“Launchpad users may add information about themselves via their Launchpad accounts and or their personal pages. This information may assist Launchpad in providing services to the contributor such as email notifications of changes to bugs, projects, teams, etc..

“Your Launchpad account has the option to store a location for you and to display it on your profile page. Until you set that location yourself, other registered Launchpad users can set it on your behalf. Once your location is set, you can hide it from other users.”

View the full privacy policy.

Going read-only: 09.00 UTC 24th June 2009
Expected back to normal: 10.00 UTC 24th June 2009

There’ll be a couple of minutes where Launchpad is unavailable while we switch into read-only mode. Keep reading this blog for details of the new release!

Going offline: 22.00 UTC 4th June 2009
Expected back: 22.10 UTC 4th June 2009

Note: Launchpad’s OpenID service will remain online throughout this downtime.

• Going read-only: 22.00 UTC 26th May 2009
• Back to normal: 23.00 UTC 26th May 2009

You may notice a couple of minutes around 22.00 where Launchpad is offline. That’s while we switch to read-only mode.

This release was planned for the 27th of May. We’re sorry for the short notice of the change in our release date.

Going read-only: 22.00 UTC 29th April 2009
Expected return of read-write Launchpad: 23.30 UTC 29th April 2009

During this time, you can browse Launchpad and use Launchpad’s OpenID server to log into other services including the Ubuntu wiki and Landscape.

At 22.00 UTC, when we switch Launchpad into read-only mode, you may notice a short period when Launchpad is unavailable. If you do, please wait five minutes then try again.

Due to some issues found during our pre-release quality assurance, we need to increase the maintenance window to three hours.

The new maintenance window is:

Going offline: 22.00 UTC 1st April
Expected back: 01.00 UTC 2nd April

We know downtime really sucks. But while you wait just imagine all the fantastic stuff that you will get with our best release ever, version 2.2.3!

Hang in there while we make the final adjustments in delivering it to you.

PPAs offline for 30 minutes on the 27th of March

Important update: We originally announced the PPA down-time as happening on the 26th March. Due to some scheduling conflicts, we have moved the PPA down-time to Friday 27th March.

We’re upgrading one of the servers we use to provide Personal Package Archives, which will result in 30 minutes of down time on Friday 27th March.

Going offline: 16.00 UTC 27th March
Expected back: 16.30 UTC 27th March

During that time, you’ll be unable to upload to or download from Personal Package Archives.

Launchpad offline for one hour on the 1st of April

We’re releasing the latest version of Launchpad — 2.2.3 — on the 1st of April. All of Launchpad will be offline for around an hour while we roll-out the new code to our servers.

Going offline: 22.00 UTC 1st April
Expected back: 23.00 UTC 1st April

Going offline: 00.00 UTC 26th February 2009
Expected back: 01.00 UTC 26th February 2009

We’ll post details of the release to this blog!

This should help packagers detect and fix l10n-related problems more easily, since they’ll have most of the debugging information they need right inside their inboxes. If you want to filter these emails, look for a sender of rosetta@launchpad.net.

The grey area of where to send notifications for automatically synced package uploads from Debian remains. I am planning on solving that with a public mailing list where anyone interested can go in and check for problems, and also fix them if they want to. Alternative is to rely on the recent improvement by Jeroen which keeps any failure messages inside the import queue itself, and simply drop all of these messages altogether.

Going offline: 22.00 UTC 28th January 2009
Expected back: 22.30 UTC 28th January 2009.

See this blog for a release announcement!

(Subscribe to the ultra-low traffic launchpad-announce list to get notices like this by email.)