The new bug listings listings were the first time my squad, the Orange Squad, had a chance to work on some really nice in-depth client-side UI since our squad was formed. Not only were we implementing the feature, we wanted to lay groundwork for future features. Here are some of …
The Launchpad maintenance teams have been working since the beginning of the year at reducing our Critical bugs count to 0. Without much success this far. The long term trend keeps the backlog at around 300. And it’s not because we haven’t been fixing these. Since …
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Our custom bug listings beta has been up and running for just over a week now – thanks to everyone in the Launchpad beta testers group that have tried it out, and thank you for all your valuable feedback and comments. If you haven’t tried it yet, you can get access by …
Launchpad translations will be unavailable for around one hour, starting 10.00 UTC, on Tuesday 2011-11-29, to allow us to open the translations for the next Ubuntu release, Precise Pangolin (to be 12.04 LTS). We tried this last week but hit some problems. Rather than prolong the …
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The information displayed with bug listings is often not what you want to see – you might not be interested in bug heat and want to see bug age, but it’s not there. Looking at this problem, we’ve come up with a new beta feature: custom bug listings. A lot of you have …
Launchpad is ending support for multi-tenancy for branches and bugs to ensure that projects can manage the disclosure of private information. This is a fundamental change to how launchpad permits communities to share projects. Very few users will be affected by this change, but …
Launchpad translations was due to be unavailable from 10.00 UTC for around one hour this morning to allow us to set up translations for the next Ubuntu release, Precise Pangolin (to be 12.04 LTS). However, by about 10.15 UTC we encountered problems with data already in …
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Launchpad translations will be unavailable for around one hour, starting 10.00 UTC, on Tuesday 2011-11-22. During this time Launchpad will not be importing translation files and the web interface for making and reviewing translations will be unavailable. This includes imports for …
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Ubuntu’s single sign-on service will be read-only for around 15 minutes starting at 10.30 UTC on the 17th November. At the same time, Launchpad will be offline. This means that you should be able to log into websites that depend on the Ubuntu single sign-on service, but not …
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Edit 2011-11-15 08:18 UTC: The problem is now fixed and we’ve re-enabled the new menu. Edit 2011-11-11 13:42 UTC: We’ve temporarily disabled the new menu while we fix some unfortunate side effect. We’ve just deployed a new, simplified version of the branch menu …