Recent scene at Launchpad HQ There are few things more frustrating than working on something and then being held up because you can’t get the help you need. I know this all too well: my quest for world domination has long been stalled because the sonic screwdriver …
Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! Hosts: Matthew Revell, Graham Binns and Joey Stanford. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. 02.32: Leonard Richardson talks about the progress and scope of the Launchpad API. 13.45: Graham Binns talks about Launchpad’s plugins for …
On October 6th Launchpad’s code hosting and browsing will be unavailable for around four hours from 22.00 UTC. Going offline: 22.00 UTC 6th October Expected back before: 02.00 UTC 7th October During this down-time, the following services will be unavailable: pushing to, …
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You didn’t expect it, but here it is. “This Week in Launchpad’s Web API” returns for one more week! This week we’re pleased to announce that you can now search the bug tasks associated with a project, project group, distribution, or milestone. We …
This status report was put off until today because the edge site was frozen. This update is huge. We’ve made one change to launchpadlib, exposed a whole lot of Launchpad’s project registry, and published branches for the first time. Since the development cycle is …
Something I love about Launchpad is that I can quickly get a feeling for the people whose work I come across. Some of what you see on a Launchpad profile page is more geared towards knowing the person than their work. We’ve added a bit more to that “getting to know …
The guys in the Launchpad-Bazaar integration team added code review to Launchpad earlier this year. Now, when you take part in a code review it’ll count towards your Launchpad karma! If you’re new to code review, take a look at my previous post.
We’re releasing Launchpad 2.1.9 on Wednesday (17th September). During the roll-out of the new code, we need to take Launchpad offline for a short while. We allow a window of two hours. Going offline: 22.00 UTC 17th September 2008 Expected back before: 23.59 UTC 17th …
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Barry Warsaw, Francis Lacoste, and I gave an IRC chat about the Launchpad web service as part of Ubuntu Developer Week. There’s a transcript available in case you missed it. The big news from last week is that we finally have the API documentation being generated whenever a …
Last week the Launchpad web service didn’t change, because the source tree was frozen pending a Launchpad release. But this week we landed the branches we wrote last week, as well as some new ones. The biggest change this week is client-side caching. Update your copy of …