Monthly Archives: April 2010

Patch Day, May 5th 2010

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-04-07

The Ubuntu Reviewers Team would like to announce the first Patch Day, which will take place on May 5, 2010. For those of you not familiar with the problem we are trying to solve, I have blogged about it. Patch Day is a concept similar to Hug Days, where we will test patches and forward […]

Announcing the mobile phone contacts sync public alpha & Sync Ubuntu One Contacts with your iPhone

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-04-05

We’re excited to finally make this announcement. For over a year now, the Ubuntu One team has been working on an address book contacts synchronization service that will raise the bar for what’s currently available on Linux desktops. Getting contacts on CouchDB and replicating between desktops and the cloud was the first big step. The […]

The Fridge Tops 2,000 Posts and Counting

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-04-05

A check into recent Fridge records shows that this news reporting service for the Ubuntu Community has been posting news related articles since September of 2005, and now has over 2,000 posts to its credit. The Fridge strives to bring the latest in news, advocacy, team collaboration, and grassroots marketing to the Ubuntu Community. Just […]

Canonical, Upgrading GNOME Bugzilla, and Commercial Sponsorship

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-04-05

Authored by: Sumana Harihareswara You may have noticed the spiffy new GNOME Bugzilla. Sumana Harihareswara presents the story of how and why it came to be. GNOME is asking for donations to hire a sysadmin. That’s because GNOME’s technological infrastructure—like source control, bug tracking, web and mail servers—make the rest of GNOME possible. Recently, Canonical […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #187

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-04-04

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #187 for the week March 28th – April 3rd, 2010 and is available here. In this issue we cover: * Mark Shuttleworth: Shooting for the Perfect 10.10 with Maverick Meerkat * Ubuntu 10.04 beta 2 freeze now in effect * Ubuntu 8.10 reaches End-Of-Life April, 30, […]