[needs-packaging] launchpad

[Micah Gersten]

Launchpad has long provided the Ubuntu operating system with an edge up on the competition, giving Ubuntu developers a unified platform for tracking code changes and bug reports in upstream software projects, and giving them convenient ways to package those upstreams for inclusion in Ubuntu. Now Launchpad itself is part of that same ecosystem.But this is more than just a release of code. Launchpad’s strength is in cross-developer and cross-project communication, including communication even with projects hosted elsewhere (see the code imports and multi-project bugs features). On top of that, Launchpad has rich APIs — you don’t have to talk to Launchpad only through its web user interface, you can write programs to talk to it too. The combination of these two things means that opening up Launchpad gives the free software world the beginnings of an open, programmatic interface to its own infrastructure. I’m very curious to see what a software-savvy user community can do with that.

Url: https://dev.launchpad.net/

License:
Canonical Ltd ("Canonical") distributes the Launchpad source code under the GNU Affero General Public License, version 3 (AGPLv3).

The image and icon files in Launchpad are copyright Canonical, but unlike the source code they are not licensed under the AGPLv3. Canonical grants you the right to use them for testing and development purposes only, but not to use them in production (commercially or non-commercially).

The Launchpad name and logo are trademarks of Canonical, and may not be used without the prior written permission of Canonical.

Notes: > 100MB