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Launchpad prooved to be useful and 3 mint projects now use it:

https://launchpad.net/mintInstall

https://launchpad.net/mintUpdate

https://launchpad.net/mintDesktop

For each of these projects, launchpad provides the following features:

  • You can report bugs
  • You can write blueprints if you want new features to be considered in future versions
  • You can ask questions and get answers
  • For projects which are translatable (all will be, in time…) you can help translating them to other languages
  • In the future you might be able to take part in their development and branch off source code

If you don’t have a launchpad account yet, open one and get involved.

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Whether you’re familiar with it or not you probably heard of Launchpad, a web application which provides bug-tracking, translation, code hosting, and a lot of other cool features to many open-source projects. Among other projects, Launchpad is heavily used by the Ubuntu distribution.

Linux Mint is growing and it doesn’t have any defined infrastructure to keep track of bugs and to coordinates translations. So a request was made to add it as a distribution in Launchpad:

https://answers.launchpad.net/launchpad/+question/14929

And as an experiment, the youngest Mint project (mintUpdate) was added in Launchpad:

https://launchpad.net/mintupdate

You can go to the launchpad page for mintUpdate and follow progress or report new bugs. You can also help in translating it into new languages or see what is planned for future releases.

Hopefully this experiment will be a success and we’ll be happily using Launchpad for various aspects of our distribution.