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Gavin just landed a very welcome branch to show the number of users affected by a bug on the bug page (bug 494040). You can also sort a list by the number of users affected, and doing this shows that two other popular bugs are related: provide a list of bugs affecting a user (283539) and show the number [...]

Since we started focusing on bridging the gap between upstream projects, users, and distribution packagers, we’ve been talking to a lot of people, to help us better understand the size and nature of those gaps. (Those conversations are continuing ... [More] , too — if you’d like to be a source, especially if you’re an upstream developer whose software is packaged [...] [Less]

Gavin just landed a very welcome branch to show the number of users affected by a bug on the bug page (bug 494040). You can also sort a list by the number of users affected, and doing this shows that two other popular bugs are related: provide a list of bugs affecting a user [...]

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only from 22.00 UTC on Wednesday the 16th December 2009 for the release of Launchpad 3.1.12. During that time, other services including PPAs, code hosting and the email interface, will be offline. Starts: 22.00 ... [More] UTC 16th December Expected back: 23.00 UTC 16th December This is the final Launchpad code release of 2009! We’ll [...] [Less]

For the last million years1 or so I’ve been working on a cool new feature for Launchpad Bugs: an inline, AJAXified, asynchronous dupe finder. For quite some time now people have encountered timeouts or long response times when trying to file bugs, particularly when they enter a long bug summary or the project that they’re filing the [...]

In the Canonical Launchpad team, we all use Launchpad every day. As you’d expect, we also have a lot of contact with people who use Launchpad, both for Ubuntu and other projects. While personal experience of Launchpad and informal contact give us an insight into how some people use Launchpad and what developments we can introduce [...]

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only for 90 minutes from 22.00 UTC December 3rd. At that time, all other Launchpad services — including PPAs, bug mail and code hosting — will be unavailable. Starts: 22.00 UTC 3rd December Expected back: 23.30 UTC 3rd December I’m sorry that we’ve had to disrupt your service twice in two days and [...]

If you’ve reported, commented on or subscribed to a bug in Launchpad, you’ll have seen Launchpad’s bug mail. It’s probably the easiest way to stay up to date with the bugs that interest you and there are a few things you can do to get the most out of it. If you don’t read anything else… Probably [...]

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only for roughly 90 minutes from 22.00 UTC on Wednesday the 2nd of December 2009. Other aspects of Launchpad — including code hosting, PPAs, the API and email interface — will be unavailable during that time. ... [More] Starts: 22.00 UTC 2nd December 2009 Expected back: 23.30 UTC 2nd December 2009 During this time, we’ll [...] [Less]

We’re upgrading the disk space available for Launchpad’s code hosting! During the upgrade, we’ll have to take code hosting and browsing offline. Going offline: 13.00 UTC Thursday 19th November Expected back: 17.00 UTC Thursday 19th November We’re ... [More] sorry that you’ll be unable to browse, push to or pull from code hosted by Launchpad during this time. You can stay [...] [Less]