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Introduction
Launchpad is a tool that links communities together and makes them more productive. It gives you a window into the activity of each of those communities and allows you to connect with them and collaborate with them easily. This Feature Guide will take you through a tour of some of the more interesting features in Launchpad. It's not a complete Tutorial or Documentation but it will give you a taste of Launchpad's functionality.
Finding your way around
Most pages in Launchpad look something like this:
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That tells you where you are in Launchpad, what you can do there, and what other applications might be relevant here. Let's highlight a couple of aspects of this page in brief.
What are you looking at?
Right now, you are looking at a page about the Bazaar project. You know this is the case because the heading of the page has the Bazaar logo:
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The graphic there can be customized for each project, and we recommend that you do so with any project that you register in Launchpad. Every page related to that project will carry the logo for that project (or a default one if none has been provided).
For example, here is the heading for an Ubuntu source package page:
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You can see that it is part of Ubuntu, and is a blueprint with the title "Technical Board 2006".
The heading will tell you which project, or source package, or blueprint you are looking at.
What application are you using?
Launchpad consists of several integrated applications, all of which understand free software projects, distributions, sprints, releases and milestones. You can tell which application you are looking at from the application tabs:
Here, for example, is a page dealing with bugs in Zope3:
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