Christian Robottom Reis (aka “kiko”) who heads up the Launchpad team has released the Launchpad Report for August 1st through to August 16th. Launchpad is a collection of online services for products in the open source and Free software universe.

Highlights for this Launchpad Report:

• Staging Server up and running
• Bug tracking on Malone (As in Bugsy Malone)
• Source code imports to native Bazaar format deployed
• Contextual Karma (How to total up your street cred)
• Edgy Translations (Are you speaking your language?)

It may sound like a bunch of gibberish to me or you, but I must say this is really interesting stuff. Launchpad has already become the backbone of the Ubuntu distribution, providing access to various layers of support. The Launchpad Report for 2006-08-17 has the full juicy report.

The memorable https://launchpad.net address is your starting point and you can also join the Launchpad-Users mailing list and following up on previous happenings in the archives.

Happy Launchpadding! Have you got your account yet?

James Henstridge wrote in to let everyone know that the planned migration of the main and restricted section of Ubuntu to the new bug tracking system, Malone, is now complete. Users are directed to file bugs directly into Malone, as the old bugzilla installation is now read-only.

James’ post-migration report is available via blog. For more information you can contact the developers on the launchpad mailing list, or in #launchpad on irc.freenode.net.

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