Recently, Ursula and I have been improving the way that we test new Launchpad features. Already, Launchpad has an extensive test suite but there are some things that automated tests can’t look out for. Rather than just testing the quality of our code, we also want to test …
Earlier this year Huw joined the Launchpad to look after the user interface. Here’s a quick intro to who he is. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Huw: I work on Launchpad’s user interface. This means I do a bunch of design work and front-end development. …
Here’s a quick pub quiz: Question: How do you make packages for Ubuntu? You can choose from the following answers: learn Debian packaging through hours of study and practice borrow existing packaging from elsewhere, throw a couple of Bazaar branches together and let …
A few weeks ago the Yellow Squad made another change to increase the relevance of the email you get from Launchpad by eliminating some noisy ones. A while back, Matthew Paul Thomas noticed that a change to a bug that was subsequently reverted could be deemed a mistake and was an …
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Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 08.00 UTC on the 6th April 2011. Starts: 08.00 UTC 6th April 2011 Expected to end by: 09.30 UTC 6th April 2011 This is to allow for a structural update to Launchpad’s …
Launchpad has been operating in the squad structure for two months now. From my point of view, things have been going very well. We are making steady progress on fixing timeouts, OOPSes, regressions and other operational issues. The blue squad switched to maintenance after …
Launchpad has a web UI, an email interface, and a ReST API that exposes every object in the database. There are also a bunch of client programs, command line and graphical, that talk to Launchpad to do various things. What we don’t yet have, and what I think would be great, …
Short story: http://pad.lv/12345 takes you to bug 12345, and pad.lv describes more abbreviations. Sometimes you’d like to point people to an interesting bug in a project that uses Launchpad, like bug 685380 (that ‘1’ and ’l’ may need to be more …
Photo by Anton Lindqvist. Licence: CC BY 2.0. Launchpad has an anonymous FTP server that people use to upload source packages to Ubuntu and their PPAs. When Launchpad processes the upload it does a huge number of checks, one of which is verifying the GPG signature on the …
Unfortunately, we have to move this week’s Launchpad database update. The previously announced service interruption due on Wednesday the 9th of March will now take place on Thursday the 10th of March. Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects …
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