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Jeroen Vermeulen gives us our first Asian stop-off in the Meet the devs series. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Jeroen: I work on the Translations application. That’s where we translate software (including all of Ubuntu’s “main” section!) …
The Launchpad team is proud to announce the release of Launchpad 2.2.2! Let’s look at what’s new this month. Now easier to add upstream links to bug reports If you’re using Launchpad to track a bug that you think may also be reported elsewhere — such as in a …
Back at the beginning of February, we ran our first Launchpad Performance Week. Our aim was to find pages that, although they weren’t slow enough to trigger our internal warning, were nonetheless taking too long load. The first thing we did was to get our internal warning …
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Launchpad is set up to make it easy for groups to come together spontaneously around tasks big or small. Take this bug as an example: it affects three projects that share the same code. Launchpad brings them together to find a fix. But there are times when collaboration needs to …
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We’re back in New Zealand for today’s Launchpad developer interview with Tim Penhey. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Tim: I lead the team that works on the Bazaar code-hosting side of Launchpad. This includes all the pages that are under the …
Launchpad will be offline for one hour from 00.00 UTC on Thursday the 26th February while we roll-out the code for our latest release, Launchpad 2.2.2. Going offline: 00.00 UTC 26th February 2009 Expected back: 01.00 UTC 26th February 2009 We’ll post details of the release …
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Today it’s Brad Crittenden’s turn in Meet the devs. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Brad: I work on the Registry team. We handle everything to do with people and teams, projects, series, milestones, and user communications, such as mailing lists. …
Michael Hudson is the latest member of the Launchpad team to face a friendly grilling. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Michael: I work on the Launchpad Code team, which means I work on the side of Launchpad to do with hosting, finding, viewing, importing and …
Next in the chair for our Meet the devs series is Martin Albisetti, also know as beuno. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Martin: I’m in charge of the user interface, making sure that new (and existing!) features and pages are easy to use and slick. I have been …
If you’ve had much contact with the Ubuntu community you’ll most likely have come across loco teams: local groups who promote, support and socialise around Ubuntu. Two loco teams — South Dakota and Quebec — have combined the Launchpad Drupal modules with a …