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If you’ve ever wondered why a particular bug report about the Launchpad project is marked as Low, High or Critical, you should read our bug triage guidelines. Okay, so, if you’re not directly involved with triaging Launchpad bugs then that may not be the …
There’s quite a bit of overlap between home beer brewing and hacking. Both usually involve experimentation, sharing and a love of what you’re doing. It’s not surprising, then, that there’s more than one open source project aimed at helping home brewers to …
There’s a new Launchpad client library, called lpad, for the Go programming language. Gustavo writes: lpad is based on a two-layered design. The top layer offers a static API which allows a more comfortable interaction with the API with static checks, better documentation, …
Luz is a new project to Launchpad. It creates impressive visual effects that can react to music or be driven by a person using a MIDI controller or a gamepad. It has been created by Ian McIntosh, part of a Portland, Oregon, artists collective who produce light and projection …
Ever wished you got less bug mail? Or perhaps that you could better control the bug mail that Launchpad sends you? Recently, Gary and the yellow squad, plus before them the previous Launchpad bugs team, have been working to give you just that: better control of the email that …
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It’s incredible to think that more than 57,000 people have used Launchpad to translate software from English into their own language. Many of them have worked directly on upstream projects, such as the OpenShot video editor. Others have helped translate Ubuntu packages of …
Congratulations to everyone in the Ubuntu community on the successful release of Ubuntu 11.04! Here’s to the next six months of oneiric fun. Photo by Sharon Terry. Licence: CC-BY-ND 2.0.
If you’re an Ubuntu user, it’s likely that you’ve used UFW — the Uncomplicated Firewall — and maybe also its graphical front-end, Gufw. I spoke to Marcos Costales from Gufw to ask about the project and their use of Launchpad. Matthew: What prompted you to start …
Brian Murray has written a GreaseMonkey script to show how many duplicates a bug has. He writes: I was looking at a bug with a large number of duplicates the other day and found my self wondering exactly how many duplicates it had. This information actually appears in the page …
Rejoice Blueprint users for Tim has brought the glory of Ajax to the main blueprint page. He writes: Now we can update the following without reloading the primary page: title - the H1 heading summary whiteboard assignee drafter approver priority implementation status definition …