Earlier this morning, we unleashed Launchpad 1.1.8, our release for August 2007. 1.1.8 sees a great deal of activity in the Bug Tracker, an important new feature in Code, an exciting development in the Personal Package Archives beta and improvements right across every other part …
With gigabytes of live data and thousands of users, I was keen to know how Launchpad’s development team work together to produce a new release each month. I chatted with one of my Launchpad colleagues, Joey Stanford, at Canonical’s London offices to find out more …
Come and chat to some of the Launchpad team on August 15th at 16.00 UTC in #launchpad. If you have any burning Launchpad questions, want to make a suggestion or otherwise want to chat with some of the team behind Launchpad, we’d love to meet you. Add your question or …
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On Sunday 5th August, we’re taking Launchpad offline for roughly five hours. The downtime between 4am and 9am UTC will allow us to carry out routine database maintenance. We’re sorry for the inconvenience this will cause. If you want to find out about future …
The past four weeks have flown by in a flurry of activity here in the Launchpad team, resulting in the most improvements of any 2007 release so far! 1.1.7 brings bug fixes and new features right across Launchpad. What’s new in 1.1.7? Highlights in Launchpad 1.1.7 include: …
This week, our colleagues in Canonical’s Storm team announced the release of their work as an open source project. I caught up with Gustavo Niemeyer, who leads the Storm team, and asked him to describe what Storm is about. Gustavo: Storm is an object-relation mapper (ORM) …
The release of Bazaar 0.17, a couple of weeks ago, got me thinking. Before I joined the Launchpad team, I knew that version control was important but it wasn’t something I thought about a great deal. In previous jobs, I’d used Subversion to manage documentation and, …
There’s a lot to Launchpad. Right now, we’ve got: five main applications, 3,397 registered projects, 1172 teams, a staggering 1,121,443 people registered and a heck of a lot of code. Milestones To make it easier to manage Launchpad’s development, we release a …
Welcome to Launchpad’s June 2007 release, milestone 1.1.6! It has been another month of intense activity here on the Launchpad. Alongside the usual bug fixes and incremental improvements, this release introduces: Some bug status names have been improved, with no effect on …
Welcome to the new Launchpad News blog! This is where you’ll be able to find information on what’s new in Launchpad, who’s using it and learn more about the team behind it. If you have anything in mind that you’d like to see on this blog, email the …