The Launchpad team is proud to announce the release of Launchpad 1.2.4 on 1st May 2008! New features this month include: * the ability to build PPA packages for multiple series and copy packages from one PPA to another * a new design for project code overview pages * an easier way for casual contributors to post to mailing lists. Read on for more about what's new and how it affects you. Copying PPA packages --------------------- Building on other people's work and publishing packages for different Ubuntu releases are now easier. You can copy packages both: * from other PPAs directly into any PPA you can upload to * and to different distro-series within the same PPA. For an example, take a look at the Ubuntu Mobile team's PPA package copy page: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-mobile/+archive/+copy-packages There's more in the PPA quick-start guide: https://help.launchpad.net/PPAQuickStart#copy New project code overview page ------------------------------- Project code overview pages have an improved page layout. Tim Penhey, who created the design, explains the changes: Usually, people want to know a couple of things from a project's code page: how active it is and which are the important branches. You can now see, at a glance, how many commits, branches and code contributors a project has. And there's a new branch listing that highlights which branches are associated with a series. Take a look at the Bazaar project's code overview page for an example: https://code.launchpad.net/bzr Contributing to mailing lists without subscribing -------------------------------------------------- If you need to make a one-off post to a mailing list you may not want to subscribe. Now you can make a post and Launchpad will hold it for the list's admins to moderate. See https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp#moderation Other changes this month ------------------------- * Project bug contacts are now called bug supervisors. See http://news.launchpad.net/bug-tracking/meet-the-bug-supervisor * Watches on bugs in Gforge and Savane based trackers are now supported. * You can now subscribe to all the bugs affecting a project group, project series or distribution series. See https://help.launchpad.net/BugSubscriptions * A distro's PPA overview page now shows you recent uploads, most active archives and supported series. See https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+ppas For full details of the bug fixes and features that make up this release, take a look at the 1.2.4 milestone page: https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/1.2.4 Help us test Launchpad ----------------------- If you want to help us test new features, we'd love to have you in our beta team. Find out more at https://help.launchpad.net/BetaTesting Stay in touch! -------------- Thanks for helping us make Launchpad a success! If you come across any bugs, please file them at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad If you want to get in touch for any other reason, join us in #launchpad or on launchpad-users. https://help.launchpad.net/Feedback There'll be more in Launchpad 1.2.5, at the end of this month. -- Matthew Revell - Launchpad.net Join us in #launchpad on irc.freenode.net
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