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The new bug listings listings were the first time my squad, the Orange Squad, had a chance to work on some really nice in-depth client-side UI since our squad was formed. Not only were we implementing the feature, we wanted to lay groundwork for future features. Here are some of …
The Launchpad maintenance teams have been working since the beginning of the year at reducing our Critical bugs count to 0. Without much success this far. The long term trend keeps the backlog at around 300. And it’s not because we haven’t been fixing these. Since …
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Our custom bug listings beta has been up and running for just over a week now – thanks to everyone in the Launchpad beta testers group that have tried it out, and thank you for all your valuable feedback and comments. If you haven’t tried it yet, you can get access by …
Edit 2011-11-15 08:18 UTC: The problem is now fixed and we’ve re-enabled the new menu. Edit 2011-11-11 13:42 UTC: We’ve temporarily disabled the new menu while we fix some unfortunate side effect. We’ve just deployed a new, simplified version of the branch menu …
We’ve just upgraded Launchpad’s builder machines to Bazaar 2.4. Most importantly, this means that recipe builds of very large trees will work reliably, such as the daily builds of the Linaro ARM-optimized gcc. (This was bug 746822 in Launchpad). We are going to do …
It’s sad to read that BerliOS will close in December, after nearly twelve years of serving open source projects. One fewer project hosting site means that the open source world is that bit poorer. If you’ve been hosting your project on the BerliOS Developer platform …
We’ve recently deployed two features that make it easier to find bugs that you’re previously said affect you: 1: On your personal bugs page, there’s now an Affecting bugs that shows all these bugs. 2: On a project, distribution or source package bug listing …
If you use gmail, you should now be able to send commands to Launchpad without gpg-signing. gmail puts a DKIM cryptographic signature on outgoing mail, which is a cryptographic signature that proves that the mail was sent by gmail and that it was sent by the purported user. We …
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Steve Kowalik writes: For a while now Launchpad has been using deployment reports that tell us what state our QA is in, which revisions are safe to deploy to production, or which revisions are not safe to deploy since they failed QA. Some time ago, I started the process to make …
Today we reached a significant milestone, we completed our first fast down-time deployment. Two obvious reasons for doing this were already mentioned in the announcement and our technical architect’’s post describing the change: We’ll have less downtime per …