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TL;DR This is a pretty long post. Here’s the important bit, if you don’t want to read the rest. ‘‘‘For all Launchpad status updates/notices:’’’ use our launchpadstatus identi.ca account (RSS feed, Twitter mirror). …
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for up to 90 minutes from 10.00 UTC on the 8th December. Starts: 10.00 UTC 8th December 2010. Expected back by: 11.30 UTC 8th December 2010. During this time we will be making updates to …
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I’m running a short survey — four questions — to find out how people want to get system status updates about Launchpad. If you’ve got an opinion on how you’d prefer to get info about pending and unplanned Launchpad service interruptions, take the survey :)
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A while back I asked for your suggestions for which Launchpad-hosted projects we should feature on the Launchpad front page. Thanks to everyone who made their suggestions! I’ve now updated the list based on how often each project was recommended and how active they are in …
Between December 13th and 24th we’re holding Launchpad’s first bug jam! For two weeks, Canonical’s Launchpad team will focus solely on closing bugs and we’d love it if you’d join us. Right now, there are more than 6,500 open bug reports for the …
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only for up to two hours from 10.00 UTC on Wednesday the 17th November 2010. Other aspects, such as PPAs and branch hosting, will be offline during this time. Starts: 10.00 UTC 17th November 2010 Expected back before: 12.00 UTC 17th …
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Launchpad’s code hosting will be offline from 11.00 UTC for 15 minutes on Friday the 29th October 2010 for hardware maintenance. During this time you will be unable to push to or pull from code hosted on Launchpad. Code imports will be paused. Goes offline: 11.00 UTC 29th …
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If you’re a Gnome user and have watched with envy as your KDE4-using friends effortlessly open a terminal directly in their file-browser, you may be interested in Nautilus Terminal. Fabien Loison is behind Nautilus Terminal. I asked him a little about the project. Matthew: …
We’ve seen quite a few new faces in Canonical’s Launchpad team lately. Ian Booth is one of them and is now part of the Launchpad Code team. I asked him a bit about who he is and what he is working on. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Ian: I only recently …
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around two hours on Wednesday the 13th of October, while we roll-out new Launchpad code. Starts: 22.00 UTC 13th October 2010 Expected back: 00.00 UTC 14th October 2010
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