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Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! Host: Matthew Revell. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. 01.50: David Mason talks about IntraHealth’s open source project’s that producing software for health workers in the developing world. 15.18: Danilo Segan talks about the …
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It’s not unusual for a project to be known by more than one name. Y’know, like Superman and Clark Kent. Or maybe something a bit more subtle, such as PostgreSQL/Postgres. You can help people find your project in Launchpad, whatever name they know it by, thanks to …
Interesting post from Jay Pipes, one of developers working on the Drizzle project: “To paraphrase the late Charlton Heston: ‘[Drizzle] is people!’ “Recently, I’ve seen the fruit that transparent, open source development bears. This fruit takes the …
Spring is a free software real-time strategy game engine that’s available for Ubuntu via the Spring Team’s PPA. From the Spring About page, it features: Large battles limited only by the power of your computer; support for up to 5000 units. Large, highly detailed maps …
Over the next few months we’re turning our attention to making Launchpad sing; not so much Edith Piaf, more the note struck by a perfectly tuned Ferrari. This month — actually, this week — and again in April and June, we’re holding Launchpad Performance Week (LPW)! …
Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! Host: Matthew Revell. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. The Launchpad team released Launchpad 2.2.1 last week. Here’s a closer look at what’s new. 00.48: Henning Eggers, Launchpad Translations developer, talks about how Launchpad …
The Launchpad team are proud to announce Launchpad 2.2.1, our first release of 2009! In 2.2.1 we’ve introduced: a unique signature for each Personal Package Archive a way to introduce new translators to your team’s way of working an easier way for projects to export …
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Today we’re releasing Launchpad 2.2.1. While we roll-out the code, Launchpad will be unavailable. Going offline: 22.00 UTC 28th January 2009 Expected back: 22.30 UTC 28th January 2009. See this blog for a release announcement! (Subscribe to the ultra-low traffic …
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Last month I mentioned that we were generating a unique key for each Personal Package Archive. Well, that’s complete meaning each PPA now has its own key that’s used to sign its packages. And if you create a new PPA, Launchpad will generate a new key for it within a …
It’s Ubuntu Developer Week time again! During this week, you can find a whole bunch of IRC sessions where members of the Ubuntu developer community introduce a topic — and take questions — that is of use to anyone wanting to get more deeply involved in Ubuntu development. …