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We’re rolling out the code for Launchpad 1.2.6 in the early hours of July 1st. This means we’ll have to take Launchpad offline for a couple of hours.

Launchpad goes offline: 00.00 UTC 1st July
Expected back online: 02.00 UTC 1st July.

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Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful.

Hosts: Matthew Revell, Joey Stanford and Elliot Murphy.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

• 04.25: The Launchpad Operational Sys Admins - Tom Haddon and Herb McNew - talk about their work keeping Launchpad online.
• 09.10: Joey’s numbers of the week - this time it’s Translations!
• 11.08: Elliot interviews GnomeDo project leader David Siegel.
• 18.20: It’s goodbye from us! Including some listener feedback.

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On June 17th, Launchpad will be unavailable for five hours from 22.00 UTC. Following that, there will be service interruptions on June 18th and 19th.

Downtime details

• June 17th 22.00 UTC - 03.00 UTC: all of Launchpad will be offline.
• June 18th 22.00 UTC - 00.00 UTC: code browse and pushing and pulling to code branches hosted on Launchpad will be unavailable.
• June 19th 22.00 UTC - 03.00 UTC: uploading to, building and publishing in package archives - both distribution archives and PPAs - will be unavailable.

Why this is happening

We’re upgrading the servers that host Launchpad to use the latest version of Ubuntu, 8.04 LTS (also known as Hardy Heron). This will give us an improved platform on which to develop new Launchpad services. Specifically, we’ll get Python 2.5 and PostgreSQL 8.3, along with updates to several libraries that Launchpad relies on.

We’re sorry for the down-time and service interruptions that these upgrades will cause.

If you have any questions, please post them to the launchpad-users.

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Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! The latest from the Launchpad developers, questions from Launchpad users and stories from people who’ve found Launchpad useful.

Hosts: Matthew Revell, Joey Stanford and Elliot Murphy.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

• 01.35: Matthew interviews Andrea Colangelo, Community Manager of the BeeSeek open source search engine project.
• 20.47: Joey previews his OSCON talk about Launchpad.
• 22.25: Joey talks about the QA opening in the Launchpad team.
• 27.09: Elliot talks about Twisted’s umbrella Launchpad project for community code.
• 28.10: Joey replies to Philip Newborough’s comments about Launchpod.
• 30.08: Joey’s numbers of the week! This time it’s all about the bug tracker.

Send us your ideas and questions to feedback@launchpad.net!

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