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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.

• 01.20: Interview with Graham Binns, of the Launchpad Bug Tracker team, who is in Prague for the Ubuntu Developer Summit. Graham talks about working with the Ubuntu QA team to improve their experience of Launchpad.
• 08.45: Interview with Jono Lange, of the the Launchad-Bazaar integration team, also in Prague. He talks about what’s coming up in Launchpad for managing Ubuntu packages as Bazaar branches.
• 14.04: Best practice for registering a project in Launchpad.
• 15.35: Hosting branches on Launchpad without associating them with a particular project. Help page on +junk branches.

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

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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.

• 02.30: The winner of the Launchpad logo contest!
• 07.38: Interview with Tony Wright, CEO of RescueTime, whose service helps you keep track of how you spend your time. The community around RescueTime’s Linux client uses Launchpad. Tony tells us about RescueTime and their Launchpad experience.
• 21.00: Your questions for the Launchpad team! Send questions for the next episode to feedback@launchpad.net.
• 33.16: Joey’s Number of the Week!

Send us your ideas and questions to feedback@launchpad.net! Thanks to gschaefr for suggesting the name Launchpod!

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Here on the Launchpad team we work pretty closely with the Bazaar community.

This week, Canonical’s London HQ has been host to a Bazaar sprint. It’s been great to meet up with members of the Bazaar community from Australia, the USA, Argentina, France, the Netherlands, Hungary and the UK. I’ve been working with them on plans for a new Bazaar administrator’s guide.

I’ve also recorded a short chat with Martin Albisetti who is leading the new Bazaar IDE integration team. Martin talks about the technical and advocacy approaches they plan to take.

Listen to the interview with Martin.

With gigabytes of live data and thousands of users, I was keen to know how Launchpad’s development team work together to produce a new release each month.

I chatted with one of my Launchpad colleagues, Joey Stanford, at Canonical’s London offices to find out more about:

• Launchpad’s four weekly release cycles.
• How a features makes it from idea to release.
• The importance of the Launchpad Beta Testers team.

You can download our conversation as:

• Ogg Vorbis file
• and MP3 file.