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Launchpad Merge Proposals, a VS Code extension for reviewing Launchpad merge proposals, is now available on the Visual Studio Marketplace as a preview release. The extension brings the review into the editor. It finds the merge proposals for the branch you have checked out, …
Maintainers can now merge changes (merge proposals) directly from the Launchpad UI. The new Request merge button is available to anyone with permission to push to the target branch. Launchpad enables it if the merge proposal has: An active status and an up-to-date diff No …
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PPA maintainers now have more control over where their build dependencies come from. With PPA dependency pinning, you can assign priorities to the PPAs your builds depend on, helping ensure that your packages build against the software you intend to use. Whether you are testing a …
Launchpad Builders do not have direct access to the Internet. To reach external resources, they must acquire an authentication token that allows access to a restricted set of URLs via a proxy. This can either be a custom authenticated builder proxy or the fetch service. The fetch …
If you are a member of Launchpad’s beta testers team, you can now try out Git-based recipes. These work very similarly to the Bazaar-based recipes that Launchpad has supported for a long time, with a few minor changes to handle differences in the underlying version control …
If you are a member of Launchpad’s beta testers team, you can now try out webhooks for Bazaar branches and Git repositories. These can be used to set up integration with external sites for various purposes, such as running CI jobs or publishing documentation. We expect to …
It’s been a while since we posted much regularly on this team blog, not least because for a while Launchpad was running more or less in maintenance mode. That’s no longer the case and we’re back to the point where we can do feature development work again, as …
Today we’re announcing early support for hosting Git repositories directly on Launchpad, as well as or instead of Bazaar branches. This has been by far the single most commonly requested feature from Launchpad code hosting for a long time; we’ve been working hard on …
Updated network graph Back in January a side project was started to update the JavaScript used in Launchpad. Launchpad has been using YUI 3.3.0 for a long time, very successfully, however recent advances in YUI 3.5 and higher have added some great tools for development that …
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Setting up a commercial project in Launchpad has gotten easier. You can now quickly register a proprietary project and enable private bugs. You can create private teams and private personal package archives, AKA private PPA or P3A without the assistance of a Launchpad admin. …