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One of my favourite things about Launchpad’s bug tracker is the dupe finder: when you report a new bug, it’ll search to see if there’s already a similar bug report. It’s the same for questions in Launchpad Answers, too. Getting to see possible dupes before …
Improvements, you say? Very recently we saw the beta release of a new feature on Launchpad: building packages from recipes. Recipes bring Bazaar branches for the upstream source code and a packaging branch together to generate a Debian source package. We informally referred to …
Recently, we changed the way assigning bugs works on Launchpad. It used to be that anyone could assign anyone else to a bug. This was open to abuse as you can imagine. Bug 511269 was filed about the potential problems with this, and we recently changed Launchpad so that only bug …
Image no longer available: Benji YorkRecently, Benji York joined Canonical’s Launchpad team. I asked him a little about himself and his work. Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team? Benji: I work on the Foundations team. Right now I’m concentrating on the web …
Recently, I’ve been working with Charline, from Canonical’s design team, to talk to Launchpad’s users about how Launchpad fits into their work and what they think of new features we’re planning. You may have seen my requests for participants on identi.ca …
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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Many different types of information are stored in bug reports in Launchpad. Some are actual defects, some are feature requests, some are general issues, and so on. It is not uncommon on Launchpad to have a bug that deals with an issue that a developer cannot resolve. In …
You can now use SFTP to upload source packages to your Personal Package Archive! If you’re already familiar with uploading to a PPA, all you need to do is ensure your dput.cf includes the following: method = sftp login = <your Launchpad account name> If you’re …
There are all sorts of different ways in which we in Canonical’s Launchpad team keep in touch with people who use Launchpad: informal conversations on IRC, attending Ubuntu Developer Summits, formal user research and so on. We want to hear from as many people who use …
Steve Kowalik recently joined the Soyuz part of the Launchpad team at Canonical, so I asked him the, by now familiar, questions! Matthew: What were you doing before you joined the Launchpad team? Steve: I worked on the Ubuntu Mobile team for 2.5 years before switching to the …