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Last week I announced Launchpad’s new bug subscriptions system!

While we were in Dublin, I recorded a chat with Graham Binns about the changes to bug subscriptions and the work that had gone into them.

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The Canonical Launchpad and Bazaar teams were in Dublin last week for their six-monthly meet-up.

While there I spoke to Launchpad’s UI guy, Huw Wilkins, to ask what he’s working on and what’s next for Launchpad’s web interface.

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Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!

Hosts: Matthew Revell and Graham Binns.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

• 01.35: Launchpad 2.2.3 — official bug tags, new bug activity log and multiple PPAs per person/team.
• 10.15: Henning Eggers talks about Launchpad Translations’ new feature that automatically imports translation template files from your project series’ default Bazaar branches.
• 17.24: Launchpad Performance Week the sequel! A quick look at some of what the Launchpad team have been working on in our second Launchpad Performance Week.

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Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!

Host: Matthew Revell.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

• 01.50: David Mason talks about IntraHealth‘s open source project’s that producing software for health workers in the developing world.
• 15.18: Danilo Segan talks about the Launchpad Translations team’s work in Launchpad Performance Week.
• 22.00: Curtis Hovey does the same for the Launchpad Registry team.

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Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!

Host: Matthew Revell.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

The Launchpad team released Launchpad 2.2.1 last week. Here’s a closer look at what’s new.

• 00.48: Henning Eggers, Launchpad Translations developer, talks about how Launchpad is making it easier for upstream projects to use translations made for Ubuntu and why translations style guides can be useful.
• 10.14: Celso Providelo, Soyuz developer, explains the changes to PPA paths and signed PPAs!

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Podcast feed.

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!

Host: Matthew Revell.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

Launchpad will be open source on the 21st July this year! (22 June 2009 ed. note: we may push the date a bit, for testing purposes; it could be in August instead.)

Karl Fogel joined the Launchpad team recently as the Launchpad Ombudsman. Find out what that unusual job title means and hear Karl talk about the Launchpad team’s plans for going open source, our new development wiki and how we’re planning to build a community process around the newly open source Launchpad.

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Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!

Host: Matthew Revell.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

Stuart Metcalfe talks about the Launchpad Drupal modules. See our original announcement for help and download links!

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Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!

Hosts: Matthew Revell and Graham Binns.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

• 01.00: Some of the Launchpad team will be at the Ubuntu Developer Summit starting the 8th December. Graham talks a little about what he’ll be doing.
• 03.42: Announcing the Launchpad bug tracker plugins API! Create your own plugin to enable the bug tracker of your choice to communicate directly with Launchpad. Read more.
• 11.48: Welcome to Michael Nelson, who is the latest member of Launchpad’s Soyuz team. The Soyuz chaps look after PPAs and other packaging in Launchpad.

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Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!

Hosts: Matthew Revell and Joey Stanford.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

• 00.36: The Launchpad team met in London at the end of October. Joey and Matthew spoke to Launchpad developers as they took part in an optimisation session.
• 10.57: Matthew talks to Gary Poster, who recently joined the Launchpad team, about his new role and what he did before.

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Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!

Hosts: Matthew Revell, Graham Binns and Joey Stanford.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

• 01.11: Each weekday, a member of the Launchpad team is available to help you with your Launchpad queries. We discuss our new help rotation.
• 05.53: Martin Albisetti discusses his new role looking after Launchpad’s UI and also talks about the team’s vision for the future of Launchpad’s web interface.
• 16.12: Stuart Metcalfe talks about the Drupal plugin he’s created that allows Drupal sites to grant additional permissions to users based on their Launchpad team memberships. It’s now in action on the Ubuntu Fridge.

Talk to us! Episode 13 of Launchpad will be recorded in London at the end of October. Send us your questions because the full Launchpad team will be available to take them!

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