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A couple of days ago I posted that Launchpad had been assigning too much karma for certain types of translation work. Basically, if you imported translation files — PO and POT files — into Launchpad from an Ubuntu package or a Bazaar branch then you got vastly more karma than if …
Recently ten people from Launchpad and other parts of Canonical came together in Berlin to hack on Launchpad’s new YUI 3 JavaScript interface. The sprint was tremendously successful, producing four fully functioning YUI 3 Widgets, complete with test suites and live demo …
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Launchpad is set up to make it easy for groups to come together spontaneously around tasks big or small. Take this bug as an example: it affects three projects that share the same code. Launchpad brings them together to find a fix. But there are times when collaboration needs to …
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Over the last 18 months, I’ve moved GNU Mailman development from SourceForge to Launchpad. The reasons are varied. Mailman was one of the first projects hosted on SourceForge ages ago. I think our project id is a pride-inducing low 103, and we were even highlighted as its …
Due to some caching problems between our machines, some large translations have failed to import, generating strange errors such as: “String not terminated” (the most common one, at a big line number) “Got a truncated message!” “String is not …
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It’s not unusual for a project to be known by more than one name. Y’know, like Superman and Clark Kent. Or maybe something a bit more subtle, such as PostgreSQL/Postgres. You can help people find your project in Launchpad, whatever name they know it by, thanks to …
It’s Ubuntu Developer Week time again! During this week, you can find a whole bunch of IRC sessions where members of the Ubuntu developer community introduce a topic — and take questions — that is of use to anyone wanting to get more deeply involved in Ubuntu development. …
Back in November we in the Launchpad team made our contribution to the sartorial health of the free software world: the Launchpad t-shirt! As someone with a clue about fashion might say, the understated charcoal grey of the shirt provides the perfect background to the bright …
Recently we announced that we’re open sourcing Launchpad, with a self-imposed deadline of 21 July 2009. (22 June 2009 ed. note: we may push the date a bit, for testing purposes; it could be in August instead.) Behind that announcement is a lot of activity. Obviously …
Hi, Today we have updated the Launchpad Legal page [1] with the following changes: The Dev wiki [2] is now called out explicitly as having a CC content license. Previously the Dev wiki proclaimed it was licensed under CC but was not listed on our Legal page. The Content License …