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You may have noticed that we introduced some useful new options when filing bugs. These are especially useful to anyone who files lots of bugs. Something for everyone. Everyone can now set tags when filing a bug. Previously, only people going via the advanced bug filing page …
Up until now, series overview pages have offered a historical overview of a series. Today, we’ve released our new series overview pages that work much more like a dashboard for people driving a series. Before we look at the new dashboards, let’s clear up some …
New on project overview pages: project timelines. Here’s the timeline from the Drizzle project. Straight away you can see how many series — i.e. major lines of development — are running concurrently, along with releases and milestones. Click on any of them to get more info. …
Greetings, readers! For a while now I’ve been the Launchpad developer in charge of helping users of other bug trackers migrate their projects to Launchpad. We do this reasonably regularly for users of Trac, SourceForge and Bugzilla, and we’re always open to helping …
There’s now more Ajaxy goodness on bug pages: in-line bug tag editing and also in-line subscriptions. Both are simple actions that I always wished could happen without a page reload. Have a look at the video I made or give it a go over on Launchpad’s staging …
In the latest release of the Launchpad bug tracker, we have introduced a new feature: official bug tags. Tags blessed by the project team as official display using a darker colour on the bug page, and are placed prominently at the top of the tags list on project pages. Users can …
Now grows together what belongs together. Introducing a cool new feature: importing translation templates from Bazaar branches. You can (and should) host your source code on code.launchpad.net using Bazaar branches. You also have a great translation tool in …
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The release of 2.2.3 brings with it a change for PPAs — we are now supporting multiple PPAs per person! You will have probably already noticed that we made a change in 2.2.1 that altered the URLs you see for a PPA’s index page and its sources.list entry; these now have the …
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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 Launchpad bugs to upstream bugs can be hard work. You don’t necessarily know whether the bug is reported on the upstream tracker, and if you don’t know where the upstream project tracks its bugs you have to go and find out before you can file the bug and link …
Read more of Links to external bug trackers right where you need them →