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PPAs for everyone, faster Translations - Launchpad 1.1.11
The Launchpad team have released Launchpad 1.1.11! There are two big pieces of news this month!
- Personal Package Archives are now out of beta and available to all Launchpad users and teams. Find out more in the quick-start guide at help.launchpad.net/PPAQuickStart
- Launchpad Translations is now much quicker and rock-solid. The Launchpad team say to expect exports and imports in half the time and next to no timeouts.
See the Launchpad News blog for full details of the release.
Inkscape moving to Launchpad! at Launchpad blog
Learn PPA and Ubuntu packaging basics
Personal Package Archives is Launchpad’s new beta feature that builds and hosts Ubuntu .deb packages in your very own apt repository.
At 15.00 UTC on Thursday 13th September, the Launchpad and Ubuntu MOTU teams are jointly hosting PPA and Packaging 101. This IRC session in #launchpad will introduce you to:
- the basics of packaging for Ubuntu
- solving your dependencies from the relevant Ubuntu section - i.e. the ogre model
- version consistency between PPA and Ubuntu’s primary archive.
It’s also your opportunity to ask questions about PPA and get answers from the Launchpad and MOTU teams. If you want to see a particular topic covered, add it to the class’s agenda on the Launchpad help wiki.
See you there!
Launchpad 1.1.8 released!
This week the Launchpad team released version 1.1.8 of Launchpad. There’s a lot in this release to excite the Ubuntu community!
- The Personal Package Archives beta will soon be available to all members of the Launchpad Beta Testers team who have signed the Ubuntu Code of Conduct.
- You can now see your individual translation import queue.
- If you host code branches with Launchpad, you can now specify which branch, if any, you intend to merge the code into.
- The bug tracker’s email interface now lets you set a bug’s tag.
- Also in the bug tracker, bug notification email headers now state which milestone the bug is targeted to.
- Work is underway to enable you to file bugs against packages in Canonical’s commercial repository.
Other highlights include a new “Deactivate your account” option, Trac bug statuses are correctly interpreted and the bug filing page has been overhauled.
One important note: searching in bug comments has been temporarily suspended, as it was causing timeouts. As soon as the problem is fixed, bug comment searching will return!
You can find out more in the Launchpad 1.1.8 in the release notes.
FAQs in Launchpad and more new features
Every project has frequently asked questions. Now, with the release of Launchpad 1.1.7, the Answer Tracker makes it easy to create and find answers to Ubuntu’s most common questions.
There are two ways to use FAQ in the Answer Tracker:
You’re looking for help: you can search and browse FAQ answers to find help with your problem.
You’re an Ubuntu answer contact: you can mark an answer as an FAQ and then create an answer that will be available to anyone else using the Answer Tracker.
The idea behind the FAQ feature is pretty simple: knowledge about Ubuntu is spread across the wiki, forums, third-party websites and the Answer Tracker. FAQ can draw on all that knowledge to offer Ubuntu users a canonical answer, at the same time as making life a little easier for answer contacts.
FAQ are available to all projects who use the Answer Tracker, not just Ubuntu. Find more about FAQ in the Answer Tracker in our FAQ quick-start guide!
Also in Launchpad 1.1.7
- Larger font size: visit launchpad.net and you’ll see that we’ve increased the size of the text used on the site, making it easier to read Launchpad’s default text size.
- New remote bug tracker support: Launchpad can now track bugs in the Mantis bug tracker. (Find out more)
- Improved duplicate bug handling: if someone has already reported the bug you’ve encountered it’s now much easier to select that report rather than create a duplicate.
- Teams can now set their default language: teams can become an answer contact for a specific language.
- Branch associations: you can now see all bugs, blueprints and subscribers associated with a branch on its branch associations page.
For full details of Launchpad 1.1.7, take a look at the release notes. And keep an eye on the Launchpad News blog to stay up to date with Launchpad!
New bug statuses and more in Launchpad 1.1.6
One of the agenda items at UDS Sevilla was to improve the efficiency of Ubuntu’s bug workflow. If you work with Ubuntu bugs, you may already have noticed that some of the bug status names have changed:
- New: was Unconfirmed
- Incomplete: was Needs Info
- Invalid: was Rejected.
The meaning of these statuses hasn’t changed. However, there are two new bug statuses:
- Triaged: this bug has a complete report, has been confirmed and is ready to be fixed.
- Won’t Fix: this bug has been confirmed but, for whatever reason, won’t be fixed.
These two new statuses are available only to either a project’s owners or members of its Bug Contact team. So, in Ubuntu’s case it’s available to members of the Ubuntu Drivers and Ubuntu Bugs teams. This means that developers can view the Triaged queue knowing that an experienced triager considers those bug reports complete.
The Confirmed status still works, though, so it’s down to each project’s bug workflow policy to decide whether to use Triaged and Won’t Fix.
More people can nominate bugs
To relieve the bottle-neck caused by Ubuntu drivers being the only people able to nominate bugs for release, now anyone with the relevant upload permissions for a component can also nominate bugs in that component. For example: if a developer has upload permissions for universe, she can also nominate universe bugs for release.
Other highlights for the Ubuntu community
- Answer contacts will now receive notification of new questions in their preferred languages only.
- Team members can now renew their own memberships, when their membership is close to expiry if the team is set-up with an on-demand policy.
- Teams can now only join other teams with the approval of the first team’s administrator.
- It is now possible to see how many and which translations diverge from upstream.
Find out more
There’s plenty more to Launchpad 1.1.6, including the fabulous new Launchpad News blog! You can find the full release notes on the launchpad-users mailing list.
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Mentoring comes to Launchpad
There’s something new in Launchpad this week: mentoring.
The Ubuntu community is proof that free software works best when we work together. It’s not always easy for new participants to get started, though.
Launchpad’s new mentoring framework is a simple way to help new community members learn the ropes. With it you can:
- Offer to mentor people who want to fix a bug or implement a blueprint.
- Provide a list of items that are relevant to your project and for which mentorship is available.
- Provide a list of items that would be a good starting point for someone who wants to join one of your teams
- See what mentorship offers individuals are currently making.
Anyone who is a member of at least one Launchpad team can offer mentorship and there’s no admin for project or team leaders as it’s entirely based on commitments made by individuals.
You can find out more in the Launchpad guide to mentoring management.
The Launchpad team have been busy elsewhere, too! With three new code release recently, there’s a whole load of new features and bug fixes. Full details are in the release notes.
New face of Launchpad revealed!
Eagle-eyed readers may have noticed that the beta of Launchpad 1.0 went public today!
As you’re reading The Fridge, you’re probably pretty familiar with Launchpad. You know, of course, that it makes it easier for individuals and communities to collaborate on free software projects, right? And it goes without saying that Zope, Silva CMS, Jokosher, Creative Commons, WengoPhone and PledgeBank are just some of the users other than Ubuntu.
So, what’s new in 1.0?
- Brand new interface: it’s now easier to find your way round and man is it pretty.
- Brandable: projects, teams and individuals - you can all put your logo or mugshot on relevant Launchpad pages.
- Track people’s work: everyone’s Launchpad profile now shows the projects they’re most active in and the sort of work they’ve done.
As well as changes to the interface, the Launchpad team have also taken the opportunity to make some improvements to the underlying code.
Mark Shuttleworth has more to say on the subject. If you’ve got any feedback about Launchpad, come join us in #launchpad on irc.freenode.net or sign up to the launchpad-users mailing list!
First Launchpad Users meeting
The first Launchpad Users Meeting is on Wednesday 7th March at 17:00 UTC in #launchpad.
Come and join us for your chance to ask Launchpad developers questions or to put forward your ideas for Launchpad.
Add your questions to the meeting agenda, or just come along and join in on the day.