It’s not unusual for a project to be known by more than one name. Y’know, like Superman and Clark Kent. Or maybe something a bit more subtle, such as PostgreSQL/Postgres. You can help people find your project in Launchpad, whatever name they know it by, thanks to …
We in the Launchpad team are changing the way that we triage bugs reported against the Launchpad suite of applications. The Wishlist importance will no longer be used. Clearly the term is not about importance. It would be nice to convert bugs into blueprints, but the two …
If you’ve ever contributed to a Debian-based distribution or used the neat Launchpad PPA services then you’ve probably used dput before. We use dput to upload packages to a Debian repository such as the Debian Archive, Ubuntu Archive, or personal archives such as a …
Last week was the first of some Launchpad Performance Weeks that we’re embarking upon. The Soyuz team worked hard on improving the performance of the PPA page, which had a tendency to be very slow or even time out on PPAs that have a lot of binaries published. The more …
Interesting post from Jay Pipes, one of developers working on the Drizzle project: “To paraphrase the late Charlton Heston: ‘[Drizzle] is people!’ “Recently, I’ve seen the fruit that transparent, open source development bears. This fruit takes the …
Spring is a free software real-time strategy game engine that’s available for Ubuntu via the Spring Team’s PPA. From the Spring About page, it features: Large battles limited only by the power of your computer; support for up to 5000 units. Large, highly detailed maps …
Over the next few months we’re turning our attention to making Launchpad sing; not so much Edith Piaf, more the note struck by a perfectly tuned Ferrari. This month — actually, this week — and again in April and June, we’re holding Launchpad Performance Week (LPW)! …
Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! Host: Matthew Revell. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. The Launchpad team released Launchpad 2.2.1 last week. Here’s a closer look at what’s new. 00.48: Henning Eggers, Launchpad Translations developer, talks about how Launchpad …
The Launchpad team are proud to announce Launchpad 2.2.1, our first release of 2009! In 2.2.1 we’ve introduced: a unique signature for each Personal Package Archive a way to introduce new translators to your team’s way of working an easier way for projects to export …
Read more of Launchpad 2.2.1: signed PPAs and easier translation exports for upstream projects →
Finding the right balance between open access and quality control is an ongoing challenge both for translations groups and the Launchpad Translations developers. Launchpad already gives projects the flexibility to choose what level of openness versus control that they want for …