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Add to SafariWhen comparing Launchpad vs Codeberg, the Slant community recommends Codeberg for most people. In the question“What are the best hosted version control services?” Codeberg is ranked 5th while Launchpad is ranked 11th. The most important reason people chose Codeberg is:
Fully open source, no subscription plans. Every available feature is provided for free and every new feature with each update will be free as well, forever.
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Pros
Pro Support for web based translation
Launchpad makes it easy to translate free open source projects into virtually any language in the world. Users are allowed to start working on translating any project they want just by having a Launchpad account and a web browser. Most of the time they don't have to even join a team to start working and the editor is web based, so there is no need for any special software.
Pro Integrated build/deployment system
If you use launchpad, it gives you a build system (on their platform) as well as easier deployment - user merely adds your PPA to their sources.list file. Deployment (on Ubuntu, at least - other debians as well) doesn't get simpler than this.
Pro Great bug tracking features
Launchpad is built to be used for open source projects, as such it needs a powerful bug trackers to allow developers who want to contribute to jump right in. Launchpad displays bug statistics (total number of bugs, number of bugs fixed etc...) as well. Bugs can be searched and displayed from every project hosted on Launchpad or for single projects.
Pro Open source
Fully open source, no subscription plans. Every available feature is provided for free and every new feature with each update will be free as well, forever.
Pro Intuitive user interface
Easy to mess around and feels very natural in general.
Pro Managed by a non-profit organization
Codeberg is community driven and managed by a non-profit organization based in Berlin, Germany. The servers are also managed by them. In conclusion, your privacy and source code is protected!
Pro Lightweight
Codeberg uses Gitea as its Git software so it's extremely lightweight. Especially compared to Gitlab or Github.
Cons
Con The web interface is complicated and hard to use
Other project hosts such as GitHub, BitBucket or GitLab have easy, simplistic UIs that help new and experienced developers alike to browse code right through the browser. LaunchPad on the other hand is very weak at this. Most of the projects have poor (if any) documentation and no way to determine a project's worth easily. The fastest way to do so with LaunchPad would be to download the project and look through the code manually, which is quite tiresome.
