At its most basic, a blueprint in Launchpad is a statement of intent: by creating a blueprint, you’re saying, “Here’s an idea for how this project should progress.” How do you track the detailed steps to get from having the idea to seeing it implemented? …
We are reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad. The goal of the disclosure feature is to introduce true private projects, and we are reconciling the contradictory implementations of privacy in bugs and branches. Launchpad will use policies instead of roles to govern who …
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We are reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad. The goal of the disclosure feature is to introduce true private projects, and we are reconciling the contradictory implementations of privacy in bugs and branches. We are adding a new kind of privacy called …
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Two changes to the contact team email feature were recently released that make communication more reliable. Non-team members now see the “Contact this team’s admins” link. Previously, non-members saw a link to contact the team owner. The owner is often one …
We are reimagining the nature of privacy in Launchpad. The goal of the disclosure feature is to introduce true private projects, and we are reconciling the contradictory implementations of privacy in bugs and branches. We must change the UI to accommodate the a kind of privacy, …
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Back in September, we announced our first fastdowntime deployment. That was a new way to do deployment involving DB changes. This meannt less downtime for you the user, but we were also hoping that it would speed up our development by allowing us to deliver changes more often. …
Recently the Launchpad Red Squad and Product Team started working on a new cloud project. As part of that project we’ll be using Juju, a tool that helps you easily deploy services on the cloud. As an opportunity to learn more about how Juju works, I wrote a charm to deploy …
We’re making changes to the way that bug heat is calculated and displayed in Launchpad. From 6th February, bug heat will no longer age/degrade, and the active flame counter symbol will be replaced by a number, next to a static flame. Here’s why. Bug heat ageing is …
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The title may sound like a contradiction, but I assure you that it is not. You can now use private teams in social contexts in Launchpad. Private teams can collaborate with public projects and other teams if they choose to reveal the existence of the private team. Private teams …
Custom Bug Listings Over the past few months the Launchpad Orange Squad has been working to make it easier to get the information that matters to you from bug listings. A lot of you have said in the past that you’d like to be able to filter bugs in a way that works best for …