Register your project¶

Registering your project in Launchpad takes just a few minutes and allows you to use Launchpad to do all or any of the following:

track your project’s bugs
translate your project’s user interface
host git branches of your project’s code
import git repositories of your project’s code
plan and manage the development of features for your project
offer an easy way for your project’s users to post and answer support questions.

Tip

If you want to register a translation or Ubuntu loco team in Launchpad, please create a new team, not a project.

Log in to Launchpad¶

Register a project¶

Select Register a project in the left-hand side menu.

Enter project details¶

Fill in the Name, Display Name and Title fields.

Launchpad uses these three different names for your project in different contexts:

Name: This is the short name that Launchpad will use for your project in URLs. For example: “blueprint” in https://launchpad.net/blueprint for Launchpad’s Blueprint Tracker.
Display name: This is the name Launchpad uses for your project in the breadcrumb at the top of the screen. For example: “Blueprint”.
Title: This is the long form of your project’s name and is the most common name that Launchpad uses for your project. For example: “The Blueprint Feature Tracker”.

Review project summary and description¶

Your project summary and description are used on your project’s homepage. A portion of the summary is also shown in search results.

In this screen-shot of the Blueprint Tracker’s project page, the summary is highlighted with a red line and the description with a blue line.

Screenshot showing Launchpad project summary and description.

Add your project¶

When you’re ready, click the button to complete the registration. Launchpad will now take you straight to your new project page.

Tip

Once you’ve registered your project, you can use Launchpad to host your project’s downloadable files. Find out more about file downloads.

Identify the project group (optional)¶

If your project is part of a wider project group, you can tell Launchpad by changing the project’s details. On the project overview page, select Change details and enter the project group’s name in the Part of text-box. If you’re not sure of the project group’s exact Launchpad name, you can also search for it.

For example: Blueprint is part of the launchpad-project group.

If you make this project part of a project group, the group preferences and decisions around bug tracking, translation and security policy will also apply to this project.

Note

You can request a new project group by emailing feedback@launchpad.net. Describe your project, its constituent parts and why a project group is the best way to organise them. Launchpad team administrators will reply to let you know if your request has been successful.