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Today at some time around 3am UTC, the one millionth (1,000,000th) bug was filed in Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/edubuntu/+bug/1000000 (congrats Stéphane Graber!) This is a huge milestone for everyone that uses and contributes to Launchpad and serves as a great witness …
One of the main obstacles I come across when putting forward ideas for user testing for a project, is time: “We’re on a very tight deadline, we can’t fit in testing,” “Can we leave it until the next release? There isn’t enough time at the …
Dan: What’s your role on the Launchpad team? Laura: I’m the Launchpad Support Specialist, so my job is pretty varied each day. Launchpad is rather larger than I first ever thought or had experience in using but it’s great to see so many people use it on a daily …
We’re making changes to the way that bug heat is calculated and displayed in Launchpad. From 6th February, bug heat will no longer age/degrade, and the active flame counter symbol will be replaced by a number, next to a static flame. Here’s why. Bug heat ageing is …
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Custom Bug Listings Over the past few months the Launchpad Orange Squad has been working to make it easier to get the information that matters to you from bug listings. A lot of you have said in the past that you’d like to be able to filter bugs in a way that works best for …
Our custom bug listings beta has been up and running for just over a week now – thanks to everyone in the Launchpad beta testers group that have tried it out, and thank you for all your valuable feedback and comments. If you haven’t tried it yet, you can get access by …
The information displayed with bug listings is often not what you want to see – you might not be interested in bug heat and want to see bug age, but it’s not there. Looking at this problem, we’ve come up with a new beta feature: custom bug listings. A lot of you have …
Launchpad translations was due to be unavailable from 10.00 UTC for around one hour this morning to allow us to set up translations for the next Ubuntu release, Precise Pangolin (to be 12.04 LTS). However, by about 10.15 UTC we encountered problems with data already in …
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