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Earlier today, Graham wrote about the Trac to Launchpad migrator. In his post, Graham mentioned the XML schema we use as an interchange format when bringing a project’s bug history from elsewhere. It’s something that we knocked together to help projects when they move …
Greetings, readers! For a while now I’ve been the Launchpad developer in charge of helping users of other bug trackers migrate their projects to Launchpad. We do this reasonably regularly for users of Trac, SourceForge and Bugzilla, and we’re always open to helping …
There’s now more Ajaxy goodness on bug pages: in-line bug tag editing and also in-line subscriptions. Both are simple actions that I always wished could happen without a page reload. Have a look at the video I made or give it a go over on Launchpad’s staging …
In the latest release of the Launchpad bug tracker, we have introduced a new feature: official bug tags. Tags blessed by the project team as official display using a darker colour on the bug page, and are placed prominently at the top of the tags list on project pages. Users can …
I get three kinds of email from Launchpad generally: Regarding bugs I’ve reported or specifically subscribed to Those assigned to a team I’m a member of A very occasional question or notification about a code branch I’m subscribed to. Of these above the second …
Linking Launchpad bugs to upstream bugs can be hard work. You don’t necessarily know whether the bug is reported on the upstream tracker, and if you don’t know where the upstream project tracks its bugs you have to go and find out before you can file the bug and link …
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We in the Launchpad team are changing the way that we triage bugs reported against the Launchpad suite of applications. The Wishlist importance will no longer be used. Clearly the term is not about importance. It would be nice to convert bugs into blueprints, but the two …
If you manage bug mail using Thunderbird, you may find Fabrice Desré’s Bugmail plugin useful. It fetches the bug’s status, and displays it in a small pane above the email body, whenever it comes across bug mail from Launchpad, Bugzilla, Trac and Flyspray. In the case …
A while ago we announced the beta versions of the Launchpad plugins for Trac and Bugzilla. These allow Launchpad to sync not just bug statuses but also comments and, eventually, whole bug reports with the remote bug trackers that have them installed, bi-directionally. The …
A few weeks ago, Matt announced the new Launchpad plugins for Bugzilla and Trac. The plugins allow bidirectional communication between Launchpad and the remote bug trackers that have them installed. Obviously, we need to test the plugins - and that’s where we need your …