Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only from 22.00 UTC on Wednesday the 16th December 2009 for the release of Launchpad 3.1.12. During that time, other services including PPAs, code hosting and the email interface, will be offline. Starts: 22.00 UTC 16th December …
For the last million years1 or so I’ve been working on a cool new feature for Launchpad Bugs: an inline, AJAXified, asynchronous dupe finder. For quite some time now people have encountered timeouts or long response times when trying to file bugs, particularly when they …
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In the Canonical Launchpad team, we all use Launchpad every day. As you’d expect, we also have a lot of contact with people who use Launchpad, both for Ubuntu and other projects. While personal experience of Launchpad and informal contact give us an insight into how some …
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only for 90 minutes from 22.00 UTC December 3rd. At that time, all other Launchpad services — including PPAs, bug mail and code hosting — will be unavailable. Starts: 22.00 UTC 3rd December Expected back: 23.30 UTC 3rd December …
If you’ve reported, commented on or subscribed to a bug in Launchpad, you’ll have seen Launchpad’s bug mail. It’s probably the easiest way to stay up to date with the bugs that interest you and there are a few things you can do to get the most out of it. …
Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only for roughly 90 minutes from 22.00 UTC on Wednesday the 2nd of December 2009. Other aspects of Launchpad — including code hosting, PPAs, the API and email interface — will be unavailable during that time. Starts: 22.00 UTC 2nd …
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We’re upgrading the disk space available for Launchpad’s code hosting! During the upgrade, we’ll have to take code hosting and browsing offline. Going offline: 08.00 UTC Thursday 19th November Expected back: 12.00 UTC Thursday 19th November We’re sorry …
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Last week, members of the Launchpad team got together with members of other teams across Canonical to sprint on lazr-js. lazr-js is the library the Launchpad team created on top of the Yahoo User Interface 3.0 javascript library to provide a richer user experience. For instance, …
Chat bots can be controversial. Apart from the fun to be had watching a friend carrying out an inadvertent Turing test, finding the right balance between useful information and annoyance seems to be one of the harder aspects of chatbotology. I spoke to Jonathan Hitchcock, Michael …
Launchpad will be offline for a scheduled code release for around 90 minutes from 09.00 UTC on the 5th November. Going offline: 09.00 UTC 5th November 2009 Expected back: 10.30 UTC 5th November 2009 This is to release version 3.1.10 of Launchpad. We’re sorry for the short …
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