We’ve just upgraded Launchpad’s builder machines to Bazaar 2.4. Most importantly, this means that recipe builds of very large trees will work reliably, such as the daily builds of the Linaro ARM-optimized gcc. (This was bug 746822 in Launchpad). We are going to do …
Launchpad will soon permit you to say your project is not affected by a bug shared with another project – you can delete the spurious bug task. This action can be done from the bug’s web page, and using Launchpad API. You can remove a project from a bug if you are the …
Launchpad will be entirely offline and Ubuntu’s single sign-on service will be read-only for around 15 minutes from 08.30 UTC on the 10th November. Goes offline: 08.30 UTC 2011-11-10 Expected back: 08.45 UTC 2011-11-10 This is to allow us to make a database upgrade. …
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It’s sad to read that BerliOS will close in December, after nearly twelve years of serving open source projects. One fewer project hosting site means that the open source world is that bit poorer. If you’ve been hosting your project on the BerliOS Developer platform …
We’ve recently deployed two features that make it easier to find bugs that you’re previously said affect you: 1: On your personal bugs page, there’s now an Affecting bugs that shows all these bugs. 2: On a project, distribution or source package bug listing …
If you use gmail, you should now be able to send commands to Launchpad without gpg-signing. gmail puts a DKIM cryptographic signature on outgoing mail, which is a cryptographic signature that proves that the mail was sent by gmail and that it was sent by the purported user. We …
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Steve Kowalik writes: For a while now Launchpad has been using deployment reports that tell us what state our QA is in, which revisions are safe to deploy to production, or which revisions are not safe to deploy since they failed QA. Some time ago, I started the process to make …
Continuing on from our earlier work of sending less but better mail and making it faster to import i18n translation templates: Launchpad will no longer send mail when it successfully imports a template. You can see in the web ui when the template was last imported, and you will …
If you use Launchpad’s Translations feature, then as of today, you may notice a new kind of error for uploads in your translations import queue. Look for the “” icon next to your upload’s status, and click to unfold. The error message says …
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Today we reached a significant milestone, we completed our first fast down-time deployment. Two obvious reasons for doing this were already mentioned in the announcement and our technical architect’’s post describing the change: We’ll have less downtime per …