Launchpad Development Wiki

Launchpad is 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.

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

Process

• Roadmap - major things that are happening next

• Index of our official policies and processes

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

• Coding style guidelines How incoming code should look.

• Cleaning up our code

• Release Checklist

• Standard merge proposal cover letters

• PQM commit message style guide

• How to handle spurious failures

• 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.

• Launchpad release calendar for 2010

• LaunchpadPpa - How we manage the Launchpad dependencies PPA

• Writing and running the Launchpad test suite.

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

• zc.buildout's documentation on PyPI

• DeveloperLibrary recommends some books