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Here’s a set of quick links to articles that may help you when using Launchpad’s daily builds feature.

Recipes and builds in Launchpad

• Getting started with daily builds

• How to write recipes

• More on the bzr-builder plugin

Launchpad infrastructure

New to Launchpad? Learn about the infrastructure behind daily builds.

• Launchpad help: learn about Launchpad, right from the basics

• Hosting and importing code in Launchpad: host Bazaar branches, import code from elsewhere, run code reviews

• Upload a Bazaar branch to Launchpad

• Import code from somewhere else

• Personal Package Archives: create your own Ubuntu archive in Launchpad

Community infrastructure

• Naming convention: ideas for sanely naming daily builds so users can easily find your software

• Adopt-an-Upstream program: Ubuntu users and developers who particularly care about one upstream project

Packaging

• The Ubuntu packaging guide: learn how to package software for Ubuntu

• The Debian policy: the number one resource on packaging questions

Building packages for daily builds

• Writing build recipes

• Using Bzr Builder to test recipes

Other useful documentation

• Going Back to the old version again: rolling packages back