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What are Launchpad’s mailing lists? Launchpad’s mailing lists are team-based mailing lists, which means that each team can have one of them. E-mails from Launchpad’s mailing lists contain lists.launchpad.net in their address. For more information on the topic …
More than 5 years ago, i386 was dropped as an architecture in Ubuntu. Despite this, i386 has remained selected by default as an architecture to build when creating new PPAs, snap recipes, or OCI recipes. Today, we have disabled building for i386 by default. From now on, only …
Launchpad and the Open Documentation Academy Live in Málaga Launchpad is a web-based platform to support collaborative software development for open source projects. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools including bug tracking, code hosting , translation management, and …
The Launchpad project is almost 21 years old! Many people have contributed to the project over this lifetime, and we are thankful for all of them. We understand the value of a strong community and we are taking steps to reinvigorate Launchpad’s once-thriving community. …
The new feature bug templates in Launchpad aims to streamline the bug reporting process, making it more efficient for both users and project maintainers. In the past, Launchpad provided only a basic description field for filling bug reports. This often led to incomplete or vague …
Launchpad’s new homepage Launchpad has been around for a while, and its frontpage has remained untouched for a few years now. If you go into launchpad.net, you’ll notice it looks quite different from what it has looked like for the past 10 years - it has been updated! …
Users can now add their Matrix accounts to their profile in Launchpad, as requested by Canonical’s Community team. We also took the chance to slightly rework the frontend and how we display social accounts in the user profiles. Instead of having different sections in the …
Access tokens can be used to access repositories on behalf of someone. They have scope limitations, optional expiry dates, and can be revoked at any time. They are a stricter and safer alternative to using real user authentication when needing to automate pushing and/or pulling …
It took a while, but now Launchpad finally allows users to edit their comments on questions, bug reports and merge proposal pages. The first request for this feature dates back from 2007. Since then, Launchpad increased a lot in terms of new features, and the other priorities …
On 2020-08-13, we deployed an update that caused users whose full names contain non-ASCII characters (which is of course very common) to be unable to log into Launchpad. We heard about this serious regression from users on 2020-08-17, and rolled out a fix on 2020-08-18. …
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