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Overview

Let's have a quick recap of how you can use Launchpad for your project:

Of course, you can pick and choose almost any combination of what Launchpad has to offer. The first step is to register your project.

Types of project you can register

You can register any free software project in Launchpad free of charge. To find out what we mean by "free software", take a look at our licensing policy.

Need a commercial subscription? If your project doesn't use a free software licence, you can buy a commercial subscription to host it with Launchpad.

If you're not sure that your project's licence is suitable, talk to us about it.

{i} Quick tip: If you want to register a translation team or Ubuntu loco team in Launchpad, please create a new team, not a project.

Registration

To register your project, visit the page at Projects Register a project.

Registration is straightforward. However, there are a few things to note:

Note that once you have registered your project you will not be able to change its name by yourself. If you wish change it you can ask an administrator to to that for you, read the Feedback page for more information.

Project groups

Some larger free software projects are actually several related projects working under the same banner. For example: Firefox is part of the Mozilla project. Launchpad represents these as projects (Firefox) and project groups (Mozilla).

Project groups are useful because they give you one place from which to find all the information about the constituent projects.

To register a project group, file a support request with the Launchpad team.

Roles within projects

People and teams can take different roles within your project. For now, the two most important roles are:

By default, whoever registered the project is its owner. However, you can change this to any other person or team in Launchpad by following the edit links from the project Overview page.

Similarly, you can set the driver for the whole of your project with Driver: edit on the Overview. However, it may be more useful to set different drivers for each series, as we'll see later.

Other roles that we'll look at in detail later on include:

Next step

Next up let's look at telling Launchpad how your project organises its different lines of development and releases.

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