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Since we introduced PPAs, we’ve had a number of requests for signed packages in archives. Up until now, when installing a package from a PPA Ubuntu has warned that it is unsigned. So, if you want to sign packages in a PPA, what do you sign them with? We dismissed two of the …
You can now follow Launchpad news and other updates through Twitter and identi.ca! For news and status updates, take a look at: twitter.com/launchpad_net identi.ca/launchpad Brad’s also running an experiment using TwitterFeed to give us: twitter.com/launchpadbugs …
Need to contact someone who’s hidden their email address in Launchpad? No problem. Launchpad profile pages now give you a way to contact that person without having to know their email address. Over to Barry Warsaw — who worked on the feature — for more: You can now contact …
At our recent get-together in London, we in the Launchpad team discovered a sure-fire way to turn heads: t-shirts emblazoned with the stylish new Launchpad logo. Naturally, we want to share this milestone in sartorial expression with everyone who loves Launchpad. So, you can now …
What do you get when you bring together a group of developers, QA engineers and other Launchpad team members? Cheesy photos, of course! Image no longer available: The Launchpad team in London Photo: Graham Binns We’ve come by air and by land to meet in London for a couple …
The Launchpad team is excited to announce the October 16th 2008 release of Launchpad 2.1.10! There’s great news if you use Launchpad to host Bazaar branches, plus there’s the usual smaller new features and bug fixes. Slashing branch upload times From now on, you may …
Recent scene at Launchpad HQ There are few things more frustrating than working on something and then being held up because you can’t get the help you need. I know this all too well: my quest for world domination has long been stalled because the sonic screwdriver …
You didn’t expect it, but here it is. “This Week in Launchpad’s Web API” returns for one more week! This week we’re pleased to announce that you can now search the bug tasks associated with a project, project group, distribution, or milestone. We …
This status report was put off until today because the edge site was frozen. This update is huge. We’ve made one change to launchpadlib, exposed a whole lot of Launchpad’s project registry, and published branches for the first time. Since the development cycle is …
Barry Warsaw, Francis Lacoste, and I gave an IRC chat about the Launchpad web service as part of Ubuntu Developer Week. There’s a transcript available in case you missed it. The big news from last week is that we finally have the API documentation being generated whenever a …