Small thing this: when you change a tag on a bug, the email notification from Launchpad describes it as removing the original tag and adding a new tag. That makes sense but something slightly irritating was that Launchpad would order the email like this: Tags added: …
Not long back, Sumana Harihareswara, who is Volunteer Development Coordinator at the Wikimedia Foundation, contacted some members of the Launchpad community to ask how we handle code review. She’s written a summary of her research for the Wikimedia community. It makes …
Last week I announced Launchpad’s new bug subscriptions system! While we were in Dublin, I recorded a chat with Graham Binns about the changes to bug subscriptions and the work that had gone into them. Download the Ogg Vorbis file.
I can’t believe it’s been two weeks already! From June 25th to July 1st, the whole Launchpad team was gathered in Dublin for our semi-annual all-hands event. Like usual, we also invited the Bazaar team and one of our friendly sysadmin. The theme this time around was …
Visit this URL: https://launchpad.net/~ Cool, eh? Same works for https://bugs.launchpad.net/~, as well as code, translations, answers and blueprint. Actually, it’ll work anywhere that you’d normally put /people/+me or your own Launchpad id — so long as you’re …
Launchpad will be fully offline (not read-only) for around one hour from 08.00 UTC on the 14th July 2011. Launchpad goes offline: 08.00 UTC 14th July 2011 Launchpad expected back: 09.00 UTC 14th July 2011 We’re sorry for the very short notice of this down-time. Following …
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So, you’re about to select someone in Launchpad — maybe you’re assigning a bug — and you’re not exactly sure you’ve got the right person. One way to confirm would be for Launchpad to tell you what relation that person has to the project you’re …
As of recently, you have more control of what email Launchpad sends you about bugs. Instead of bug subscriptions being all or nothing, you can now tell Launchpad exactly what bug-related events you want to hear about. And if you find you’re getting too much, or too little, …
Launchpad has quite a few background tasks that update things outside of your browser request, and the only way you know that they finished is to reload a page to see if it changes. Updating the preview diff on a merge proposal is one example. At our Launchpad sprint in Dublin a …
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with aspects such as branch pushing and package uploading offline, for around 90 minutes from 08.00 UTC on the 13th July. Starts: 08.00 UTC 13th July 2011 Ends before: 09.30 UTC 13th July 2011 This is to allow for an update to …