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Danilo blogged recently about Launchpad’s new feature which shares translations between releases of the same project. Here’s a screencast showing how it works!
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As a follow-up to yesterday’s screen cast on importing translation template files from a Bazaar branch, here’s how to get Launchpad to regularly export your project’s translations to a Bazaar branch of your choice. (Ogg Theora version)
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Here’s a screencast showing just how quick and easy it is to set up a continuous import of a translation template from your series’ default Bazaar branch! (Ogg Theora version)
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Image no longer available: Zim logo Zim is a desktop wiki that use both Launchpad and Bazaar. I asked Jaap Karssenberg, its founder and main developer, about the project. Matthew: How does Zim compare with something like Tomboy? Jaap: I really don’t know as I never used …
If you want to host code on Launchpad, and you need some help, you can turn to IRC, the launchpad-users mailing list or the Code Hosting section on the help wiki. If all you want, though, is to get up and running with hosting your project’s code on Launchpad, there’s …
On the 28th September, the Canonical Launchpad team leads will be in London, along with myself, community guy Karl Fogel and UI guy Martin Albisetti. I’m organising a Launchpad community meet-up for the evening of the 28th, which will be a chance to meet other Launchpad …
William Grant was the first person outside Canonical to submit a patch to the newly open sourced Launchpad. I asked him a few questions to see how he got on. Matthew: What did your patch change? William: Launchpad users may elect to receive the bug’s description and status …
Open Mind is an open source effort to create a database of common sense concepts. I asked Catherine Havasi, Rob Speer and Ken Arnold about the project and their use of Launchpad. Matthew: Open Mind is almost the stuff of 1950s science fiction. You’re building a database of …
We have added a paragraph, concerning the location data on Launchpad user profile pages, to the Launchpad privacy policy’s “Submitted data” section. That section now reads: “Launchpad users may add information about themselves via their Launchpad accounts …
Up until now, series overview pages have offered a historical overview of a series. Today, we’ve released our new series overview pages that work much more like a dashboard for people driving a series. Before we look at the new dashboards, let’s clear up some …