If you’re using edge, you can now just comment on a question in Launchpad. For all questions on Answers, the “Just Add a Comment” button is now always visible. Previously, you might have only seen “Add Answer” and “Add Information …
bzr-svn, bzr-git and bzr-hg are plugins for bzr that make Subversion, Git and Mercurial branches first class citizens in the Bazaar world by allowing you to access them in the same way that you would access native Bazaar branches. Bazaar has supported multiple file formats from …
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Francis Lacoste recently started on a six-month stint of running the Canonical Launchpad team. It seemed like a good time to find out a little more about him. Matthew: How did you get into free software? Francis: It was 1996, with a few friends at university, we started an …
Launchpad will be offline for roughly 30 minutes from 04.00 UTC on Monday the 26th October 2009 for database maintenance. Going offline: 04.00 UTC 26th October Expected back: 04.30 UTC 26th October
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Image no longer available: Matt Revell Our intrepid communications expert, the venerable Matthew Revell, has been quite busy interviewing the Launchpad developers of late. I thought I’d turn the tables on him and ask a few questions! So, here goes: Julian: Mr Revell, …
A couple of weeks ago, the Launchpad team leads at Canonical gathered in Millbank Tower to talk about what we’ll be doing over the next six months. We talked with each other, we talked with Martin Pool from Bazaar, we talked with people on the Ubuntu Platform team, we …
Jonathan Lange writes on his blog: Launchpad has a pretty awesome public API, implemented using lazr.restful. I’ve written a few small scripts for it, and the Launchpad team has a few scripts that they use internally for doing admin tasks. The Ubuntu Platform team does a …
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When writing about the hardware running Launchpad, or even the complexity of the codebase, I’m always tempted to start off by borrowing from Douglas Adams’ introduction to The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “Launchpad is big. Really big.” With such …
Image no longer available: Bazaar logo The Bazaar project released their version 2.0.0 this week. I spoke to Martin Pool, the project’s lead, about the release and Bazaar generally. Matthew: Congratulations on the release of Bazaar 2.0.0! If you had to come up with a …
Launchpad’s code hosting and code browse will be offline for unexpected hardware maintenance from 10.00-10.30 UTC on Friday the 9th October 2009. During that time you won’t be able to push to, pull from, otherwise modify or browse code that is hosted on Launchpad. …
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