This doesn’t affect Bazaar, Git, Subversion or CVS imports.

You’re probably wondering why. During the beta, we found that not many people wanted to import Mercurial branches into Launchpad. Today there are only around forty people using the facility. It’s also fair to say that our importer wasn’t of the quality we want for Launchpad.

So, with low demand for the feature we decided to focus engineering effort elsewhere rather than continue to maintain, or fix up, a less than satisfactory feature.

I’m sorry if you currently rely on Launchpad to import code from Mercurial into Bazaar. You can, though, still use the bzr-hg plugin locally.

We apologise for the inconvenience and we’re sorry for the disruption to your service.

This will affect pushing to and pulling from branches, merge proposals, build from branch and translations activity involving code branches. It is in addition to the already announced disruption to Personal Package Archives for the same time.

Starts: 22.00 UTC 2012-08-17
Expected back by: 02.00 UTC 2012-08-18

We’re sorry for the disruption to your service.

During this time, you’ll be unable to upload or build PPA packages. However, packages will remain available for download from PPAs just like normal.

Maintenance starts: 22:00UTC Friday 17th August
Expected back: 02:00 UTC Saturday 18th August

Thanks for your patience while we maintain the hardware powering these services.

During this time there will be significantly reduced capacity in the PPA build farm.

Official Ubuntu distribution builders will be largely unaffected by this maintenance.

Interruption starts: 07.00 UTC 16th August 2012
Expected back: 19.00 UTC 16th August 2012

Thanks for your patience while we maintain the hardware powering these services.

We tried this last week but hit some problems. Rather than prolong the disruption, we decided to bring translations back online and delay the opening of Precise’s translations until after we’d fixed the issue.

While we’re opening Precise’s translations, Launchpad will not be importing translation files and the web interface for making and reviewing translations will be unavailable. This includes imports for translation uploads, but also imports from Bazaar branches.

Once this is done, imports will resume normally and any backlog should be processed quickly after that.

However, by about 10.15 UTC we encountered problems with data already in Precise’s translations. We weren’t sure how long it’d take to fix this issue, so decided it was better to reschedule the translations downtime for another day.

Sorry for the brief interruption to service. We’ll give you at least 24 hours notice before attempting this work again.

During this time Launchpad will not be importing translation files and the web interface for making and reviewing translations will be unavailable. This includes imports for translation uploads, but also imports from Bazaar branches.

We are suspending the service temporarily to allow us to set up translations for the next Ubuntu release, Precise Pangolin (to be 12.04 LTS). Once this is done, imports will resume normally and any backlog should be processed quickly after that.

This means that you should be able to log into websites that depend on the Ubuntu single sign-on service, but not make changes to your login or register a new account. It also means that anything involving Launchpad will be unavailable during that time.

Starts: 10.30 UTC 17th November 2011
Expected back by: 10.45 UTC 17th November 2011

We’re sorry for this service disruption. During this time we’ll be making a database upgrade.

Goes offline: 08.30 UTC 2011-11-10
Expected back: 08.45 UTC 2011-11-10

This is to allow us to make a database upgrade. We’re sorry for the disruption that this will cause.