Want to hack on Tarmac? Want to learn how to use the Launchpad API (or want to use your existing knowledge)? Want to learn to use bzr's functionality programmatically? There is a Tarmac mini-sprint scheduled for Friday, 10 Jul 2009 in #tarmac on Freenode. Tarmac 0.2 will also be released this weekend based on the work completed on Tarmac on Friday.

Also, if you'd like to know more about Tarmac, or would like to participate, please join the Tarmac Launchpad group and subscribe to the mailing list.

I'm pleased to announce the first version of bzr-autoreview, a Bazaar plugin for automating Launchpad merge proposal reviews.

The concept is simple. Go to your local mirror of a branch on Launchpad, and simply type bzr autoreview. The plugin will do the rest. It finds every merge proposal against your public branch that doesn't yet have a review, gives you an editor pre-populated with the diff, and then, after your review, allows you to also vote.

I have many planned features, but I've been trying this year to release code instead of just writing it. The code's a mess because I was spanning hemispheres while writing it. I plan on cleaning it up in the next few days and releasing again.

Please see the README. You can download the tarball or get the branch. If you're really ambitious, I'd appreciate any patches, so please see the HACKING file. A special thanks goes to Elliot for giving me the idea in the first place.

I'd like to announce the release of Tarmac, the robotic landing bot for Launchpad. The idea is simple. You have a development focus branch that constantly needs to have branches landed on it, but you're too busy writing your own code to manually land them in trunk. Tarmac takes the difficulty out of this by checking your development focus branch for approved merge proposals, and merging them automatically.

You can read the README file, grab the Tarmac 0.1 tarball or just get the bzr branch with bzr branch lp:tarmac. This first release is just a little more than "the simplest thing that could possibly work" because I wasn't exactly sure what features were the most important to other potential users. This means feature requests and patches are most certainly welcome (it's why I use Launchpad). Please feel free to file bugs with the features you'd like to see.

Tarmac is licensed under the GPLv3.