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We’re looking for a couple of smart, motivated and experienced people to join us on the Launchpad team at Canonical. First up is a Software Engineer, to join one of the Launchpad development squads working on both new Launchpad features and maintenance of existing …
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When you want to assign a bug to someone, subscribe them to a blueprint and so on, you see Launchpad’s person picker. It’s where you search for someone or a team, get a list of possible matches and then select the right one. Fairly recently, we’ve made a couple …
Good news if you run a project’s translation effort in Launchpad! Until today, when you imported a template or translation file into Launchpad for the first time, you’d have to wait for a member of the Canonical Launchpad team to review and then approve that file …
You report a bug. Someone clicks “This affects me too” or marks the bug as a duplicate of another bug report. Both of those are confirmation of your bug, right? That’s what we think and members of the Ubuntu community agree. So, from now on, that’s …
Small thing this: when you change a tag on a bug, the email notification from Launchpad describes it as removing the original tag and adding a new tag. That makes sense but something slightly irritating was that Launchpad would order the email like this: Tags added: …
Not long back, Sumana Harihareswara, who is Volunteer Development Coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation, contacted some members of the Launchpad community to ask how we handle code review. She’s written a summary of her research for the Wikimedia community. It makes …
Last week I announced Launchpad’s new bug subscriptions system! While we were in Dublin, I recorded a chat with Graham Binns about the changes to bug subscriptions and the work that had gone into them. Download the Ogg Vorbis file.
Visit this URL: https://launchpad.net/~ Cool, eh? Same works for https://bugs.launchpad.net/~, as well as code, translations, answers and blueprint. Actually, it’ll work anywhere that you’d normally put /people/+me or your own Launchpad id — so long as you’re …
Launchpad will be fully offline (not read-only) for around one hour from 08.00 UTC on the 14th July 2011. Launchpad goes offline: 08.00 UTC 14th July 2011 Launchpad expected back: 09.00 UTC 14th July 2011 We’re sorry for the very short notice of this down-time. Following …
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So, you’re about to select someone in Launchpad — maybe you’re assigning a bug — and you’re not exactly sure you’ve got the right person. One way to confirm would be for Launchpad to tell you what relation that person has to the project you’re …