Launchpad & Sapidlib

Launchpad is a free software hosting and development website. We use launchpad to help track bug reports, manage our source code, organize meetings, plan new features, and develop our community. We encourage you to take the tour.

Launchpad features we take advantage of include:

• Code Hosting
• Bug tracker
• Blueprints
• Answers

Anyone can create and publish their own branch allowing us to easily take advantage of the powerful features of Bazaar - our revision control system. All of our project's code is accessible in one place, wherever it is hosted. Launchpad's browsable branch registry helps us track all the branches of our project. Launchpad reports the progress of all branches, while giving special placement to our major lines of development.

You can also track the links between branches and other tools in Launchpad. When a developer creates a branch to fix a particular bug or implement a blueprint, they can connect the two. All the discussion from the bug report or blueprint is now immediately available to people browsing the code.

Bugs aren't always found by the people who wrote the buggy code. Launchpad's bug tracker makes it easy for people to report faults or problems they find in Sapidlib. Everyday bug reporting and management are simple, thanks to an intuitive web interface. Experienced developers, many of whom prefer email to the web, are well served by a comprehensive email interface. Launchpad makes it easy to track what series a bug affects, the severity, and who is responsible for addresing it and when it should be implemented.

Code isn't the only part of our project that can benefit from open development.Launchpad's unique Blueprint Tracker lets anyone suggest and discuss ideas for our project. We can accept or reject blueprints, prioritise and assign their development to particular team members, schedule development at sprints and tie them to specific releases. The Blueprint Tracker reduces the barriers to participating in our project and gives us a simple way to track new features from idea to release.

A helpful community surrounds every successful open source project. Launchpad's Answer Tracker gives you a structured way to help our users, whilst encouraging community participation and building our knowledge-base.Unlike forums and mailing lists, the Answer Tracker has features to track the progress of a support request and rewards participants with karma. All previous answers are searchable and Launchpad will even suggest relevant answers, when a user asks a new question. Members of our community can volunteer to receive automatic notifications when new questions are asked in their preferred languages.

You get a quick overview of top issues, can track the progress of support requests and can easily create bug reports from support requests.