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Three tips from Leonard’s lightning talk in Prague about writing faster Launchpadlib API clients: 1. Use the latest launchpadlib. It gets faster from one release to the next. (The versions in the current Ubuntu release should be fine; otherwise run from the branch or the …
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Launchpad’s strategist, Jonathan Lange, has started a series of blog posts on getting started with Launchpad’s Python library, launchpadlib: launchpadlib is the Python client-side library that talks to Launchpad’s own REST API. It turns out that customize …
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Jonathan Lange writes on his blog: Launchpad has a pretty awesome public API, implemented using lazr.restful. I’ve written a few small scripts for it, and the Launchpad team has a few scripts that they use internally for doing admin tasks. The Ubuntu Platform team does a …
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People are starting to integrate Launchpad into applications, talking to it directly through its API — either by using the launchpadlib Python library or by doing RESTful HTTP requests. Below are some of the uses we’ve found — if you know of some not on this list, please …
I’m in Montreal this week, with the rest of the Launchpad Foundations team and a few other Canonical engineers. We’re preparing for the open sourcing of Launchpad by doing a lot of refactoring, so that when the code is released in July it will be more comprehensible, …
The frequency of these posts has fallen off recently because I’ve been working on a Javascript client for the Launchpad web service, which we’ll be using to add some Ajax functionality to Launchpad. But it’s time for another one, featuring progress that’s …
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Guillermo Gonzalez - the man behind the bzr-eclipse plugin - has recently been working with the Launchpad API to produce an Eclipse plugin that integrates with Launchpad. That seemed like a pretty cool use of the API so I emailed him to find out more. Matthew: What does your …
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As part of the API beta, we’ve recently exposed a number of new features that work with the Launchpad registry. One outcome is the ability to simplify part of the release management that has been cumbersome. You can now have your build system generate all of the files you …
This status report was put off until today because the edge site was frozen. This update is huge. We’ve made one change to launchpadlib, exposed a whole lot of Launchpad’s project registry, and published branches for the first time. Since the development cycle is …
Barry Warsaw, Francis Lacoste, and I gave an IRC chat about the Launchpad web service as part of Ubuntu Developer Week. There’s a transcript available in case you missed it. The big news from last week is that we finally have the API documentation being generated whenever a …