No, this is not a deja-vu. The last release brought you imports of translation templates from Bazaar branches, now you can import your actual translations too. Enabling import of translations (usually called PO files) seems to be the logical next step since the import of …
The last time I posted to this blog I was describing a sprint in Montreal, where we were working on refactoring the web service code and moving it from Launchpad to a standalone library. Several weeks of work later, we’re done. You can now create your own web service using …
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We’re releasing a new version of Launchpad on the 29th April at 22.00 UTC. While we roll-out the new code, Launchpad will remain online but will be read-only. Going read-only: 22.00 UTC 29th April 2009 Expected return of read-write Launchpad: 23.30 UTC 29th April 2009 …
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A couple of days ago I posted that Launchpad had been assigning too much karma for certain types of translation work. Basically, if you imported translation files — PO and POT files — into Launchpad from an Ubuntu package or a Bazaar branch then you got vastly more karma than if …
Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! Hosts: Matthew Revell and Graham Binns. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. 01.35: Launchpad 2.2.3 — official bug tags, new bug activity log and multiple PPAs per person/team. 10.15: Henning Eggers talks about Launchpad Translations’ new …
Translations karma we assign to Ubuntu package maintainers and project maintainers importing their translations through Bazaar is too big compared to what translators get when working through Launchpad. We’ll be scaling down the karma values for such imports, as part of …
Recently I spent a day with Julian Edwards, one of the developers working on Launchpad’s Personal Package Archives feature. We wanted to come up with a plan for improving the help materials we have for PPAs, including: documentation on the Launchpad help wiki the PPA page …
We’re back on the Meet the devs trail and this time we’re heading for Launchpad’s most easterly UK-based developer! Let’s meet Gavin Panella. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Gavin: I work on the Bugs team, adding useful new features and …
The Launchpad team is proud to announce the release of Launchpad 2.2.3! Here are the highlights of what’s new in this release: Additional Personal Package Archives for yourself and your teams Translation template imports directly from your project’s Bazaar branches …
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In the latest release of the Launchpad bug tracker, we have introduced a new feature: official bug tags. Tags blessed by the project team as official display using a darker colour on the bug page, and are placed prominently at the top of the tags list on project pages. Users can …