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Not sure you need a full blog for your project but still want to announce your news? Launchpad gives you a no-frills way to make project announcements, complete with an Atom feed. It’s simple to get started: visit your project overview page and click Make announcement in …
A few links to Launchpad related posts from the past month or so: Fixing the bug tracker widget: Curtis Hovey looks at what’s wrong with the way you set a project’s external bug tracker, in Launchpad. No project is an island: Curtis again, “I think the best …
As I’ve said before, Launchpad is pretty big. Getting to know everything you can to do in Launchpad can take a while. Of course, there are the user guide, the tour and the dev wiki even has a feature check-list. It’s still easy to miss things. So, I’m turning …
I want to learn more about how and why people triage bugs, whether that’s in Launchpad or another bug tracker. So, I’m inviting people who often triage bugs to come to either London or UDS in Brussels to tell me more about their experience. If we get two or three …
We’re releasing the latest version of Launchpad on the 31st March. While we roll-out the new code, Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only and other services, such as code hosting and PPAs, will be unavailable. Starts: 11.00 UTC 31st March 2010 Expected back by: …
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Launchpad’s strategist, Jonathan Lange, has started a series of blog posts on getting started with Launchpad’s Python library, launchpadlib: launchpadlib is the Python client-side library that talks to Launchpad’s own REST API. It turns out that customize …
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Tim has made a couple of improvements to the way that comments are displayed on merge proposals. The first is pretty simple but makes it far easier to see which merge proposals need attention. Up until now, if you gave your merge proposal a description it would show up as a …
Jelmer Vernooij recently joined the Launchpad team at Canonical, so I caught up with him to give him the usual Meet the developers interview. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Jelmer: I work in the Soyuz team, where I hack on the build system, package management and …
The Sikuli project recently switched to using Launchpad. I asked Tsung-Hsiang Chang to tell me more about the project. Matthew: Your website says, “Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots).” That …
Just a quick note to link to some interesting Launchpad-related posts/articles that have cropped up over the past week or so: An introduction to collaborative development with Launchpad — (Ars Technica) Some thoughts on using the Windmill testing framework in Launchpad …