Recent Launchpad blog posts

  • The information sharing feature is complete – 06 Nov 2012
    Launchpad’s bug and branch privacy features were replaced by information sharing that permits project maintainers to share kinds of confidential information with people at the project level. No one needs to manage bug and branch subscriptions to ensure trusted users have access to confidential information. The Disclosure features Disclosure is a super feature composed on [...]
  • Information sharing is now in beta for everyone – 28 Aug 2012
    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 trusted users have access to confidential information. Maintainers can share and unshare their project with people Project [...]
  • Project maintainers can see private bugs – 23 Jul 2012
    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 lose access, or retarget a bug to another projects which does not update bug subscriptions. The Purple [...]
  • You can hide your bug and question comments – 23 Jul 2012
    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 [...]
  • Bug reporting and search knows about privacy – 16 Jul 2012
    The Purple squad recently updated bug reporting and searching to understand the new privacy rules. Some of the changes were requirements to support sharing, others were opportunities we took advantage of. Improvements to bug reporting and forms The Purple squad updated the bug reporting UI to make it consistent with the bug pages. We choose [...]
  • Privacy and security replaced by information type – 18 Jun 2012
    All users can now see the information type section that replaces the privacy and security section shown on bug and branch pages. This change allows users to clearly state the kind of information a bug or branch contains. Launchpad will soon permit project maintainers to share information types instead of managing individual bug and branch [...]
  • Launchpad now open source – 21 Jul 2009
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