Should launchpadlib default to staging?
Launchpad API client developers: have your say in bug 714043 on whether launchpadlib should connect by default to Launchpad’s staging server (so data is discarded), or to real Launchpad.
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Coming changes
Bug expiry reactivated
As we foreshadowed last October, bug expiry is now active again. Bugs that are marked Incomplete and that haven’t been touched for 60 days will now start moving to the Expired state. If it turns out the bug’s still useful or valid, anyone can move it back. We …
Removing team polls
Polls were introduced to Launchpad as a way for teams to conduct internal surveys. Unfortunately the user interface and feature set were always problematic. The feature never really caught on and wasn’t used much (a little over 500 polls since 2006). A discussion[1] on the …
Launchpad in the second half of 2010
Via Planet Launchpad: Launchpad’s Strategist, Jonathan Lange, writes on his blog: We’re starting to get a picture of what we want to do in the second half of 2010. In particular, lots of people within the team and within Canonical are starting to get fed up with our …
The Road Ahead
It’s my pleasure to introduce to you the single greatest Launchpad planning achievement for 2010: the roadmap. For the last few months we’ve been working on bridging the gap between the Ubuntu distribution and the upstreams that it’s made from: making it easier …
Showing the number of affected users
Gavin just landed a very welcome branch to show the number of users affected by a bug on the bug page (bug 494040). You can also sort a list by the number of users affected, and doing this shows that two other popular bugs are related: provide a list of bugs affecting a user …
New design, out in the wild
Yesterday, our new design has started to roll out on the edge servers. This will be an incremental and iterative process, as all the pieces come together, where our best ideas and speculations meet production data. One of the conversations we had when re-designing the Launchpad …
Focusing on the Launchpad UI
Now that we’ve released Launchpad’s source code, our next couple of months of work are going to be mostly focused on our page layouts. Launchpad has been around for quite a few years now, and tight release schedules packed with ever-changing features have had the side …
Opening the AJAX flood gates
After many months on working on the necessary infrastructure to deploy complex AJAX widgets in Launchpad, more user interface reviews than any developer would like to go through in a life time, and a lot of cursing, the tip of the iceberg is finally showing. Mark announced months …
Linking project releases in Launchpad to milestones
In our 2.2.3 release of Launchpad — due 1st of April — we’re strengthening the relationship between milestones and releases. Project releases will be explicitly linked to a milestone, meaning the release inherits the milestone’s series and identity information. …
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