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Recently, Ursula and I have been improving the way that we test new Launchpad features. Already, Launchpad has an extensive test suite but there are some things that automated tests can’t look out for. Rather than just testing the quality of our code, we also want to test …
Source package recipes
Here’s a quick pub quiz: Question: How do you make packages for Ubuntu? You can choose from the following answers: learn Debian packaging through hours of study and practice borrow existing packaging from elsewhere, throw a couple of Bazaar branches together and let …
Launchpad needs a command line
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, …
pad.lv: short Launchpad URLs
Short story: http://pad.lv/12345 takes you to bug 12345, and pad.lv describes more abbreviations. Sometimes you’d like to point people to an interesting bug in a project that uses Launchpad, like bug 685380 (that ‘1’ and ’l’ may need to be more …
Bug search no longer does substring matching of source package names
As part of improving performance we have disabled the substring matching of source package names. This fixes bug 268508 and bug 607960. However its a slightly contentious issue - opinions vary about whether bug 268508 is a valid bug or not. So we have only disabled it - the code …
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Silencing bug notifications for stuff you did
Launchpad’s bug mail can be a bit chatty sometimes as I’m sure you’ve noticed. This cycle the Yellow Squad is working to give you more control about the bug mail Launchpad sends to you. One problem that we’ve known about for a really long time was reported …
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Should bug search match target names?
We have a small quandry on the Launchpad development team at the moment. As bug 268508 discusses, when one searches for a bug on Launchpad we do a substring search on the names of bug targets. For instance, searching in Ubuntu for ‘gcc’ will return all bugs on the …
Changing how we track Launchpad's bugs, questions and blueprints
From today, all Launchpad bugs, code, questions and blueprints are tracked under the one launchpad project. We’ve already moved everything from the individual projects over to the parent launchpad project. All you need do differently is search/file bugs, questions and …
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How do you want to get Launchpad service status updates?
I’m running a short survey — four questions — to find out how people want to get system status updates about Launchpad. If you’ve got an opinion on how you’d prefer to get info about pending and unplanned Launchpad service interruptions, take the survey :)
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