At 03.00 UTC on the 21st November we’re making a secondary code roll-out as part of our Launchpad 2.1.11 release. We expect the down-time to be around 30 minutes but it could be as much as an hour.
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As of today, you can use your Launchpad identity to log into any website that supports OpenID. Now, you need remember only your Launchpad username and password for thousands of websites. Here’s how it works: You visit a website that’s an OpenID receiver and it asks …
Need to contact someone who’s hidden their email address in Launchpad? No problem. Launchpad profile pages now give you a way to contact that person without having to know their email address. Over to Barry Warsaw — who worked on the feature — for more: You can now contact …
At our recent get-together in London, we in the Launchpad team discovered a sure-fire way to turn heads: t-shirts emblazoned with the stylish new Launchpad logo. Naturally, we want to share this milestone in sartorial expression with everyone who loves Launchpad. So, you can now …
Around this time last year I wrote about Inkscape’s switch to Launchpad Bugs. Since then, Inkscape have taken to Launchpad wholeheartedly, using Code and Blueprint as well. As an Inkscape user — rather than developer — I was excited to see that when I click “Ask us a …
Guillermo Gonzalez - the man behind the bzr-eclipse plugin - has recently been working with the Launchpad API to produce an Eclipse plugin that integrates with Launchpad. That seemed like a pretty cool use of the API so I emailed him to find out more. Matthew: What does your …
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Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! Hosts: Matthew Revell and Joey Stanford. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. 00.36: The Launchpad team met in London at the end of October. Joey and Matthew spoke to Launchpad developers as they took part in an optimisation session. 10.57: …
Launchpad will be offline for up to two hours from 22.00 UTC on the 19th November. This down-time is for the roll-out of the latest version of Launchpad, 2.1.11. Going offline: 22.00 UTC 19th November 2008 Expected back before: 23.59 UTC 19th November 2008
Now it’s time to speak to Paul Hummer — the man known as rockstar — as he spills all about his life in the Launchpad team. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Paul: I help integrate Bazaar into Launchpad. Basically, anything under code.launchpad.net is where I …
Image no longer available: Ursula JunqueNow it’s time to speak to Ursula Junque in the latest of our Launchpad developer interviews. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Ursula: Well, my job title is QA Engineer. Each day I watch the OOPSes you sometimes see when …