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On the 5th of October we’ll be ending our beta of Mercurial imports in Launchpad. On that day your existing Mercurial imports will cease and you won’t be able to create new ones. This doesn’t affect Bazaar, Git, Subversion or CVS imports. You’re probably …
Launchpad’s code hosting will be unavailable, due to planned maintenance, for four hours starting 22.00 UTC on Friday the 17th August. This will affect pushing to and pulling from branches, merge proposals, build from branch and translations activity involving code …
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At its most basic, a blueprint in Launchpad is a statement of intent: by creating a blueprint, you’re saying, “Here’s an idea for how this project should progress.” How do you track the detailed steps to get from having the idea to seeing it implemented? …
Launchpad translations will be unavailable for around one hour, starting 10.00 UTC, on Tuesday 2011-11-29, to allow us to open the translations for the next Ubuntu release, Precise Pangolin (to be 12.04 LTS). We tried this last week but hit some problems. Rather than prolong the …
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Launchpad translations will be unavailable for around one hour, starting 10.00 UTC, on Tuesday 2011-11-22. During this time Launchpad will not be importing translation files and the web interface for making and reviewing translations will be unavailable. This includes imports for …
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Ubuntu’s single sign-on service will be read-only for around 15 minutes starting at 10.30 UTC on the 17th November. At the same time, Launchpad will be offline. This means that you should be able to log into websites that depend on the Ubuntu single sign-on service, but not …
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Launchpad will be entirely offline and Ubuntu’s single sign-on service will be read-only for around 15 minutes from 08.30 UTC on the 10th November. Goes offline: 08.30 UTC 2011-11-10 Expected back: 08.45 UTC 2011-11-10 This is to allow us to make a database upgrade. …
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It’s sad to read that BerliOS will close in December, after nearly twelve years of serving open source projects. One fewer project hosting site means that the open source world is that bit poorer. If you’ve been hosting your project on the BerliOS Developer platform …
Steve Kowalik writes: For a while now Launchpad has been using deployment reports that tell us what state our QA is in, which revisions are safe to deploy to production, or which revisions are not safe to deploy since they failed QA. Some time ago, I started the process to make …
Tomorrow, you may notice a blip in Launchpad’s availability around 08.30 UTC. Believe it or not, this is good news :) Until tomorrow, we’d been rolling out database changes — schema updates, database server maintenance, etc — once a month, with a 90 minute period …