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Personal package archives on Launchpad only build for the amd64 and i386 architectures by default, which meets most people’s needs. Anyone with an e-mail address can have a PPA, so they have to be securely virtualised, but that’s been feasible on x86 for a long time. …
October already! As the leaves start to turn red here in the northern hemisphere, here’s a brief summary of what we did in September. Bugs BugTask:+addcomment’s title doesn’t duplicate the bug number (#1323808) The duplicates portlet of bug tasks no longer links …
Here’s a summary of what the Launchpad team got up to in August. Code Webhook support for Git repositories is almost finished, and only needs a bit more web UI work (#1474071) The summary of merge proposal pages now includes a link to the merged revision, if any (#892259) …
Here’s a summary of what the Launchpad team got up to in July. Code We fixed a regression in the wrapping layout of side-by-side diffs on bazaar.launchpad.net (#1436483) Various code pages now have meta tags to redirect “go get" to the appropriate Bazaar or Git …
Users of some email clients, particularly Gmail, have long had a problem filtering mail from Launchpad effectively. We put lots of useful information into our message headers so that heavy users of Launchpad can automatically filter email into different folders. Unfortunately, …
It’s been a while since we posted much regularly on this team blog, not least because for a while Launchpad was running more or less in maintenance mode. That’s no longer the case and we’re back to the point where we can do feature development work again, as …
We’ve made a number of improvements to the Launchpad build farm in the last month, with the aim of improving its performance and robustness. This sort of work is usually invisible to users except when something goes wrong, so we thought it would be worth taking some time to …
The Ubuntu Foundations team has sponsored work on various improvements to Launchpad’s archive handling lately, mainly to expose various new facilities on the API where we were previously using privileged scripts. This has involved cleaning up a substantial amount of old …