Today it’s Brad Crittenden’s turn in Meet the devs. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Brad: I work on the Registry team. We handle everything to do with people and teams, projects, series, milestones, and user communications, such as mailing lists. …
Michael Hudson is the latest member of the Launchpad team to face a friendly grilling. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Michael: I work on the Launchpad Code team, which means I work on the side of Launchpad to do with hosting, finding, viewing, importing and …
A few days ago a fix for bug #286359 landed: provide translation import notifications to Ubuntu packagers. This means that all packagers will start getting emails about translation files (basically, *.pot and *.po files) from their packages as soon as they are imported (or the …
Over the last 18 months, I’ve moved GNU Mailman development from SourceForge to Launchpad. The reasons are varied. Mailman was one of the first projects hosted on SourceForge ages ago. I think our project id is a pride-inducing low 103, and we were even highlighted as its …
Next in the chair for our Meet the devs series is Martin Albisetti, also know as beuno. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Martin: I’m in charge of the user interface, making sure that new (and existing!) features and pages are easy to use and slick. I have been …
After a few months of working on all the infrastructure changes needed to start deploying AJAX on Launchpad, we are now ready to start developing the mockups we’ve been working on for the past months in the User Experience team. To make sure we coordinated the work of 35 …
Due to some caching problems between our machines, some large translations have failed to import, generating strange errors such as: “String not terminated” (the most common one, at a big line number) “Got a truncated message!” “String is not …
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The week of February 2nd – 6th has been the inaugural Launchpad Performance Week: a week where we concentrate on the most pressing performance issues and do anything we can to improve them. During that week, we also establish a hard goal that we enforce by lowering the timeout …
If you’ve had much contact with the Ubuntu community you’ll most likely have come across loco teams: local groups who promote, support and socialise around Ubuntu. Two loco teams — South Dakota and Quebec — have combined the Launchpad Drupal modules with a …
Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! Host: Matthew Revell. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. 01.50: David Mason talks about IntraHealth’s open source project’s that producing software for health workers in the developing world. 15.18: Danilo Segan talks about the …
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