Comment 5 for bug 386797

Thanks for the explanation. What you say makes sense... but it's an extremely large change.

We have other bugs with equally wide scope (e.g., bug #1), of course. But for any actual progress to be made toward achieving what you describe, there will need to be a lot of feature discussion, design work, etc. It may be that this is not the direction for Launchpad to go; I'm not sure yet, I'm just saying that "the world needs X" can be true while "Launchpad needs to become X" might still be false :-). A lot of what you're describing requires new client-side tools (better image and video diffing, etc), and isn't something Launchpad could solve on its own anyway.

Raising these questions in the open development community after Launchpad is open-sourced would be a good way to start. That will be fairly soon -- "July/August 2009" is the date on http://dev.launchpad.net/OpenSourcing now (a long time ago we said a specific date, but as we started vetting and preparing the code, we decided to give ourselves a range).

Best,
-Karl