Archive for May, 2008

Launchpad Logo Contest Winner Announced

Published by Joey Stanford May 16th, 2008 in General. 0 Comments

We’re very pleased to announce the results of the Launchpad Logo Contest!
(See https://help.launchpad.net/logo)

The number and quality of submissions took all of us by surprise. We are
immensely pleased with the results and are in awe at what the community
has done. We had so many interesting designs that it was very difficult for
us to declare a single winner.

However, there was one design that we felt embodied what Launchpad is all
about. We were impressed by how it summarised so much about Launchpad and
yet remained beautifully simple.

So, we’re delighted to say that the winner is Eugene Tretyak!

You can view his design here: https://help.launchpad.net/logo/winning-entry

The center of the design represents how Launchpad makes it easy for
people to collaborate and connect with one another, while the surrounding
facets represent the different services that Launchpad provides.

Above all, it shows that all projects are themselves a gem and, when
combined with other gems, can turn into something brilliant.

Eugene is both an Ubuntu member and Kubuntu developer and will receive
an official Ubuntu Messenger Bag.

There are also two runners-up whose designs made the selection process very
challenging for us. Mariana Ravicole and Ambroise Coutand will each receive
a 25 GBP gift certificate to the Canonical Store in recognition of their
highly competitive and very popular designs.

Additionally, we would also like to give an honourable mention to Donn
Ingle for his contributions. Donn’s varied designs were a popular
favourite.

Finally, the Launchpad Team would like to thank everyone who participated
in the contest. We are humbled by the response and are deeply thankful to
all the participants.

Joey Stanford

Your questions for the Launchpad podcast

Published by Matthew Revell May 8th, 2008 in General. 0 Comments

Over the next couple of weeks we’re going to record a brand new Launchpad podcast.

In it we’ll talk to projects about how they’re using Launchpad and also to members of the Launchpad team.

Perhaps the most important part will be questions from you. Whatever you want to know about Launchpad, ask us on the podcast help wiki page.

Also, if you’ve got a suggestion for a name for the podcast or a Creative Commons licensed theme tune, send it over to feedback@launchpad.net! Best suggestion gets a hearty handshake.

Offline 21.00 - 23.00 UTC 10th May 2008

Published by Matthew Revell May 8th, 2008 in Notifications. 0 Comments

We’re taking Launchpad offline for a couple of hours this Saturday (UTC) to upgrade our main database server to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (also known as Hardy Heron).

Going offline: 21.00 UTC
Expected back: 23.00 UTC

If you want to see Launchpad service notifications, such as this, in your feed reader please subscribe to our notifications feed.

We’re sorry for the down time this database upgrade will cause.

Launchpad 1.2.4 released!

Published by Matthew Revell May 1st, 2008 in Releases. 1 Comment

The Launchpad team is proud to announce the release of Launchpad 1.2.4 on 1st May 2008!

New features this month include:

  • the ability to build PPA packages for multiple series and copy packages from one PPA to another
  • a new design for project code overview pages
  • an easier way for casual contributors to post to mailing lists.

Read on for more about what’s new and how it affects you.

Copying PPA packages

Building on other people’s work and publishing packages for different Ubuntu releases are now easier. You can copy packages both:

  • from other PPAs directly into any PPA you can upload to
  • and to different distro-series within the same PPA.

For an example, take a look at the Ubuntu Mobile team’s PPA
package copy page.

There’s more in the PPA quick-start guide.

New project code overview page

Project code overview pages have an improved page layout. Tim Penhey, who created the design, explains the changes:

Usually, people want to know a couple of things from a project’s code page: how active it is and which are the important branches.

You can now see, at a glance, how many commits, branches and code contributors a project has. And there’s a new branch listing that highlights which branches are associated with a series.

Take a look at the Bazaar project’s code overview page for an example.

Contributing to mailing lists without subscribing

If you need to make a one-off post to a mailing list you may not want to subscribe. Now you can make a post and Launchpad will hold it for the list’s admins to moderate.

See the mailing list user guide for more.

Other changes this month

  • Project bug contacts are now called bug supervisors. More about the change.
  • Watches on bugs in Gforge and Savane based trackers are now supported.
  • You can now subscribe to all the bugs affecting a project group, project series or distribution series. More about bug subscriptions.
  • A distro’s PPA overview page now shows you recent uploads, most active archives and supported series.

For full details of the bug fixes and features that make up this release, take a look at the 1.2.4 milestone page.

Help us test Launchpad

If you want to help us test new features, we’d love to have you in our beta team.

Find out more about our beta programme.

Stay in touch!

Thanks for helping us make Launchpad a success! If you come across any bugs, please report them.

If you want to get in touch for any other reason, please do.

There’ll be more in Launchpad 1.2.5 at the end of this month.

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