On the 20th December (UTC) we’re releasing Launchpad 1.1.12. During the roll-out of the new code, Launchpad will be offline for roughly ninety minutes. Start time: 02.00 UTC 20th December 2007. Estimated end time: 03.30 UTC 20th December 2007. 2007-12-20 00:52 - Delayed one …
Over the past few months we’ve been beta-testing a new Launchpad feature that has stirred up interest right across the Ubuntu community and beyond: Personal Package Archives (PPA). Thanks to the members of the Launchpad Beta Testers team, the beta test has been a great …
Welcome to Launchpad 1.1.11, the penultimate Launchpad release for 2007! We have two big pieces of news this month! Personal Package Archives are now out of beta and available to all Launchpad users and teams. Find out more in our quick-start guide at …
Interested in creating your own Ubuntu packages using Launchpad’s Personal Package Archives? Next week we’re holding the second of our Personal Package Archives 101 sessions. Launchpad developer Celso Providelo (cprov) and MOTU member Jordan Mantha (Laserjock) will …
Read more of Personal Package Archives class - 28th November →
As I blogged yesterday, Launchpad 1.1.11 includes major speed and reliability improvements to Launchpad Translations. Much of this is thanks to a new simplified structure for the Translations database. With 837,333 strings across 8,112 templates in 244 languages, the patch to …
Translating using Launchpad is now faster and you’ll see next to no timeouts. Over the past month, Launchpad’s Translations developers - Carlos, Danilo and Jeroen - have worked exclusively on simplifying the database and code used by Launchpad Translations. Danilo …
Image no longer available: Inkscape logo The community behind Inkscape - the free software vector drawing tool - have chosen Launchpad as their new bug tracker! Bryce Harrington, one of the project’s founders, explained why: “The Inkscape project is gearing up for our …
We’re releasing Launchpad 1.1.11 on Thursday 22nd November at 02.00 UTC. When we roll out the new version, Launchpad will be offline for approximately three and a half hours (i.e. between 02.00 and 05.30 UTC). During this time, you’ll be unable to use Launchpad and …
Launchpad’s Personal Package Archives (PPA) service takes a great deal of pain out of the packaging process. The days of maintaining system images for package builds are thankfully behind us, but preparing sources to upload to PPA can still be a tedious task. I’m …
Today we’ve made Launchpad’s October 2007 release, 1.1.10! Let’s take a look at some of the highlights: Faster translations imports: more efficient import process to avoid queues at busy times. New badges in branch listings: highlight mirroring errors and …