Some bugs attract many, many comments. For a while now, Launchpad has displayed only the first 80 comments on any bug report, with the option of viewing the full comment history. That’s been good for speeding up page loads but not so great at offering an accurate view of …
One of my favourite things about Launchpad’s bug tracker is the dupe finder: when you report a new bug, it’ll search to see if there’s already a similar bug report. It’s the same for questions in Launchpad Answers, too. Getting to see possible dupes before …
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only (most other aspects will be offline) for 90 minutes on August 12th while we roll-out the latest code. Going offline: 08.00 UTC 12th August 2010 Expected back: 09.30 UTC 12th August 2010 For up to the minute Launchpad status …
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Improvements, you say? Very recently we saw the beta release of a new feature on Launchpad: building packages from recipes. Recipes bring Bazaar branches for the upstream source code and a packaging branch together to generate a Debian source package. We informally referred to …
Recently, we changed the way assigning bugs works on Launchpad. It used to be that anyone could assign anyone else to a bug. This was open to abuse as you can imagine. Bug 511269 was filed about the potential problems with this, and we recently changed Launchpad so that only bug …
Image no longer available: Benji YorkRecently, Benji York joined Canonical’s Launchpad team. I asked him a little about himself and his work. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Benji: I work on the Foundations team. Right now I’m concentrating on the web …
Recently, I’ve been working with Charline, from Canonical’s design team, to talk to Launchpad’s users about how Launchpad fits into their work and what they think of new features we’re planning. You may have seen my requests for participants on identi.ca …
The Launchpad and Bazaar teams have been in Prague this week. More on what we got done in later posts. For now, here’s a photo! The Launchpad and Bazaar teams in Prague
Three tips from Leonard’s lightning talk in Prague about writing faster Launchpadlib API clients: 1. Use the latest launchpadlib. It gets faster from one release to the next. (The versions in the current Ubuntu release should be fine; otherwise run from the branch or the …
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Many different types of information are stored in bug reports in Launchpad. Some are actual defects, some are feature requests, some are general issues, and so on. It is not uncommon on Launchpad to have a bug that deals with an issue that a developer cannot resolve. In …