Blueprint is the feature development tracker in Launchpad. It allows upstreams and distributions to keep track of the features they plan to implement, to schedule those features according to their high level release management plans, and to keep track of who is responsible for which part of the work.

This page is the top-level documentation for Blueprint. Start here if you want to learn how to use Launchpad to keep track of your development processes.

• Overview of Blueprint

• Defining your feature

  • Writing good specifications

  • Examples of good specifications

• Roles and responsibilities

• Subscribing to interesting specs

  • Essential participants

  • Receiving spec change emails

• Keeping track of feature implementation

• Documentation and informational specifications

• Feature dependencies and sequences

• Release planning

• Tracking features in milestones

• Personal specification pages

• Unofficial and uninvited feature specifications

We invite you to use Blueprint for your own feature planning and release management needs!