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<!DOCTYPE html> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" /> <meta content="Launchpad helps people to work together on free software by making it easy to share code, bug reports, translations and ideas." name="description"/> <meta content="canonical, launchpad, tour" name="keywords"/> <meta content="en-US" name="language"/> <title>Launchpad tour</title> <style media="all" type="text/css"> @import "launchpad-tour.css"; </style> <script type="text/javascript" src="launchpad-tour.js"></script> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <p class="page-number">1 of 11</p> <ul id="navigation-drop-down"> <li class="button-next"><a id="btnNext" href="bugs" tabindex="1" accesskey="1" title="Read about bug tracking in Launchpad">Next</a></li> <li class="home current"><a href="index" accesskey="2">Launchpad tour home</a></li> <li><a href="bugs" accesskey="3">Cross-project bug tracking</a></li> <li><a href="branch-hosting-tracking" accesskey="4">Code hosting and review</a></li> <li><a href="translation" accesskey="5">Web-based translation</a></li> <li><a href="community" accesskey="6">Mailing lists and teams</a></li> <li><a href="ppa" accesskey="7">Software distribution</a></li> <li><a href="community-support" accesskey="8">Community support</a></li> <li><a href="api" accesskey="9">Beta: web services API</a></li> <li><a href="feature-tracking" accesskey="a">Lightweight specifications</a></li> <li><a href="release-management" accesskey="b">Release management</a></li> <li><a href="join-launchpad" accesskey="c">Join Launchpad!</a></li> </ul> <div id="page-intro-top"></div> <div id="page-intro"> <h1>Publish your work. <br />Collaborate with free software communities.</h1> <p> <img src="images/home/main-image.jpg" alt="Collaborate with free software communities." /> </p> <p class="intro-text center"> <strong>Launchpad is a unique collaboration and hosting platform for software projects.</strong></p> <p>It brings communities together — regardless of their choice of tools — by making it <br />easy to share code, bug reports, translations and ideas across projects. </p><br /> <h2>Choose Launchpad to:</h2> <ul> <li>Develop, promote and <br />publish your software.</li> <li>Encourage contributions to <br />your project.</li> <li>Improve collaboration with <br />other projects and developers.</li> <li>Build communities using <br />teams and mailing lists.</li> </ul> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="left-link-holder"><strong>Need Launchpad for a commercial project?</strong><br /><a href="join-launchpad#commercial">Read about commercial features ></a></div> <div id="link-holder"><a href="https://launchpad.net/+login">Create your Launchpad account ></a><br /><a href="https://launchpad.net/projects/+new">Add your project to Launchpad ></a></div> </div> <div id="page-intro-bottom"></div> <ul id="secondary-navigation"> <li class="button-next"> <a href="bugs" accesskey="d" tabindex="2" title="Read about bug tracking in Launchpad">Next</a> </li> </ul> <div id="further-information"> <div class="furthur-information-block"> <div class="furthur-information-block-top"></div> <div class="furthur-information-block-mid"> <div class="block"> <h3><a href="bugs">Bug tracking</a></h3> <h4>Sharing code means sharing bugs.</h4> <p class="screen-holder"> <img src="images/bugs-screenshot.png" alt="Bug tracking" /> </p> <p>Free software communities often share code, meaning the same bugs can crop up in different contexts.<br /><br /> With Launchpad, you can share bug reports, statuses, patches and comments across project boundaries. You can even share bug data with other trackers, such as Bugzilla and Trac.<br /><br /> There's also everything else you need in a bug tracker: web, email and API interfaces, links between bugs and fixes, team-based delegation and more. </p> <p style="float: right;"><a href="bugs" accesskey="e" tabindex="3">More about bug tracking ></a></p> </div> <div class="block odd"> <h3><a href="branch-hosting-tracking">Code hosting and review</a></h3> <h4>Democratise your code using version control with Launchpad.</h4> <p class="screen-holder"> <img src="images/code-screenshot.png" alt="Code hosting and tracking" /> </p> <p> Launchpad and <a href="https://git-scm.com/">Git</a> or <a href="http://bazaar.canonical.com/">Bazaar</a> distributed version control strip away the barriers to contributing to your project. In just a few key strokes anyone can create their own local branch of your trunk with full version control.<br /><br /> When they're ready, they can upload their branch to Launchpad and propose it for merging back into your trunk. Code review — by web and email — gives you a public forum to discuss and approve or reject the merge.<br /><br /> You can even use Launchpad to mirror Git repositories, or to import Git, CVS and Subversion repositories into Bazaar branches. </p> <p style="float: right;"><a href="branch-hosting-tracking" accesskey="f" tabindex="4">More about code hosting and review ></a></p> </ul> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="furthur-information-block-bot"></div> </div> <div class="furthur-information-block"> <div class="furthur-information-block-top"></div> <div class="furthur-information-block-mid"> <div class="block"> <h3><a href="translation">Translations</a></h3> <h4>Translators shouldn’t have to be software engineers.</h4> <p class="screen-holder"> <img src="images/trans-screenshot.png" alt="Translations" /> </p> <p> See your software translated by a community of over 47,000 people working in 293 languages.<br /><br /> Launchpad makes translation easy for everyone. Translators get a simple web interface, with automatic suggestions from a library of more than 16 million strings.<br /><br /> You, as project owner, decide the balance between openness and quality. And you get standard GNU GetText files for integration with your software.<br /><br /> </p><br /> <p style="float: right;"><a href="translation" accesskey="h" tabindex="5">More about translations ></a></p> </div> <div class="block odd"> <h3><a href="ppa">Ubuntu package building and hosting</a></h3> <h4>Distribute software to Ubuntu users.</h4> <p class="screen-holder"> <img src="images/ppa-screenshot.png" alt="Package building and hosting" /> </p> <p> Build and distribute Ubuntu packages using your own personal APT repository, hosted by Launchpad.<br /><br /> Whether you're publishing experimental builds, backports or betas, your Personal Package Archive lets end-users install your packages using the tools they already know and with automatic updates. </p> <p style="float: right;"><a href="ppa" accesskey="i" tabindex="6">More about package hosting ></a></p> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="furthur-information-block-bot"></div> </div> <div class="furthur-information-block"> <div class="furthur-information-block-top"></div> <div class="furthur-information-block-mid"> <div class="block"> <h3><a href="feature-tracking">Blueprint – specification tracking</a></h3> <h4>Track new features from idea to implementation.</h4> <p class="screen-holder"> <img src="images/blueprint-screenshot.png" alt="Blueprint - specification tracking" /> </p> <p> Community planning for your project's road map. Anyone can use Launchpad to register a blueprint for your project, while you decide the priority and time-scales.<br /><br /> Target chunks of work to forthcoming releases, see who’s working on them and track their progress. </p> <p style="float: right;"><a href="feature-tracking" accesskey="j" tabindex="7">More about specification tracking ></a></p> </div> <div class="block odd"> <h3><a href="community-support">Answers – community support</a></h3> <h4>Help your users to help themselves.</h4> <p class="screen-holder"> <img src="images/answers-screenshot.png" alt="Answers - community support" /> </p> <p> Track help requests just like bug reports, with community support contacts, statuses and email notifications.<br /><br /> When you come across common questions add them to your FAQ library and you get a searchable knowledge base for free. If a support request is actually a bug, no problem: one click and it becomes a bug report. </p> <p style="float: right;"><a href="community-support" accesskey="k" tabindex="9">More about community support ></a></p> </div> <div class="clear"></div> </div> <div class="furthur-information-block-bot"></div> </div> </div> <ul id="footer-navigation"> <li class="button-next"> <a href="bugs" accesskey="l" tabindex="10" title="Read about bug tracking in Launchpad">Next</a> </li> <li class="copyright"> © 2004 Canonical Ltd. <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/Legal" accesskey="i" tabindex="7">Terms of Use</a> | <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/Feedback" accesskey="j" tabindex="8">Feedback</a> | <a href="https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+faqs" accesskey="k" tabindex="9">FAQ</a> </li> </ul> </div> </body> </html>