Tomorrow, you may notice a blip in Launchpad’s availability around 08.30 UTC. Believe it or not, this is good news :) Until tomorrow, we’d been rolling out database changes — schema updates, database server maintenance, etc — once a month, with a 90 minute period …
We’re looking for a couple of smart, motivated and experienced people to join us on the Launchpad team at Canonical. First up is a Software Engineer, to join one of the Launchpad development squads working on both new Launchpad features and maintenance of existing …
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It’s my pleasure to announce that as of today, Matthew Revell is the new Launchpad Product Manager replacing Jonathan Lange. We were seduced by his bold vision for Launchpad along with his data-centric approach that he intends to bring to the role. He also has an already …
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When you want to assign a bug to someone, subscribe them to a blueprint and so on, you see Launchpad’s person picker. It’s where you search for someone or a team, get a list of possible matches and then select the right one. Fairly recently, we’ve made a couple …
Users can use the affects form on the bug page to change which project or distribution the bug affects. You can also select the affected package. Lp API users can assign a project, distribution, or package to the BugTask target property to change the affected bug target. The …
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I recently posted about Initializing page JavaScript from the JSONCache. Now I’m pleased to announce that you can also get updated copies of the IJSONRequestCache, to make it easier to update your page. Brad Crittenden and I started work on this at the Dublin Thunderdome, …
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Good news if you run a project’s translation effort in Launchpad! Until today, when you imported a template or translation file into Launchpad for the first time, you’d have to wait for a member of the Canonical Launchpad team to review and then approve that file …
Many mailing lists in Launchpad are open teams - that is, anyone is welcome to join, or leave, as they choose. Until today, every time that happened all the list admins were mailed when someone joined or left their team, even though there is no action to take : in an open team, …
I’m thrilled to be writing this blog post just over a year after starting as Launchpad’s technical architect. During that year we have been steadily improving our ability to deploy changes to Launchpad without causing downtime (of any or all services). Our ability to …
You report a bug. Someone clicks “This affects me too” or marks the bug as a duplicate of another bug report. Both of those are confirmation of your bug, right? That’s what we think and members of the Ubuntu community agree. So, from now on, that’s …