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I was all chuffed with myself for participating in the Ubuntu process through commenting on bugs in Launchpad.
Then the e-mail started to annoy me.
I unsubscribed to the bugs.
The mail kept coming.
It seems you don’t have to actually be subscribed to a bug in Launchpad in order to be bombarded with mail. The bug I initially [...]

It’s my pleasure to introduce to you the single greatest Launchpad planning achievement for 2010: the roadmap.
For the last few months we’ve been working on bridging the gap between the Ubuntu distribution and the upstreams that it’s made from: making it easier for patches, translations, and bug reports to flow between Ubuntu users, Ubuntu developers, [...]

I’ve revamped our guides to translating your project in Launchpad, with help from Jeroen and Danilo. You can find them here:
https://help.launchpad.net/Translations/YourProject
Let me know if you think there’s anything missing or that could be better explained.

On the 28th September, the Canonical Launchpad team leads will be in London, along with myself, community guy Karl Fogel and UI guy Martin Albisetti.
I’m organising a Launchpad community meet-up for the evening of the 28th, which will be a chance to meet other Launchpad types, including several of Canonical’s Launchpad engineers.
We’re considering a couple [...]

Canonical developer Karl Fogel has announced that the open sourcing of Launchpad has been delayed. Originally, Launchpad, the software and site that drives Canonical open source and project collaboration, was to go open source on the 21st of July. Canonical now say this will be at some time in “July / August 2009″.
According to [...]

Unlike proprietary platforms, Ubuntu allows end users to interact directly with developers through Launchpad’s bug-reporting system. In some cases, this approach allows bugs to be discovered and resolved quickly. In most situations, however, open bug tracking is a fiasco that Ubuntu would be better off without. Here’s why.
Open bug reporting policies, which [...]

The Launchpad team are proud to announce Launchpad 2.2.1, our first release of 2009!
In 2.2.1 we’ve introduced:

a unique signature for each Personal Package Archive
a way to introduce new translators to your team’s way of working
an easier way for projects to export translations made in Launchpad.

Read on for details of what’s new!
Signed PPAs
If you’ve recently installed [...]

It’s Ubuntu Developer Week time again!
During this week, you can find a whole bunch of IRC sessions where members of the Ubuntu developer community introduce a topic — and take questions — that is of use to anyone wanting to get more deeply involved in Ubuntu development.
This time round, we’ve got the following Launchpad-related sessions:
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