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Add to SafariWhen comparing Launchpad vs Codegiant, the Slant community recommends Codegiant for most people. In the question“What are the best git repository managers with built-in bug tracker?” Codegiant is ranked 6th while Launchpad is ranked 8th. The most important reason people chose Codegiant is:
Also provides access control to repositories.
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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 Collaboration
Also provides access control to repositories.
Pro User friendly
The user interface is very simple and intuitive.
Pro Documentation tool
Create knowledge bases, API documentation, status pages, product roadmaps, etc.
Pro Import repositories
Easily import repositories from Github, Bitbucket, hosted Git servers, or SVN.
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.
