What's Canonical thinking about Bazaar?

[Martin Pool]

2009/11/12 Karl Fogel <karl.fogel at canonical.com>:
> Second, open sourcing stuff *is* hard and takes a long time to finish.
> Try it.  I spent most of my first six or seven months at Canonical
> working on the open sourcing of Launchpad; for the final few months
> before the release it was really 100% or more of my time, and I *still*
> didn't get to every loose end that I wanted to.  There are all sorts of
> issues with code layout, with weird licensing obligations that only take
> effect once you start distributing code, with unanticipated license
> interactions, technical issues of making the code ready for newcomers to
> build... And it wasn't just me dealing with this stuff, it was many
> other people on Canonical's Launchpad development team.  It cost us
> serious time: bugs unfixed, features slowed down.  I won't bore you with
> the details, but if you want them, they're there.

Thanks - both for getting it released, and for explaining it.

-- 
Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/>