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Some bugs attract many, many comments. For a while now, Launchpad has displayed only the first 80 comments on any bug report, with the option of viewing the full comment history. That’s been good for speeding up page loads but not so great at offering an accurate view of …
One of my favourite things about Launchpad’s bug tracker is the dupe finder: when you report a new bug, it’ll search to see if there’s already a similar bug report. It’s the same for questions in Launchpad Answers, too. Getting to see possible dupes before …
Improvements, you say? Very recently we saw the beta release of a new feature on Launchpad: building packages from recipes. Recipes bring Bazaar branches for the upstream source code and a packaging branch together to generate a Debian source package. We informally referred to …
You can now use SFTP to upload source packages to your Personal Package Archive! If you’re already familiar with uploading to a PPA, all you need to do is ensure your dput.cf includes the following: method = sftp login = <your Launchpad account name> If you’re …
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 …
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 …
For the last million years1 or so I’ve been working on a cool new feature for Launchpad Bugs: an inline, AJAXified, asynchronous dupe finder. For quite some time now people have encountered timeouts or long response times when trying to file bugs, particularly when they …
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If you’re using edge, you can now just comment on a question in Launchpad. For all questions on Answers, the “Just Add a Comment” button is now always visible. Previously, you might have only seen “Add Answer” and “Add Information …
Over the past few months we’ve been slowly introducing a grand new feature in Launchpad Translations, and with 2.2.7, we are finally ready to announce it to the wide world: message sharing. Introducing message sharing Message sharing between different releases of a product …
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Launchpad has a little known feature that is getting better. The product release finder is a process that runs everyday to locate new releases and import them to Launchpad. The process uses the series’ Release file pattern to locate files and import them to the appropriate …
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