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As of recently, you have more control of what email Launchpad sends you about bugs. Instead of bug subscriptions being all or nothing, you can now tell Launchpad exactly what bug-related events you want to hear about. And if you find you’re getting too much, or too little, …
Did you know we’re running a beta of Launchpad’s new bug subscriptions system? If so, you may have heard that we were planning to take the new subscriptions system out of beta today. There are, though, a couple of bugs that we want to fix before taking the new bug …
If you’ve ever wondered why a particular bug report about the Launchpad project is marked as Low, High or Critical, you should read our bug triage guidelines. Okay, so, if you’re not directly involved with triaging Launchpad bugs then that may not be the …
Ever wished you got less bug mail? Or perhaps that you could better control the bug mail that Launchpad sends you? Recently, Gary and the yellow squad, plus before them the previous Launchpad bugs team, have been working to give you just that: better control of the email that …
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Brian Murray has written a GreaseMonkey script to show how many duplicates a bug has. He writes: I was looking at a bug with a large number of duplicates the other day and found my self wondering exactly how many duplicates it had. This information actually appears in the page …
Back in February, Martin wrote that we’d re-enabled Launchpad’s bug expiry feature. This meant that, if a project had enabled bug expiry, Incomplete bugs that appeared to be abandoned would be automatically marked Expired after 60 days. This worked for a while and …
Photo by Windell Oskay. Licence: CC-BY Rob asked on the launchpad-dev list whether people would mind seeing slightly inaccurate bug counts on some pages in Launchpad, if it meant the page would load faster. So, if a project had 503 bugs its bug overview page might report that it …
Launchpad’s bug mail can be a bit chatty sometimes as I’m sure you’ve noticed. This cycle the Yellow Squad is working to give you more control about the bug mail Launchpad sends to you. One problem that we’ve known about for a really long time was reported …
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We have a small quandry on the Launchpad development team at the moment. As bug 268508 discusses, when one searches for a bug on Launchpad we do a substring search on the names of bug targets. For instance, searching in Ubuntu for ‘gcc’ will return all bugs on the …
We are starting to rollout features more rapidly on Launchpad as we move to a continuous deployment model. There are some fixes being deployed today that I want to give Launchpad users a heads up about. These are fixes meant to make the life of a bug supervisor easier. Bug …