Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around 90 minutes from 23.00 UTC on the 12th January 2011. Starts: 23.00 UTC 12th January 2011 Expected to be back to normal by: 00.30 UTC 13th January 2011 This is to allow for an update to the …
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Polls were introduced to Launchpad as a way for teams to conduct internal surveys. Unfortunately the user interface and feature set were always problematic. The feature never really caught on and wasn’t used much (a little over 500 polls since 2006). A discussion[1] on the …
We’re coming to the end of the first week of Launchpad’s 2010 Bug Jam. How’s it gone so far? At the time of writing: Jono’s BugJam-o-Meter shows 77 bugs fixed as part of the jam most of those 77 have been fixes, with 19 Fix Released and 24 Fix Committed …
From today, all Launchpad bugs, code, questions and blueprints are tracked under the one launchpad project. We’ve already moved everything from the individual projects over to the parent launchpad project. All you need do differently is search/file bugs, questions and …
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TL;DR This is a pretty long post. Here’s the important bit, if you don’t want to read the rest. ‘‘‘For all Launchpad status updates/notices:’’’ use our launchpadstatus identi.ca account (RSS feed, Twitter mirror). …
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for up to 90 minutes from 10.00 UTC on the 8th December. Starts: 10.00 UTC 8th December 2010. Expected back by: 11.30 UTC 8th December 2010. During this time we will be making updates to …
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I’m running a short survey — four questions — to find out how people want to get system status updates about Launchpad. If you’ve got an opinion on how you’d prefer to get info about pending and unplanned Launchpad service interruptions, take the survey :)
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I previously posted about our continuous deployment efforts in Launchpad. Since then the project has come a long way. We can deploy to nearly all our services without downtime. The remaining services are a bit trickier - but we are working on them. As part of the project we are …
A while back I asked for your suggestions for which Launchpad-hosted projects we should feature on the Launchpad front page. Thanks to everyone who made their suggestions! I’ve now updated the list based on how often each project was recommended and how active they are in …
Between December 13th and 24th we’re holding Launchpad’s first bug jam! For two weeks, Canonical’s Launchpad team will focus solely on closing bugs and we’d love it if you’d join us. Right now, there are more than 6,500 open bug reports for the …