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To go along with recent work to enable information sharing for bugs and branches, we are now enabling privacy for blueprints for beta testers. This means that blueprints now support some of the different information types that bugs and branches also ... [More] support. For projects with a commercial subscription on Launchpad, this means blueprints can now [...] [Less]

We have recovered some of the affected builders, more will be coming back on later this week with the remainder to come in a few weeks when we have new hardware.  Until then launchpad builders will be at a reduced build capacity. l We apologise for the inconvenience and we’re sorry for the disruption to your service.

The Launchpad builders are currently operating at reduced build capacity. We are aware of the issue and have raised this with IS who are investigating the situation.  If you are having any issues with your builds please ask for help in #launchpad. We apologise for the inconvenience and we’re sorry for the disruption to your [...]

Launchpad’s bug and branch privacy features are being replaced by information sharing that permits project maintainers to share kinds of information with people at the project level. No one needs to manage bug and branch subscriptions to ensure ... [More] trusted users have access to confidential information. Maintainers can share and unshare their project with people Project [...] [Less]

Launchpad’s code hosting will be unavailable, due to planned maintenance, for four hours starting 22.00 UTC on Friday the 17th August. This will affect pushing to and pulling from branches, merge proposals, build from branch and translations activity ... [More] involving code branches. It is in addition to the already announced disruption to Personal Package Archives for [...] [Less]

Launchpad services will be affected by scheduled maintenance from 22:00 UTC Friday 17th August until 02:00 UTC Saturday 18th August. During this time, you’ll be unable to upload or build PPA packages. However, packages will remain available for ... [More] download from PPAs just like normal. Maintenance starts: 22:00UTC Friday 17th August Expected back: 02:00 UTC Saturday [...] [Less]

Launchpad PPA build services will be affected by an emergency maintenance between 07.00UTC and 19.00 UTC on Thursday 16th  August. During this time there will be significantly reduced capacity in the PPA build farm. Official Ubuntu distribution ... [More] builders will be largely unaffected by this maintenance. Interruption starts: 07.00 UTC 16th August 2012 Expected back: 19.00 [...] [Less]

For the last year, Launchpad has been doing schema patches using a process we call ‘FDT’, short for Fast Down Time. We have applied 60 such patches, typically taking between 60 and 90 seconds each time, at 1000UTC, our scheduled daily 5 minute downtime window for DB patching. Recently, we eliminated Slony from our environment, [...]

Project maintainers can now see all the private bugs in their project. While Launchpad tried to ensure the proper people could see private bugs in the past, the old subscription mechanism was brittle. Users could unsubscribe themselves and loose access, or retarget a bug to another projects which does not update bug subscriptions. The Purple [...]

You can now hide your own bug and question comments. If you want to hide a comment made in error, you can use the “Hide comment” action. You can see it, and even unhide it if you choose. The project’s maintainer or the trusted people delegated to work with private information can still see your [...]