Welcome to Launchpad Help

Launchpad is a suite of tools that help people and teams to work together on free software. Read on to find out how to use Launchpad and get involved in our community.

User guide

Want to learn Launchpad? Take a look through this user guide to get an overview of how it all fits together.

• Your account: create a new account, brand your account, learn about karma, log into other websites with OpenID, NEW: contact people and teams.

• Teams: join a team, create and run a team, set up a team mailing list, encourage mentoring.

• Projects: register a project, learn about releases, publish your project files.

• Bug Tracker:

  • use the bug tracker for your project

  • learn about bug expiry

  • track one bug across many projects

  • Launchpad's bug statuses and how it translates external bug statuses

  • subscribe to bugs by email and Atom feed

  • learn the bug tracker's email interface.

  • IN BETA: share bug comments between Launchpad and external trackers: Bugzilla and Trac.

• Translations: Translating software, translating your project, translation groups.

• Code Hosting:

  • Finding and downloading code

  • Uploading code to Launchpad

  • Team branches

  • Code reviews and voting

  • Linking branches to bug reports and blueprints

  • Personal - non-project - branches

  • Importing CVS and Subversion repositories into Bazaar branches

• 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. Common package upload errors.

Get involved

Come join us in the Launchpad community!

• 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.

Other stuff

• Launchpad News blog.

• Contact us: #launchpad on Freenode, launchpad-users list or ask the sysadmins for help.

• See planned downtime and subscribe to our notification feed.

• Look up unfamiliar terms in our glossary.

Please also take a look at our terms of use, privacy policy and other legal information.