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Overview

Launchpad is unique in that it can track how the same bug affects different communities, such as free software projects or Linux distributions.

Each community shares the same:

• bug number
• bug report
• comment history.

However, each community can keep track of how the bug affects them and how they plan to deal with it by setting their own:

• [:Bugs/Statuses:status]

• importance
• assignee.

This is ideal for free software projects who rely on code maintained by other communities.

For example: an Ubuntu user may report a bug in the Exaile media player. Both the Ubuntu packager of Exaile and the upstream Exaile project have an interest in fixing the bug and working together. Launchpad helps them to share their progress through the comment history and email notifications.

Working with multi-project bugs

There's a table at the top of each bug report in Launchpad that tells you which communities are tracking that bug.

If you discover that a bug reported in Launchpad also affects your project, you can tell Launchpad using the link directly below the table.

||<style="text-align: center;">A bug that affects many projects||