwstopia.nl/blog/2006/12/bug-reports). With the recent scripting support we can get every bit of information we need, hell since we know the exact packages thanks to our friendly neighborhood distros packagers we can even fill out backtraces so there's no need to install debug symbols on the users machine.
So I would say if we continue to bet on the freeness of the entire stack, we will be just fine.