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As part of our ongoing commitment to security and transparency, we are pleased to announce an improved approach to snap manifest generation for private projects. This update specifically addresses the long-standing technical block that suppressed the creation of manifest.yaml …
Did you know that Launchpad has a bi-weekly documentation office hour that’s open to everyone? Join us this Friday (6th March) for our third session from 1330 – 1430 UTC. These office hours will be a good opportunity to: Discuss the documentation practices of the Launchpad …
Being on support for Launchpad has a huge sense of responsibility. For a whole week, you are the first point of contact for users experiencing issues related to Launchpad or the services attached to it. For the person on support, even roadmap work takes a backseat. All Launchpad …
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Launchpad Builders do not have direct access to the Internet. To reach external resources, they must acquire an authentication token that allows access to a restricted set of URLs via a proxy. This can either be a custom authenticated builder proxy or the fetch service. The fetch …
As announced earlier this year in our previous blog post: Sunsetting Launchpad’s mailing lists, Launchpad will retire its mailing list feature at the end of October 2025. We would like to provide an update on the next steps in this process. Our current plan is to stop …
What are code imports? Launchpad’s code import service allows users to automatically mirror code from external version control systems into Launchpad. Historically, this has supported imports from CVS, Subversion, Bazaar and Git. As part of this, Launchpad currently also …
What are Launchpad’s mailing lists? Launchpad’s mailing lists are team-based mailing lists, which means that each team can have one of them. E-mails from Launchpad’s mailing lists contain lists.launchpad.net in their address. For more information on the topic …
Launchpad and the Open Documentation Academy Live in Málaga Launchpad is a web-based platform to support collaborative software development for open source projects. It offers a comprehensive suite of tools including bug tracking, code hosting , translation management, and …
The new feature bug templates in Launchpad aims to streamline the bug reporting process, making it more efficient for both users and project maintainers. In the past, Launchpad provided only a basic description field for filling bug reports. This often led to incomplete or vague …
Launchpad’s new homepage Launchpad has been around for a while, and its frontpage has remained untouched for a few years now. If you go into launchpad.net, you’ll notice it looks quite different from what it has looked like for the past 10 years - it has been updated! …