Launchpad
Purpose
The '''Launchpad Focus Group''' exists to help BT members educate and participate in Launchpad. Our focus groups goals are to educate the Ubuntu Community on Launchpad and to use Launchpad's tools to contribute to Ubuntu and the community.
Getting Started
Creating an account allows you to start working within Launchpad. You can learn more about creating a Launchpad account here.
You should also consider creating and registering an OpenPGP Key, signing the Ubuntu Code of Conduct and becoming an Ubuntero. All this can be done from your Launchpad homepage.
If you are a Beginners Team Member or Padawan and want to join the Launchpad Focus group, please visit here.
Launchpad
Launchpad is an software collaboration platform that provides:
Code Hosting using bazaar
Some highlights of the new Launchpad 3.0
Answers
Launchpad Answers is a community based answer tracker. It is a great place to ask questions about Launchpad projects (ex. Ubuntu, Inkscape) . Some of the strengths of Launchpad Answers over other support resources are:
- tracking user questions in a similar way to bug reports
- notifying volunteer support contacts of new questions
- building a searchable knowledge base of good answers
- allowing people to ask questions and offer support in different languages.
It also serves as a simple ticketing system for tracking Launchpad admin requests.
More about Launchpad Answers
Asking for help: find out how to use Launchpad to get help with software.
Offering help: how to help other people and become an ..answer contact.
Bugs
The two most common uses of Launchpads Bug feature by Ubuntu users is to report bugs and to triage bugs. Reporting Bugs you experience in Ubuntu and Ubuntu programs gives you a voice in getting problems with your software fixed. With Open Source Software you can fix, complain about, and help resolve issues with the software.
Bug Reporting
Bug Triage
If you have questions, feel free to ask other members of the LP Focus Group, or in the #ubuntu-bugs IRC channel.
Ubuntu package building and hosting
Using Launchpad, you can build and distribute packages for operating systems that use Debian-style packaging. Right now, Launchpad's packaging system (sometimes called Soyuz) supports the build and distribution of packages for Ubuntu. Learn More.
To start...
Installing software from a ppa.
Publishing to a PPA to distribute software
Blueprints
With very little administrative overhead, Blueprint helps you to create a roadmap for your project and shepherd individual features through to release. Learn more.
Translations
Using Launchpad, you can translate free software projects and distribution packages into your own language. learn more
I want to...
translate my project using Launchpad
help translate other projects
Code Hosting
Using Launchpad, you can publish Bazaar branches of your code and, optionally, associate them with projects. You can even import Subversion and CVS repositories into Bazaar branches.
If you're already familiar with Subversion or CVS, it's worth noting that Bazaar is a distributed version control system.
Learn more about publishing, browsing and getting hold of the code you want.
Code Hosting using bazaar
Teams & Projects
In addition to the BT Launchpad Focus Group Team, depending on your interest, you might want to also join some other Teams in the community.
The launchpad Focus Group has a Ubuntu Beginners Team Launchpad Focus Group Projects page that we use as a parent project to track all our other projects.
Some teams of interest might be:
ubuntu-beginners-launchpad (All members of the Focus Group should join this team)
Translation Groups
Bug Groups
Ubuntu BugSquad (see BugSquad)
Ubuntu Bug Control Team (requires approval, see - UbuntuBugControl)
Ubuntu Package Building Groups
Some projects of interest: