You can now use SFTP to upload source packages to your Personal Package Archive! If you’re already familiar with uploading to a PPA, all you need to do is ensure your dput.cf includes the following: method = sftp login = <your Launchpad account name> If you’re …
This replaces the previously announced period of unavailability for the 1st of July. Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 23.00 UTC on the 6th of July 2010. This is to allow for the release of the latest …
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There are all sorts of different ways in which we in Canonical’s Launchpad team keep in touch with people who use Launchpad: informal conversations on IRC, attending Ubuntu Developer Summits, formal user research and so on. We want to hear from as many people who use …
Steve Kowalik recently joined the Soyuz part of the Launchpad team at Canonical, so I asked him the, by now familiar, questions! Matthew: What were you doing before you joined the Launchpad team? Steve: I worked on the Ubuntu Mobile team for 2.5 years before switching to the …
I am happy to report that caching rules I put in place on many pages last week are effective. I did not want to announce that pages were faster until I could see read a week of oops reports to verify that the slow pages owned by the Launchpad registry team were no longer listed …
We’ve had to alter the times between which Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, while everything else is offline, for the release of Launchpad 10.05. New start time: 11.00 UTC 2nd June 2010 New end time: 14.00 UTC 2nd June 2010
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Come and meet some of the Launchpad team next week in Montreal! From around 7.30pm on Wednesday the 2nd of June, we’re going to be at Réservoir (map), which is at: 9 DuLuth Est. Montréal H2T 3L4 I’ll be there, along with Launchpad team leader Francis Lacoste, …
Some of the Launchpad team will be in Brussels next week for UDS, so it’s a great opportunity to head to a bar and meet up with other Launchpad users :) Come join us at Delirium Café from around 8pm on Wednesday the 12th of May. Look out for the people in Launchpad and …
The online team at The Economist recently set up a Launchpad project, using a commercial subscription. I asked Mark Theunissen, from The Economist Group, about their plans. Mark: We’re migrating the existing Economist.com stack from Coldfusion/Oracle to a LAMP stack running …