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Launchpod episode 14: more on the Drupal modules

Monday, December 15th, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!

Host: Matthew Revell.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

Stuart Metcalfe talks about the Launchpad Drupal modules. See our original announcement for help and download links!

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Launchpod episode 13: bug tracker plugin API

Thursday, December 4th, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!

Hosts: Matthew Revell and Graham Binns.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

  • 01.00: Some of the Launchpad team will be at the Ubuntu Developer Summit starting the 8th December. Graham talks a little about what he’ll be doing.
  • 03.42: Announcing the Launchpad bug tracker plugins API! Create your own plugin to enable the bug tracker of your choice to communicate directly with Launchpad. Read more.
  • 11.48: Welcome to Michael Nelson, who is the latest member of Launchpad’s Soyuz team. The Soyuz chaps look after PPAs and other packaging in Launchpad.

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Launchpod episode 12

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!

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

  • 00.36: The Launchpad team met in London at the end of October. Joey and Matthew spoke to Launchpad developers as they took part in an optimisation session.
  • 10.57: Matthew talks to Gary Poster, who recently joined the Launchpad team, about his new role and what he did before.

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Launchpod episode 11: Launchpad teams and OpenID, future of LP UI and community help

Monday, October 13th, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!

Hosts: Matthew Revell, Graham Binns and Joey Stanford.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

  • 01.11: Each weekday, a member of the Launchpad team is available to help you with your Launchpad queries. We discuss our new help rotation.
  • 05.53: Martin Albisetti discusses his new role looking after Launchpad’s UI and also talks about the team’s vision for the future of Launchpad’s web interface.
  • 16.12: Stuart Metcalfe talks about the Drupal plugin he’s created that allows Drupal sites to grant additional permissions to users based on their Launchpad team memberships. It’s now in action on the Ubuntu Fridge.

Talk to us! Episode 13 of Launchpad will be recorded in London at the end of October. Send us your questions because the full Launchpad team will be available to take them!

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Launchpod episode 10 - API and bug plugins

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast!
Hosts: Matthew Revell, Graham Binns and Joey Stanford.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

  • 02.32: Leonard Richardson talks about the progress and scope of the Launchpad API.
  • 13.45: Graham Binns talks about Launchpad’s plugins for Bugzilla and Trac, which allow bug comment history sharing across bug trackers>/li>

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


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Launchpod episode 9: looking back at Launchpad 2.0 and how we do Launchpad QA

Friday, August 15th, 2008

Launchpod: the Launchpad team podcast! Recorded at the Launchpad Releases team sprint in Longmont Colorado.

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

  • 00.50: The value of sprints in a distributed team.
  • 01.55: Looking back at the new features in Launchpad 2.0, including metrics on what went into 2.0. Plus a look ahead to the next set of Launchpad milestones.
  • 10.20: A little on how we develop and test code for Launchpad.
  • 12.15: Some of the Launchpad team went to OSCON. Joey talks about what they got up to.
  • 15.33: What happens when a PPA package appears to be non-free software?
  • 18.15: Diogo Matsubara talks about his QA work on Launchpad.
  • 24.20: Introducing Ursula Junque the latest member of the Launchpad QA team!

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


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Launchpod episode 8: developer interview with Curtis Hovey and chat about Landscape

Monday, July 21st, 2008

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, Barry Warsaw and Graham Binns.

Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

  • 00:45: Introducing Graham Binns, Launchpad Bug Tracker developer.
  • 06.20: Curtis Hovey, from the Launchpad Foundations team, talks about Launchpad’s community support application, Answers.
  • 20.15: Joey’s number of the week!
  • 22.50: Jamu Kakar talks about Landscape, Canonical’s remote management tool for Ubuntu machines.

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

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Launchpod episode 7: new Launchpad UI, community-agile

Wednesday, July 9th, 2008

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 Barry Warsaw.
Theme: Obscurity by Barry Warsaw.

  • 00:46: Introducing Barry Warsaw, Mailman maintaner, Python release manager and Launchpad team member! Elliot Murphy’s taking a break from Launchpod so Barry’s joining us for this episode. To find a replacement for Elliot we’re running Launchpod Idol! We’ll be trying out a few different Launchpad team members over the coming weeks.
  • 04.52: Matthew Paul Thomas, Launchpad’s UI guy, talks about the upcoming changes to Launchpad’s interface. Check the Edge environment to watch it progress.
  • 14.26: Joey’s number of the week!
  • 15.30: Community-Agile is a process framework that refactors agile software development to incorporate the lessons learnt from open source. Joey and Barry dicuss.

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

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Launchpod episode 6: Greasemonkey scripts and LP developer interview

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008

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.

This show was recorded before the Launchpad 1.2.6 roll-out.

  • 00:56: About the bug page, distro page and translations page UI changes - give us your feedback on them!
  • 04.10: Members of the Launchpad user community have developed Greasemonkey scripts to tweak Launchpad’s interface.
  • 07.01: Launchpad developer Tom Berger talks about his work on the Launchpad bug tracker, the bug page UI changes and the forthcoming Launchpad API.
  • 13.48: Joey’s secret number of the week! Plus an insight into Launchpad’s future and our QA.

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

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Launchpod episode 5: GnomeDo and Launchpad sysadmins

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

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.

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

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