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Why does Launchpad have 300 critical bugs?
What does “critical” mean? And how is it that the number of critical Launchpad bugs has leapt up to almost 300? Until January, we reserved the critical importance for near-disastrous issues such as data loss; stuff that just about never happens. This was fine except …
What should be in our featured project list?
Back in September, I asked for suggestions for featured projects for Launchpad’s front page. As it’s been more than six months, and we have so many exciting projects in Launchpad, I think it’s time for a refresh. While all the projects featured on …
Let's explore
Recently, Ursula and I have been improving the way that we test new Launchpad features. Already, Launchpad has an extensive test suite but there are some things that automated tests can’t look out for. Rather than just testing the quality of our code, we also want to test …
Two months of squads: reviews and prospects
Launchpad has been operating in the squad structure for two months now. From my point of view, things have been going very well. We are making steady progress on fixing timeouts, OOPSes, regressions and other operational issues. The blue squad switched to maintenance after …
Get an overview of what we're doing
Ever wanted to know what exactly is happening in Launchpad development, but found our list of in-progress bugs too daunting and detailed? Well, do we have a link and a screenshot for you. Screenshot: Link. (Log in: guest@launchpad.net; Password: launchpad). Thanks to the nice …
Launchpad's UI is evolving
We are updating the UI over several iterations over the next few weeks for several reasons: Launchpad should apply the Canonical guidelines for websites to take advantage of the research done for other sites. Being consistent with other Ubuntu and Canonical sites means there is …
Bug search no longer does substring matching of source package names
As part of improving performance we have disabled the substring matching of source package names. This fixes bug 268508 and bug 607960. However its a slightly contentious issue - opinions vary about whether bug 268508 is a valid bug or not. So we have only disabled it - the code …
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Silencing bug notifications for stuff you did
Launchpad’s bug mail can be a bit chatty sometimes as I’m sure you’ve noticed. This cycle the Yellow Squad is working to give you more control about the bug mail Launchpad sends to you. One problem that we’ve known about for a really long time was reported …
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Launchpad read-only 09.00 UTC 11th February 2011
In twelve hours from this posting, Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes. This is to allow us to make an update to the structure of the Launchpad database. This replaces the previous read-only period announced for Feb …
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