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Today, the Private Projects and Private Blueprints features on Launchpad are leaving beta. These features are available now for use by all Launchpad users. Private Blueprints was started as part of the Private Projects work, with the end goal in mind of truly private projects on …
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If you are part of Launchpad’s beta testers team, you can now start trialing private projects on Launchpad. The private projects feature builds on the great sharing work that Launchpad’s Purple Squad has done, allowing Launchpad users to create true private projects …
To go along with recent work to enable information sharing for bugs and branches, we are now enabling privacy for blueprints for beta testers. This means that blueprints now support some of the different information types that bugs and branches also support. For projects with a …
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We are starting to rollout features more rapidly on Launchpad as we move to a continuous deployment model. There are some fixes being deployed today that I want to give Launchpad users a heads up about. These are fixes meant to make the life of a bug supervisor easier. Bug …
I recently sent out an email to Launchpad users who had selected the “expire incomplete bug reports” option for their project, explaining that we would be enabling this feature again in Launchpad. Well, actually, I sent out a lot of emails. This happened partly due to …
Recently, we changed the way assigning bugs works on Launchpad. It used to be that anyone could assign anyone else to a bug. This was open to abuse as you can imagine. Bug 511269 was filed about the potential problems with this, and we recently changed Launchpad so that only bug …
Many different types of information are stored in bug reports in Launchpad. Some are actual defects, some are feature requests, some are general issues, and so on. It is not uncommon on Launchpad to have a bug that deals with an issue that a developer cannot resolve. In …
There are a couple of new features related to patch handling in Launchpad bugs this month. Building on the work we did in December to better distinguish patches in bug pages, we now use an icon to show if a bug has a patch attached in bug listings. Any search on Launchpad will …
Some Launchpad users may have noticed that we are not syncing bug watches with external trackers as we should. We have had to turn off syncing with external trackers while we work on a problem we have had with hammering bug trackers with large numbers of bug watches in Launchpad. …
Launchpad’s 3.1.12 release has been a big release for the Launchpad Bugs team, despite it only being a two week development cycle compared to the normal four week cycle for Launchpad releases. This meant there was really only a week of development time for the bugs team. …
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