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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 allow anyone [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Last week, I asked Karl Fogel, Canonical’s newly hired Launchpad Ombudsman, if Launchpad will use the AGPLv3. His eyes said “yes” but his words were something like: “Canonical hasn’t announced the license choice yet”. I was excited to learn this morning from him that Launchpad’s license will be AGPLv3. This is exciting news. Launchpad is [...]

Launchpad, the software that drives the Canonical open source, project collaboration, host site of the same name, is to go open source itself on July 21st. The Launchpad site is used to host Ubuntu and other open source projects. The news, announced in a podcast, would see Canonical make good on Mark Shuttleworth’s promise at [...]

On July 22nd of 2008 we shared that the source-code to Launchpad.net would be released by Canonical within the next twelve months. Mark Shuttleworth had made this announcement during OSCON 2008. Not many details surrounding Canonical’s plans for open-sourcing Launchpad have been published, but details are beginning to emerge. On the Launchpad Podcast it has [...]

The user experience and design team at Canonical includes a few folks dedicated to web technology. At the moment, there is a substantial effort under way to reshape the Launchpad UI now that we have the core capabilities for cross-project bug tracking, code publishing and translation in place. We want to make it more obvious [...]

We’re proud to announce the release of Launchpad 2.1.12 and two exciting new ways for other services to use data in Launchpad. Create a Launchpad plugin for your bug tracker Launchpad can already import the status of a bug report that’s in another tracker, such as Debian’s BTS or Sourceforge. Recently, we also announced two [...]

Launchpad, the web portal launched by Canonical for managing many different areas of Ubuntu work such as bug tracking, translation handling, and sharing of blueprints, now has a public API to expose its plug-in capabilities. Recently there were some official Launchpad plug-ins made available for integrating with Trac and Bugzilla, but now with this public [...]

I’m thrilled to announce the release of Launchpad 2.0! This brings together new features from the past nine months of Launchpad’s development and introduces two exciting beta features. And, of course, if you’ve visited Launchpad recently you’ll have seen our new, simpler, layout and navigation. Let’s take a look at the key new features in [...]