Now that we’ve released Launchpad’s source code, our next couple of months of work are going to be mostly focused on our page layouts. Launchpad has been around for quite a few years now, and tight release schedules packed with ever-changing features have had the side …
This is a post I’ve been looking forward to for a long time: Launchpad is now open source! We released it today under the GNU Affero General Public license, version 3. Note that although we had previously announced that we’d be holding back two components (codehosting …
As you might have heard already, Launchpad can now import code from Git repositories. You can then create Bazaar branches of those Git repos. For example: bzr branch lp:git Thanks to Jelmer for bzr-git and Michael & Paul for tying it into our rock-solid import system.
We have added a paragraph, concerning the location data on Launchpad user profile pages, to the Launchpad privacy policy’s “Submitted data” section. That section now reads: “Launchpad users may add information about themselves via their Launchpad accounts …
Over several months, we have released many small improvements to the project series, milestone, and releases pages to make release planning easier in Launchpad. Well, not all the changes were small. Some were subtly disruptive. Here is an explanation if what happened that I hope …
You may have noticed that we introduced some useful new options when filing bugs. These are especially useful to anyone who files lots of bugs. Something for everyone. Everyone can now set tags when filing a bug. Previously, only people going via the advanced bug filing page …
Up until now, series overview pages have offered a historical overview of a series. Today, we’ve released our new series overview pages that work much more like a dashboard for people driving a series. Before we look at the new dashboards, let’s clear up some …
Even if you’ve been living on Earth, you could be forgiven for not knowing about the richer tag syntax in the advanced bug search (e.g. in Bugs in Ubuntu: Advanced search), frankly because it’s very new and it’s not mentioned anywhere in the UI (yet). There are …
New on project overview pages: project timelines. Here’s the timeline from the Drizzle project. Straight away you can see how many series — i.e. major lines of development — are running concurrently, along with releases and milestones. Click on any of them to get more info. …
Launchpad will be in read-only mode for an hour on Wednesday 24th June while we roll-out new code. Going read-only: 09.00 UTC 24th June 2009 Expected back to normal: 10.00 UTC 24th June 2009 There’ll be a couple of minutes where Launchpad is unavailable while we switch into …
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