Our first Launchpad meet-up is happening on Monday the 28th September in London. Come along to meet some of Canonical’s Launchpad development team and other members of the Launchpad community. Come drink a beer/coffee/mineral water with us and get your hands on a Launchpad …
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Image no longer available: Deryck Hodge and a hat Recently, Deryck Hodge took over from Bjorn Tillenius as the leader of Canonical’s Launchpad Bug Tracker team. That seemed like a good chance to catch up with Deryck. I’ll post an updated interview with Bjorn soon …
I’ve revamped our guides to translating your project in Launchpad, with help from Jeroen and Danilo. You can find them here: https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/YourProject Let me know if you think there’s anything missing or that could be better explained.
Want an easy way to direct people to your pages in Launchpad? Whether it’s for yourself or your project, you can pop one of our new badges on your website: You can choose badges from 160px wide to 250px and we even host the badge for you, so all you need is to copy and …
You’ll need a PGP key registered in your Launchpad account if you want to use the bug tracker’s email interface, sign a Code of Conduct or upload a package. There’s a guide in the help wiki and also now this screencast!
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I spotted this link in my Facebook news feed yesterday: MySQL at Facebook is a Launchpad project to which Facebook publishes its patches for MySQL. There is also a Facebook note announcing the new project. Surely Launchpad’s social networking credentials are in order now, …
Danilo blogged recently about Launchpad’s new feature which shares translations between releases of the same project. Here’s a screencast showing how it works!
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As a follow-up to yesterday’s screen cast on importing translation template files from a Bazaar branch, here’s how to get Launchpad to regularly export your project’s translations to a Bazaar branch of your choice. (Ogg Theora version)
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Yesterday, our new design has started to roll out on the edge servers. This will be an incremental and iterative process, as all the pieces come together, where our best ideas and speculations meet production data. One of the conversations we had when re-designing the Launchpad …
Here’s a screencast showing just how quick and easy it is to set up a continuous import of a translation template from your series’ default Bazaar branch! (Ogg Theora version)
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