After all the work that’s gone into a release, you want to get your software out to users. One way is to use Launchpad to make your release files available for download. Now, Launchpad makes it even easier for users to get the files from your latest release, by listing them …
We’ve given branch listing pages a major overhaul, giving you more information about each commit. In particular, the start of the commit message is quoted in the Last commit column, with the full thing available when you hover your mouse over it. If the author’s email …
We’re releasing Launchpad 1.2.3 in the early hours, UTC, of the 28th March 2008. Offline from: 00.00 UTC Expected back: 02.00 UTC
Glyph posted an interesting script to the launchpad-users mailing list that I thought was definitely worth sharing: Quite often, I’ve discovered that I want to add someone (who already has an account on launchpad) to my system so they can log in and attach to my …
Read more of Using Launchpad accounts to manage your local ssh logins: launchpadduser.py →
This past few weeks, we’ve had a whole load of high quality entries to our logo competition. We’re heading fast towards the 31st March deadline, so if you want to take part you’d best fire up Inkscape pretty sharpish! Back in January I shared a couple of the …
Here on the Launchpad team we work pretty closely with the Bazaar community. This week, Canonical’s London HQ has been host to a Bazaar sprint. It’s been great to meet up with members of the Bazaar community from Australia, the USA, Argentina, France, the Netherlands, …
It’s time for another Launchpad release and this is one with something for just about everyone! Faster PPA builds: we’ve cut the time it takes to build packages in PPAs. The moment you upload your source, Launchpad starts building. More bug notifications: now you can …
Read more of Launchpad 1.2.2: faster PPA builds, enhanced bug subscriptions and more karma! →
It’s coming up to the end of the month again and so it’s almost time for the Launchpad users meeting! When: 09.00 - 10.00 27th February UTC. Where: #launchpad-meeting on Freenode. Find out more: Add your items to the agenda.
We’re releasing Launchpad 1.2.2 on 21st February. While we roll-out the code to each of Launchpad’s servers, we’ll have to take the service offline. Goes offline: 00.00 21st February 2008 UTC Expected back online: 03.00 21st February 2008 UTC Keep an eye on this …
Launchpad is kinda hard to describe. When I’m asked what it is, I normally use three or more of the words “open source free software support project Q&A code registration bugs management listing bazaar planning hosting”. Most people make comparisons to …