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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.
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#launchpad channel for user questions, #launchpad-dev for development. Both are on Freenode. (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
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User guide
Create a new account, learn about karma, log into other websites with OpenID, contact people and teams.
Join a team, create and run a team, set up a team mailing list.
Register a project, learn about releases, publish your project files, buy a commercial subscription for a non-open source project.
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.
Finding and downloading code, uploading code to Launchpad, team branches, code reviews, linking branches to bugs, non-project branches, importing CVS, Subversion and git repos into Bazaar branches.
Ask for help with free software, offer help, use Answers for your project.
Track specifications and chunks of work.
Personal package archives — build and publish Ubuntu packages in your own apt repository. Source package recipes — create daily builds from a Bazaar branch. Common package upload errors.
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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