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Launchpad has a lot of critical bugs. A month ago, we had close to 300 of them. At the time of writing, we have 226. Francis reckons that we can have zero critical bugs by June 27th but I am a little bit sceptical. To that end, I’ve made a wager with the Launchpad …
Ever wanted to know what exactly is happening in Launchpad development, but found our list of in-progress bugs too daunting and detailed? Well, do we have a link and a screenshot for you. Screenshot: Link. (Log in: guest@launchpad.net; Password: launchpad). Thanks to the nice …
Launchpad code hosting will be offline between 12.00 and 12.20 UTC for hardware maintenance on Wednesday, January 26. That’s tomorrow. This means you will be unable to push to, pull from or browse code hosted on Launchpad. All other Launchpad services will be unaffected. …
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Now that I have your attention… We’ve been overwhelmed by the popularity of PPAs on Launchpad. In fact, according to our sysadmins, they are a little too popular and now our disks are full. Full disks mean no more PPAs, and no more uploads to PPAs. We’d like to …
It’s my pleasure to introduce to you the single greatest Launchpad planning achievement for 2010: the roadmap. For the last few months we’ve been working on bridging the gap between the Ubuntu distribution and the upstreams that it’s made from: making it easier …
A couple of weeks ago, the Launchpad team leads at Canonical gathered in Millbank Tower to talk about what we’ll be doing over the next six months. We talked with each other, we talked with Martin Pool from Bazaar, we talked with people on the Ubuntu Platform team, we …
As you might have heard already, Launchpad can now import code from Git repositories. You can then create Bazaar branches of those Git repos. For example: bzr branch lp:git Thanks to Jelmer for bzr-git and Michael & Paul for tying it into our rock-solid import system.