Jonathan (our Product Strategist) and I attended UDS-O in Budapest last week. Brad, Ian, Huw and Julian also came along for some part of it. And what great feedback we received from Ubuntu contributors! Working on a big and relatively old project like Launchpad can sometime be …
Nikki and the Robots is the first game from Berlin based games studio Joyride Labs. It’s a retro-styled platformer with beautiful colours and an open source licence, with bugs tracked in Launchpad. I asked Iwan & Sönke from Joyride Labs about the game. Matthew: Nikki …
If you’ve ever wondered why a particular bug report about the Launchpad project is marked as Low, High or Critical, you should read our bug triage guidelines. Okay, so, if you’re not directly involved with triaging Launchpad bugs then that may not be the …
Launchpad has a lot of critical bugs. A month ago, we had close to 300 of them. At the time of writing, we have 226. Francis reckons that we can have zero critical bugs by June 27th but I am a little bit sceptical. To that end, I’ve made a wager with the Launchpad …
Users of Launchpad Answers will see that asking a question, editing it, or posting a comment to it is faster. Email about question changes is sent a few minutes latter. Many bugs relating to question emails were fixed as we moved the work of sending emails to the new process. …
There’s quite a bit of overlap between home beer brewing and hacking. Both usually involve experimentation, sharing and a love of what you’re doing. It’s not surprising, then, that there’s more than one open source project aimed at helping home brewers to …
There’s a new Launchpad client library, called lpad, for the Go programming language. Gustavo writes: lpad is based on a two-layered design. The top layer offers a static API which allows a more comfortable interaction with the API with static checks, better documentation, …
Luz is a new project to Launchpad. It creates impressive visual effects that can react to music or be driven by a person using a MIDI controller or a gamepad. It has been created by Ian McIntosh, part of a Portland, Oregon, artists collective who produce light and projection …
As part of determining What’s Next?, Jonathan (our Product Strategist) and I will be attending UDS Oneiric next week (May 9th - May 13th) in Budapest. If you are running a session where you need input from Launchpad, or working on a Ubuntu project that would require …
Ever wished you got less bug mail? Or perhaps that you could better control the bug mail that Launchpad sends you? Recently, Gary and the yellow squad, plus before them the previous Launchpad bugs team, have been working to give you just that: better control of the email that …
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