If you’re new to Launchpad, next week is a great time to find out more! My Launchpad colleagues and I will be leading a number of IRC tutorial sessions designed to give an introduction to Launchpad and its applications. Here’s what’s on and when: Introduction to …
Welcome to the Coming Changes report for Launchpad 1.1.10 (which is due for release 24th October). Here you can find information on changes that we’re planning for the next Launchpad release. These are changes that may affect the way you use Launchpad, rather than a full …
If you’re a web developer, you’ve almost certainly heard of Zope. If you’re not familiar with Zope, here’s a quick overview. It’s a free software web application framework that comes in two flavours: Zope 2 and Zope3. The Plone and Silva content …
This past week’s Bug Janitor thread has made it clear that we need better descriptions of what our bug statuses actually mean. While it’s true that many project teams have organically grown their own semantics for Launchpad’s bug statuses, it’s important …
Earlier today we had intended to roll out some bug fixes following the Launchpad release yesterday. We do this from time to time following a release as needed to ensure the most stable environment for our users. These normally take only a few minutes to implement. Tonight during …
Earlier today we release Launchpad 1.1.9! So, what’s new this time round? New “remote” branches: register a remote branch if you want Launchpad to monitor it and link to its code-browser but you don’t want Launchpad to import the branch itself. Ideal for …
Today, we have introduced a privacy and data retention policy that covers your relationship with Launchpad. You can find it at: https://help.launchpad.net/PrivacyPolicy The policy describes the ways in which we use and retain data in Launchpad, including how we: gather data use …
The next release of Launchpad is due on the 19th September. As always there’ll be new features, bug fixes and one or two changes to the way some parts of Launchpad work. I’ll post full details of what’s new on the release day. For now, here are the changes that …
The Personal Package Archives beta has received an enthusiastic response! If you’re interested in learning to package for Ubuntu and want to use your PPA, read on. At 15.00 UTC on Thursday 13th September, the Launchpad and Ubuntu MOTU teams are jointly hosting PPA and …
A few years back, I switched from Red Hat to Debian for one main reason: apt. I loved the ease with which I could install and remove software that had been packaged specifically for my operating system. Now I use Ubuntu and I still think apt rocks. I can’t even remember the …