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Neat. I really liked Ubuntu One. However, if they seek to receive contributions I think GitHub would give them more exposure than launchpad, from what I can tell the history is not preserved (probably with good reasons) so the switch from bazaar would not have been painful.

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> if they seek to receive contributions

They don't. This is a code dump for a dead project. From the FAQ:

    "Will you take patches?"
    In general, no. 
    We won’t have anybody assigned to reviewing and accepting code. 
    We’d encourage interested maintainers to fork the code [...]

I've missed that, thanks! Then it totally makes sense since it's their own platform.

You might want this guy's mirror: https://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/3gh8wj/ubuntu_one_f...

By the way, as say one of the comment, it is strange they didn't mirror it on the git new launchpad system.

How is it weird? Because a lot of people prefer git these days?

I would assume they're using bazaar as that's probably what they've always been using for this repository. Then again, only they know.

They're only using Launchpad because it's a Canonical product and the way they always do distribution of this kind. I too would agree in your choice of Github as it tends to be more developer centric in it's social tools. I think it will get picked up more if it's there..

I've created a vanilla fork on Github for this very reason. I really have no desire to use Bazaar or Launchpad to maintain code. https://github.com/stevegood/filesync-server

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