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We heard from Ubuntu maintainers and upstream developers that it was too easy to lose track of patches in bugs filed on Launchpad — or, put another way, that Launchpad wasn’t doing enough to bring patches to developers’ attention. According to the Launchpad Upstream …
(This is a correction to a previous post.) Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only for roughly 90 minutes, from 23.00 UTC Wednesday 3rd March to 00.30 UTC Thursday 4th March, 2010. Other aspects of Launchpad — including code hosting, PPAs, the API and email interface — …
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Since we started focusing on bridging the gap between upstream projects, users, and distribution packagers, we’ve been talking to a lot of people, to help us better understand the size and nature of those gaps. (Those conversations are continuing, too — if you’d like …
Launchpad’s Code Hosting service (code.launchpad.net and all Bazaar access) will be offline from 10:00am-10:30am UTC, Thursday, 1 October 2009. Sorry for the short notice; we need to do some unexpected hardware maintenance. Going offline: 10am UTC, 1 Oct 2009 Expected back: …
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This is a last call for user experience data with Launchpad’s “Mentoring” feature for bugs and blueprints. We’ve seen only limited usage of this feature, and haven’t gotten much positive feedback on it. Right now, it’s dropped from our 3.0 …
This is a post I’ve been looking forward to for a long time: Launchpad is now open source! We released it today under the GNU Affero General Public license, version 3. Note that although we had previously announced that we’d be holding back two components (codehosting …
People are starting to integrate Launchpad into applications, talking to it directly through its API — either by using the launchpadlib Python library or by doing RESTful HTTP requests. Below are some of the uses we’ve found — if you know of some not on this list, please …
Recently we announced that we’re open sourcing Launchpad, with a self-imposed deadline of 21 July 2009. (22 June 2009 ed. note: we may push the date a bit, for testing purposes; it could be in August instead.) Behind that announcement is a lot of activity. Obviously …