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Congratulations and virtual cupcakes to nigelb and chrisjohnston who got their first changes in to Launchpad, and to the reviewers who helped get them finished off and deployed. jml said it so well at his recent short talk: I’m not going to kid you, [changing Launchpad is] …
Jonathan (our Product Strategist) and I attended UDS-O in Budapest last week. Brad, Ian, Huw and Julian also came along for some part of it. And what great feedback we received from Ubuntu contributors! Working on a big and relatively old project like Launchpad can sometime be …
Launchpad has a lot of critical bugs. A month ago, we had close to 300 of them. At the time of writing, we have 226. Francis reckons that we can have zero critical bugs by June 27th but I am a little bit sceptical. To that end, I’ve made a wager with the Launchpad …
As part of determining What’s Next?, Jonathan (our Product Strategist) and I will be attending UDS Oneiric next week (May 9th - May 13th) in Budapest. If you are running a session where you need input from Launchpad, or working on a Ubuntu project that would require …
In my last post, I explained how squads doing maintenance picked the next bug to work on. But how does it work for the other squads? We have two squad that works on a project which is usually a feature. In this context, a feature means something that will take a team of 4-5 …
To many people, Launchpad development looks like a black box. People asks for thing in various places (the bug tracker, the mailing lists, IRC, directly to developers, or simply wish it out loud) and then, often unexpectedly, Lauchpad will change. We strive to work in the open, …
Congratulations to everyone in the Ubuntu community on the successful release of Ubuntu 11.04! Here’s to the next six months of oneiric fun. Photo by Sharon Terry. Licence: CC-BY-ND 2.0.
Rejoice Blueprint users for Tim has brought the glory of Ajax to the main blueprint page. He writes: Now we can update the following without reloading the primary page: title - the H1 heading summary whiteboard assignee drafter approver priority implementation status definition …
Last week I asked for suggestions of what should be on the Launchpad front-page featured project list. Thanks for your suggestions! Based on your comments, I’ve added the following projects to the front page: OpenStack: the open source cloud platform Gufw: the GUI front-end …
We are now two months away from our next Thunderdome. How are we doing in regards with the objectives set for that milestone? You may recall from my last post the objectives: have no timeouts with a cut-off at 9s; have an empty critical bugs queue; getting a slot free on our …