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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. Launchpad will use policies instead of roles to govern who …
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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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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 must change the UI to accommodate the a kind of privacy, …
Read more of Reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad (part 1) →
Custom Bug Listings Over the past few months the Launchpad Orange Squad has been working to make it easier to get the information that matters to you from bug listings. A lot of you have said in the past that you’d like to be able to filter bugs in a way that works best for …
The information displayed with bug listings is often not what you want to see – you might not be interested in bug heat and want to see bug age, but it’s not there. Looking at this problem, we’ve come up with a new beta feature: custom bug listings. A lot of you have …
Launchpad is ending support for multi-tenancy for branches and bugs to ensure that projects can manage the disclosure of private information. This is a fundamental change to how launchpad permits communities to share projects. Very few users will be affected by this change, but …
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 …
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 …
You report a bug. Someone clicks “This affects me too” or marks the bug as a duplicate of another bug report. Both of those are confirmation of your bug, right? That’s what we think and members of the Ubuntu community agree. So, from now on, that’s …
Small thing this: when you change a tag on a bug, the email notification from Launchpad describes it as removing the original tag and adding a new tag. That makes sense but something slightly irritating was that Launchpad would order the email like this: Tags added: …