It’s incredible to think that more than 57,000 people have used Launchpad to translate software from English into their own language. Many of them have worked directly on upstream projects, such as the OpenShot video editor. Others have helped translate Ubuntu packages of …
In my last post, I explained how squads doing maintenance picked the next bug to work on. But how does it work for the other squads? We have two squad that works on a project which is usually a feature. In this context, a feature means something that will take a team of 4-5 …
To many people, Launchpad development looks like a black box. People asks for thing in various places (the bug tracker, the mailing lists, IRC, directly to developers, or simply wish it out loud) and then, often unexpectedly, Lauchpad will change. We strive to work in the open, …
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 08.00 UTC on the 4th May 2011. Starts: 08.00 UTC 4th May 2011 Expected to end by: 09.30 UTC 4th May 2011 This is to allow for a structural update to Launchpad’s …
Congratulations to everyone in the Ubuntu community on the successful release of Ubuntu 11.04! Here’s to the next six months of oneiric fun. Photo by Sharon Terry. Licence: CC-BY-ND 2.0.
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 …
Brian Murray has written a GreaseMonkey script to show how many duplicates a bug has. He writes: I was looking at a bug with a large number of duplicates the other day and found my self wondering exactly how many duplicates it had. This information actually appears in the page …
Rejoice Blueprint users for Tim has brought the glory of Ajax to the main blueprint page. He writes: Now we can update the following without reloading the primary page: title - the H1 heading summary whiteboard assignee drafter approver priority implementation status definition …
Last week I asked for suggestions of what should be on the Launchpad front-page featured project list. Thanks for your suggestions! Based on your comments, I’ve added the following projects to the front page: OpenStack: the open source cloud platform Gufw: the GUI front-end …
We are now two months away from our next Thunderdome. How are we doing in regards with the objectives set for that milestone? You may recall from my last post the objectives: have no timeouts with a cut-off at 9s; have an empty critical bugs queue; getting a slot free on our …