Getting your code into Launchpad
Brad has written a great guide to writing and committing your first code for Launchpad.
Amongst other things, he has a useful bullet list that describes the steps between deciding you want to write code for Launchpad and actually seeing your work in place.
“The steps for fixing a bug or adding a new feature in Launchpad are:
- Find a bug or feature request. The best place to look is on the milestone for the application of interest. (See the list for Launchpad Registry’s 10.02 milestone).
- Research the problem.
- Have a pre-implemention call.
- Grab the latest branch of Launchpad (which we informally call ‘rocketfuel’). You can use ‘rocketfuel-get’ to update your copy of devel and ‘rocketfuel-branch’ to make a branch for your work. It’s best to create a new branch for each chunk of work you do.
- Write your tests, write the code, repeat. (Read about TDD.)
- Push your code to Launchpad (‘bzr push’).
- Create a merge proposal (‘bzr send’).
- Have a review, fix changes, repeat.
- Run the tests. At a minimum you should run all the tests for the application you changed. For bugs you can do that with ‘bin/test -vvm lp.bugs’.
- Submit to PQM.
- QA the change when it lands on edge or staging.
- See the change in production when the next release rolls out.
- Bask in your awesomeness.”
If you want to fix a bug or get a feature into Launchpad, go read Brad’s post.
