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Launchpod episode 10 – API and bug plugins

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!
Hosts: Matthew Revell, Graham Binns and Joey Stanford.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

  • 02.32: Leonard Richardson talks about the progress and scope of the Launchpad API.
  • 13.45: Graham Binns talks about Launchpad’s plugins for Bugzilla and Trac, which allow bug comment history sharing across bug trackers>/li>

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Launchpod episode 9: looking back at Launchpad 2.0 and how we do Launchpad QA

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! Recorded at the Launchpad Releases team sprint in Longmont Colorado.

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

  • 00.50: The value of sprints in a distributed team.
  • 01.55: Looking back at the new features in Launchpad 2.0, including metrics on what went into 2.0. Plus a look ahead to the next set of Launchpad milestones.
  • 10.20: A little on how we develop and test code for Launchpad.
  • 12.15: Some of the Launchpad team went to OSCON. Joey talks about what they got up to.
  • 15.33: What happens when a PPA package appears to be non-free software?
  • 18.15: Diogo Matsubara talks about his QA work on Launchpad.
  • 24.20: Introducing Ursula Junque the latest member of the Launchpad QA team!

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Launchpod episode 8: developer interview with Curtis Hovey and chat about Landscape

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful.

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

Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

  • 00:45: Introducing Graham Binns, Launchpad Bug Tracker developer.
  • 06.20: Curtis Hovey, from the Launchpad Foundations team, talks about Launchpad’s community support application, Answers.
  • 20.15: Joey’s number of the week!
  • 22.50: Jamu Kakar talks about Landscape, Canonical’s remote management tool for Ubuntu machines.

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Launchpod episode 7: new Launchpad UI, community-agile

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful.

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

  • 00:46: Introducing Barry Warsaw, Mailman maintaner, Python release manager and Launchpad team member! Elliot Murphy‘s taking a break from Launchpod so Barry’s joining us for this episode. To find a replacement for Elliot we’re running Launchpod Idol! We’ll be trying out a few different Launchpad team members over the coming weeks.
  • 04.52: Matthew Paul Thomas, Launchpad’s UI guy, talks about the upcoming changes to Launchpad’s interface. Check the Edge environment to watch it progress.
  • 14.26: Joey’s number of the week!
  • 15.30: Community-Agile is a process framework that refactors agile software development to incorporate the lessons learnt from open source. Joey and Barry dicuss.

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Launchpod episode 6: Greasemonkey scripts and LP developer interview

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful.

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

This show was recorded before the Launchpad 1.2.6 roll-out.

  • 00:56: About the bug page, distro page and translations page UI changes – give us your feedback on them!
  • 04.10: Members of the Launchpad user community have developed Greasemonkey scripts to tweak Launchpad’s interface.
  • 07.01: Launchpad developer Tom Berger talks about his work on the Launchpad bug tracker, the bug page UI changes and the forthcoming Launchpad API.
  • 13.48: Joey’s secret number of the week! Plus an insight into Launchpad’s future and our QA.

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Launchpod episode 5: GnomeDo and Launchpad sysadmins

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful.

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

  • 04.25: The Launchpad Operational Sys Admins – Tom Haddon and Herb McNew – talk about their work keeping Launchpad online.
  • 09.10: Joey’s numbers of the week – this time it’s Translations!
  • 11.08: Elliot interviews GnomeDo project leader David Siegel.
  • 18.20: It’s goodbye from us! Including some listener feedback.

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Launchpod episode 4: BeeSeek open source search engine

Monday, June 9th, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful.

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

Send us your ideas and questions to feedback@launchpad.net!

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Launchpod episode 3: new Launchpad release and Terminator

Friday, May 30th, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful.

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

  • 01.33: Interview with Aaron Bentley, of the Launchpad Bazaar integration team, talking about Launchpad’s new code merger proposal review system.
  • 07.05: Interview with Danilo Segan, of the the Launchpad Translations team, talking about the new translations search feature.
  • 10.21: Interview with Chris Jones, leader of the Terminator terminal project..
  • 16.18: Joey’s number of the week! How many projects are registered in Launchpad?

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Launchpod episode 2: UDS Prague

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful.

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

  • 01.20: Interview with Graham Binns, of the Launchpad Bug Tracker team, who is in Prague for the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Graham talks about working with the Ubuntu QA team to improve their experience of Launchpad.
  • 08.45: Interview with Jono Lange, of the the Launchad-Bazaar integration team, also in Prague. He talks about what’s coming up in Launchpad for managing Ubuntu packages as Bazaar branches.
  • 14.04: Best practice for registering a project in Launchpad.
  • 15.35: Hosting branches on Launchpad without associating them with a particular project. Help page on +junk branches.

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Launchpod episode 1: RescueTime

Monday, May 19th, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful.

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

  • 02.30: The winner of the Launchpad logo contest!
  • 07.38: Interview with Tony Wright, CEO of RescueTime, whose service helps you keep track of how you spend your time. The community around RescueTime’s Linux client uses Launchpad. Tony tells us about RescueTime and their Launchpad experience.
  • 21.00: Your questions for the Launchpad team! Send questions for the next episode to feedback@launchpad.net.
  • 33.16: Joey’s Number of the Week!

Send us your ideas and questions to feedback@launchpad.net! Thanks to gschaefr for suggesting the name Launchpod!

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