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Now that the Launchpad web service API has entered beta, I’ll be posting an update every week about the improvements we make to it. This way you’ll always know what’s going on, and you’ll see when something you want to do becomes possible. Web service …
Hi, Today I’m happy to announce two changes which appear on the Launchpad Legal page. The Launchpad Logo, previously unlicensed, is now licensed as “Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales”. “No Derivative” was …
As we’ve spoken about before on this blog, one of the cool things about Launchpad’s bug tracker is that it can link bugs together, regardless of whether they’re tracked in Launchpad or an external bug tracker. This is great for Ubuntu, where people report issues …
Read more of Survey about Launchpad's upstream bug workflow →
Launchpod’s now up on the fantastic last.fm. Help us look like we’re the cool kids in town by listening to Launchpod in a player that supports scrobbling :) Take a look at the Launchpad team artist page.
We’re very pleased to announce the results of the Launchpad Logo Contest! (See https://help.launchpad.net/logo) The number and quality of submissions took all of us by surprise. We are immensely pleased with the results and are in awe at what the community has done. We had …
Over the next couple of weeks we’re going to record a brand new Launchpad podcast. In it we’ll talk to projects about how they’re using Launchpad and also to members of the Launchpad team. Perhaps the most important part will be questions from you. Whatever you …
Hi, Since the last Launchpad release you may have noticed a few emails and blog posts referring to unexpected issues with Launchpad. I thought you might like to know more about what was causing them, and how we are addressing them. Launchpad’s operational environment is …
Glyph posted an interesting script to the launchpad-users mailing list that I thought was definitely worth sharing: Quite often, I’ve discovered that I want to add someone (who already has an account on launchpad) to my system so they can log in and attach to my …
Read more of Using Launchpad accounts to manage your local ssh logins: launchpadduser.py →
This past few weeks, we’ve had a whole load of high quality entries to our logo competition. We’re heading fast towards the 31st March deadline, so if you want to take part you’d best fire up Inkscape pretty sharpish! Back in January I shared a couple of the …
It’s coming up to the end of the month again and so it’s almost time for the Launchpad users meeting! When: 09.00 - 10.00 27th February UTC. Where: #launchpad-meeting on Freenode. Find out more: Add your items to the agenda.