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A few weeks ago the Yellow Squad made another change to increase the relevance of the email you get from Launchpad by eliminating some noisy ones. A while back, Matthew Paul Thomas noticed that a change to a bug that was subsequently reverted could be deemed a mistake and was an …
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Launchpad’s bug mail can be a bit chatty sometimes as I’m sure you’ve noticed. This cycle the Yellow Squad is working to give you more control about the bug mail Launchpad sends to you. One problem that we’ve known about for a really long time was reported …
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Polls were introduced to Launchpad as a way for teams to conduct internal surveys. Unfortunately the user interface and feature set were always problematic. The feature never really caught on and wasn’t used much (a little over 500 polls since 2006). A discussion[1] on the …
As part of the API beta, we’ve recently exposed a number of new features that work with the Launchpad registry. One outcome is the ability to simplify part of the release management that has been cumbersome. You can now have your build system generate all of the files you …