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PPA maintainers now have more control over where their build dependencies come from. With PPA dependency pinning, you can assign priorities to the PPAs your builds depend on, helping ensure that your packages build against the software you intend to use. Whether you are testing a …
Launchpad Builders do not have direct access to the Internet. To reach external resources, they must acquire an authentication token that allows access to a restricted set of URLs via a proxy. This can either be a custom authenticated builder proxy or the fetch service. The fetch …
We are reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad. The goal of the disclosure feature is to introduce true private projects, and we are reconciling the contradictory implementations of privacy in bugs and branches. We are adding a new kind of privacy called …
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Launchpad will soon permit you to say your project is not affected by a bug shared with another project – you can delete the spurious bug task. This action can be done from the bug’s web page, and using Launchpad API. You can remove a project from a bug if you are the …
I recently posted about Initializing page JavaScript from the JSONCache. Now I’m pleased to announce that you can also get updated copies of the IJSONRequestCache, to make it easier to update your page. Brad Crittenden and I started work on this at the Dublin Thunderdome, …
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I’m not a developer. I’ve played around — various flavours of BASIC as a kid, Python nowadays — but it rarely goes beyond a little experimentation. Lately, though, my lack of Python-fu has been increasingly frustrating. In particular, there are times when I want 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, …
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.
Launchpad has a REST API that exposes almost every object within Launchpad. Most of them have API URLs that closely match the human-readable URL: for instance, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316694 can also be obtained in machine-oriented JSON or XML form from …
An long-requested feature in Launchpad is to let people see who’s using a PPA. Finally, we’ve implemented this! Initially, the stats are only available on Launchpad’s webservice API. but we aim to show something useful in the web UI at some point. If you are …