I would like to open up Ubuntu Accomplishments to a little wider testing. Please note a few caveats:

* You need to be running Ubuntu 12.04 to test this.
* This is still a work in progress; there will be bugs.

Please follow the instructions at [here](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments/Installing) for how to install. If you have questions feel free to ping me on IRC (I am `jono` and I am around in `#ubuntu-community-team` most of the time).

If you find a bug (and you probably will!), the bug will either be in software itself or one of the accomplishments. Please file bugs using the following links:

* Bugs in the daemon and app – file bugs [here](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-accomplishments-system/+filebug)
* Bugs in the Ubuntu Accomplishments set – file bugs [here](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community-accomplishments/+filebug)

If you are unsure, just file bugs [here](https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-accomplishments-system/+filebug).

There is a lot of work going on each day on this, so please be sure to update your branches each day (until we start releasing packages). You can do this with:

cd ubuntu-accomplishments-system
bzr pull

cd ubuntu-community-accomplishments
bzr pull

Thanks!

## Writing Accomplishments – Volunteers Needed!

There are only a few accomplishments available in the system right now. The goal here is that accomplishments should be about *new experiences*. I would like to avoid things such as “*50 posts to a bug report*” or “*500 posts to a forum*”; those could be achieved by repeating meaningless content to get the numbers up. I would rather focus on *new experiences* such as “*I have become an Ubuntu Member*”, or “*I got my first uploaded accepted*”.

Writing accomplishments just requires a little knowledge of [launchpadlib](https://help.launchpad.net/API/launchpadlib) and Python for Ubuntu Accomplishments, or you can write accomplishments for other projects where you can query a web service.

If you are interested in writing some accomplishments to plug into the system, please see [this page](https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accomplishments/Creating) and the video tutorial at [here](https://ubuntuone.com/65FusiScZf30vclei9VKCv).

Thanks!