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When I ran the Launchpad Development Clinics at the last UDS, I was asked if I would give a presentation on how to fix a simple bug in Launchpad. This sounded like a great idea - after all there’s a lot of parts to the Launchpad development process that apply to every …
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You’ll remember that a while back, dear reader, we announced that we’d be running a couple of Launchpad Development Clinics at UDS (we called them Launchpad Clinics at the time, and I lost count of how many people commented that that sounded as though Launchpad was …
In my previous post I talked about the pain of having to set up a testing environment for our parallelised test work, and how there were an awful lot of hoops to jump through in order to get something usable up and running. Now, dear reader, let me tell you a tale of strangeness …
Read more of That Juju that you do (Part II: A magical balm to sooth your ills) →
Benji’s blog post earlier this week gave you all some insight into what the Launchpad Yellow Squad has been doing recently in its attempt to parallelise the Launchpad test suite. One of the side effects of this is that we’ve been making quite a lot of use of Juju, …
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Imagine the scene, dear reader. You’re running the latest Ubuntu pre-release, dilligently testing that everything works the way it ought. An application crashes horribly; Apport pops up to tell you that it spotted the crash - would you like to report a bug? “Of course …
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For the last million years1 or so I’ve been working on a cool new feature for Launchpad Bugs: an inline, AJAXified, asynchronous dupe finder. For quite some time now people have encountered timeouts or long response times when trying to file bugs, particularly when they …
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Greetings, readers! For a while now I’ve been the Launchpad developer in charge of helping users of other bug trackers migrate their projects to Launchpad. We do this reasonably regularly for users of Trac, SourceForge and Bugzilla, and we’re always open to helping …
Linking Launchpad bugs to upstream bugs can be hard work. You don’t necessarily know whether the bug is reported on the upstream tracker, and if you don’t know where the upstream project tracks its bugs you have to go and find out before you can file the bug and link …
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A while ago we announced the beta versions of the Launchpad plugins for Trac and Bugzilla. These allow Launchpad to sync not just bug statuses but also comments and, eventually, whole bug reports with the remote bug trackers that have them installed, bi-directionally. The …
A few weeks ago, Matt announced the new Launchpad plugins for Bugzilla and Trac. The plugins allow bidirectional communication between Launchpad and the remote bug trackers that have them installed. Obviously, we need to test the plugins - and that’s where we need your …