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Launchpad will be unavailable for around an hour on Wednesday the 17th December while we roll-out the code for our 2.1.12 release.

Going offline: 22.00 UTC 17th December 2008
Expected back before: 23.00 UTC 17th December 2008

Keep watching here for the release announcement.

We have changed the “Translations copyright” section of the Launchpad terms of use. Now we require that all translations submitted in Launchpad are licensed under the BSD licence.

You can find out more on our help page.

The new text of the “Translations copyright” section of the Launchpad terms of use is:

“All translations imported from sources external to Launchpad are owned by the translator that created them. In general, these translations are licensed under the same terms as the software for which they are a translation.

“All translations in Launchpad are the work of the translator that created them. These translations are made available to Canonical and in turn to you under the BSD license (revised, without advertising clause). We require this so that other projects can use these translations as sources for their own translations, without suffering licensing incompatibilities.”

Read the the full Launchpad terms of use.

Launchpad will be offline for the second part of the roll-out of our 2.1.11 release from 03.00 UTC on the 24th November.

Going offline: 03.00 UTC 24th November
Expected back before: 04.00 UTC 24th November

We had originally scheduled this down-time for 03.00 UTC today (21st November) but it did not go ahead.

At 03.00 UTC on the 21st November we’re making a secondary code roll-out as part of our Launchpad 2.1.11 release.

We expect the down-time to be around 30 minutes but it could be as much as an hour.

Launchpad will be offline for up to two hours from 22.00 UTC on the 19th November. This down-time is for the roll-out of the latest version of Launchpad, 2.1.11.

Going offline: 22.00 UTC 19th November 2008
Expected back before: 23.59 UTC 19th November 2008

We’re releasing Launchpad 2.1.10 on the 16th of October. While we roll-out the new code, Launchpad will be unavailable for up to two hours.

Launchpad offline: 00.00 UTC Thursday 16th October
Expected back before: 02.00 UTC Thursday 16th October

See the Launchpad News blog after the roll-out for details of what’s new.

On October 6th Launchpad’s code hosting and browsing will be unavailable for around four hours from 22.00 UTC.

• Going offline: 22.00 UTC 6th October
• Expected back before: 02.00 UTC 7th October

During this down-time, the following services will be unavailable:

• pushing to, pulling and branching from Launchpad-hosted branches
• code browsing
• code review
• mirroring from externally hosted Bazaar branches
• imports from CVS and Subversion repositories.

Mirrors and imports will return to their normal schedule following the down-time.

Non-code hosting parts of Launchpad should be unaffected.

We’re taking these services offline to upgrade the hardware that powers Launchpad’s code hosting service. Not only will this help Launchpad handle the increasing increasing number of people using code hosting but will also enable us to introduce exciting new features in coming Launchpad releases.

If you have any questions or comments, please post them here.

We’re releasing Launchpad 2.1.9 on Wednesday (17th September). During the roll-out of the new code, we need to take Launchpad offline for a short while. We allow a window of two hours.

Going offline: 22.00 UTC 17th September 2008
Expected back before: 23.59 UTC 17th September 2008

Keep reading this blog for the 2.1.9 release announcement!

Hi,

Today we have updated the Launchpad Terms of Use. Specifically, the section on Automated Querying was updated and extended to reflect the addition of our Public APIs. Please take a moment to inspect the changes.

Thanks,

Joey Stanford

This week we’re releasing Launchpad 2.1.8! During code roll-outs we allow a down-time window of a couple of hours. This week, we’re making the release in the early hours UTC of Thursday 21st.

Going offline: 00.00 UTC 21st August 2008
Expected back before: 02.00 UTC 21st August 2008

I’m sorry for the inconvenience this down-time will cause. I’ll post details of what’s new in 2.1.8 here after we’ve made the release.