Launchpad

I had quick look at Launchpad today and just as quickly abandoned any plans to try it. You need a virtual environment to try this beast because the install modifies the Apache configuration, and expects a virgin PostgreSQL, otherwise the existing databases will be blown away.

Launchpad is seriously heavy duty and has some equally heavy duty dependencies (Zope) so Launchpad is not going to be a trivial web application to get running. It will be interesting to see who gets the first publicly accessible Launchpad running outside of Canonical.

Launchpad has some great features (like tracking bugs across projects) but it is too heavy weight for my tastes.