Using the Staging Server
You can find a sandbox copy of Launchpad at https://staging.launchpad.net/ which you can use to try out Launchpad including its latest features.
Restore cycle
* Overwrites db * usually once a day (?) * may be held up for QA/testing purposes
(Un)Available services
* pushing branches * translation uploads but not exports * No email notifications * what else?
User accounts
Because of "no emmail notificaitons", account creation is not possible. Create on production and wait until it is available on staging.
Pushing branches
push to lp://staging/... (I think)