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Launchpad is big. Really big. Almost two and a half million people have Launchpad user accounts and close to seven and a half thousand projects are registered in the directory. Then there are the couple of hundred thousand bug reports, thousands of code branches, millions of …
Hey - quick update from Matthew Revell: Launchpad’s looking a bit different today! That’s because we’ve begun the roll-out of our next major version of Launchpad. In fact, you may already have seen mention of Launchpad 2.0 in the press already, such as at The …
Launchpad’s new code review system gives you a public place to discuss and vote on proposed code mergers. What’s more, you can easily access the discussion directly from both branches involved. This month, we’ve added an email interface to make it easier to fit …
You have noticed that things have changed in Launchpad’s web interface. Now, on bugs pages, the translations pages and distribution overview pages you’ll see that many of the option you use most often are now in the body of the page, right next to the data they …
Launchpad’s code imports give you all the benefits of Bazaar’s distributed version control for code that’s stored in CVS and Subversion repositories. Now you can get far more detail on the progress of individual code imports, direct on that import’s …
For some time now, you’ve been able to use Launchpad to propose that a branch of code should be merged with another. This is great if you’ve uploaded a branch that includes a new feature or bug fix and you want to bring it to the attention of the trunk branch’s …
If you translate using Launchpad, you’ll almost certainly be delighted to read that you can now search for translations! Take a look at the English (UK) translations for Wordpress. There are two search boxes. One at the very top-right of the page: that’s …
You can now view diffs for source packages in boths PPAs and Ubuntu’s primary archive. Celso Providelo, the Launchpad developer who’s been working on this, told me a bit more about it: “This is a really easy way for anyone to see what changes have been made in a …
No matter how good a website’s interface, when you’re dealing with as much data as there is in Launchpad, search can be the simplest way to get what you need. Thanks to work by my colleagues Francis Lacoste, Curtis Hovey and Maris Fogels, you can now search through …
Up until this release (1.2.3), Launchpad Translations has supported only four plural forms. This works for many languages but has been a problem for Arabic, in particular, as it has six different plural forms. I’m pleased to say that Launchpad now supports up to six plural …