From 23.00 UTC on the 9th of March 2011, Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes. This is to allow us to make an update to the structure of the Launchpad database. Starts: 23.00 UTC 9th of March 2011 Expected back by: …
Ever wanted to know what exactly is happening in Launchpad development, but found our list of in-progress bugs too daunting and detailed? Well, do we have a link and a screenshot for you. Screenshot: Link. (Log in: guest@launchpad.net; Password: launchpad). Thanks to the nice …
You may start getting “Failed to fetch” error messages when updating your software sources (e.g. through “apt-get update” or “Reload package information” in Synaptic), which may be due to a bug we’ve just cleaned up in Launchpad’s …
We are updating the UI over several iterations over the next few weeks for several reasons: Launchpad should apply the Canonical guidelines for websites to take advantage of the research done for other sites. Being consistent with other Ubuntu and Canonical sites means there is …
As part of improving performance we have disabled the substring matching of source package names. This fixes bug 268508 and bug 607960. However its a slightly contentious issue - opinions vary about whether bug 268508 is a valid bug or not. So we have only disabled it - the code …
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Launchpad’s bug mail can be a bit chatty sometimes as I’m sure you’ve noticed. This cycle the Yellow Squad is working to give you more control about the bug mail Launchpad sends to you. One problem that we’ve known about for a really long time was reported …
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In twelve hours from this posting, Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes. This is to allow us to make an update to the structure of the Launchpad database. This replaces the previous read-only period announced for Feb …
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In thirteen hours from this posting, Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes. This is to allow us to make an update to the structure of the Launchpad database. Starts: 23.00 UTC 10th of February 2011 Expected back by: …
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Launchpad will be offline for about 90 minutes while we roll out some changes to the database and to code hosting.
Launchpad API client developers: have your say in bug 714043 on whether launchpadlib should connect by default to Launchpad’s staging server (so data is discarded), or to real Launchpad.