Welcome to Launchpad Help

Launchpad is an open source suite of tools that help people and teams to work together on software projects. See the tour for an introduction to what you can do with Launchpad.

I want to...
Track my project's bugs	Host my project's code	Translate my project
Distribute Ubuntu software	Run a mailing list	Help translate a project

Talk to us — we're here to help
In IRC chatrooms	`#launchpad` channel for user questions, `#launchpad-dev` for development. Both are on irc.libera.chat. (If you don't know about IRC, try this guide).
On our mailing lists	launchpad-users for user questions, launchpad-dev for development.
Via the web	Launchpad Answers.

New to Launchpad
Privacy, confidentiality and disclosure in Launchpad	The types of information that Launchpad recognises, how to change information types, and how to share them with people.

User guide
Your account	Create a new account, learn about karma, log into other websites with OpenID, contact people and teams.
Teams	Join a team, create and run a team, set up a team mailing list.
Projects	Register a project, learn about releases, publish your project files.
Bug tracker	Bug tracking for your project, track one bug across many projects, Launchpad's bug statuses, subscribe to bugs by email and Atom feed, learn the bug tracker's email interface, Bugzilla and Trac plugins.
Translations	Help for translators, translation help for projects.
Code Hosting	Finding and downloading code, uploading code to Launchpad, team branches, code reviews, linking branches to bugs, non-project branches, importing code from other sites into Bazaar branches or Git repositories on Launchpad. Learn how to use Continuous Integration with Launchpad.
Answers	Ask for help with free software, offer help, use Answers for your project.
Blueprint	Track specifications and chunks of work.
Packaging	Personal package archives — build and publish Ubuntu packages in your own apt repository. Source package recipes — create daily builds from a Bazaar or Git branch. Common package upload errors.
API	Use the Python library, use the API without Python, read the reference documentation and more.

Get involved

Launchpad is free software. You can get involved in a number of ways:

Join the development community: learn about and participate in Launchpad development.
Beta testing: be the first to try new features and help shape them before launch.
Documentation team: help others to use Launchpad with user guides, screencasts and more.

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