Tag Archives: Launchpad

Ubuntu Bugzilla Migration Comment Cleanup

4 September, 2006 – 11:07 pm

Earlier in the year, we migrated the bugs from bugzilla.ubuntu.com over to Launchpad. This process involved changes to the bug numbers, since the Launchpad is used for more than just Ubuntu and already had a number of bugs reported in the system. People often refer to other bugs in comments, which both Bugzilla and Launchpad [...]

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Shared Branches using Bazaar and Launchpad

17 August, 2006 – 12:20 pm

Earlier, David Allouche described how to host Bazaar branches on Launchpad. At the end, he alluded to the ability to create branches that can be committed to by anyone on a team. I’ll describe how this works here. Launchpad Teams Launchpad allows people to organise themseleves into teams. Most of the things people can do [...]

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Launchpad enterered into Python bug tracker competition

27 July, 2006 – 5:41 pm

The Python developers have been looking for a new bug tracker, and essentially put out a tender for people interested in providing a bug tracker. Recently I have been working on getting Launchpad‘s entry ready, which mainly involved working on SourceForge import. The entry is now up, and our demonstration server is up and running [...]

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In London

26 July, 2006 – 4:46 pm

I’m in London at the moment with Carlos, Danilo, David and Steve for a Launchpad sprint focused on Bazaar and Rosetta. The weather is a nice change from Perth winter. Next week I’ll be in Vilnius, Lithuania, and then it is back to London for another week before going home. It is a nice change [...]

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Hosting bzr branches on Launchpad

17 June, 2006 – 9:26 pm

Have you wanted to play around with bzr but had nowhere to share your branches? You can now publish them through Launchpad. David Allouche provides the details. In short, you can upload branches to sftp://bazaar.launchpad.net/, and they will be published on http://bazaar.launchpad.net/.

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pygpgme 0.1 released

29 March, 2006 – 1:30 am

Back in January I started working on a new Python wrapper for the GPGME library. I recently put out the first release: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/pygpgme/0.1 This library allows you to encrypt, decrypt, sign and verify messages in the OpenPGP format, using gpg as the backend. In general, it stays fairly close to the C API with the [...]

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London

21 March, 2006 – 5:23 pm

I’ve been in London for a bit over a week now at the Launchpad sprint. We’ve been staying in a hotel near the Excel exhibition centre in Docklands, which has a nice view of the docs and you can see the planes landing at the airport out the windows of the conference rooms. I met [...]

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Launchpad featured on ELER

23 February, 2006 – 9:29 am

Launchpad got a mention in the latest Everybody Loves Eric Raymond comic. It is full of inaccuracies though — we use XML-RPC rather than SOAP.

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Bugzilla to Malone Migration

16 January, 2006 – 5:01 am

The Bugzilla migration on Friday went quite well, so we’ve now got all the old Ubuntu bug reports in Launchpad. Before the migration, we were up to bug #6760. Now that the migration is complete, there are more than 28000 bugs in the system. Here are some quick points to help with the transition: All [...]

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Ubuntu Bugzilla Migration

11 January, 2006 – 7:01 am

The migration is finally going to happen, after much testing of migration code and improvements to Malone. If all goes well, Ubuntu will be using a single bug tracker again on Friday (as opposed to the current system where bugs in main go in Bugzilla and bugs in universe go in Malone).

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