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Launchpad has supported assigning questions to users for several years, but the privilege was limited to project owners. This meant the feature was rarely used. Since the feature was also not visible, answer contacts often requested that we develop the feature. Question listing …
Over several months, we have released many small improvements to the project series, milestone, and releases pages to make release planning easier in Launchpad. Well, not all the changes were small. Some were subtly disruptive. Here is an explanation if what happened that I hope …
In our 2.2.3 release of Launchpad — due 1st of April — we’re strengthening the relationship between milestones and releases. Project releases will be explicitly linked to a milestone, meaning the release inherits the milestone’s series and identity information. …
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Image no longer available: The Shutter logo Screenshots are screenshots, right? If whacking the “Print Screen” button doesn’t offer enough refinement, then surely firing up The Gimp, gnome-screenshot or knsapshot would give you what you need, wouldn’t it? …
Perhaps shutting out the distractions of the physical world is no longer enough. PyRoom is a simple text editor that shuts out all the distractions you might find in a more complex editor or word processor, giving you nothing but a black screen that you can type into. Bruno Bord …
If you’ve had much contact with the Ubuntu community you’ll most likely have come across loco teams: local groups who promote, support and socialise around Ubuntu. Two loco teams — South Dakota and Quebec — have combined the Launchpad Drupal modules with a …
Interesting post from Jay Pipes, one of developers working on the Drizzle project: “To paraphrase the late Charlton Heston: ‘[Drizzle] is people!’ “Recently, I’ve seen the fruit that transparent, open source development bears. This fruit takes the …
Spring is a free software real-time strategy game engine that’s available for Ubuntu via the Spring Team’s PPA. From the Spring About page, it features: Large battles limited only by the power of your computer; support for up to 5000 units. Large, highly detailed maps …
Fergus Ross Ferrier tells us about his project, Pidge. Matthew: What is the Pidge project? Fergus: The goal is to have an open web platform — code and data — that students can use as a robust, trusted online community for sharing relevant information across their campus: events, …
Image no longer available: Exaile logoThe Exaile media player has been attracting fans over the past couple of years. I asked the project’s founder, Adam Olsen, about the project and their use of Launchpad. Matthew: It seems as though music players are a bit like mail …