Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful. Hosts: Matthew Revell, Joey Stanford and Elliot Murphy. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. This show was recorded before the Launchpad 1.2.6 roll-out. 00:56: About the bug page, distro page and translations page UI changes - give [...]

The Launchpad team is proud to announce the 1st July 2008 release of Launchpad 1.2.6! New features in this release include: two great improvements to code review, including an email interface a new interface for bugs, translations and distribution pages and more control code imports! Read on for more about what’s new and how it affects you. Code review by email Launchpad’s [...]

Launchpad’s new code review system gives you a public place to discuss and vote on proposed code mergers. What’s more, you can easily access the discussion directly from both branches involved. This month, we’ve added an email interface to make it easier to fit Launchpad-based code review into your workflow. Aaron Bentley, who’s been working on the [...]

You have noticed that things have changed in Launchpad’s web interface. Now, on bugs pages, the translations pages and distribution overview pages you’ll see that many of the option you use most often are now in the body of the page, right next to the data they affect. Let’s take a look at a bug in [...]

Launchpad’s code imports give you all the benefits of Bazaar’s distributed version control for code that’s stored in CVS and Subversion repositories. Now you can get far more detail on the progress of individual code imports, direct on that import’s overview page. You can also see when the next import is due and, if that’s not [...]

We’re rolling out the code for Launchpad 1.2.6 in the early hours of July 1st. This means we’ll have to take Launchpad offline for a couple of hours. Launchpad goes offline: 00.00 UTC 1st July Expected back online: 02.00 UTC 1st July. To get email notification of future service-affecting issues, join our new ultra-low traffic mailing list, launchpad-announce.

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful. Hosts: Matthew Revell, Joey Stanford and Elliot Murphy. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. 04.25: The Launchpad Operational Sys Admins - Tom Haddon and Herb McNew - talk about their work keeping Launchpad online. 09.10: Joey’s numbers [...]

On June 17th, Launchpad will be unavailable for five hours from 22.00 UTC. Following that, there will be service interruptions on June 18th and 19th. Downtime details June 17th 22.00 UTC - 03.00 UTC: all of Launchpad will be offline. June 18th 22.00 UTC - 00.00 UTC: code browse and pushing and pulling to code branches hosted on [...]

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful. Hosts: Matthew Revell, Joey Stanford and Elliot Murphy. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. 01.35: Matthew interviews Andrea Colangelo, Community Manager of the BeeSeek open source search engine project. 20.47: Joey previews his OSCON talk about Launchpad. 22.25: [...]

For some time now, you’ve been able to use Launchpad to propose that a branch of code should be merged with another. This is great if you’ve uploaded a branch that includes a new feature or bug fix and you want to bring it to the attention of the trunk branch’s maintainer. However, actually discussing the [...]

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful. Hosts: Matthew Revell, Joey Stanford and Elliot Murphy. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. 01.33: Interview with Aaron Bentley, of the Launchpad Bazaar integration team, talking about Launchpad’s new code merger proposal review system. 07.05: Interview with [...]

The Launchpad team is proud to announce the 29th May 2008 release of Launchpad 1.2.5! New features in this release include: voting and commenting on code branch mergers new Launchpad-wide search and translations search! Read on for more about what’s new and how it affects you. Vote and comment on proposed branch mergers Launchpad’s merge proposals are a great way for project [...]

If you translate using Launchpad, you’ll almost certainly be delighted to read that you can now search for translations! Take a look at the English (UK) translations for Wordpress. There are two search boxes. One at the very top-right of the page: that’s Launchpad’s new site-wide search. Below that, still on the right, is the translation [...]

You can now view diffs for source packages in boths PPAs and Ubuntu’s primary archive. Celso Providelo, the Launchpad developer who’s been working on this, told me a bit more about it: “This is a really easy way for anyone to see what changes have been made in a package. Rather than having to download a source [...]

No matter how good a website’s interface, when you’re dealing with as much data as there is in Launchpad, search can be the simplest way to get what you need. Thanks to work by my colleagues Francis Lacoste, Curtis Hovey and Maris Fogels, you can now search through all of Launchpad from a single search box. This [...]

Launchpad will be offline for two hours from 01.00 UTC on 29th May 2008, while we roll out Launchpad 1.2.5. Offline: 01.00 UTC Expected back: 03.00 UTC Subscribe to this blog to find out what’s new in 1.2.5.

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Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful. Hosts: Matthew Revell, Joey Stanford and Elliot Murphy. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. 01.20: Interview with Graham Binns, of the Launchpad Bug Tracker team, who is in Prague for the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Graham talks [...]

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful. Hosts: Matthew Revell, Joey Stanford and Elliot Murphy. Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw. 02.30: The winner of the Launchpad logo contest! 07.38: Interview with Tony Wright, CEO of RescueTime, whose service helps you keep track of [...]

We’re very pleased to announce the results of the Launchpad Logo Contest! (See https://help.launchpad.net/logo) The number and quality of submissions took all of us by surprise. We are immensely pleased with the results and are in awe at what the community has done. We had so many interesting designs that it was very difficult for us to declare a [...]