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Last week, members of the Launchpad team got together with members of other teams across Canonical to sprint on lazr-js. lazr-js is the library the Launchpad team created on top of the Yahoo User Interface 3.0 javascript library to provide a richer user experience. For instance, …
A couple of weeks ago, the Launchpad team leads at Canonical gathered in Millbank Tower to talk about what we’ll be doing over the next six months. We talked with each other, we talked with Martin Pool from Bazaar, we talked with people on the Ubuntu Platform team, we …
Martin posts on his blog: We’re trying to improve the icons we have in Launchpad so they’re more usable across different cultures and types of users, and our first step is to do some user testing on our current icons. The Canonical User Experience team has set up a …
Launchpad’s Code Hosting service (code.launchpad.net and all Bazaar access) will be offline from 10:00am-10:30am UTC, Thursday, 1 October 2009. Sorry for the short notice; we need to do some unexpected hardware maintenance. Going offline: 10am UTC, 1 Oct 2009 Expected back: …
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The Soyuz team was very, very busy over the last year fixing lots of bugs and adding plenty of new features. These are the highlights that I’d like to mention! New features Multiple PPAs per person — split your packages into different repositories without the hassle of …
Launchpad 3.0’s most noticeable feature is a new user interface. Martin Albisetti led the development of that new interface, so I asked him how the work had gone. Matthew: What problem were you and the rest of the Launchpad team trying to solve with this UI redesign? …
Bjorn Tillenius recently took the role of Launchpad Technical Architect. That, and the release of Launchpad 3.0, seemed like a good opportunity to learn a bit more about his new role. Matthew: You’ve just taken a new role in the Launchpad team of Launchpad Technical …
This is a last call for user experience data with Launchpad’s “Mentoring” feature for bugs and blueprints. We’ve seen only limited usage of this feature, and haven’t gotten much positive feedback on it. Right now, it’s dropped from our 3.0 …
Our first Launchpad meet-up is happening on Monday the 28th September in London. Come along to meet some of Canonical’s Launchpad development team and other members of the Launchpad community. Come drink a beer/coffee/mineral water with us and get your hands on a Launchpad …
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Want an easy way to direct people to your pages in Launchpad? Whether it’s for yourself or your project, you can pop one of our new badges on your website: You can choose badges from 160px wide to 250px and we even host the badge for you, so all you need is to copy and …