Explanation

To make the most of your experience on Launchpad, it helps to understand what takes place behind the scenes. The user explanation documentation can help with that. To start getting more familiar with the platform, you can go through the feature highlights or look into what you can use your Launchpad account for.

Your Launchpad account

There is a lot of freedom when it comes to what you can work on in Launchpad. The Karma points system allows you and others to measure your activity and you will also receive emails from the platform to help you keep track of projects, bugs, and other things you may be interested in.

• What can you do with a Launchpad account?

• Account Karma

• Understanding rationale headers in Launchpad mail

Working in the community

Collaborating on creating and improving open source software is a great experience, but it comes with certain challenges and perils. It’s important to know how to safely interact with others, and also understand the legal frameworks under which you are collaborating.

• Contacting others and managing your contact information

• Privacy, confidentiality, and disclosure of information

Launchpad Answers

Launchpad’s answer tracker is the first stop for many users when they encounter an issue. You can ask questions or provide answers to others, so it’s useful to know its features, how to integrate it with your project, and how to ask for or give help.

• Understanding Launchpad Answers

Managing, packaging, releasing, and translating software

Registering your project on Launchpad allows you to collaborate with others, but that is just the start. You also get access to additional features you can use for planning and managing releases, translating software, and building and distributing software through PPAs.

• Managing projects on Launchpad

• Packaging your software for release

• Translating with Launchpad

Working with code

There are different ways to work with code on Launchpad including hosting git repositories, importing git repositories from other platforms, and configuring the CI to help you catch bugs early.

• Understand how to work with code on Launchpad

Teams on Launchpad

Forming a team is a great way to organize a community around a specific effort or project. The teams explanation docs will help you understand how to use this feature to effectively to manage your teams and what they work on.

• Understanding Launchpad Teams

Launchpad API and launchpadlib

Understanding the Launchpad web services API and launchpadlib is essential when you want to use Launchpad without the web interface.

• Launchpad API and launchpadlib

Testing and troubleshooting Launchpad

Launchpad provides test environments you can use to test things without affecting the experience of other Launchpad users. In case you encounter an issue while using Launchpad, reaching out to the team with an OOPs ID helps to narrow down the cause faster.

• The staging environment

• Understanding OOPSes

• Filing and managing support requests