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It’s incredible to think that more than 57,000 people have used Launchpad to translate software from English into their own language. Many of them have worked directly on upstream projects, such as the OpenShot video editor. Others have helped translate Ubuntu packages of …
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 …
A few weeks ago the Yellow Squad made another change to increase the relevance of the email you get from Launchpad by eliminating some noisy ones. A while back, Matthew Paul Thomas noticed that a change to a bug that was subsequently reverted could be deemed a mistake and was an …
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Short story: http://pad.lv/12345 takes you to bug 12345, and pad.lv describes more abbreviations. Sometimes you’d like to point people to an interesting bug in a project that uses Launchpad, like bug 685380 (that ‘1’ and ’l’ may need to be more …
Photo by Anton Lindqvist. Licence: CC BY 2.0. Launchpad has an anonymous FTP server that people use to upload source packages to Ubuntu and their PPAs. When Launchpad processes the upload it does a huge number of checks, one of which is verifying the GPG signature on the …
Launchpad’s bug mail can be a bit chatty sometimes as I’m sure you’ve noticed. This cycle the Yellow Squad is working to give you more control about the bug mail Launchpad sends to you. One problem that we’ve known about for a really long time was reported …
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Launchpad has a REST API that exposes almost every object within Launchpad. Most of them have API URLs that closely match the human-readable URL: for instance, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316694 can also be obtained in machine-oriented JSON or XML form from …
An long-requested feature in Launchpad is to let people see who’s using a PPA. Finally, we’ve implemented this! Initially, the stats are only available on Launchpad’s webservice API. but we aim to show something useful in the web UI at some point. If you are …
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 …
Some bugs get reported more than once. That’s why we’ve got the dupe finder. Some duplicate bugs slip through the dupe finder. Really common issues get quite a few dupes and someone from the relevant project usually goes through and marks them as duplicates of the …
Read more of Dupes of dupes now become dupes of the master bug →