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Launchpad Builders do not have direct access to the Internet. To reach external resources, they must acquire an authentication token that allows access to a restricted set of URLs via a proxy. This can either be a custom authenticated builder proxy or the fetch service. The fetch …
Launchpad’s bug and branch privacy features are being replaced by information sharing that permits project maintainers to share kinds of information with people at the project level. No one needs to manage bug and branch subscriptions to ensure trusted users have access to …
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The Ubuntu Foundations team has sponsored work on various improvements to Launchpad’s archive handling lately, mainly to expose various new facilities on the API where we were previously using privileged scripts. This has involved cleaning up a substantial amount of old …
Launchpad has a web UI, an email interface, and a ReST API that exposes every object in the database. There are also a bunch of client programs, command line and graphical, that talk to Launchpad to do various things. What we don’t yet have, and what I think would be great, …
Launchpad has a REST API that exposes almost every object within Launchpad. Most of them have API URLs that closely match the human-readable URL: for instance, https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/316694 can also be obtained in machine-oriented JSON or XML form from …
Three tips from Leonard’s lightning talk in Prague about writing faster Launchpadlib API clients: 1. Use the latest launchpadlib. It gets faster from one release to the next. (The versions in the current Ubuntu release should be fine; otherwise run from the branch or the …
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You asked for it and we’ve delivered. Your launchpadlib scripts can now get read-only access to the Launchpad web service API without going through any authorization process. Previously, to authorize your script, you had to open a web page in the end-user’s web …
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