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A while back I asked for your suggestions for which Launchpad-hosted projects we should feature on the Launchpad front page. Thanks to everyone who made their suggestions! I’ve now updated the list based on how often each project was recommended and how active they are in …
Between December 13th and 24th we’re holding Launchpad’s first bug jam! For two weeks, Canonical’s Launchpad team will focus solely on closing bugs and we’d love it if you’d join us. Right now, there are more than 6,500 open bug reports for the …
We are starting to rollout features more rapidly on Launchpad as we move to a continuous deployment model. There are some fixes being deployed today that I want to give Launchpad users a heads up about. These are fixes meant to make the life of a bug supervisor easier. Bug …
Launchpad’s code hosting will be offline from 11.00 UTC for 15 minutes on Friday the 29th October 2010 for hardware maintenance. During this time you will be unable to push to or pull from code hosted on Launchpad. Code imports will be paused. Goes offline: 11.00 UTC 29th …
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I recently sent out an email to Launchpad users who had selected the “expire incomplete bug reports” option for their project, explaining that we would be enabling this feature again in Launchpad. Well, actually, I sent out a lot of emails. This happened partly due to …
It currently takes an average of two weeks for new changes that have been developed for Launchpad to become live on the Launchpad site. We’re working on changing this and making the way we deploy Launchpad simpler and more reliable at the same time. In the first generation …
Over the summer, Jono and I have been compiling a list of all the features in Launchpad. While the help wiki and the heads of various members of the Launchpad team are a pretty good guide to everything that’s in Launchpad, we haven’t had a canonical, comprehensive, …
You’ve probably seen the featured projects list on Launchpad’s home page: As you can see, there’s a wide variety of projects in that list, and each of them is an excellent example of how Launchpad can help free software projects. However, we’ve had pretty …
Just a quick look at some of the recent posts to Planet Launchpad: Julian wants to get people using the PPA SFTP upload service Deryck’s looking for help with the bug import script Brad writes about the new ways that project pages indicate much progress you’ve made in …
Recently, we changed the way assigning bugs works on Launchpad. It used to be that anyone could assign anyone else to a bug. This was open to abuse as you can imagine. Bug 511269 was filed about the potential problems with this, and we recently changed Launchpad so that only bug …