How-to Guides

Getting started

• Setting up and running Launchpad

Common development tasks

• Contributing changes
• Handling exceptions
• Handling security policies
• Avoiding debugging issues
• Preserving query count
• Landing updates for Loggerhead
• Updating the global configuration for tests
• Rebuilding the documentation theme
• Testing CLI scripts
• Create job to publish artifact

Operating development instances

• Creating additional user accounts in the development environment
• Applying database schema changes
• Using an updated dependency
• Importing an Ubuntu package

Operating Canonical’s instances

• Resurrecting dogfood/development instance
• Restarting services on Dogfood
• Deploying configuration changes to production
• Checking availability of Launchpad frontends
• Getting an overview of Launchpad’s build farm