Links round-up 16th April

16 April 2010 · By Matthew Revell · In General

A few links to Launchpad related posts from the past month or so:

Fixing the bug tracker widget: Curtis Hovey looks at what’s wrong with the way you set a project’s external bug tracker, in Launchpad.
No project is an island: Curtis again, “I think the best summary of what Launchpad does is that it hosts open source communities.”
Canonical pays to upgrade Gnome’s Bugzilla: "…the makers of Launchpad paid for improvements to Bugzilla, a competing product—not to mention that Ubuntu’s competitors will benefit from improvements to GNOME. As [Kiko] notes, Canonical views this as ‘bridging the gap’ from Ubuntu to upstream."
Microsoft developer Garret Serack announces The Common Opensource Application Publishing Platform (CoApp): “CoApp aims to create a vibrant Open Source ecosystem on Windows by providing the technologies needed to build a complete community-driven Package Management System, along with tools to enable developers to take advantage of features of the Windows platform.” And it’s hosted on Launchpad.
Being the Launchpad Release Manager: Deryck, the Launchpad Bugs team lead, talks about managing a Launchpad release and asks if it makes sense to talk about website releases.