PBXT moves to Launchpad

It's been a week or 2 and some of you may already have heard that PBXT has moved from Sourceforge to Lauchpad.net: https://launchpad.net/pbxt.

There are several very good reasons for the move, not the least of which is that MySQL has already moved to Launchpad, and Drizzle is there too. It simply makes sense for a storage engine like PBXT to be on the same platform.

And check this out, Stewart Smith has already ported PBXT to Drizzle. You will find the tree here: PBXT in Drizzle. I will be pulling Stewart's changes back into the PBXT tree. Creating new branches, merging branches and generally contributing to projects is easy on Launchpad.

Besides this, Launchpad has great tools for bug reporting, planning, Q&A and managing releases which we plan to use. In general, I find these tools are much better integrated than those on Sourceforge. For example it is easy to attach a branch which fixes a bug to the bug report.

Jay Pipes has written some excellent articles on getting started with Launchpad:

A Contributor's Guide to Launchpad.net - Part 1 - Getting Started

A Contributor's Guide to Launchpad.net - Part 2 - Code Management

As Jay explains, making a contribution is done in a few easy steps: create a branch, make your changes, push the branch back to Launchpad and request a merge into the project. That's it!

Give it a try, Vladimir and I will certainly be glad to have your help. :)