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You’ll need a PGP key registered in your Launchpad account if you want to use the bug tracker’s email interface, sign a Code of Conduct or upload a package. There’s a guide in the help wiki and also now this screencast!
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On the 28th September, the Canonical Launchpad team leads will be in London, along with myself, community guy Karl Fogel and UI guy Martin Albisetti. I’m organising a Launchpad community meet-up for the evening of the 28th, which will be a chance to meet other Launchpad …
There used to be only one way of exporting translations from Launchpad—by requesting your files in the Launchpad UI and waiting for an email with the download URL. It works, but it’s not very convenient if you’re trying to automate things. It’s not that easy to …
William Grant was the first person outside Canonical to submit a patch to the newly open sourced Launchpad. I asked him a few questions to see how he got on. Matthew: What did your patch change? William: Launchpad users may elect to receive the bug’s description and status …
Last month we made a small change to the series page as a commitment to making a distinction between the driver for a project and the driver of a series. The drivers of a project have the power to make the decision of what features go into a release. But the driver of a series is …
Launchpad has supported assigning questions to users for several years, but the privilege was limited to project owners. This meant the feature was rarely used. Since the feature was also not visible, answer contacts often requested that we develop the feature. Question listing …
Now that we’ve released Launchpad’s source code, our next couple of months of work are going to be mostly focused on our page layouts. Launchpad has been around for quite a few years now, and tight release schedules packed with ever-changing features have had the side …
This is a post I’ve been looking forward to for a long time: Launchpad is now open source! We released it today under the GNU Affero General Public license, version 3. Note that although we had previously announced that we’d be holding back two components (codehosting …
I’ve set up a Launchpad channel on YouTube. Along with other members of the Launchpad team, I’ll be posting tutorials, demos of new features and more. If you have a request for a video you’d like to see, file a bug in the Launchpad Documentation project! Or make …
The last time I posted to this blog I was describing a sprint in Montreal, where we were working on refactoring the web service code and moving it from Launchpad to a standalone library. Several weeks of work later, we’re done. You can now create your own web service using …
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