Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, and all other parts of Launchpad offline, for roughly two and a half hours from 09.00 UTC on the 27th January 2010. Starts: 09.00 UTC 27th January 2010 Expected back: 11.30 UTC 27th January 2010 This is for the roll-out of our …
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You asked for it and we’ve delivered. Your launchpadlib scripts can now get read-only access to the Launchpad web service API without going through any authorization process. Previously, to authorize your script, you had to open a web page in the end-user’s web …
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Some Launchpad users may have noticed that we are not syncing bug watches with external trackers as we should. We have had to turn off syncing with external trackers while we work on a problem we have had with hammering bug trackers with large numbers of bug watches in Launchpad. …
Launchpad may be unavailable for up to 30 minutes from 11.00 UTC on Wednesday the 20th January, for planned hardware maintenance. Starting: 11.00 UTC 20th January 2010 Expected back before: 11.30 UTC 20th January 2010 We are, though, hopeful that we can complete the maintenance …
It’s my pleasure to introduce to you the single greatest Launchpad planning achievement for 2010: the roadmap. For the last few months we’ve been working on bridging the gap between the Ubuntu distribution and the upstreams that it’s made from: making it easier …
We have published the 2010 Launchpad release calendar. You’ll see that there is a new Launchpad release naming scheme as well. We have moved to a YY.MM naming, which matches the Ubuntu model. You’ll find the calendar on the Launchpad development wiki, as: …
You may already know this: if you want to try out Launchpad, there’s a “playground” version of the site at https://staging.launchpad.net/ This site gets refreshed daily (or almost daily) with the latest copy of the database that’s behind the real, …
Launchpad’s 3.1.12 release has been a big release for the Launchpad Bugs team, despite it only being a two week development cycle compared to the normal four week cycle for Launchpad releases. This meant there was really only a week of development time for the bugs team. …
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Gavin just landed a very welcome branch to show the number of users affected by a bug on the bug page (bug 494040). You can also sort a list by the number of users affected, and doing this shows that two other popular bugs are related: provide a list of bugs affecting a user …
Since we started focusing on bridging the gap between upstream projects, users, and distribution packagers, we’ve been talking to a lot of people, to help us better understand the size and nature of those gaps. (Those conversations are continuing, too — if you’d like …