Help with Launchpad Bug Import Script

I and my fellow Launchpad bugs hackers have always helped people migrate to Launchpad by doing bug imports for people running other bug trackers. This has increasingly taken more and more of our time, and we've gotten worse at doing it in a timely manner for people. This is mostly because we really want to get fixes and improvements to the bug tracker itself landed. And really there's no need for us to do all this. Anyone can import their bugs into Launchpad using a Launchpad API script.  So here's where I come to you, dear reader, asking for help....

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Playing Champions Online on Ubuntu

I've been playing Champions Online for a little over a month now, and I've been playing it on Linux, running on Ubuntu 10.04. I searched online for help and had to piece a few things together to get the game running smoothly under wine in Ubuntu, so I thought I would do a quick post here detailing the steps I took.

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Watching Graphs Flap

I love watching this graph lately.  It's the percentage of bugs that status flap marked opinion (green) and marked invalid (red). By status flap, I mean that the bug was set to the opinion or invalid status once, and has had any number of status changes since then. [...]

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Beware of "Facebook Social Plugins"

I discovered today that Facebook allows third party sites to make use of something called "Facebook Social Plugins" which can make it appear as if you are logged into other sites through Facebook.  You are not able to opt out of this.

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Back Home After UDS-M

It's Friday of UDS-M. I'm writing this from home, waiting on my electricity to be restored. I'm anxious to get to work today, to put in place plans to act on some of the ideas for Launchpad Bugs that came out of UDS-M.

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