Canonical's Launchpad now open source (AGPLv3)

I don't want to sound too negative, but it seems to me like they have failed by releasing this so late. Creating open source software is not just about releasing the source, it is also about building an active development community.<p>By releasing a mature product, people won't be as likely to join, as most of the stuff has already been shaped. It's really hard to change the way launchpad works right now, which is part of the fun in an open source project. If you join now, you're basically an alien around the canonical employees, which doesn't sound very attractive to me.<p>Time will tell of course, but I think it's a mistake to only release this now.

Imagine Github, then add an integrated package manager, an inter-project bug tracker and extensive documentation and collaboration features. That's Launchpad. What I've seen of it has been really impressive. This could be a game changer for open source.

Has anyone used this as opposed to say a combination of {trac,github,lighthouse,redmine,fogbugz} - and if yes, what has your experience been like? Pros/Cons?<p>It seems like it doesn't support git but now that it is open source, maybe that'll change soon.

This is fantastic news! I wish I could say I saw how important Launchpad would be when I saw the database schema in that hotel room in Seattle so many years ago, but I was pretty dubious.