WorldForge Developers Journal

During the last couple of weeks we’ve been using the Launchpad service for development.

The Launchpad is a rich bug and feature tracker developed by Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. It also providers other features useful for developers, such as translations and general answers to common questions about the application. Personally I think one of its main strengths is it’s easy to use interface. It’s a simple procedure to submit bug reports or feature requests.

One of the reasons for using it is the hope that it will make the development process more transparent and easier for newcomers to get into. The ambition is that new developers will be able to get started with development easier by tackling any of the blueprints registered. The “blueprint” concept works very much like a feature request. It has the added feature though of marking some blueprint as having a “mentor”. These are blueprints that are better suited as introductory tasks for new developers. In the web interface these are marked by a red and white cross icon. Any new developer is encouraged to try to implement one of these as a first task.

We also encourage users and developers to use the bug tracking feature to report bugs, as well as the blueprint feature to submit proposals for new features.

In closing I want to show some screen shots of the recent work on improving the interface in Ember by adding support for draggable inventory icons.

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