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Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for less than 15 minutes from 08.00 UTC on Thursday the 7th of October. During this time we’ll be completing our upgrades to Launchpad’s database servers. Starts: 08.00 UTC 7th October 2010 Expected back …
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Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for less than 15 minutes from 08.00 UTC on Wednesday the 6th of October. During this time we’ll be making upgrades to Launchpad’s database servers. Starts: 08.00 UTC 6th October 2010 …
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Launchpad’s code hosting and browsing will be offline for 15 minutes today for emergency hardware maintenance. Going offline: 14.00 UTC 23rd September 2010 Expected back: 14.15 UTC 23rd September 2010 We’re sorry for the short notice of this downtime.
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Rob Collins joined the Launchpad team recently. Here’s a bit about him. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Rob: I’m the Architect for Launchpad - I’m responsible for guiding the development and technology choices we make so that Launchpad can meet …
Over the summer, Jono and I have been compiling a list of all the features in Launchpad. While the help wiki and the heads of various members of the Launchpad team are a pretty good guide to everything that’s in Launchpad, we haven’t had a canonical, comprehensive, …
You’ve probably seen the featured projects list on Launchpad’s home page: As you can see, there’s a wide variety of projects in that list, and each of them is an excellent example of how Launchpad can help free software projects. However, we’ve had pretty …
Just a quick look at some of the recent posts to Planet Launchpad: Julian wants to get people using the PPA SFTP upload service Deryck’s looking for help with the bug import script Brad writes about the new ways that project pages indicate much progress you’ve made in …
On Thursday the 9th of September we’re rolling out the latest Launchpad code to our servers. At the same time we’re taking the opportunity to carry out some server maintenance. This work will take around three hours from 08.00 UTC and will include a 90 minute period …
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Jon Sackett joined the Launchpad Registry team a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a quick run-down of who he is. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Jon: I’m part of the Registry team; we maintain the people, teams and projects bits and pieces used by all the …
Some bugs get reported more than once. That’s why we’ve got the dupe finder. Some duplicate bugs slip through the dupe finder. Really common issues get quite a few dupes and someone from the relevant project usually goes through and marks them as duplicates of the …
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