Launchpad has been a key tool used in developing Novacut. I use Launchpad for code hosting, bug tracking, daily builds, and more. For almost two years I’ve been doing monthly stable releases on Launchpad, and Novacut now spans six separate Launchpad projects. To say the …
Launchpad’s bug and branch privacy features were replaced by information sharing that permits project maintainers to share kinds of confidential information with people at the project level. No one needs to manage bug and branch subscriptions to ensure trusted users have …
If you are part of Launchpad’s beta testers team, you can now start trialing private projects on Launchpad. The private projects feature builds on the great sharing work that Launchpad’s Purple Squad has done, allowing Launchpad users to create true private projects …
After the success of the Launchpad clinics at the last UDS-Q we’ve decided to run some more! This time removed the sterile name of clinic and called them workshops. If you want to get involved, scratch that itch, learn how to fix that irksome bug that has been bugging …
I have been analysing Launchpad’s critical bugs to track the Purple squad’s progress while on Launchpad maintenance duty. In January of 2011, the Cloud Engineering team né Launchpad Engineering team was reorganised into squads, where one or more squads would maintain …
On the 5th of October we’ll be ending our beta of Mercurial imports in Launchpad. On that day your existing Mercurial imports will cease and you won’t be able to create new ones. This doesn’t affect Bazaar, Git, Subversion or CVS imports. You’re probably …
Updated network graph Back in January a side project was started to update the JavaScript used in Launchpad. Launchpad has been using YUI 3.3.0 for a long time, very successfully, however recent advances in YUI 3.5 and higher have added some great tools for development that …
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One of the projects the Launchpad Squads (yellow) have been working on has been the Parallel Testing during the last cycle, this has now been completed and is now in operation. WebOps have today finished setting up parallel testing in buildbot. Buildbot-poll has been updated to …
To go along with recent work to enable information sharing for bugs and branches, we are now enabling privacy for blueprints for beta testers. This means that blueprints now support some of the different information types that bugs and branches also support. For projects with a …
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We have recovered some of the affected builders, more will be coming back on later this week with the remainder to come in a few weeks when we have new hardware. Until then launchpad builders will be at a reduced build capacity. l We apologise for the inconvenience and …