As we foreshadowed last October, bug expiry is now active again. Bugs that are marked Incomplete and that haven’t been touched for 60 days will now start moving to the Expired state. If it turns out the bug’s still useful or valid, anyone can move it back. We …
Launchpad has a REST API that exposes almost every object within Launchpad. Most of them have API URLs that closely match the human-readable URL: for instance, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316694 can also be obtained in machine-oriented JSON or XML form from …
We have a small quandry on the Launchpad development team at the moment. As bug 268508 discusses, when one searches for a bug on Launchpad we do a substring search on the names of bug targets. For instance, searching in Ubuntu for ‘gcc’ will return all bugs on the …
Following the SourceForge compromise, the SSL certificate for SourceForge subversion changed. A bug on their end prevents us from automatically importing from their SVN repositories. Until that bug is resolved, all SourceForge code imports are disabled. 2011/02/14 update: We …
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 23.00 UTC on the 9th of February 2011. Starts: 23.00 UTC 9th of February 2011 Expected to be back to normal by: 00.30 UTC 10th of February 2011 This is to allow for an update …
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We’ve made some changes to how we organise the Launchpad team! We’re no longer divided into application-based teams (Bugs, Code, Foundations, Registry, Soyuz and Translations). Instead, we now have five cross-domain engineering squads: three focused on features and …
Launchpad code hosting will be offline between 12.00 and 12.20 UTC for hardware maintenance on Wednesday, January 26. That’s tomorrow. This means you will be unable to push to, pull from or browse code hosted on Launchpad. All other Launchpad services will be unaffected. …
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Due to a hardware failure, bazaar.launchpad.net is offline at the moment. We expect it will be back up and working correctly in about an hour or two from now. (That is, by about 17:00 UTC on the 21st of January.) This affects all bzr-branch-related services: ssh and http access …
We restored team polls because several Ubuntu teams require their use in their charter. They cannot easily switch to another service because it is not possible to organise the members to vote. We decided that to restore them while we decide what to do. Option one: Contributors …
An long-requested feature in Launchpad is to let people see who’s using a PPA. Finally, we’ve implemented this! Initially, the stats are only available on Launchpad’s webservice API. but we aim to show something useful in the web UI at some point. If you are …