Nothing breaks my heart quite like a request to make a project private–make it invisible to everyone except to the people the project trusts. I am utterly crushed when someone who works for Canonical or on Launchpad asks for one. I have been planning this feature for more …
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Some of us on the Launchpad team have been working on Ubuntu’s MAAS (Metal as a Service) over the past few months. MAAS is all about giving your physical servers the flexibility and ease of deployment you’ve come to expect from the cloud. With MAAS your cluster of …
We’re offering a unique opportunity to take part in one of the most exciting changes to affect the technology industry: the move to the cloud. As Technical Writer in Canonical’s Launchpad team you’ll find the best way to ensure that users and developers of our …
Location: Flexible. If home based, reliable broadband connectivity required. Role Summary Do you want to be one of the engineers building the infrastructure at the heart of the cloud revolution? At Canonical we’re developing technologies that are key to the transition to …
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Laura: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Martin: I’m on the newly created Blue squad, and we’re on the nebulous task of maintenance at present. I’m also on loan doing some juju development work. Laura: Can we see something that you’ve worked on? …
Laura: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Vincent: Maintenance. Although I’m eagerly waiting for the sprint with gmb to get some hints on how to handle the beast :) In the mean time, I’m focusing on fixing bugs and making the udd importer more testable. Laura: Can …
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Laura: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Jelmer: I’m one of the blue haired freaks on the Launchpad blue squad, although my hair isn’t actually blue - I’m sure we can fix this at the next squad sprint. At the moment, we are working on maintenance: fixing …
We want the project maintainer to be the default party that the project shares private information with. The problem at the moment is that Launchpad does not know how to set a team as the project maintainer during setup. Improper project setup is the root cause of most cases …
When I ran the Launchpad Development Clinics at the last UDS, I was asked if I would give a presentation on how to fix a simple bug in Launchpad. This sounded like a great idea - after all there’s a lot of parts to the Launchpad development process that apply to every …
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Laura: What do you do on the Launchpad team? John: I’m the team lead for the Blue squad. Right now our squad is on Maintenance, so I generally do the coordination work of our team with other teams and the system administrators. Laura: Can we see something that you’ve …
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