Launchpad offline 23:00UTC 9 February
Launchpad will be offline for about 90 minutes while we roll out some changes to the database and to code hosting.
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SourceForge code imports are disabled
Following the SourceForge compromise, the SSL certificate for SourceForge subversion changed. A bug on their end prevents us from automatically importing from their SVN repositories. Until that bug is resolved, all SourceForge code imports are disabled. 2011/02/14 update: We …
Announcing Launchpad squads
We’ve made some changes to how we organise the Launchpad team! We’re no longer divided into application-based teams (Bugs, Code, Foundations, Registry, Soyuz and Translations). Instead, we now have five cross-domain engineering squads: three focused on features and …
code hosting offline
Due to a hardware failure, bazaar.launchpad.net is offline at the moment. We expect it will be back up and working correctly in about an hour or two from now. (That is, by about 17:00 UTC on the 21st of January.) This affects all bzr-branch-related services: ssh and http access …
Team polls restored, but future is unclear
We restored team polls because several Ubuntu teams require their use in their charter. They cannot easily switch to another service because it is not possible to organise the members to vote. We decided that to restore them while we decide what to do. Option one: Contributors …
Bug Jam 2010: end of week 1 report
We’re coming to the end of the first week of Launchpad’s 2010 Bug Jam. How’s it gone so far? At the time of writing: Jono’s BugJam-o-Meter shows 77 bugs fixed as part of the jam most of those 77 have been fixes, with 19 Fix Released and 24 Fix Committed …
Changing how we track Launchpad's bugs, questions and blueprints
From today, all Launchpad bugs, code, questions and blueprints are tracked under the one launchpad project. We’ve already moved everything from the individual projects over to the parent launchpad project. All you need do differently is search/file bugs, questions and …
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Launchpad status info survey results
TL;DR This is a pretty long post. Here’s the important bit, if you don’t want to read the rest. ‘‘‘For all Launchpad status updates/notices:’’’ use our launchpadstatus identi.ca account (RSS feed, Twitter mirror). …
How do you want to get Launchpad service status updates?
I’m running a short survey — four questions — to find out how people want to get system status updates about Launchpad. If you’ve got an opinion on how you’d prefer to get info about pending and unplanned Launchpad service interruptions, take the survey :)
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Launchpad edge site deprecated
I previously posted about our continuous deployment efforts in Launchpad. Since then the project has come a long way. We can deploy to nearly all our services without downtime. The remaining services are a bit trickier - but we are working on them. As part of the project we are …