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Recently, I’ve been working with Charline, from Canonical’s design team, to talk to Launchpad’s users about how Launchpad fits into their work and what they think of new features we’re planning. You may have seen my requests for participants on identi.ca …
The Launchpad and Bazaar teams have been in Prague this week. More on what we got done in later posts. For now, here’s a photo! The Launchpad and Bazaar teams in Prague
There are all sorts of different ways in which we in Canonical’s Launchpad team keep in touch with people who use Launchpad: informal conversations on IRC, attending Ubuntu Developer Summits, formal user research and so on. We want to hear from as many people who use …
I am happy to report that caching rules I put in place on many pages last week are effective. I did not want to announce that pages were faster until I could see read a week of oops reports to verify that the slow pages owned by the Launchpad registry team were no longer listed …
Come and meet some of the Launchpad team next week in Montreal! From around 7.30pm on Wednesday the 2nd of June, we’re going to be at Réservoir (map), which is at: 9 DuLuth Est. Montréal H2T 3L4 I’ll be there, along with Launchpad team leader Francis Lacoste, …
Some of the Launchpad team will be in Brussels next week for UDS, so it’s a great opportunity to head to a bar and meet up with other Launchpad users :) Come join us at Delirium Café from around 8pm on Wednesday the 12th of May. Look out for the people in Launchpad and …
Many users have discovered that they could not reuse an email address that once belongs to a team. While Launchpad claimed the contact address was gone, that was not the case; it was hidden, never to be seen again. This is fixed. Launchpad does what it says. It removes the email …
Read more of Fixes to team contact addresses and list moderation →
The Ubuntu packages portlet lists the most recent project packages in Ubuntu’s main archive. But there are thousands of Ubuntu packages that are not linked to a registered Launchpad project. The links are needed to forward bugs upstream, sync translations, and get the …
Projects get an improved “Get Involved” portlet. This portlet provided links to create projects artefacts like bugs and branches. It was never clear though how to enable these links. Privileged users like project owners will see links to configure Launchpad …
A few links to Launchpad related posts from the past month or so: Fixing the bug tracker widget: Curtis Hovey looks at what’s wrong with the way you set a project’s external bug tracker, in Launchpad. No project is an island: Curtis again, “I think the best …