Launchpad: now you can see how many people a bug affects

[Matthew Revell]

The Launchpad team is proud to announce Launchpad 3.1.12, released on
December 16th 2009!

Let's take a look at what's new in this release.


See how many people have clicked "This bug affects me"
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Bug pages now show you how many people the bug affects.

Not everyone wants to subscribe to or comment on a bug, even if they
do want to register that it is important to them.

Launchpad lets people do that by following the "This bug affects me" link.

As well as the bug page showing the number of people affected, you can
also sort the results of bug searches by the number of people affected.


Patches now highlighted on bug report pages
--------------------------------------------

Now you can easily see all the patches attached to a bug, separately
from other types of attachment.

When you attach a patch to a bug, Launchpad gives it a new patch icon
and there's also a separate sidebar box that lists all patches attached
to the bug.

Take a look at Deryck's blog post for more:

  http://blog.launchpad.net/bug-tracking/better-patch-tracking-and-more


Community contributions
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Thanks to Launchpad community members Adi Roiban, Jonathan Davies and
Luke Farone whose code landed in Launchpad during the 3.1.12 cycle.

There's more detail here:

  https://dev.launchpad.net/Contributions

New contributors are always welcome. Talk to us on the launchpad-dev mailing
list:

  https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev


Also in Launchpad 3.1.12
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You can find full details of the 3.1.12 release here:

  https://launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+milestone/3.1.12


See you next time
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The first Launchpad release of 2010 is due towards the end of January.

We'll be publishing our 2010 release calendar soon on our blog:

  http://blog.launchpad.net

As always, you can join us in #launchpad on Freenode and on the
launchpad-users mailing list:

  https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-users

-- 
Matthew Revell -- https://launchpad.net/~matthew.revell
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