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(This is a correction to a previous post.) Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only for roughly 90 minutes, from 23.00 UTC Wednesday 3rd March to 00.30 UTC Thursday 4th March, 2010. Other aspects of Launchpad — including code hosting, PPAs, the API and email interface — …
Just a quick note to link to some interesting Launchpad-related posts/articles that have cropped up over the past week or so: An introduction to collaborative development with Launchpad — (Ars Technica) Some thoughts on using the Windmill testing framework in Launchpad …
If you visited Launchpad between 13.30 and 15.30 UTC yesterday (4th Feb), you’ll have seen that Launchpad was largely unavailable. Since then, I’ve spoken to quite a few people who use Launchpad regularly and I want to say thanks to everyone for your patience while we …
Read more of Report on Launchpad down-time of 4th Feb 2010 →
Brad has written a great guide to writing and committing your first code for Launchpad. Amongst other things, he has a useful bullet list that describes the steps between deciding you want to write code for Launchpad and actually seeing your work in place. “The steps for …
Now that I have your attention… We’ve been overwhelmed by the popularity of PPAs on Launchpad. In fact, according to our sysadmins, they are a little too popular and now our disks are full. Full disks mean no more PPAs, and no more uploads to PPAs. We’d like to …
You asked for it and we’ve delivered. Your launchpadlib scripts can now get read-only access to the Launchpad web service API without going through any authorization process. Previously, to authorize your script, you had to open a web page in the end-user’s web …
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Some Launchpad users may have noticed that we are not syncing bug watches with external trackers as we should. We have had to turn off syncing with external trackers while we work on a problem we have had with hammering bug trackers with large numbers of bug watches in Launchpad. …
You may already know this: if you want to try out Launchpad, there’s a “playground” version of the site at https://staging.launchpad.net/ This site gets refreshed daily (or almost daily) with the latest copy of the database that’s behind the real, …
Since we started focusing on bridging the gap between upstream projects, users, and distribution packagers, we’ve been talking to a lot of people, to help us better understand the size and nature of those gaps. (Those conversations are continuing, too — if you’d like …
In the Canonical Launchpad team, we all use Launchpad every day. As you’d expect, we also have a lot of contact with people who use Launchpad, both for Ubuntu and other projects. While personal experience of Launchpad and informal contact give us an insight into how some …