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Welcome to the last of our Twelve days of Launchpad series. For our final spin, we’ll take a look at an open source project that not only forms an important part of Launchpad but that you can also install locally or on your own server: Loggerhead! Loggerhead gives you a web …
Often, if you’re trying out a new feature — or you want to show someone how to do something — it’s likely you want to use real data but without having a lasting effect. Launchpad’s staging environment allows you to do just that. Staging’s database is …
Karma is a shorthand way of showing how active someone is in Launchpad. If you have a Launchpad account then you also have a karma score. Karma is simple: roughly speaking, the higher someone’s karma score, the more active they are in Launchpad. There are a couple of things …
You can copy packages from other PPAs into any PPA that you can upload to. You also have the option of copying packages between distro-series (i.e different distribution releases). For example: take a look at the Ubuntu Mobile team’s PPA copy packages page. Here you can: …
Happy new year and welcome to the eighth day of Launchpad! Today we’re looking at one of the ways you can use Launchpad without having to fire up a web browser: Launchpad Bugs’ email interface. Unless you’re totally new to Launchpad Bugs, you’ve already …
Ever needed to share a Bazaar branch that’s not part of a wider project? Or perhaps you want to share some code that’s not yet ready to be associated with a project. Launchpad gives you personal — or +junk — branches that work pretty much like normal hosted branches, …
Something you’ll hear we Launchpadders talk about quite often is that the combination of Launchpad and Bazaar makes it really easy for newcomers to contribute code to your project. Anyone can create their own branch of your trunk, hack away and then upload their new branch …
There are a few ways that you might find yourself receiving email updates about a bug that’s tracked in Launchpad. Usually, it’s because you reported the bug, commented on it, subscribed directly to the bug report or you subscribed to all bugs associated with a …
Want to make it easy for newcomers to learn the ropes of your project? Launchpad’s mentoring helps you connect experienced project contributors with people looking to get involved. Visit any bug or blueprint that’s registered for your project and follow the Offer …
Bug-branch links are a quick and easy way to show that a branch of code contains a fix for a certain bug. Perhaps the coolest aspect of bug-branch links is that you can mark a bug as Fix Committed right at the moment you make the commit in Bazaar. It’s simple: $ bzr commit …
Read more of Day three - marking bugs as fixed from within Bazaar →