Launchpad.net – Software Collaboration Platform
Launchpad is a web application that helps in software development and maintenance. The portal as well planned and the product is a professional and comprehensive tool in enhancing the software building experience for free software.
Launchpad.net is developed by canonical Ltd. There are features that help in making the free software as well that which help in overcoming the complications that come with it. These features include features like Bugzilla and Trac. Bugzilla and Trac provide information regarding the bugs transmitted due to sharing the code and other such free ware. This also facilitates the translation so that the developers would concentrate on technical issues.
Coming to the technical features, this application includes code hosting and review, ubuntu package building and hosting. Blue print specification and bazaar plug-in for eclipse. With the community support, one can interchange ideas and exchange information that help in making the software in a better way. In fact, the communities help can be availed from the making of the blue print itself. However, choosing whom to comment is always in the hand of the creator of the software. This way one can choose the community that can make a difference in the process rather than just be of lip service to the same.
In fact any professional who looks at the website gets the idea about how important resource this is for some one developing a free ware. This is the reason Lauchpad has officially hosted more than 18800 projects and attracted one million visitors by August 2009.
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