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We’ve just upgraded Launchpad’s builder machines to Bazaar 2.4. Most importantly, this means that recipe builds of very large trees will work reliably, such as the daily builds of the Linaro ARM-optimized gcc. (This was bug 746822 in Launchpad). We are going to do …
We’ve recently deployed two features that make it easier to find bugs that you’re previously said affect you: 1: On your personal bugs page, there’s now an Affecting bugs that shows all these bugs. 2: On a project, distribution or source package bug listing …
If you use gmail, you should now be able to send commands to Launchpad without gpg-signing. gmail puts a DKIM cryptographic signature on outgoing mail, which is a cryptographic signature that proves that the mail was sent by gmail and that it was sent by the purported user. We …
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Continuing on from our earlier work of sending less but better mail and making it faster to import i18n translation templates: Launchpad will no longer send mail when it successfully imports a template. You can see in the web ui when the template was last imported, and you will …
Congratulations and virtual cupcakes to nigelb and chrisjohnston who got their first changes in to Launchpad, and to the reviewers who helped get them finished off and deployed. jml said it so well at his recent short talk: I’m not going to kid you, [changing Launchpad is] …
Launchpad has a web UI, an email interface, and a ReST API that exposes every object in the database. There are also a bunch of client programs, command line and graphical, that talk to Launchpad to do various things. What we don’t yet have, and what I think would be great, …
Short story: http://pad.lv/12345 takes you to bug 12345, and pad.lv describes more abbreviations. Sometimes you’d like to point people to an interesting bug in a project that uses Launchpad, like bug 685380 (that ‘1’ and ’l’ may need to be more …
You may start getting “Failed to fetch” error messages when updating your software sources (e.g. through “apt-get update” or “Reload package information” in Synaptic), which may be due to a bug we’ve just cleaned up in Launchpad’s …
Launchpad will be offline for about 90 minutes while we roll out some changes to the database and to code hosting.
Launchpad API client developers: have your say in bug 714043 on whether launchpadlib should connect by default to Launchpad’s staging server (so data is discarded), or to real Launchpad.