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Yesterday, Jonathan Lange our Product Strategist announced that he was leaving Launchpad after four and a half year. The fact that he’s only leaving next door to work on the Ubuntu Developer Programme from within the Platform team is only a small comfort. Before becoming …
DRY is one of my watchwords. That’s “Don’t Repeat Yourself”, of course. If you’re designing your page to work with-and-without JavaScript enabled, then you’ll likely be tempted to repeat some of the user-interface text in the template and in …
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Launchpad has a nice feature for initialising on-page JavaScript, called the JSONCache. I recommend considering it as your first choice when writing JavaScript that needs to be initialised. The one downside is that due to bug #740208, it’s not available for users who …
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I recently came back to JavaScript, having largely ignored it for a couple of years. Development in JavaScript is much nicer than I remember. I thought I should share what I’ve learned. The first thing I’ll mention is YUI tests. If you’re a TDD developer (and if …
When I explained how we determined what feature to work on next, I mentioned that we were looking to add a stakeholders representative for the Ubuntu project. Well, it’s now done. The Ubuntu Technical Board delegated Bryce Harrington to that position. So if you are part of …
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I’ve been asked this question privately a few times already. What does it mean for a squad to rotate from feature-mode to maintenance-mode? The question arises as a number of folks noticed that some members of the squad continue working on feature-related bugs after they …
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Launchpad’s test suite takes a long time to run. Far too long to wait for when you’ve made a change. And the likelihood that you’ve broken any given test is pretty small. So you probably want to start by running the tests that were likely to break. You can …
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We are now one month away from the Dublin Thunderdome and the stakes of the game have increased substantially since last time! At UDS, Jonathan announced he was willing to take a pie in the face if we achieved our 0 critical bugs goal. Two others joined him in the bet. As of …
When Launchpad shows someone’s display name, it’s not always clear who it’s referring to. With so many people registered in Launchpad, it’s not surprising that some of them share a name. However, every Launchpad id is unique. Mine’s matthew.revell …
My colleagues in the Teal Squad have been working on a small change that’ll make it easier to distinguish Launchpad users who have similar names. We’ve got two quick questions in our new survey. Help us make it easier to tell who’s who in Launchpad. The survey …