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After a few months of working on all the infrastructure changes needed to start deploying AJAX on Launchpad, we are now ready to start developing the mockups we’ve been working on for the past months in the User Experience team. To make sure we coordinated the work of 35 …
Last week was the first of some Launchpad Performance Weeks that we’re embarking upon. The Soyuz team worked hard on improving the performance of the PPA page, which had a tendency to be very slow or even time out on PPAs that have a lot of binaries published. The more …
Finding the right balance between open access and quality control is an ongoing challenge both for translations groups and the Launchpad Translations developers. Launchpad already gives projects the flexibility to choose what level of openness versus control that they want for …
Providing translation work back upstream is now greatly simplified! There is a lot of translation work going on in Launchpad, for Ubuntu as well as for other projects. There is also a lot of translation work going on for the projects, that is not done in Launchpad. This is …
The frequency of these posts has fallen off recently because I’ve been working on a Javascript client for the Launchpad web service, which we’ll be using to add some Ajax functionality to Launchpad. But it’s time for another one, featuring progress that’s …
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Free software development is an essentially social activity and we’ve built Launchpad to help those interactions — both between people and projects — along the way. By working on free software through Launchpad you build a picture not only of what you’ve done — …
A while ago we announced the beta versions of the Launchpad plugins for Trac and Bugzilla. These allow Launchpad to sync not just bug statuses but also comments and, eventually, whole bug reports with the remote bug trackers that have them installed, bi-directionally. The …
As of today, you can use your Launchpad identity to log into any website that supports OpenID. Now, you need remember only your Launchpad username and password for thousands of websites. Here’s how it works: You visit a website that’s an OpenID receiver and it asks …
You can now push your branches to Launchpad much more quickly. That’s because Launchpad now supports stacked branches: Bazaar branches that have only a little bit of their history. By pushing up a stacked branch to Launchpad, you push up only that little bit, rather than …
If you’ve ever come to file a bug and found that it’s already been reported, you may have wanted to let the project know that you too have been affected. Trouble is: many projects find “me too” comments unhelpful because they don’t add much to the …