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Some bugs attract many, many comments. For a while now, Launchpad has displayed only the first 80 comments on any bug report, with the option of viewing the full comment history. That’s been good for speeding up page loads but not so great at offering an accurate view of …
One of my favourite things about Launchpad’s bug tracker is the dupe finder: when you report a new bug, it’ll search to see if there’s already a similar bug report. It’s the same for questions in Launchpad Answers, too. Getting to see possible dupes before …
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only (most other aspects will be offline) for 90 minutes on August 12th while we roll-out the latest code. Going offline: 08.00 UTC 12th August 2010 Expected back: 09.30 UTC 12th August 2010 For up to the minute Launchpad status …
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Image no longer available: Benji YorkRecently, Benji York joined Canonical’s Launchpad team. I asked him a little about himself and his work. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Benji: I work on the Foundations team. Right now I’m concentrating on the web …
Recently, I’ve been working with Charline, from Canonical’s design team, to talk to Launchpad’s users about how Launchpad fits into their work and what they think of new features we’re planning. You may have seen my requests for participants on identi.ca …
The Launchpad and Bazaar teams have been in Prague this week. More on what we got done in later posts. For now, here’s a photo! The Launchpad and Bazaar teams in Prague
You can now use SFTP to upload source packages to your Personal Package Archive! If you’re already familiar with uploading to a PPA, all you need to do is ensure your dput.cf includes the following: method = sftp login = <your Launchpad account name> If you’re …
This replaces the previously announced period of unavailability for the 1st of July. Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 23.00 UTC on the 6th of July 2010. This is to allow for the release of the latest …
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There are all sorts of different ways in which we in Canonical’s Launchpad team keep in touch with people who use Launchpad: informal conversations on IRC, attending Ubuntu Developer Summits, formal user research and so on. We want to hear from as many people who use …
Steve Kowalik recently joined the Soyuz part of the Launchpad team at Canonical, so I asked him the, by now familiar, questions! Matthew: What were you doing before you joined the Launchpad team? Steve: I worked on the Ubuntu Mobile team for 2.5 years before switching to the …