Launchpad source code released

A year after Mark Shuttleworth announced Cannonical would release the source-code to their Launchpad platform, it is finally here. For those of you who don’t know, Launchpad is where Ubuntu gets built – the Soyuz component building all the packages for the distro and those in the PPAs (including mine); translated – the Rosetta component; tracks bugs – the Bugs component; tracks code – the Bazaar component (scm); gets planned – the Blueprint component and helps users with Answers. Apart from Ubuntu, there are thousands of projects hosted on Launchpad that use the same tools which make Ubuntu such a great OS. Check out Ubuntu on Launchpad.

For now Launchpad compiles and runs only on Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) and Jaunty (9.04) boxes, but the developers hope it will get ported soon. The main difference is that the system can be used for non-software projects, evading the limitations currently imposed by Launchpad.net; we will surely see creative ways in which this oss is to be used.

Get your Launchpad here.