Fwd: Launchpad 1.2.3 - mailing lists and more!]
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Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:03:54 +0000 From: Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@...1798...> To: warthogs <warthogs@...1799...> Subject: Launchpad 1.2.3 - mailing lists, up to six plural forms for translations and more! X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMPTY_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=3.2.4
We're proud to announce a much requested new feature as part of Launchpad 1.2.3: mailing lists in Launchpad!
If you run a team in Launchpad, you can request a mailing list straight away on your team's overview page. Once the list is active, each team member will have the option to subscribe.
If you don't yet run a team but you'd like to create a mailing list that wouldn't be covered by an existing team, create a new team at https://launchpad.net/people/+newteam and then request a list.
There's more in our guide:
https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
And there's plenty more going on in this release, including:
* Translations can now have up to six plural forms. * Each project's files are now available to download from its overview page. * You can search for PPAs by name and keywords. * We've revamped branch listing pages to give you quicker access to commit messages and author information.
As with all new software, there may still be some bugs in this new release. If you come across something that looks like a bug, please report it at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+filebug
Read on for the full release report.
General Launchpad ===============
* Mailing lists are now available through Launchpad! Each Launchpad team can have its own mailing list that's open to team members and has a public archive. See our guide for more on creating a list for your team: https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp * When you register a release of your project, you can publish files for download from Launchpad, such as code tarballs and installers. The files for your latest release are now shown on your project's home page. Downloadable files are also now available via http, as well https. This is useful if you're using wget or other download tools but don't have SSL libraries installed. (Bugs 174186 and 139052) * The CSV export of meeting attendees now includes an IRC nick for each person, provided they have at least one nick registered in their Launchpad profile. (Bug 156759) * Launchpad page footers now show you which Launchpad release you're using. https://help.launchpad.net/LaunchpadReleases
Package Management and PPAs (Soyuz) ===============================
* PPA searches now allow you to find a package by its name or words in its description. (Bug 126870) * Launchpad automatically deletes source files and binaries from your PPA when they are superseded by a new version of the package. In some circumstances, a superseded file may not be deleted automatically. You can now manually delete them. (Bug 191892) * Some binaries with a large number of files were failing to upload, despite the packages building successfully. We traced this to a bug in python-apt, which has now been fixed. (Bug 192713) * You can now list PPAs according to their Ubuntu release. (Bug 186106) * Distribution source package publication overview pages now show the package's component. For example: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword (Bug 141540)
Code Hosting ===========
* We've given branch listing pages a major overhaul! The "Last commit" column now shows revision number, time since commit, the revision author (hyperlinked to the Launchpad person, if known) and the start of the commit message. Hover your mouse over the commit message fragment to see the full message. See https://code.launchpad.net/~bzr/+branches for an example. * The option to delete a branch is now always shown. If you try to delete a branch that isn't deletable, Launchpad will tell you why you can't. (Bug 133988) * You can now mark your project as officially using Launchpad Code Hosting. This is particularly useful to show that your project hosts its trunk and stable branches on Launchpad and also that you'll act on branches that are marked for merging into one of your official lines of development. (Bug #78418) * When you register a branch in Launchpad, you can write a summary of the branch's purpose etc. Previously, you could also register a home page URL for the branch. We've now removed the home page URL from branches, as all URLs in the summary are automatically hyperlinked and are more useful as you can put the URL in context. If you've recorded a home page URL for a branch, this will be automatically moved to your branch's text summary. * Launchpad now uses Bazaar 1.3. You can find out more about Bazaar 1.3 at https://launchpad.net/bzr/1.3/1.3/
Bug Tracker ==========
* When you mark a bug as affecting a project that uses a bug tracker other than Launchpad, you can now record an email address to which you've sent the bug report. (Bug 201782) * As of last month's release, you can attach files to a bug report by email. This month, we've improved the way it works, based on your feedback: inline attachments are now accepted (bug 194601), bug notifications now tell you when someone has attached a file to a bug you're interested in (bug 195664) and the contents of attachments are no longer quoted in a comment (bug 196425). * Bug notification emails now state the bug's tags in a new X-Launchpad-Bug-Tags header. Each tag is separated by a space. For example: X-Launchpad-Bug-Tags: tag1 tag2 tag3. (Bug 138696) * The latest-bugs.atom feed is now served in the correct order. (Bug 182822)
Translations ==========
* Translations can now use up to six plural forms. This is particularly useful for translators working in Arabic but it's also good news for translators in other languages that use more than four plural forms. (Bug 189890) * We now have a "project cloud" on Launchpad Translations' home page, showing a selection of the projects that use Translations. Each project's level of activity is represented by text size and weight. (Bug 103186) * Making a request for a large translations export is now faster! (Bug 160308) * Launchpad sometimes failed to update the "Packaged" versions of translations when new upstream or distribution files were imported. The effect was that some of the "Packaged" translations shown in the UI were outdated. We've fixed this and from now on new uploads will update the "Packaged" translations correctly. (Bug 200499)
More about Launchpad releases ========================
You can now find this and previous Launchpad release announcements at the new home for all information about Launchpad releases: https://help.launchpad.net/LaunchpadReleases
Just out of curiosity... does anyone else feel that us moving everything over to launchpad may be a good idea? The features and level of integration between things there is ever improving at a rapid pace it seems. And to me, anything that makes managing the project easier is good. I have been extremely happy with our change-over from sf on the bug/rfe tracking, and it looks like we'd have greater integration (which means less reproduction of efforts) by moving everything else over too. However, I'm pretty sure that we'd still need to utilize sf for releases and such (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). Just my .02.
-Josh
Bryce Harrington wrote:
----- Forwarded message from Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@...1798...> -----
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:03:54 +0000 From: Matthew Revell <matthew.revell@...1798...> To: warthogs <warthogs@...1799...> Subject: Launchpad 1.2.3 - mailing lists, up to six plural forms for translations and more! X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,EMPTY_MESSAGE autolearn=no version=3.2.4
We're proud to announce a much requested new feature as part of Launchpad 1.2.3: mailing lists in Launchpad!
If you run a team in Launchpad, you can request a mailing list straight away on your team's overview page. Once the list is active, each team member will have the option to subscribe.
If you don't yet run a team but you'd like to create a mailing list that wouldn't be covered by an existing team, create a new team at https://launchpad.net/people/+newteam and then request a list.
There's more in our guide:
https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
And there's plenty more going on in this release, including:
- Translations can now have up to six plural forms.
- Each project's files are now available to download from its overview page.
- You can search for PPAs by name and keywords.
- We've revamped branch listing pages to give you quicker access to commit messages and author information.
As with all new software, there may still be some bugs in this new release. If you come across something that looks like a bug, please report it at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+filebug
Read on for the full release report.
General Launchpad
- Mailing lists are now available through Launchpad! Each Launchpad team can have its own mailing list that's open to team members and has a public archive. See our guide for more on creating a list for your team: https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
- When you register a release of your project, you can publish files for download from Launchpad, such as code tarballs and installers. The files for your latest release are now shown on your project's home page. Downloadable files are also now available via http, as well https. This is useful if you're using wget or other download tools but don't have SSL libraries installed. (Bugs 174186 and 139052)
- The CSV export of meeting attendees now includes an IRC nick for each person, provided they have at least one nick registered in their Launchpad profile. (Bug 156759)
- Launchpad page footers now show you which Launchpad release you're using. https://help.launchpad.net/LaunchpadReleases
Package Management and PPAs (Soyuz)
- PPA searches now allow you to find a package by its name or words in its description. (Bug 126870)
- Launchpad automatically deletes source files and binaries from your PPA when they are superseded by a new version of the package. In some circumstances, a superseded file may not be deleted automatically. You can now manually delete them. (Bug 191892)
- Some binaries with a large number of files were failing to upload, despite the packages building successfully. We traced this to a bug in python-apt, which has now been fixed. (Bug 192713)
- You can now list PPAs according to their Ubuntu release. (Bug 186106)
- Distribution source package publication overview pages now show the package's component. For example: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/abiword (Bug 141540)
Code Hosting
- We've given branch listing pages a major overhaul! The "Last commit" column now shows revision number, time since commit, the revision author (hyperlinked to the Launchpad person, if known) and the start of the commit message. Hover your mouse over the commit message fragment to see the full message. See https://code.launchpad.net/~bzr/+branches for an example.
- The option to delete a branch is now always shown. If you try to delete a branch that isn't deletable, Launchpad will tell you why you can't. (Bug 133988)
- You can now mark your project as officially using Launchpad Code Hosting. This is particularly useful to show that your project hosts its trunk and stable branches on Launchpad and also that you'll act on branches that are marked for merging into one of your official lines of development. (Bug #78418)
- When you register a branch in Launchpad, you can write a summary of the branch's purpose etc. Previously, you could also register a home page URL for the branch. We've now removed the home page URL from branches, as all URLs in the summary are automatically hyperlinked and are more useful as you can put the URL in context. If you've recorded a home page URL for a branch, this will be automatically moved to your branch's text summary.
- Launchpad now uses Bazaar 1.3. You can find out more about Bazaar 1.3 at https://launchpad.net/bzr/1.3/1.3/
Bug Tracker
- When you mark a bug as affecting a project that uses a bug tracker other than Launchpad, you can now record an email address to which you've sent the bug report. (Bug 201782)
- As of last month's release, you can attach files to a bug report by email. This month, we've improved the way it works, based on your feedback: inline attachments are now accepted (bug 194601), bug notifications now tell you when someone has attached a file to a bug you're interested in (bug 195664) and the contents of attachments are no longer quoted in a comment (bug 196425).
- Bug notification emails now state the bug's tags in a new X-Launchpad-Bug-Tags header. Each tag is separated by a space. For example: X-Launchpad-Bug-Tags: tag1 tag2 tag3. (Bug 138696)
- The latest-bugs.atom feed is now served in the correct order. (Bug 182822)
Translations
- Translations can now use up to six plural forms. This is particularly useful for translators working in Arabic but it's also good news for translators in other languages that use more than four plural forms. (Bug 189890)
- We now have a "project cloud" on Launchpad Translations' home page, showing a selection of the projects that use Translations. Each project's level of activity is represented by text size and weight. (Bug 103186)
- Making a request for a large translations export is now faster! (Bug 160308)
- Launchpad sometimes failed to update the "Packaged" versions of translations when new upstream or distribution files were imported. The effect was that some of the "Packaged" translations shown in the UI were outdated. We've fixed this and from now on new uploads will update the "Packaged" translations correctly. (Bug 200499)
More about Launchpad releases
You can now find this and previous Launchpad release announcements at the new home for all information about Launchpad releases: https://help.launchpad.net/LaunchpadReleases
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:02:28PM -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
Just out of curiosity... does anyone else feel that us moving everything over to launchpad may be a good idea? The features and level of integration between things there is ever improving at a rapid pace it seems.
And to me, anything that makes managing the project easier is good. I have been extremely happy with our change-over from sf on the bug/rfe tracking, and it looks like we'd have greater integration (which means less reproduction of efforts) by moving everything else over too. However, I'm pretty sure that we'd still need to utilize sf for releases and such (which isn't necessarily a bad thing). Just my .02.
I've also been quite pleased with the bug tracker changeover. I would definitely favor moving more things over to launchpad.
In particular, I do a good bit of mailing list administration - people mail me privately about subscription issues, people post to inkscape-announce inappropriately, some messages require manual admin review, yada yada. The problem is that the mailing list admin tools in Sourceforge are really buried, down half a dozen page clicks, and require two separate logins (once to my SF account, then again with the mailing-list-specific admin password). I've entirely given up administrating half our mailing lists and just procmail admin requests (mostly spam junk) to the bit bucket.
Version control could also be moved over if we chose to switch to bzr. We had a pretty lengthy discussion but didn't reach a solid enough consensus. You know, it looks like converting between bzr to git, or git to bzr, is quite doable and straightforward. There would be more upfront setup work for git than bzr (building account management stuff, setting it up on our own web server, yada yada), so we could try out bzr (which I think would be pretty trivial to switch to), and if we find people don't like it, we could then convert to git and set up the server and stuff for it. What do people think of this approach?
Donations I've been working on setting up a new page that bypasses SourceForge. Just need to get some spare time to finish up. Since we are using less and less of their services, I don't feel we need to give them a cut of our donations. ;-)
The one other major thing SourceForge gives us - File Mirroring - I don't know that we can do in Launchpad yet. We can do PPA for ubuntu stuff, but I don't think that'll work for RPMs, EXEs, etc. SF's UI for their file mirrors (both for downloading and administration) is irritating but it works. I'd love to hear of alternatives.
Is there anything else we're getting from SourceForge, or anything else in Launchpad we'd want to look at using?
Bryce
Bryce Harrington schrieb:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:02:28PM -0700, Josh Andler wrote:
... Is there anything else we're getting from SourceForge, or anything else in Launchpad we'd want to look at using?
Bryce
What I would like to see is a wider basis for translations. Some of the terms are invented by the translators. So if we can share Gnome or Ubuntu services? The other thing is a (free and public) compile farm where we can do nightly builds AND tests for different platforms. I know several people do nightly or trice daily builds but I do not know about (automatic) tests so far. From a VCS system I wish that I can use behind my company firewall (http, https, ftp, email only).
my 3 cent, Adib.
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 2:56 AM, Adib taraben wrote:
What I would like to see is a wider basis for translations. Some of the terms are invented by the translators. So if we can share Gnome or Ubuntu services?
I don't mind reusing GNOME service, I do mind using Rosetta. Even though an average Rosetta translations quality level is a bit higher since recently, I'd still hate to monitor changes to my translation, because I simply don't trust an average Ubuntu translator yet (this comes from experience, and it's not RU specific).
Alexandre
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