September 4, 2010
- On Saturday September 11th the Kernel Team will take the first in what I hope to be a series of steps toward educating ourselves and our community in the triage of the thousands of bugs that pass our way daily.My goal for this event is to begin the process of training those interested in helping with kernel bugs in the way we process our bug tickets. This first event is meant to help us both educate and document. The information on the first ever Triage Summit is located on the...
September 2, 2010
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 10.10 beta.
Codenamed “Maverick Meerkat”, 10.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.
Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop Edition and Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Edition continue the trend of ever-faster boot speeds, with improved startup times and a smoother, streamlined boot experience....
Launchpad code hosting will be offline Friday between 8.00 and 9.30 UTC for unexpected hardware maintenance. This means you won’t be able to browse, push to, pull from or otherwise access code hosted on Launchpad.
Going offline: 8.00 UTC 3rd September 2010
Expected back: 9.30 UTC 3rd September 2010
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Jon Sackett joined the Launchpad Registry team a couple of weeks ago. Here’s a quick run-down of who he is.
Matthew: What do you do on the Launchpad team?
Jon: I’m part of the Registry team; we maintain the people, teams and projects bits and pieces used by all the other parts of Launchpad.
Right now I’m mostly helping pay down technical debt, but I’m also helping...
September 1, 2010
The Ubuntu kernel team has prepared a new proposed kernel for Lucid (2.6.32-25.43), containing a large number of fixes. This is a larger number of updates than we would usually push at one time, but processing of the upstream stable updates was delayed by a couple of security updates.
This kernel should fix a lot of issues, including...
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This week’s Bug Day target is *drum roll please* Empathy!The task is to assign to the right package and triage those as well:
- 44 New bugs need a hug
- 109 Incompletes bugs need a status check
- 23 Confirmed bugs need a review
Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!
- Thursday, 2 September 2010...
This Month we have profiled a member of the Canonical family, who has been with us almost from the start
*Henrik Omma*
Read on to see his recollection of what Canonical was like in the early days and why he enjoys working here.
*Take 60 seconds with Henrik Omma*
Henrik works as the Enterprise Applications Team Manager and has been with Canonical for 6 years.
*In layman’s terms what do you do?*
I manage a small team that develops & maintains...
August 31, 2010
Today is the day affectionately known as “Twitter’s OAuthpocalypse”. Twitter is shutting down basic auth completely, which Gwibber has relied on. So after today Twitter will cease to work for anyone that hasn’t updated to the OAuth enabled version of Gwibber. I have uploaded packages for both Maverick and Lucid to the ~ubuntu-desktop PPA for testing. We need to get an SRU out pretty quickly for...Announcing Ubuntu App Developer Week!
It’s that time again! Ubuntu Opportunistic Developer Week, happening online between September 27th through October 1st, 2010.
“What is Ubuntu App Developer Week?”
Ubuntu App Developer Week is a week of sessions aimed at enabling and inspiring developers to write applications that scratch their itches. Our goal...
August 30, 2010
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #208 for the week of August 22nd - August 28th and is available here.
In this issue we cover:
- 11.04 Ubuntu Developer Summit Announced
- Getting More Developers Interested In Participating In Ubuntu
- Ubuntu Stats
- Bug...