== Why replace !SourceForge with Launchpad? ==
'''Note: As of January 2012, BZR/Launchpad info for eden is deprecated. Please visit the GitHub page. Thanks.'''[[BR]]

Sahana-Eden is a registered sub-project of the main Sahana !LaunchPad site:
 * https://launchpad.net/sahana

Sourceforge was great in it's day, but hasn't kept up with the competition:
 * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_software_hosting_facilities [[BR]]

We need a host which supports [FrequentlyAskedQuestionsBazaar Bzr]
 * http://doc.bazaar-vcs.org/bzr.dev/en/tutorials/using_bazaar_with_launchpad.html

There are other good reasons for switching:[[BR]]
The bug tracker has been a particular source of frustration - it has poor facilities for targetting bugs at specific milestones.[[BR]]
This is related to there being no support for roadmaps (the Wiki is currently used for this, but it's not integrated)

Launchpad is designed to foster a more collaborative development process, which is exactly what we need.[[BR]]
It is designed for a world of Distributed Version Control systems & less central hierarchy.[[BR]]
It supports links to external systems (such as Sourceforge & Trac).

The User-focussed 'Answers' section & FAQ are potentially very useful...although right now they seem better as inspiration for how to structure our Wiki[[BR]]
The 'Translations' section could potentially replace Pootle?

It's main limitation is the lack of an in-built Wiki (the !BluePrints/Answers/FAQ can kind-of be used to work around this).

We therefore use [FrequentlyAskedQuestionsTrac Trac] more than !LaunchPad (using the Bzr plugin).
 * Can push LP bugs to Trac: https://help.launchpad.net/Bugs/TracPlugin

Launchpad is also used by Web2Py:
 * https://launchpad.net/web2py

The SF mailing lists have also had reliability problems & the web archive is a very poor access method.[[BR]]
LP doesn't provide a replacement here...if we were to change, then we should consider !GoogleGroups.

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