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I think Launchpad is missing fundamental HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to support the three classes of browser with which someone might visit Launchpad. There are inconsistencies in pages you might visit, and some parts might not work because Launchpad does not have a “proven …
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You’ll remember that a while back, dear reader, we announced that we’d be running a couple of Launchpad Development Clinics at UDS (we called them Launchpad Clinics at the time, and I lost count of how many people commented that that sounded as though Launchpad was …
The Launchpad team is planning a new feature that will allow you to link bugs to each other and describe their relationship. The general idea is that you can say one bug depends of the fix of another. We’ll be asking you to help us decide the scope of this feature, so look …
Launchpad beta testers are seeing information types on bug reports. Launchpad replaced the private and security checkboxes with an information type chooser. The information types determine who may know about the bug. When you report a bug, you can choose the information type that …
Today at some time around 3am UTC, the one millionth (1,000,000th) bug was filed in Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/edubuntu/+bug/1000000 (congrats Stéphane Graber!) This is a huge milestone for everyone that uses and contributes to Launchpad and serves as a great witness …
Launchpad beta testers will now see the descriptions of bug status and importance when making updates to the bug page. Launchpad pickers can now show the descriptions of the options you can choose. Launchpad’s rules for defining a list of options you can choose have always …
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I do not like the Launchpad branch page. It is rarely informative and I would like to ignore it, but there are a few tasks that I can only perform form that page. I think the page could be better if it were possible for me to state the branches’s purpose. I sat down the …
Ever wished there was just one feature you’d like to see enabled in Launchpad. Ever wondered when one of the bugs you have taken the time to report and document would be implemented. Well how about we help you to get these bugs fixed. Launchpad is a free and open source …
I have been looking for an easy and reliable way to develop and test Launchpad with Internet Explorer. Neither of the two common approaches used by Ubuntu users allows a Launchpad developer to easily verify that a change works with Internet Explorer. The challenge is to install …
In my previous post I talked about the pain of having to set up a testing environment for our parallelised test work, and how there were an awful lot of hoops to jump through in order to get something usable up and running. Now, dear reader, let me tell you a tale of strangeness …
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