Now grows together what belongs together. Introducing a cool new feature: importing translation templates from Bazaar branches. You can (and should) host your source code on code.launchpad.net using Bazaar branches. You also have a great translation tool in …
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The release of 2.2.3 brings with it a change for PPAs — we are now supporting multiple PPAs per person! You will have probably already noticed that we made a change in 2.2.1 that altered the URLs you see for a PPA’s index page and its sources.list entry; these now have the …
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After many months on working on the necessary infrastructure to deploy complex AJAX widgets in Launchpad, more user interface reviews than any developer would like to go through in a life time, and a lot of cursing, the tip of the iceberg is finally showing. Mark announced months …
We previously announced a maintenance window for the Launchpad 2.2.3 release for one hour. Due to some issues found during our pre-release quality assurance, we need to increase the maintenance window to three hours. The new maintenance window is: Going offline: 22.00 UTC 1st …
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People are starting to integrate Launchpad into applications, talking to it directly through its API — either by using the launchpadlib Python library or by doing RESTful HTTP requests. Below are some of the uses we’ve found — if you know of some not on this list, please …
We have some planned maintenance and the release of a new version of Launchpad coming up, both of which will mean a short period of down-time. PPAs offline for 30 minutes on the 27th of March Important update: We originally announced the PPA down-time as happening on the 26th …
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In our 2.2.3 release of Launchpad — due 1st of April — we’re strengthening the relationship between milestones and releases. Project releases will be explicitly linked to a milestone, meaning the release inherits the milestone’s series and identity information. …
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I get three kinds of email from Launchpad generally: Regarding bugs I’ve reported or specifically subscribed to Those assigned to a team I’m a member of A very occasional question or notification about a code branch I’m subscribed to. Of these above the second …
Recently ten people from Launchpad and other parts of Canonical came together in Berlin to hack on Launchpad’s new YUI 3 JavaScript interface. The sprint was tremendously successful, producing four fully functioning YUI 3 Widgets, complete with test suites and live demo …
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Image no longer available: The Shutter logo Screenshots are screenshots, right? If whacking the “Print Screen” button doesn’t offer enough refinement, then surely firing up The Gimp, gnome-screenshot or knsapshot would give you what you need, wouldn’t it? …