(This is a correction to a previous post.) Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only for roughly 90 minutes, from 23.00 UTC Wednesday 3rd March to 00.30 UTC Thursday 4th March, 2010. Other aspects of Launchpad — including code hosting, PPAs, the API and email interface — …
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Jelmer Vernooij recently joined the Launchpad team at Canonical, so I caught up with him to give him the usual Meet the developers interview. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Jelmer: I work in the Soyuz team, where I hack on the build system, package management and …
The Sikuli project recently switched to using Launchpad. I asked Tsung-Hsiang Chang to tell me more about the project. Matthew: Your website says, “Sikuli is a visual technology to search and automate graphical user interfaces (GUI) using images (screenshots).” That …
Just a quick note to link to some interesting Launchpad-related posts/articles that have cropped up over the past week or so: An introduction to collaborative development with Launchpad — (Ars Technica) Some thoughts on using the Windmill testing framework in Launchpad …
If you visited Launchpad between 13.30 and 15.30 UTC yesterday (4th Feb), you’ll have seen that Launchpad was largely unavailable. Since then, I’ve spoken to quite a few people who use Launchpad regularly and I want to say thanks to everyone for your patience while we …
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Brad has written a great guide to writing and committing your first code for Launchpad. Amongst other things, he has a useful bullet list that describes the steps between deciding you want to write code for Launchpad and actually seeing your work in place. “The steps for …
Ascertaining the importance of a bug can be one of the harder parts of bug triage, right? It’s no problem if the project’s relatively small and you’re intimately involved with each bug but if you’re helping to triage for a larger project, it’s not …
There are a couple of new features related to patch handling in Launchpad bugs this month. Building on the work we did in December to better distinguish patches in bug pages, we now use an icon to show if a bug has a patch attached in bug listings. Any search on Launchpad will …
Now that I have your attention… We’ve been overwhelmed by the popularity of PPAs on Launchpad. In fact, according to our sysadmins, they are a little too popular and now our disks are full. Full disks mean no more PPAs, and no more uploads to PPAs. We’d like to …