When I explained how we determined what feature to work on next, I mentioned that we were looking to add a stakeholders representative for the Ubuntu project. Well, it’s now done. The Ubuntu Technical Board delegated Bryce Harrington to that position. So if you are part of …
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I’ve been asked this question privately a few times already. What does it mean for a squad to rotate from feature-mode to maintenance-mode? The question arises as a number of folks noticed that some members of the squad continue working on feature-related bugs after they …
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Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 22.00 UTC on the 8th June 2011. This is to allow for our monthly database update. Starts: 22.00 UTC 2011-06-08 Expected back by: 23.30 UTC 2011-06-08
Launchpad’s test suite takes a long time to run. Far too long to wait for when you’ve made a change. And the likelihood that you’ve broken any given test is pretty small. So you probably want to start by running the tests that were likely to break. You can …
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A short headsup about an upcoming change. A very long time ago the team owner was always a team member. This was changed to make team owners optionally members (sometime before 2008!). However the change was incomplete - there has been an inconsistency in the codebase ever since. …
We are now one month away from the Dublin Thunderdome and the stakes of the game have increased substantially since last time! At UDS, Jonathan announced he was willing to take a pie in the face if we achieved our 0 critical bugs goal. Two others joined him in the bet. As of …
When Launchpad shows someone’s display name, it’s not always clear who it’s referring to. With so many people registered in Launchpad, it’s not surprising that some of them share a name. However, every Launchpad id is unique. Mine’s matthew.revell …
My colleagues in the Teal Squad have been working on a small change that’ll make it easier to distinguish Launchpad users who have similar names. We’ve got two quick questions in our new survey. Help us make it easier to tell who’s who in Launchpad. The survey …
Congratulations and virtual cupcakes to nigelb and chrisjohnston who got their first changes in to Launchpad, and to the reviewers who helped get them finished off and deployed. jml said it so well at his recent short talk: I’m not going to kid you, [changing Launchpad is] …
Did you know we’re running a beta of Launchpad’s new bug subscriptions system? If so, you may have heard that we were planning to take the new subscriptions system out of beta today. There are, though, a couple of bugs that we want to fix before taking the new bug …