Image no longer available: Zim logo Zim is a desktop wiki that use both Launchpad and Bazaar. I asked Jaap Karssenberg, its founder and main developer, about the project. Matthew: How does Zim compare with something like Tomboy? Jaap: I really don’t know as I never used …
If you want to host code on Launchpad, and you need some help, you can turn to IRC, the launchpad-users mailing list or the Code Hosting section on the help wiki. If all you want, though, is to get up and running with hosting your project’s code on Launchpad, there’s …
On the 28th September, the Canonical Launchpad team leads will be in London, along with myself, community guy Karl Fogel and UI guy Martin Albisetti. I’m organising a Launchpad community meet-up for the evening of the 28th, which will be a chance to meet other Launchpad …
There used to be only one way of exporting translations from Launchpad—by requesting your files in the Launchpad UI and waiting for an email with the download URL. It works, but it’s not very convenient if you’re trying to automate things. It’s not that easy to …
William Grant was the first person outside Canonical to submit a patch to the newly open sourced Launchpad. I asked him a few questions to see how he got on. Matthew: What did your patch change? William: Launchpad users may elect to receive the bug’s description and status …
Last month we made a small change to the series page as a commitment to making a distinction between the driver for a project and the driver of a series. The drivers of a project have the power to make the decision of what features go into a release. But the driver of a series is …
Open Mind is an open source effort to create a database of common sense concepts. I asked Catherine Havasi, Rob Speer and Ken Arnold about the project and their use of Launchpad. Matthew: Open Mind is almost the stuff of 1950s science fiction. You’re building a database of …
Over the past few months we’ve been slowly introducing a grand new feature in Launchpad Translations, and with 2.2.7, we are finally ready to announce it to the wide world: message sharing. Introducing message sharing Message sharing between different releases of a product …
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Launchpad has a little known feature that is getting better. The product release finder is a process that runs everyday to locate new releases and import them to Launchpad. The process uses the series’ Release file pattern to locate files and import them to the appropriate …
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Launchpad has supported assigning questions to users for several years, but the privilege was limited to project owners. This meant the feature was rarely used. Since the feature was also not visible, answer contacts often requested that we develop the feature. Question listing …