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Launchpad can now show you all the people that your project is sharing private bugs and branches with. This new sharing feature is a few weeks away from being in beta, but the UI is informative, so we’re enabling this feature for members of the Launchpad Beta Testers team …
At its most basic, a blueprint in Launchpad is a statement of intent: by creating a blueprint, you’re saying, “Here’s an idea for how this project should progress.” How do you track the detailed steps to get from having the idea to seeing it implemented? …
Two changes to the contact team email feature were recently released that make communication more reliable. Non-team members now see the “Contact this team’s admins” link. Previously, non-members saw a link to contact the team owner. The owner is often one …
The title may sound like a contradiction, but I assure you that it is not. You can now use private teams in social contexts in Launchpad. Private teams can collaborate with public projects and other teams if they choose to reveal the existence of the private team. Private teams …
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 …
We’ve recently deployed two features that make it easier to find bugs that you’re previously said affect you: 1: On your personal bugs page, there’s now an Affecting bugs that shows all these bugs. 2: On a project, distribution or source package bug listing …
If you use gmail, you should now be able to send commands to Launchpad without gpg-signing. gmail puts a DKIM cryptographic signature on outgoing mail, which is a cryptographic signature that proves that the mail was sent by gmail and that it was sent by the purported user. We …
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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, …
Launchpad has quite a few background tasks that update things outside of your browser request, and the only way you know that they finished is to reload a page to see if it changes. Updating the preview diff on a merge proposal is one example. At our Launchpad sprint in Dublin a …
Over the past few months, my team have been working to make it easier to create and manage derivative distributions in Launchpad. Although most of this will be of interest only to distro admins and contributors, we recently released a beta of a new feature that lets you visualize …
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