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Custom Bug Listings Over the past few months the Launchpad Orange Squad has been working to make it easier to get the information that matters to you from bug listings. A lot of you have said in the past that you’d like to be able to filter bugs in a way that works best for …
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 …
It’s sad to read that BerliOS will close in December, after nearly twelve years of serving open source projects. One fewer project hosting site means that the open source world is that bit poorer. If you’ve been hosting your project on the BerliOS Developer platform …
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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We’re looking for a couple of smart, motivated and experienced people to join us on the Launchpad team at Canonical. First up is a Software Engineer, to join one of the Launchpad development squads working on both new Launchpad features and maintenance of existing …
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Good news if you run a project’s translation effort in Launchpad! Until today, when you imported a template or translation file into Launchpad for the first time, you’d have to wait for a member of the Canonical Launchpad team to review and then approve that file …
I’m thrilled to be writing this blog post just over a year after starting as Launchpad’s technical architect. During that year we have been steadily improving our ability to deploy changes to Launchpad without causing downtime (of any or all services). Our ability to …
Users of Launchpad Answers will see that asking a question, editing it, or posting a comment to it is faster. Email about question changes is sent a few minutes latter. Many bugs relating to question emails were fixed as we moved the work of sending emails to the new process. …
There’s a new Launchpad client library, called lpad, for the Go programming language. Gustavo writes: lpad is based on a two-layered design. The top layer offers a static API which allows a more comfortable interaction with the API with static checks, better documentation, …
It’s incredible to think that more than 57,000 people have used Launchpad to translate software from English into their own language. Many of them have worked directly on upstream projects, such as the OpenShot video editor. Others have helped translate Ubuntu packages of …