Launchpad Development Wiki

Launchpad is a platform that helps people and teams work together on free software. It is hosted by Canonical, Ltd, and is open source software, licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3.

This wiki is for Launchpad development. If you're just looking for help using Launchpad (including help with its APIs), please visit the help wiki. But if you're a heavy user of Launchpad who wants to help shape its future, then this is the wiki for you. You might also want to look at the documentation in the Launchpad tree.

Parts of Launchpad

• Foundations - everything that holds Launchpad together

• Database

• Translations - translating programs into multiple languages

• Registry - people, projects and teams

• Bugs - the bug tracker

• Code - version control

• Answers - knowledge base

• Blueprint - collaborative design

• Soyuz - packaging

• Web

• Mail

• Zope

• FeatureFlags

Process

• Index of our official policies and processes

• LEP: Launchpad Enhancement Proposal - How to propose a change to Launchpad

• Where's trunk? Finding the "master" branch for Launchpad.

• Cleaning up our code

• Standard merge proposal cover letters

• PQM commit message style guide

• How to report bugs about Launchpad, and how to triage them.

• Pitfalls when working with the db-devel branch

• Contributor Agreement

• the review process How to get a patch reviewed.

• LaunchpadPpa - How we manage the Launchpad dependencies PPA

• Writing and running the Launchpad test suite.

Guides

Things to consider in preparing patches.

Structural

• ArchitectureGuide

Python

• PythonStyleGuide

• Style guide for Lazr projects

• Tests Style Guide

• Exception Guidelines

• DatetimeUsageGuide

• Error explanations

• Launchpad security policy

• XXXPolicy

User interface

• Everything UI

• User interface checklist

• UserInterfaceWording

Javascript

• JavaScript style guide

• JavaScript unit testing

Database

• database performance guide

Tools

• Debugging

• EmacsTips

• UltimateVimPythonSetup

• How abentley uses looms

• HitchHiker

• LoggingOopses

• Polyot - script to help you run the Launchpad test suite on remote machines

External documentation

• TAL - Specification

• Using Zope Page Templates - Although written for Zope2, it is valid for Zope3

• Advanced Page Templates - Written for Zope2, but valid for Zope3

• Zope components (Interfaces)

• Storm

• DeveloperLibrary recommends some books

• Documentation in the Launchpad tree