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I previously posted about our continuous deployment efforts in Launchpad. Since then the project has come a long way. We can deploy to nearly all our services without downtime. The remaining services are a bit trickier - but we are working on them. As part of the project we are …
Between December 13th and 24th we’re holding Launchpad’s first bug jam! For two weeks, Canonical’s Launchpad team will focus solely on closing bugs and we’d love it if you’d join us. Right now, there are more than 6,500 open bug reports for the …
We are starting to rollout features more rapidly on Launchpad as we move to a continuous deployment model. There are some fixes being deployed today that I want to give Launchpad users a heads up about. These are fixes meant to make the life of a bug supervisor easier. Bug …
Continuing with the recent improvements to the build farm - Jelmer has made another massive one. The last major scalability problem that we had was one where the whole farm was blocked when a single builder was ready to upload a build. In the case of large packages, like the …
Rob Collins joined the Launchpad team recently. Here’s a bit about him. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Rob: I’m the Architect for Launchpad - I’m responsible for guiding the development and technology choices we make so that Launchpad can meet …
Over the summer, Jono and I have been compiling a list of all the features in Launchpad. While the help wiki and the heads of various members of the Launchpad team are a pretty good guide to everything that’s in Launchpad, we haven’t had a canonical, comprehensive, …
You’ve probably seen the featured projects list on Launchpad’s home page: As you can see, there’s a wide variety of projects in that list, and each of them is an excellent example of how Launchpad can help free software projects. However, we’ve had pretty …
Jon Sackett joined the Launchpad Registry team a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a quick run-down of who he is. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Jon: I’m part of the Registry team; we maintain the people, teams and projects bits and pieces used by all the …
Some bugs get reported more than once. That’s why we’ve got the dupe finder. Some duplicate bugs slip through the dupe finder. Really common issues get quite a few dupes and someone from the relevant project usually goes through and marks them as duplicates of the …
Read more of Dupes of dupes now become dupes of the master bug →
Some bugs attract many, many comments. For a while now, Launchpad has displayed only the first 80 comments on any bug report, with the option of viewing the full comment history. That’s been good for speeding up page loads but not so great at offering an accurate view of …