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We’re upgrading the disk space available for Launchpad’s code hosting! During the upgrade, we’ll have to take code hosting and browsing offline. Going offline: 08.00 UTC Thursday 19th November Expected back: 12.00 UTC Thursday 19th November We’re sorry …
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Chat bots can be controversial. Apart from the fun to be had watching a friend carrying out an inadvertent Turing test, finding the right balance between useful information and annoyance seems to be one of the harder aspects of chatbotology. I spoke to Jonathan Hitchcock, Michael …
Launchpad will be offline for a scheduled code release for around 90 minutes from 09.00 UTC on the 5th November. Going offline: 09.00 UTC 5th November 2009 Expected back: 10.30 UTC 5th November 2009 This is to release version 3.1.10 of Launchpad. We’re sorry for the short …
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Francis Lacoste recently started on a six-month stint of running the Canonical Launchpad team. It seemed like a good time to find out a little more about him. Matthew: How did you get into free software? Francis: It was 1996, with a few friends at university, we started an …
Launchpad will be offline for roughly 30 minutes from 04.00 UTC on Monday the 26th October 2009 for database maintenance. Going offline: 04.00 UTC 26th October Expected back: 04.30 UTC 26th October
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Jonathan Lange writes on his blog: Launchpad has a pretty awesome public API, implemented using lazr.restful. I’ve written a few small scripts for it, and the Launchpad team has a few scripts that they use internally for doing admin tasks. The Ubuntu Platform team does a …
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When writing about the hardware running Launchpad, or even the complexity of the codebase, I’m always tempted to start off by borrowing from Douglas Adams’ introduction to The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “Launchpad is big. Really big.” With such …
Image no longer available: Bazaar logo The Bazaar project released their version 2.0.0 this week. I spoke to Martin Pool, the project’s lead, about the release and Bazaar generally. Matthew: Congratulations on the release of Bazaar 2.0.0! If you had to come up with a …
Launchpad’s code hosting and code browse will be offline for unexpected hardware maintenance from 10.00-10.30 UTC on Friday the 9th October 2009. During that time you won’t be able to push to, pull from, otherwise modify or browse code that is hosted on Launchpad. …
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Martin posts on his blog: We’re trying to improve the icons we have in Launchpad so they’re more usable across different cultures and types of users, and our first step is to do some user testing on our current icons. The Canonical User Experience team has set up a …