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We’re releasing Launchpad 2.2.5 today (26th May) at 22.00 UTC. While we roll-out the code, Launchpad will be read-only.

• 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.

We’re releasing a new version of Launchpad on the 29th April at 22.00 UTC. While we roll-out the new code, Launchpad will remain online but will be read-only.

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.

We previously announced a maintenance window for the Launchpad 2.2.3 release
for one hour.

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.

We have some planned maintenance and the release of a new version of Launchpad coming up, both of which will mean a short period of down-time.

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

Launchpad will be offline for one hour from 00.00 UTC on Thursday the 26th February while we roll-out the code for our latest release, Launchpad 2.2.2.

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!

A few days ago a fix for bug #286359 landed: provide translation import notifications to Ubuntu packagers. This means that all packagers will start getting emails about translation files (basically, *.pot and *.po files) from their packages as soon as they are imported (or the import fails).

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.

Today we’re releasing Launchpad 2.2.1. While we roll-out the code, Launchpad will be unavailable.

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.)

Hi,

Today we have updated the Launchpad Legal page [1] with the following changes:

1) The Dev wiki [2] is now called out explicitly as having a CC content license.  Previously the Dev wiki proclaimed it was licensed under CC but was not listed on our Legal page.

2) The Content License section was updated for clarity. This was a housekeeping task and does not effect any Legal changes.

3) Future notifications of legal changes will be sent only to the Launchpad Announcement list [3].  Previously they were sent to the Launchpad Users list and News blog.

Joey

[1] https://help.launchpad.net/Legal
[2] https://dev.launchpad.net/
[3] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Launchpad-announce

Launchpad will be unavailable for around an hour on Wednesday the 17th December while we roll-out the code for our 2.1.12 release.

Going offline: 22.00 UTC 17th December 2008
Expected back before: 23.00 UTC 17th December 2008

Keep watching here for the release announcement.

We have changed the “Translations copyright” section of the Launchpad terms of use. Now we require that all translations submitted in Launchpad are licensed under the BSD licence.

You can find out more on our help page.

The new text of the “Translations copyright” section of the Launchpad terms of use is:

“All translations imported from sources external to Launchpad are owned by the translator that created them. In general, these translations are licensed under the same terms as the software for which they are a translation.

“All translations in Launchpad are the work of the translator that created them. These translations are made available to Canonical and in turn to you under the BSD license (revised, without advertising clause). We require this so that other projects can use these translations as sources for their own translations, without suffering licensing incompatibilities.”

Read the the full Launchpad terms of use.