Many users have discovered that they could not reuse an email address that once belongs to a team. While Launchpad claimed the contact address was gone, that was not the case; it was hidden, never to be seen again. This is fixed. Launchpad does what it says. It removes the email …
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Since we first launched Personal Package Archives, we’ve set a starting size limit of 1 GiB. However, we’ve also said “yes” pretty much every time someone’s ask us for more space. So, seeing as how most requests have been for an increase to 2 GiB, …
The Ubuntu packages portlet lists the most recent project packages in Ubuntu’s main archive. But there are thousands of Ubuntu packages that are not linked to a registered Launchpad project. The links are needed to forward bugs upstream, sync translations, and get the …
Projects get an improved “Get Involved” portlet. This portlet provided links to create projects artefacts like bugs and branches. It was never clear though how to enable these links. Privileged users like project owners will see links to configure Launchpad …
Last year, we integrated Launchpad Translations with Launchpad’s code hosting, meaning you could import both translations and templates from a Bazaar branch and also export translations to a branch. Even at the time, we knew that the story wasn’t complete: you still …
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When you’re new to a bug report that’s already had quite a bit of activity, it can take a few minutes to get a hang of what’s been happening. Launchpad gives you a shortcut that lets you quickly see the history of the bug: the bug activity log. Let’s take …
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only (other aspects such as PPAs, the email interface and the API will be offline) for two hours from 09.00 UTC on Tuesday the 4th May 2010. Going offline: 09.00 UTC 4th May 2010 Expected back: 11.00 UTC 4th May 2010 This is for the …
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The last few months we’ve been doing a lot of work to enable direct import of translations from different upstream VCS systems. For now, we’ve focused on getting one very important case right first (GNOME), and then we’ll extend it to supporting other upstreams …
Thomas Pietrowski is an 18 year old high school student in Solingen, Germany, whose mopedix project aims to create a control system for mopeds and other vehicles. Matthew: Tell us more about mopedix Thomas: My software system is split into two different parts. First of all there …
Via Planet Launchpad: Launchpad’s Strategist, Jonathan Lange, writes on his blog: We’re starting to get a picture of what we want to do in the second half of 2010. In particular, lots of people within the team and within Canonical are starting to get fed up with our …