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Back in November we in the Launchpad team made our contribution to the sartorial health of the free software world: the Launchpad t-shirt! As someone with a clue about fashion might say, the understated charcoal grey of the shirt provides the perfect background to the bright …
Fergus Ross Ferrier tells us about his project, Pidge. Matthew: What is the Pidge project? Fergus: The goal is to have an open web platform — code and data — that students can use as a robust, trusted online community for sharing relevant information across their campus: events, …
Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! Host: Matthew Revell. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. Launchpad will be open source on the 21st July this year! (22 June 2009 ed. note: we may push the date a bit, for testing purposes; it could be in August instead.) Karl Fogel joined the …
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Often, if you’re trying out a new feature — or you want to show someone how to do something — it’s likely you want to use real data but without having a lasting effect. Launchpad’s staging environment allows you to do just that. Staging’s database is …
Karma is a shorthand way of showing how active someone is in Launchpad. If you have a Launchpad account then you also have a karma score. Karma is simple: roughly speaking, the higher someone’s karma score, the more active they are in Launchpad. There are a couple of things …
You can copy packages from other PPAs into any PPA that you can upload to. You also have the option of copying packages between distro-series (i.e different distribution releases). For example: take a look at the Ubuntu Mobile team’s PPA copy packages page. Here you can: …
Happy new year and welcome to the eighth day of Launchpad! Today we’re looking at one of the ways you can use Launchpad without having to fire up a web browser: Launchpad Bugs’ email interface. Unless you’re totally new to Launchpad Bugs, you’ve already …
Ever needed to share a Bazaar branch that’s not part of a wider project? Or perhaps you want to share some code that’s not yet ready to be associated with a project. Launchpad gives you personal — or +junk — branches that work pretty much like normal hosted branches, …
Something you’ll hear we Launchpadders talk about quite often is that the combination of Launchpad and Bazaar makes it really easy for newcomers to contribute code to your project. Anyone can create their own branch of your trunk, hack away and then upload their new branch …
There are a few ways that you might find yourself receiving email updates about a bug that’s tracked in Launchpad. Usually, it’s because you reported the bug, commented on it, subscribed directly to the bug report or you subscribed to all bugs associated with a …