Launchpad QA Utilities Announcementstag:launchpad.net,2008-08-27:/lp-qa-tools/+announcementshttps://launchpad.net/@@/product-logohttps://launchpad.net/@@/product2010-01-28T09:59:38.895964+00:00Launchpad 10.01: bug heat2010-01-28T09:59:38.895964+00:002010-01-28T09:59:38.847864+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2010-01-28:/+announcement/4977Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce Launchpad 10.01, released on<br/>
January 27th 2010!</p>
<p>Highlights this month include:</p>
<p> * Bug heat: a new estimate of each bug's likely impact.<br/>
* Improved patch handling on bug reports.<br/>
* Anonymous read-only access to the Launchpad web service API.</p>
<p>Let's take a look in detail.</p>
<p>Bug heat<br/>
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<p>You can get extra help in judging a bug's significance by using Launchpad's<br/>
new bug heat measure.</p>
<p>In the top-right of bug pages, and in a new column on bug listings, you'll see<br/>
four flame icons. The more of those flames are lit, the "hotter" the bug is.</p>
<p>Launchpad measures a bug's heat depending on how many people are subscribed,<br/>
whether it’s a security issue, how many people have marked the bug as<br/>
affecting them, and so on.</p>
<p>Here are Ubuntu's bugs, sorted by bug heat:</p>
<p> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/y9l4zvd" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>tinyurl.<wbr/>com/y9l4zvd</a></p>
<p>And here's a bug report that has all four flames lit:</p>
<p> <a href="http://tinyurl.com/cxgaox" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>tinyurl.<wbr/>com/cxgaox</a></p>
<p>For the detail of how Launchpad calculates bug heat, see our development wiki:</p>
<p> <a href="https://dev.launchpad.net/Bugs/BugHeat#Algorithm" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/dev.launchpad.<wbr/>net/Bugs/<wbr/>BugHeat#<wbr/>Algorithm</a></p>
<p>New bug patch notifications and icons<br/>
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<p>In bug listings, there's a new sticking plaster icon that shows you which bugs<br/>
have a patch attached.</p>
<p>Also, Launchpad will now email you when someone attaches a patch to a bug to<br/>
which you're subscribed.</p>
<p>Anonymous web service API access<br/>
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<p>Leonard blogs that:</p>
<p> Your launchpadlib scripts can now get read-only access to the Launchpad web<br/>
service API without going through any authorization process. Previously,<br/>
to authorize your script, you had to open a web page in the end-user's web<br/>
browser and get the user to click a button. Now, you only have to go through<br/>
that process if you want to access someone's private data or modify the<br/>
Launchpad dataset on their behalf.</p>
<p>Read his full post at:</p>
<p> <a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=1279" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/?p=<wbr/>1279</a></p>
<p>Community contributions<br/>
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<p>Thanks to Launchpad community members Jamal Fainan, Willian Grant, Brian<br/>
Murray and Adi Roiban whose code landed in Launchpad during the 10.01 cycle.</p>
<p>There's more detail here:</p>
<p> <a href="https://dev.launchpad.net/Contributions" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/dev.launchpad.<wbr/>net/Contributio<wbr/>ns</a></p>
<p>New contributors are always welcome. Find out more on the Launchpad dev wiki:</p>
<p> <a href="https://dev.launchpad.net" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/dev.launchpad.<wbr/>net</a></p>
<p>Also in Launchpad 10.01<br/>
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<p>You can find full details of the 10.01 release here:</p>
<p> <a href="https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/10.01" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/launchpad-<wbr/>project/<wbr/>+milestone/<wbr/>10.01</a></p>
<p>See you next time<br/>
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<p>We're now using a new numbering scheme for Launchpad's releases. We've chosen<br/>
something similar to the Ubuntu style, whereby our release numbers start with<br/>
the year, followed by the number of releases so far in that year.</p>
<p>Launchpad 10.02 is due on the 3rd of March 2010.</p>
<p>You can see our full release calendar here:</p>
<p> <a href="https://dev.launchpad.net/Releases/2010Calendar" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/dev.launchpad.<wbr/>net/Releases/<wbr/>2010Calendar</a></p>
<p>You can also stay up to date with the latest from the Launchpad team on our<br/>
blog:</p>
<p> <a href="http://blog.launchpad.net" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net</a></p>
<p>And for a fuller view of the Launchpad community, take a look at the new<br/>
Planet Launchpad:</p>
<p> <a href="http://planet.launchpad.net" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>planet.<wbr/>launchpad.<wbr/>net</a></p>
<p>As always, you can join us in #launchpad on Freenode and on the<br/>
launchpad-users mailing list:</p>
<p> <a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~launchpad-<wbr/>users</a></p>Launchpad 3.1.122009-12-17T17:31:36.203978+00:002009-12-17T17:31:36.118555+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-12-17:/+announcement/4621Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce Launchpad 3.1.12, released on<br/>
December 16th 2009!</p>
<p>Let's take a look at what's new in this release.</p>
<p>Patches now highlighted on bug report pages<br/>
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<p>Now you can easily see all the patches attached to a bug, separately<br/>
from other types of attachment.</p>
<p>When you attach a patch to a bug, Launchpad gives it a new patch icon<br/>
and there's also a separate sidebar box that lists all patches attached<br/>
to the bug.</p>
<p>Take a look at Deryck's blog post for more:</p>
<p> <a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/bug-tracking/better-patch-tracking-and-more" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/bug-<wbr/>tracking/<wbr/>better-<wbr/>patch-tracking-<wbr/>and-more</a></p>
<p>Now see how many people have clicked "This bug affects me"<br/>
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<p>For a while now, you've been able to register that a bug report affects<br/>
you, by following a link on the bug report page.</p>
<p>Now you can use that data! Bug report pages now show you how many people<br/>
have stated that the bug affects them.</p>
<p>And as before, when you're searching for bugs, you can sort the results<br/>
by the number of people affected.</p>
<p>Community contributions<br/>
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<p>Thanks to Launchpad community members Adi Roiban, Jonathan Davies and<br/>
Luke Farone whose code landed in Launchpad during the 3.1.12 cycle.</p>
<p>There's more detail here:</p>
<p> <a href="https://dev.launchpad.net/Contributions" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/dev.launchpad.<wbr/>net/Contributio<wbr/>ns</a></p>
<p>New contributors are always welcome. Talk to us on launchpad-dev mailing<br/>
list:</p>
<p> <a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~launchpad-<wbr/>dev</a></p>
<p>Also in Launchpad 3.1.12<br/>
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<p>You can find full details of the 3.1.12 release here:</p>
<p> <a href="https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/3.1.12" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/launchpad-<wbr/>project/<wbr/>+milestone/<wbr/>3.1.12</a></p>
<p>See you next time<br/>
------------------</p>
<p>The first Launchpad release of 2010 is due towards the end of January.</p>
<p>We'll be publishing our 2010 release calendar soon on our blog:</p>
<p> <a href="http://blog.launchpad.net" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net</a></p>
<p>As always, you can join us in #launchpad on Freenode and on the<br/>
launchpad-users mailing list:</p>
<p> <a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~launchpad-<wbr/>users</a></p>Launchpad 3.1.10 releases2009-11-05T00:00:00+00:002009-11-11T17:29:29.350771+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-11-11:/+announcement/4288Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce Launchpad 3.1.10, released on November 5th 2009!</p>Launchpad 3.0 is here! New UI and more2009-09-22T23:00:00+00:002009-10-28T14:35:17.160891+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-10-28:/+announcement/4171Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce the release of Launchpad 3.0!</p>
<p>Highlights in this release include:</p>
<p> * a new clearer web interface with in-line editing<br/>
* personal translation dashboards: see what needs your attention<br/>
* automatically updated diffs during code reviews.</p>Launchpad 2.2.7 released2009-07-22T14:54:00+00:002009-08-10T14:54:34.702506+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-08-10:/+announcement/3451Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce Launchpad 2.2.7!</p>
<p>Launchpd 2.2.7 was rolled out this past week and includes:</p>
<p> * Sharing translations between different releases<br/>
* Automatic merge of project translations to a Bazaar branch<br/>
* Automatically import release files using product release finder<br/>
* Answer contacts can now assign questions<br/>
* Browse package branches that are being uploaded<br/>
* Source code :-)</p>
<p>Read on for more...</p>
<p>Sharing translations between different releases<br/>
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<p>Message sharing between different releases of a product or distribution<br/>
in Launchpad means that translations done in one release (e.g., trunk)<br/>
would immediately apply to translations in another release (e.g.,<br/>
stable). This should benefit almost all projects that use Launchpad for<br/>
translations.</p>
<p> * Translators don't have to worry about back-porting translation fixes<br/>
to older releases anymore. They can simply translate the latest<br/>
release; translations will automatically propagate to older<br/>
releases. Also, this works both ways: if you are translating a<br/>
current stable release, newer development release will get those<br/>
updates too!</p>
<p> * For project maintainers who host their translations in Launchpad,<br/>
when they upload a template to a new release series and it gets<br/>
imported, it will instantly get all existing translations from<br/>
previous releases shared with the new series. Translators won't<br/>
have to re-do their work; They won't have to upload correct versions<br/>
of translated PO files, they can just care about POT files instead.</p>
<p> * For Ubuntu, there's another benefit: opening a new release for<br/>
translations will take minutes instead of days. Message sharing<br/>
also improves the scalability of the system, and we should soon<br/>
start seeing more performance improvements as the result of<br/>
migrating to this new way of managing translations.</p>
<p> * If you don't want a particular release to use a shared message, you<br/>
can disable sharing for that message in that release.</p>
<p>See Danilo Šegan's blog post for details:</p>
<p> <a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/translations/sharing-translations" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/translation<wbr/>s/sharing-<wbr/>translations</a></p>
<p>Automatic merge of project translations to a Bazaar branch<br/>
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<p>Launchpad can now commit regular snapshots of your project's<br/>
translations to a Bazaar branch of your choice. No more waiting for the<br/>
email with the URL! The latest snapshot will always be waiting in the<br/>
same place for you to download it. We're doing daily snapshots at<br/>
first, though we may change that later depending on usage.</p>
<p>Here's what you do:</p>
<p>You create a branch in Launchpad, of the "Hosted" variety. That means<br/>
that the branch lives on Launchpad itself; it can't be mirrored from<br/>
somewhere else. (You may need to "bzr init" and "bzr push" an empty<br/>
directory from your local machine to get the branch properly set up.)</p>
<p>Then go to the Translations tab for your project. Go to the release<br/>
series that you want snapshots of, e.g., trunk.</p>
<p>On the Translations tab for that release series you'll see an option,<br/>
"Settings." There, at the bottom, you'll be able to set a translations<br/>
export branch. Pick any branch that you own; it doesn't have to be<br/>
related to the project.</p>
<p>A word of caution: whatever branch you pick here, Launchpad is going to<br/>
commit files to it. It will ruthlessly overwrite any previous versions<br/>
of the files. So you probably don't want to use your development branch<br/>
for this, or any other branch that you use for other things. We<br/>
recommend that you create an fresh branch, and don't use it for anything<br/>
else but getting translation snapshots of a single release series.</p>
<p>Automatically import release files using product release finder<br/>
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<p>The product release finder process runs daily to locate new releases and<br/>
import them to Launchpad. It uses each series' release file pattern to<br/>
locate files and import them to the appropriate release, and can even<br/>
create releases for series.</p>
<p>The project owner and series release manager can set the Release URL<br/>
pattern on the series edit page. The pattern is an "ftp", "http", or<br/>
"https" URL with a glob (*) in the part of the file name that varies per<br/>
release. For example:</p>
<p> <a href="http://widgets.dom/downloads/widget-2.*" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>widgets.<wbr/>dom/downloads/<wbr/>widget-<wbr/>2.*</a></p>
<p>describes all files that start with "widget-2.". This might be the<br/>
source for two different releases: "widget-2.1.tar.gz" and<br/>
"widget-<wbr/>2.2.3.tar.<wbr/>gz". The pattern will also match multiple files that<br/>
belong to a single release, such as "widget-<wbr/>2.1.tar.<wbr/>gz",<br/>
"widget-2.1.zip", and "widget-<wbr/>2.1.changelog"<wbr/>.</p>
<p>Many projects choose to group files in series in a dedicated directory,<br/>
in which case the Release URL pattern would look something like this:</p>
<p> <a href="http://widgets.dom/downloads/2.8/*" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>widgets.<wbr/>dom/downloads/<wbr/>2.8/*</a></p>
<p>You can tell the product release finder to search multiple directories<br/>
by using a glob for a directory. For example, if your project separates<br/>
release files into directories by OS, then you can use</p>
<p> <a href="http://widgets.dom/downloads/*/widget-2.*" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>widgets.<wbr/>dom/downloads/<wbr/>*/widget-<wbr/>2.*</a></p>
<p>to scan "downloads/<wbr/>ubuntu/<wbr/>widget-<wbr/>2.*" and "downloads/<wbr/>mac/widget-<wbr/>2.*".</p>
<p>Be careful to include the common part of the series in the URL,<br/>
otherwise files from different series will be imported to the wrong<br/>
series. Do not do something like:</p>
<p> <a href="http://widgets.dom/all-releases/*" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>widgets.<wbr/>dom/all-<wbr/>releases/<wbr/>*</a></p>
<p>because any file that looks like it has version information in it will<br/>
be imported to one series.</p>
<p>In all cases, the product release finder will extract the version from<br/>
the file name, and match it to a milestone name. It will create the<br/>
milestone and release it if necessary. If a version cannot be<br/>
extracted, the file is simply ignored.</p>
<p>The version numbers extracted from file names will be converted to<br/>
conform to Launchpad URL name rules. So if your release files have<br/>
underscores or plus signs in their version names, dashes will be<br/>
substituted. Flavour information is also ignored in the file name. For<br/>
example these file names yield these versions:</p>
<p> emacs-<wbr/>21.10.tar.<wbr/>gz ==> 21.10<br/>
vpnc-<wbr/>0.2-rm+<wbr/>zomb-pre1.<wbr/>tar.gz ==> 0.2-rm-zomb-pre1<br/>
warzone2100-<wbr/>2.0.5_rc1.<wbr/>tar.bz2 ==> 2.0.5-rc1<br/>
furiusisomou<wbr/>nt-0.8.<wbr/>1.0_de_<wbr/>DE.tar.<wbr/>gz ==> 0.8.1.0<br/>
glow-<wbr/>0.2.1_i386.<wbr/>deb ==> 0.2.1<br/>
Bazaar-<wbr/>1.16.1.<wbr/>win32-py2.<wbr/>5.exe ==> 1.16.1</p>
<p>See Curtis Hovey's blog post for more information:</p>
<p> <a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/automatically-import-files-to-launchpad-using-product-release-finder" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/cool-<wbr/>new-stuff/<wbr/>automatically-<wbr/>import-<wbr/>files-to-<wbr/>launchpad-<wbr/>using-product-<wbr/>release-<wbr/>finder</a></p>
<p>Answer contacts can now assign questions<br/>
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<p>Question listing now includes the assignee column. Answer contacts can<br/>
assign a question to a user via the edit page. The assigned user will<br/>
receive a notification about the assigned question. An assigned<br/>
question will never expire; the assignee is obligated to answer the<br/>
question. (Launchpad has supported assigning questions to users for<br/>
several years, but the privilege was limited to project owners. This<br/>
meant the feature was rarely used. Since the feature was also not<br/>
visible, answer contacts often requested that we develop the feature.)</p>
<p>Curtis Hovey's blog post has more details, and more background on how<br/>
the Launchpad team came to understand the need for this feature:</p>
<p> <a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/general/answer-contacts-can-assign-questions" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/general/<wbr/>answer-<wbr/>contacts-<wbr/>can-assign-<wbr/>questions</a></p>
<p>Browse package branches that are being uploaded<br/>
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<p>You can now browse the package branches that are being uploaded. They<br/>
can be seen for the entire distro:</p>
<p> <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/code.launchpad<wbr/>.net/ubuntu</a></p>
<p>Or for a distroseries:</p>
<p> <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/code.launchpad<wbr/>.net/ubuntu/<wbr/>karmic</a></p>
<p>And there's a new view for a source package in a distribution that<br/>
groups the distroseries branches:</p>
<p> <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apturl" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/code.launchpad<wbr/>.net/ubuntu/<wbr/>+source/<wbr/>apturl</a></p>
<p>Source code<br/>
-----------</p>
<p>The Launchpad source code, that is. Launchpad was open-sourced shortly<br/>
before the rollout of Launchpad 2.2.7, so this is the first release of<br/>
Launchpad to come with full source code. See this blog post for more:</p>
<p> <a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/general/launchpad-is-now-open-source" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/general/<wbr/>launchpad-<wbr/>is-now-<wbr/>open-source</a></p>
<p>Also in release 2.2.7<br/>
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<p>For full details of the bugfixes and blueprints that make up Launchpad<br/>
2.2.7, visit its milestone page:</p>
<p> <a href="https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/2.2.7" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/launchpad-<wbr/>project/<wbr/>+milestone/<wbr/>2.2.7</a></p>
<p>If you come across a bug, please report it here:</p>
<p> <a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/launchpad</a></p>
<p>See you next time<br/>
-----------------</p>
<p>Launchpad 3.0 is due on the 21st of September. See the releases<br/>
calendar for more:</p>
<p> <a href="https://dev.launchpad.net/Releases/2009Calendar" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/dev.launchpad.<wbr/>net/Releases/<wbr/>2009Calendar</a></p>
<p>In the meantime, stay up to date with Launchpad news and views<br/>
through our blog:</p>
<p> <a href="http://blog.launchpad.net" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net</a></p>
<p>As always, you can join us in channel #launchpad on irc.freenode.net and<br/>
on the launchpad-users mailing list:</p>
<p> <a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~launchpad-<wbr/>users</a></p>
<p>For development discussion, come to channel #launchpad-dev on<br/>
irc.freenode.net or to the launchpad-dev mailing list:</p>
<p> <a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~launchpad-<wbr/>dev</a></p>Launchpad is open source2009-07-21T14:53:00+00:002009-08-10T14:53:43.796427+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-08-10:/+announcement/3450Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>Launchpad is now an open source project! Get the code and join the developer community.</p>Launchpad 2.2.6 released2009-06-29T12:49:43.047008+00:002009-06-29T12:49:43.004431+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-06-29:/+announcement/3086Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce Launchpad 2.2.6, released on June<br/>
24th 2009!</p>
<p>In this release we have:</p>
<p> * enhanced bug tag search<br/>
* project timeline graphs<br/>
* series dashboards: one page with all you need to track a series' progress.</p>
<p>Read on for more!</p>
<p>Enhanced bug tag search<br/>
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<p>Bug tags just became more useful: we've enhanced bug tag search so you can<br/>
search for the absence of tags.</p>
<p>Let's say you're spending one week working on bugs tagged "ui" and the next<br/>
week on bugs tagged "help-text". Some of bugs may have both the "ui" and<br/>
"help-text" tags. If you'd prefer to stick to pure user interface issues, you<br/>
can search for those bugs that have a "ui" tag but not a "help-text" tag.</p>
<p>See Gavin's blog post for more:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/bug-tracking/searching-bugs-with-tags-now-with-wings" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/bug-<wbr/>tracking/<wbr/>searching-<wbr/>bugs-with-<wbr/>tags-now-<wbr/>with-wings</a></p>
<p>Project timeslines<br/>
-------------------</p>
<p>Getting a feel for a project's level of activity can mean trawling through<br/>
commit messages, mailing lists and bug reports. If all you want is a quick<br/>
overview, take a look at the new timeline on project overview pages.</p>
<p>With one glance, you can see how many series, milestones and releases the<br/>
project has.</p>
<p>See our blog post for more:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/project-timelines" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/cool-<wbr/>new-stuff/<wbr/>project-<wbr/>timelines</a></p>
<p>Series dashboards<br/>
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<p>If you need more detailed information on a project's status, you'll want to<br/>
use the new series overview pages. They work just like a dashboard for that<br/>
series, showing you:</p>
<p> * the status of bugs and blueprints for each milestone in the series<br/>
* where to find the main code branch for the series<br/>
* if and where the software is packaged.</p>
<p>Take a look at our blog post on series dashboards:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/series-dashboards" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/cool-<wbr/>new-stuff/<wbr/>series-<wbr/>dashboards</a></p>
<p>Trac migration kit<br/>
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<p>A while back, the Elisa project migrated from Trac to Launchpad. They wrote a<br/>
tool to help them move. Since then, Launchpad developer Graham has done<br/>
further work on the tool and now it's available under the GPLv3.</p>
<p>Read Graham's blog post:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/my-migrator-let-me-show-you-it" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/cool-<wbr/>new-stuff/<wbr/>my-migrator-<wbr/>let-me-<wbr/>show-you-<wbr/>it</a></p>
<p>How to get your translations and templates into Launchpad<br/>
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<p>If you're considering using Launchpad to translate your project, take a look<br/>
at our newly updated guide to getting your templates (.pot file) and<br/>
translations (.po files) into Launchpad.</p>
<p><a href="https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/ImportPolicy" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/help.launchpad<wbr/>.net/Translatio<wbr/>ns/ImportPolicy</a></p>
<p>Also in this release<br/>
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<p>For full details of the bugs and blueprints that make up<br/>
Launchpad 2.2.6 visit its milestone page:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/2.2.6" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/launchpad-<wbr/>project/<wbr/>+milestone/<wbr/>2.2.6</a></p>
<p>If you come across a bug, please report it here:</p>
<p><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/launchpad</a></p>
<p>See you next time<br/>
------------------</p>
<p>Launchpad 2.2.7 is due on the 21st of July.</p>
<p>In the meantime, stay up to date with Launchpad news and views<br/>
through our blog:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net</a></p>
<p>And as always, you can join us in #launchpad on Freenode and on<br/>
the launchpad-users mailing list:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~launchpad-<wbr/>users</a></p>Launchpad 2.2.5 released!2009-05-26T22:50:00+00:002009-05-28T16:58:32.361038+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-05-28:/+announcement/2844Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce Launchpad 2.2.5, released<br/>
on May 26th 2009!</p>
<p>Let's take a look at what's new this month:</p>
<p> * Edit bug tags in-line: rather than reloading the page each<br/>
time you add, edit or remove a bug tag, Launchpad now does it<br/>
through Ajax. See our blog post for more:<br/>
<a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=782" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/?p=<wbr/>782</a></p>
<p> * Branch activity sparklines: get an overview of the commit<br/>
activity on a project's trunk branch with our new sparkline<br/>
graphs. Read the blog post: <a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=792" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/?p=<wbr/>792</a></p>
<p>Launchpad YouTube channel<br/>
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<p>For video tutorials and overviews of new features, subscribe to<br/>
either our new YouTube channel or, if you prefer Ogg Theora, the<br/>
Videos page on the Launchpad help wiki.</p>
<p>YouTube: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/CanonicalLaunchpad" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>www.youtube.<wbr/>com/CanonicalLa<wbr/>unchpad</a><br/>
Ogg Theora: <a href="https://help.launchpad.net/Videos" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/help.launchpad<wbr/>.net/Videos</a></p>
<p>Got a request? Email us: feedback@<wbr/>launchpad.<wbr/>net</p>
<p>Also in this release<br/>
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<p>For full details of the bugs and blueprints that make up<br/>
Launchpad 2.2.5 visit its milestone page:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/2.2.5" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/launchpad-<wbr/>project/<wbr/>+milestone/<wbr/>2.2.5</a></p>
<p>If you come across a bug, please report it here:</p>
<p><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/launchpad</a></p>
<p>See you next time<br/>
------------------</p>
<p>Launchpad 2.2.6 is due on the 27th of June.</p>
<p>In the meantime, stay up to date with Launchpad news and views<br/>
through our blog:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net</a></p>
<p>And as always, you can join us in #launchpad on Freenode and on<br/>
the launchpad-users mailing list:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~launchpad-<wbr/>users</a></p>Launchpad 2.2.42009-04-30T22:26:53.792633+00:002009-04-30T22:26:53.746667+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-04-30:/+announcement/2606Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce Launchpad 2.2.4, released on April<br/>
29th 2009!</p>
<p>In this release we've introduced translation imports from Bazaar branches.</p>
<p>There's also news from Launchpad's UI guy, Martin Albisetti, and we'll look at<br/>
what's changed since we announced the Launchpad 1.0 beta two years ago this<br/>
month.</p>
<p>Translation imports from Bazaar branches<br/>
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<p>We're bringing Launchpad Translations and Launchpad's Bazaar code hosting<br/>
together.</p>
<p>Now you can ask Launchpad to make either a one-off or continuous import of any<br/>
.po translation files it finds in your project's official series branches. In our last<br/>
release we introduced translation template imports from Bazaar branches.</p>
<p>Henning Eggers, who developed the feature, explains more:</p>
<p> This is ideal for a project's initial translations import into Launchpad. The<br/>
continuous import is also useful for projects who use both Launchpad and<br/>
external translation tools.</p>
<p>There's more in Henning's blog post:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/translations/import-translations-from-bazaar-branches" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/translation<wbr/>s/import-<wbr/>translations-<wbr/>from-bazaar-<wbr/>branches</a></p>
<p>Introducing AJAX in the Launchpad web interface<br/>
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<p>Spotted green link text in Launchpad? Each time you see a green link you can<br/>
click it and know you won't navigate away from the page you're working on.</p>
<p>Over to Martin Albisetti, Launchpad's user experience guy, for more:</p>
<p> We've started moving towards a JavaScript-driven interface to streamline how<br/>
we all use Launchpad.</p>
<p> Recently we've been moving common actions over to AJAX, such as marking a bug<br/>
duplicate. In Launchpad 2.2.4, we've released a new milestone picker, which<br/>
allows you to select and create new milestones in-line. As a kick-off for our<br/>
goal of making the bug page work fully in-line, we've also made setting the<br/>
privacy of a bug use AJAX.</p>
<p> Expect many exciting things to appear on Launchpad's edge servers in the<br/>
following weeks and look out for those green links!</p>
<p>Follow our AJAX interface work at <a href="https://blog.launchpad.net/" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/blog.launchpad<wbr/>.net/</a></p>
<p>Two years since 1.0<br/>
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<p>Two years ago this month we announced the beta of Launchpad 1.0! Here's some<br/>
idea of how Launchpad has grown since then:</p>
<p> People registered: 898,261 April 2007, 2,728,657 today<br/>
Projects registered: 2,323 April 2007, 11,475 projects today<br/>
Bug reports: 125,310 April 2007, 367,178 today<br/>
Code branches: 2,459 April 2007, 29,380 today</p>
<p>And of course, since then we've introduced Personal Package Archives, our web<br/>
services API, mailing list hosting, code review, plugins for two-way<br/>
communication between Launchpad and external trackers, and a whole lot more.</p>
<p>Here's to the next two years and Launchpad's open sourcing this summer!</p>
<p>Also in this release<br/>
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<p>For full details of the bugs and blueprints that make up Launchpad 2.2.4 visit<br/>
its milestone page:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/2.2.4" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/launchpad-<wbr/>project/<wbr/>+milestone/<wbr/>2.2.4</a></p>
<p>If you come across a bug, please report it here:</p>
<p><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/launchpad</a></p>
<p>See you next time<br/>
------------------</p>
<p>Launchpad 2.2.5 is due on the 27th of May.</p>
<p>In the meantime, stay up to date with Launchpad news and views through our blog:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net</a></p>
<p>And as always, you can join us in #launchpad on Freenode and on the<br/>
launchpad-users mailing list:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~launchpad-<wbr/>users</a></p>Launchpad 2.2.3 released2009-04-01T15:25:00+00:002009-04-06T15:29:10.642406+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-04-06:/+announcement/2431Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce the release of Launchpad 2.2.3!</p>
<p>Here are the highlights of what's new in this release:</p>
<p> * Additional Personal Package Archives for yourself and your teams<br/>
* Translation template imports directly from your project's Bazaar<br/>
branches</p>
<p>Read on for more!</p>
<p>Additional Personal Package Archives<br/>
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<p>You can now create multiple PPAs both for yourself and your teams.</p>
<p>This is ideal if you're publishing different versions of the same<br/>
application to different audiences. For example: you may have one<br/>
archive for alpha versions and another that's used by your beta testers.</p>
<p>Visit your profile page -- or that of one of your teams -- to add more<br/>
PPAs.</p>
<p>See Julian's blog post for further details:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=658" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/?p=<wbr/>658</a></p>
<p>Translation template imports from Bazaar branches<br/>
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<p>Host your project's code using Launchpad and Bazaar? Also translate your<br/>
software using Launchpad?</p>
<p>Launchpad can now automatically find and import your translation<br/>
templates from your project's Bazaar branches.</p>
<p>Once you've activated automatic imports, Launchpad will monitor the<br/>
official branch for each of your series and pull in any new template<br/>
versions that you commit.</p>
<p>Read Henning's blog post to get the full story:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=639" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/?p=<wbr/>639</a></p>
<p>Also new in this release<br/>
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<p>There's more to Launchpad 2.2.3, including:</p>
<p> * teams can now have +junk branches<br/>
* releases are now directly linked to milestones -- see Curtis' blog<br/>
post for more: <a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=627" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/?p=<wbr/>627</a><br/>
* projects' owners and bug supervisors can now set official bug tags<br/>
* uploading packages to Launchpad, whether directly for Ubuntu or to a<br/>
PPA, now earns you karma!</p>
<p>For full details of the bugs and blueprints that make up Launchpad 2.2.3<br/>
visit its milestone page:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/2.2.3" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/launchpad-<wbr/>project/<wbr/>+milestone/<wbr/>2.2.3</a></p>
<p>If you come across a bug, please report it here:</p>
<p><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/launchpad</a></p>
<p>See you at the end of the month<br/>
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<p>Our second release for April -- 2.2.4 -- is due on the 29th of April.</p>
<p>In the meantime, stay up to date with Launchpad news and views through<br/>
our blog:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net</a></p>
<p>And as always, you can join us in #launchpad on Freenode and on the<br/>
launchpad-users mailing list:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~launchpad-<wbr/>users</a></p>Launchpad 2.2.2 released!2009-02-26T17:02:33.973228+00:002009-02-26T17:02:33.935622+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-02-26:/+announcement/2120Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce the release of Launchpad 2.2.2!<br/>
Let's look at what's new this month.</p>
<p>Now easier to add upstream links to bug reports<br/>
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<p>If you're using Launchpad to track a bug that you think may also be<br/>
reported elsewhere -- such as in a project's Bugzilla -- it's now easier<br/>
to find that bug report.</p>
<p>Launchpad developer Graham Binns explains:</p>
<p> Launchpad will now give you direct links to the bug search and filing<br/>
forms in a project's external tracker, so long as Launchpad knows the<br/>
tracker's location.</p>
<p> To find the links, all you have to do is click "Also affects project"<br/>
on the bug report and select the project you want to link to.</p>
<p>There's more in Graham's blog post:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=534" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/?p=<wbr/>534</a></p>
<p>Also in Launchpad 2.2.2<br/>
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<p>February saw the Launchpad team dedicate a week to tackling<br/>
slower-loading pages. Read our write-up of what happened in Launchpad<br/>
Performance Week:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=556" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net/?p=<wbr/>556</a></p>
<p>You can find full details of Launchpad 2.2.2 on its milestone page,<br/>
here:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/2.2.2" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/launchpad-<wbr/>project/<wbr/>+milestone/<wbr/>2.2.2</a></p>
<p>If you come across a bug, please report it here:</p>
<p><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/launchpad</a></p>
<p>See you next month!<br/>
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<p>We'll be releasing Launchpad 2.2.3 at the start of April. In the mean<br/>
time, stay up to date with Launchpad news and views through our blog:</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.launchpad.net" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>blog.launchpad.<wbr/>net</a></p>
<p>And as always, you can join us in #launchpad on Freenode and on the<br/>
launchpad-users mailing list:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~launchpad-<wbr/>users</a></p>Launchpad 2.2.1 released!2009-01-29T18:02:32.178298+00:002009-01-29T18:02:32.134904+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2009-01-29:/+announcement/1904Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team are proud to announce Launchpad 2.2.1, our first<br/>
release of 2009!</p>
<p>In 2.2.1 we've introduced:</p>
<p> * a unique signature for each Personal Package Archive<br/>
* a way to introduce new translators to your team's way of working<br/>
* an easier way for projects to export translations made in Launchpad.</p>
<p>Read on for details of what's new!</p>
<p>Signed PPAs<br/>
------------</p>
<p>If you've recently installed software from a Personal Package Archive,<br/>
your package manager may have told you it doesn't recognise the PPA's<br/>
public key.</p>
<p>That's because we've added a key to each PPA in Launchpad, allowing you<br/>
to verify you're downloading from the archive you expect.</p>
<p>Our screencast shows how to add a PPA's key to your system:</p>
<p><a href="http://news.launchpad.net/ppa/adding-a-ppas-key-to-ubuntu" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>news.launchpad.<wbr/>net/ppa/<wbr/>adding-<wbr/>a-ppas-<wbr/>key-to-<wbr/>ubuntu</a></p>
<p>Help new translators find their way<br/>
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<p>The ease with which newcomers can make translations is one of the<br/>
reasons many projects choose Launchpad.</p>
<p>If you're in a translation team, you can help new translators pick up<br/>
the style and rules of the project(s) you're working on by linking to<br/>
your translation style guide directly from the relevant translation<br/>
pages.</p>
<p>Take a look at our blog post for details:</p>
<p><a href="http://news.launchpad.net/translations/translations-style-guides" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>news.launchpad.<wbr/>net/translation<wbr/>s/translations-<wbr/>style-guides</a></p>
<p>Upstream projects: easily integrate translations made in Launchpad<br/>
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<p>Thousands of people use Launchpad to help translate Ubuntu. Many<br/>
projects whose software is in Ubuntu also have their own translation<br/>
efforts outside Launchpad.</p>
<p>In the past, translations made in Launchpad weren't always easy for<br/>
upstream projects to integrate back into their own translations.</p>
<p>We've added a new translation export option that provides only those<br/>
strings that have changed since we last imported the project's own<br/>
translations. This should make it much easier for projects to take and<br/>
use translations made in Launchpad.</p>
<p>See our help page for more:</p>
<p><a href="https://help.launchpad.net/PartialPOExport" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/help.launchpad<wbr/>.net/PartialPOE<wbr/>xport</a></p>
<p>Full details of 2.2.1<br/>
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<p>To get the full details of the Launchpad 2.2.11 release, visit its<br/>
milestone page:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/2.2.1" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/launchpad-<wbr/>project/<wbr/>+milestone/<wbr/>2.2.1</a></p>
<p>If you come across a bug, please report it here:</p>
<p><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/launchpad</a></p>
<p>See you next month<br/>
-------------------</p>
<p>We'll be back in February with Launchpad 2.2.2 on the 25th.</p>
<p>Don't forget the Launchpad News blog:</p>
<p> * <a href="http://news.launchpad.net" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>news.launchpad.<wbr/>net</a></p>
<p>And as always, you can join us in #launchpad on Freenode and on the<br/>
launchpad-users mailing list:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~launchpad-<wbr/>users</a></p>Launchpad 2.1.11: OpenID and easier to contact other people2008-11-24T13:06:16.327041+00:002008-11-24T13:06:16.292844+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2008-11-24:/+announcement/1481Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce the release of Launchpad<br/>
2.1.11, which includes two major new features:</p>
<p> * OpenID: log into other websites using your Launchpad profile URL<br/>
* Contact people and teams: now easier to contact other Launchpad users.</p>Launchpad 2.1.9 released2008-09-25T15:14:12.550694+00:002008-09-25T15:14:12.512004+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2008-09-25:/+announcement/1131Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce the release of<br/>
Launchpad 2.1.9!</p>
<p>In this release, we have:</p>
<p> * Karma for code reviews: earn karma when you take part in code<br/>
reviews in Launchpad. For more on code reviews,<br/>
see <a href="https://news.launchpad.net/?p=91" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/news.launchpad<wbr/>.net/?p=<wbr/>91</a></p>
<p> * Maps on profile pages: see straight away where in the world<br/>
other people are thanks to new profile page maps.</p>
<p>Setting your location on the map is easy: visit your profile page<br/>
(<a href="https://launchpad.net/people/+me" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/people/<wbr/>+me</a>) and click to plant your flag.<br/>
It'll show up both on your own profile and on the map of any<br/>
teams you're part of.</p>
<p>The maps aren't just for fun: they also make it easier to decide<br/>
on meeting times and possible locations for physical meet-ups.<br/>
Take a look at the Launchpad Developers team for an example:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/~launchpad" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/~launchpad</a></p>
<p>Full details of Launchpad 2.1.9<br/>
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<p>Full details of the features and bug fixes that went into this<br/>
release are on the Launchpad 2.1.9 milestone page:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/launchpad-bazaar/+milestone/2.1.9" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/launchpad-<wbr/>bazaar/<wbr/>+milestone/<wbr/>2.1.9</a></p>
<p>If you come across any bugs in Launchpad, please report them<br/>
here:</p>
<p><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+filebug" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/launchpad/<wbr/>+filebug</a></p>
<p>We'll be releasing Launchpad 2.1.10 on October 15th. In the mean<br/>
time, join us in #launchpad on Freenode and on the<br/>
launchpad-users mailing list:</p>
<p><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>lists.ubuntu.<wbr/>com/mailman/<wbr/>listinfo/<wbr/>launchpad-<wbr/>users</a></p>Launchpad 2.1.8 released2008-08-21T13:17:45.067263+00:002008-08-21T13:27:44.427935+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2008-08-21:/+announcement/926Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>We in the Launchpad team are proud to announce the 21st August<br/>
2008 release of Launchpad 2.1.8!</p>
<p>This release brings two items of good news for anyone who<br/>
commits code to branches registered in Launchpad:</p>
<p> * Karma for commits: Launchpad now awards karma for code<br/>
commits to project branches.</p>
<p> * Feeds of each person's code commits: as well as a feed that<br/>
shows which branches you work on, Launchpad now gives you a<br/>
feed of all the commits you've made to branches in Launchpad.</p>
<p>To subscribe to someone's branch commits feed, go to their code<br/>
overview page - visit <a href="https://code.launchpad.net/people/+me" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/code.launchpad<wbr/>.net/people/<wbr/>+me</a> for<br/>
your own - and click the feed icon in your browser's address<br/>
bar.</p>
<p>There's more about karma for commits in our blog post:</p>
<p><a href="http://news.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/karma-for-commits" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>news.launchpad.<wbr/>net/cool-<wbr/>new-stuff/<wbr/>karma-for-<wbr/>commits</a></p>
<p>Bugzilla and Trac plugin beta now open<br/>
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<p>Sharing the same bug report and comment history between<br/>
communities is one of Launchpad's most useful features.</p>
<p>With the beta of our new plugins for Bugzilla and Trac now open,<br/>
projects who run their own external bug trackers can now also<br/>
share bug comment histories with Launchpad.</p>
<p>Graham Binns from the Launchpad Bugs team blogs about how to<br/>
take part in the beta, if you run a Bugzilla or Trac instance:</p>
<p><a href="http://news.launchpad.net/?p=115" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>news.launchpad.<wbr/>net/?p=<wbr/>115</a></p>
<p>Regular updates on the Launchpad API beta<br/>
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<p>If you're following the beta of the Launchpad API, you can now<br/>
get regular updates on what's new from Leonard Richardson, one<br/>
of the Launchpad team working on the API.</p>
<p>Leonard's posts are in the Launchad News blog's API category:</p>
<p><a href="http://news.launchpad.net/category/api" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>news.launchpad.<wbr/>net/category/<wbr/>api</a></p>
<p>Full details of Launchpad 2.1.8<br/>
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<p>Full details of the features and bug fixes that went into this<br/>
release are on the Launchpad 2.1.8 milestone page:</p>
<p><a href="https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/2.1.8" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/launchpad.<wbr/>net/launchpad-<wbr/>project/<wbr/>+milestone/<wbr/>2.1.8</a></p>
<p>If you come across any bugs in Launchpad, please report them<br/>
here:</p>
<p><a href="https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+filebug" rel="nofollow">https:/<wbr/>/bugs.launchpad<wbr/>.net/launchpad/<wbr/>+filebug</a></p>
<p>We'll be releasing Launchpad 2.1.9 on the 17th September. In the<br/>
mean time, join us each Thursday at 18.00 UTC in<br/>
#launchpad-meeting on Freenode for the Launchpad team meeting<br/>
and also any time on the launchpad-users mailing list:</p>
<p><a href="http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users" rel="nofollow">http://<wbr/>lists.ubuntu.<wbr/>com/mailman/<wbr/>listinfo/<wbr/>launchpad-<wbr/>users</a></p>Launchpad 2.0 released!2008-07-29T13:45:00+00:002008-08-19T13:50:19.936546+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2008-08-19:/+announcement/912Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>We're thrilled to announce the release of Launchpad 2.0!</p>
<p>This brings together new features from the past nine months of Launchpad’s development and introduces two exciting beta features.</p>
<p>And, of course, if you’ve visited Launchpad recently you’ll have seen our new, simpler, layout and navigation.</p>
<p>Let’s take a look at the key new features in this release.</p>
<p>Restful web services API and Python library<br/>
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<p>One of our main goals for Launchpad 2.0 has been to make it easier to manipulate data in Launchpad.</p>
<p>With this release, we’re introducing a beta test of two things that will enable you to develop external applications that can authenticate,<br/>
query and modify data in Launchpad’s database:</p>
<p> * a restful web services API<br/>
* and a Python library to access the new API.</p>
<p>Initially, the API will provide access to file and search for bugs, as well as the people and teams systems.</p>
<p>We’ll announce full details of the API and Python library later this week; keep an eye on this blog!</p>
<p>In the mean time, apply to join the Launchpad Beta Testers team if you’d like to take part in the beta.<br/>
Closer integration with Bugzilla and Trac</p>
<p>New Launchpad layout<br/>
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<p>Often, bugs in free software affect more than one project. Launchpad lets projects share the same bug report and comment history so they can worth together on a fix.</p>
<p>Up until now, that’s only been available where each project uses Launchpad as their bug tracker. With Launchpad 2.0, we’re introducing a beta test of two new GPL plugins — one for Bugzilla, one for Trac — that enable projects to share a comment history between the bug as it’s tracked in Launchpad and in external trackers.</p>
<p>If you would like to help beta test the new plugins, let us know.</p>
<p>Simpler page layout and navigation<br/>
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<p>One of the most obvious changes in Launchpad 2.0 is the web interface’s new design. Our aim has been to simplify the layout and navigation. There’s more in our blog post.</p>
<p>New Launchpad tour<br/>
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<p>Want to show someone what Launchpad’s all about? Send them to our new tour!<br/>
Other new features that make up Launchpad 2.0</p>
<p>Since our 1.0 launch in April 2007, we’ve introduced many new features that make up Launchpad 2.0, including:</p>
<p> * Code review: public discussion and voting on proposed code merges.<br/>
* Mailing lists for teams.<br/>
* Personal package archives: publish Ubuntu packages in your own apt repository.<br/>
* Atom feeds for bugs, branches and project announcements.<br/>
* Plus: binary file downloads, improved universal search, translation string search and support for more external bug trackers, amongst other improvements.</p>
<p>As ever, we’d love to hear what you think of our new release. If you come across a problem, please file a bug. Otherwise, send us an email, in particular if there’s something you really want to see in a future Launchpad release.</p>Launchpad 1.2.6 released2008-07-01T13:45:00+00:002008-08-19T13:45:29.964077+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2008-08-19:/+announcement/911Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce the 1st July 2008 release of Launchpad 1.2.6!</p>
<p>New features in this release include:</p>
<p> * two great improvements to code review, including an email interface<br/>
* a new interface for bugs, translations and distribution pages<br/>
* and more control code imports!</p>Launchpad 1.2.5 released2008-05-30T13:35:00+00:002008-08-19T13:41:01.127402+00:00tag:launchpad.net,2008-08-19:/+announcement/910Matthew Revellhttps://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell<p>The Launchpad team is proud to announce the 29th May 2008 release of Launchpad 1.2.5!</p>
<p>New features in this release include:</p>
<p> * voting and commenting on code branch mergers<br/>
* new Launchpad-wide search<br/>
* and translations search!</p>