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On the 5th of October we’ll be ending our beta of Mercurial imports in Launchpad. On that day your existing Mercurial imports will cease and you won’t be able to create new ones. This doesn’t affect Bazaar, Git, Subversion or CVS imports. You’re probably …
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 …
Read more of Reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad (part 2) →
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) →
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 …
Edit 2011-11-15 08:18 UTC: The problem is now fixed and we’ve re-enabled the new menu. Edit 2011-11-11 13:42 UTC: We’ve temporarily disabled the new menu while we fix some unfortunate side effect. We’ve just deployed a new, simplified version of the branch menu …
We’ve just upgraded Launchpad’s builder machines to Bazaar 2.4. Most importantly, this means that recipe builds of very large trees will work reliably, such as the daily builds of the Linaro ARM-optimized gcc. (This was bug 746822 in Launchpad). We are going to do …
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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Here’s a quick pub quiz: Question: How do you make packages for Ubuntu? You can choose from the following answers: learn Debian packaging through hours of study and practice borrow existing packaging from elsewhere, throw a couple of Bazaar branches together and let …
Continuing with the recent improvements to the build farm - Jelmer has made another massive one. The last major scalability problem that we had was one where the whole farm was blocked when a single builder was ready to upload a build. In the case of large packages, like the …