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Setting up a commercial project in Launchpad has gotten easier. You can now quickly register a proprietary project and enable private bugs. You can create private teams and private personal package archives, AKA private PPA or P3A without the assistance of a Launchpad admin. …
Launchpad can now show you all the people that your project is sharing private bugs and branches with. This new sharing feature is a few weeks away from being in beta, but the UI is informative, so we’re enabling this feature for members of the Launchpad Beta Testers team …
The title may sound like a contradiction, but I assure you that it is not. You can now use private teams in social contexts in Launchpad. Private teams can collaborate with public projects and other teams if they choose to reveal the existence of the private team. Private teams …
Launchpad will soon permit you to say your project is not affected by a bug shared with another project – you can delete the spurious bug task. This action can be done from the bug’s web page, and using Launchpad API. You can remove a project from a bug if you are the …
Nikki and the Robots is the first game from Berlin based games studio Joyride Labs. It’s a retro-styled platformer with beautiful colours and an open source licence, with bugs tracked in Launchpad. I asked Iwan & Sönke from Joyride Labs about the game. Matthew: Nikki …
There’s quite a bit of overlap between home beer brewing and hacking. Both usually involve experimentation, sharing and a love of what you’re doing. It’s not surprising, then, that there’s more than one open source project aimed at helping home brewers to …
Luz is a new project to Launchpad. It creates impressive visual effects that can react to music or be driven by a person using a MIDI controller or a gamepad. It has been created by Ian McIntosh, part of a Portland, Oregon, artists collective who produce light and projection …
If you’re an Ubuntu user, it’s likely that you’ve used UFW — the Uncomplicated Firewall — and maybe also its graphical front-end, Gufw. I spoke to Marcos Costales from Gufw to ask about the project and their use of Launchpad. Matthew: What prompted you to start …
I like to use Tomboy for just about any time I need to make a note. Shopping lists, a GTD collection bucket, notes from a phone call: Tomboy’s ideal. Actually, up until recently I didn’t use Tomboy for shopping lists all that often. Making the list was fine but …
If you’re a Gnome user and have watched with envy as your KDE4-using friends effortlessly open a terminal directly in their file-browser, you may be interested in Nautilus Terminal. Fabien Loison is behind Nautilus Terminal. I asked him a little about the project. Matthew: …