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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.

Getting Started

• Getting the Launchpad source code

• Common Hacking Tips Finding your way around the Launchpad code.

• Coding style guidelines How incoming code should look.

• Submitting a patch and the review process The steps to get a patch into Launchpad.

• Launchpad release calendar for the first part of 2009

• VersionThreeDotO - feature plans and estimates for the mid-2009 major release

• Frequently Asked Questions

Parts of Launchpad

• Database

• Web

• Mail

• Translations - translating programs into multiple languages

• Registry - people, projects and teams

This wiki is new and we're still moving information to it from other places:

• Foundations - everything that holds Launchpad together

• Bugs - the bug tracker

• Code - version control

• Answers - knowledge base

• Blueprint - collaborative design

Process

• Cleaning up our code

• Release Checklist

• Standard merge proposal cover letters

• PQM commit message style guide

• How to handle spurious failures

• A Practical Guide to Launchpad Bug Triage

• Pitfalls when working with the db-devel branch

• Contributor Agreement

Tools

• EmacsTips

• How abentley uses looms

External documentation

• TAL

• Zope components (Interfaces)

• Storm

• zc.buildout's documentation on PyPI

• DeveloperLibrary recommends some books