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It’s my pleasure to announce that as of today, Matthew Revell is the new Launchpad Product Manager replacing Jonathan Lange. We were seduced by his bold vision for Launchpad along with his data-centric approach that he intends to bring to the role. He also has an already …
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Users can use the affects form on the bug page to change which project or distribution the bug affects. You can also select the affected package. Lp API users can assign a project, distribution, or package to the BugTask target property to change the affected bug target. The …
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Not long back, Sumana Harihareswara, who is Volunteer Development Coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation, contacted some members of the Launchpad community to ask how we handle code review. She’s written a summary of her research for the Wikimedia community. It makes …
I can’t believe it’s been two weeks already! From June 25th to July 1st, the whole Launchpad team was gathered in Dublin for our semi-annual all-hands event. Like usual, we also invited the Bazaar team and one of our friendly sysadmin. The theme this time around was …
Visit this URL: https://launchpad.net/~ Cool, eh? Same works for https://bugs.launchpad.net/~, as well as code, translations, answers and blueprint. Actually, it’ll work anywhere that you’d normally put /people/+me or your own Launchpad id — so long as you’re …
So, you’re about to select someone in Launchpad — maybe you’re assigning a bug — and you’re not exactly sure you’ve got the right person. One way to confirm would be for Launchpad to tell you what relation that person has to the project you’re …
Launchpad has quite a few background tasks that update things outside of your browser request, and the only way you know that they finished is to reload a page to see if it changes. Updating the preview diff on a merge proposal is one example. At our Launchpad sprint in Dublin a …
On Launchpad we have a lot of links that take your focus away from the current task. Usually, these exist to let you get more information on Launchpad or take you off Launchpad to do something like look at upstream information. These links are usually represented one of two …
We’re having a Launchpad meet-up in Dublin next Wednesday (29th June) from 8pm at the Porterhouse on Nassau Street. Come and meet some of the Canonical Launchpad team, a few other Canonical types and members of the Ubuntu Irish LoCo.
We are testing changes to the person picker used on many pages in Launchpad. Our general goal is to ensure that you can trust you know who the user you are seeing is. Beta testers will see two subtle changes to pages: The login status area in the upper right of the page will show …