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[Mary Gardiner]

On Sat, Apr 30, 2005, Senectus . wrote:
> On 4/30/05, Corey Burger <corey.burger at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This is locked, we might want to get someone on the launchpad team to
> > be nice and let us in on this:
> >  
> > http://udu.wiki.ubuntu.com/LaunchpadHelp
> >  
> Can you explain what the term "Launchpad" means in this context?

Launchpad is a Canonical sponsored project. It has a few components:

 - Rosetta: a web based interface to make it easy for people to
   contribute translations to software.

 - Malone: a bug tracker capable of keeping track of different bug
   reports across different bugtracker installs (imagine the same
   Firefox bug reported to Ubuntu, Debian, Red Hat and directly to the
   Mozilla bugtracker)

 - a bunch of tools which will eventually be used both to produce Ubuntu
   and to produce derivatives, and also a bunch of tools which are going
   to track upstream sources of FOSS projects

Rosetta and Malone are already in public use, the distro tools not so
much. All code is presently in-house and proprietry: there has
apparently been occasional talk of opening it up and making it Free, but
I am aware of no timeline for this. Even the specifications for it are
at the moment in a password protected wiki.

-Mary