Perhaps shutting out the distractions of the physical world is no longer enough. PyRoom is a simple text editor that shuts out all the distractions you might find in a more complex editor or word processor, giving you nothing but a black screen that you can type into. Bruno Bord …
I’m in Buenos Aires this week with the Launchpad Translations team — Danilo, Jeroen and Henning — along with Launchpad UI guy Martin Albisetti. We’re working on making Launchpad cleverer at giving people the information they need where they need it. Each day …
I’m in Montreal this week, with the rest of the Launchpad Foundations team and a few other Canonical engineers. We’re preparing for the open sourcing of Launchpad by doing a lot of refactoring, so that when the code is released in July it will be more comprehensible, …
Jeroen Vermeulen gives us our first Asian stop-off in the Meet the devs series. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Jeroen: I work on the Translations application. That’s where we translate software (including all of Ubuntu’s “main” section!) …
The Launchpad team is proud to announce the release of Launchpad 2.2.2! Let’s look at what’s new this month. Now easier to add upstream links to bug reports If you’re using Launchpad to track a bug that you think may also be reported elsewhere — such as in a …
Linking Launchpad bugs to upstream bugs can be hard work. You don’t necessarily know whether the bug is reported on the upstream tracker, and if you don’t know where the upstream project tracks its bugs you have to go and find out before you can file the bug and link …
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Back at the beginning of February, we ran our first Launchpad Performance Week. Our aim was to find pages that, although they weren’t slow enough to trigger our internal warning, were nonetheless taking too long load. The first thing we did was to get our internal warning …
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Launchpad is set up to make it easy for groups to come together spontaneously around tasks big or small. Take this bug as an example: it affects three projects that share the same code. Launchpad brings them together to find a fix. But there are times when collaboration needs to …
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We’re back in New Zealand for today’s Launchpad developer interview with Tim Penhey. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Tim: I lead the team that works on the Bazaar code-hosting side of Launchpad. This includes all the pages that are under the …
Launchpad will be offline for one hour from 00.00 UTC on Thursday the 26th February while we roll-out the code for our latest release, Launchpad 2.2.2. Going offline: 00.00 UTC 26th February 2009 Expected back: 01.00 UTC 26th February 2009 We’ll post details of the release …
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