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Maintainers can now merge changes (merge proposals) directly from the Launchpad UI. The new Request merge button is available to anyone with permission to push to the target branch. Launchpad enables it if the merge proposal has: An active status and an up-to-date diff No …
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You can now hide your own bug and question comments. If you want to hide a comment made in error, you can use the “Hide comment” action. You can see it, and even unhide it if you choose. The project’s maintainer or the trusted people delegated to work with …
The Purple squad recently updated bug reporting and searching to understand the new privacy rules. Some of the changes were requirements to support sharing, others were opportunities we took advantage of. Improvements to bug reporting and forms The Purple squad updated the bug …
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 …
The Purple Squad recently discussed how the forthcoming sharing feature changes project setup. Sharing will allow project maintainers to share kinds of information with users and team. This feature separates access to private information from bug and branch subscriptions. …
Launchpad beta testers will now see the descriptions of bug status and importance when making updates to the bug page. Launchpad pickers can now show the descriptions of the options you can choose. Launchpad’s rules for defining a list of options you can choose have always …
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We’ve just upgraded Launchpad’s builder machines to Bazaar 2.4. Most importantly, this means that recipe builds of very large trees will work reliably, such as the daily builds of the Linaro ARM-optimized gcc. (This was bug 746822 in Launchpad). We are going to do …
If you use gmail, you should now be able to send commands to Launchpad without gpg-signing. gmail puts a DKIM cryptographic signature on outgoing mail, which is a cryptographic signature that proves that the mail was sent by gmail and that it was sent by the purported user. We …
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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, …