Author Archives: boredandblogging

Alpha 1 ISO Testing!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-03

As Martin Pitt announced, Maverick main archive is frozen for Alpha 1. As usual we’ll be asking everyone on the QA team to participate in the image testing to ensure we have good test coverage. Due to a critical kernel bug

Linaro: Accelerating Linux on ARM

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-03

At our last UDS in Belgium it was notable how many people were interested in the ARM architecture. There have always been sessions at UDS about lightweight environments for the consumer electronics and embedded community, but this felt tangibly different. I saw questions being asked about ARM in server and cloud tracks, for example, and […]

Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – June 1st, 2010

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-03

Meeting Minutes IRC Log of the meeting. Agenda 2010-6-1 Meeting Agenda Maverick Release Metrics Bugs Alpha 1 Milestoned Bugs (0) Release Targeted Bugs (40 accross all packages) linux 0 5 Blueprints 14 Blueprints (includes HWE blueprints) Bugs with Patches Attached: 130 (down 2 from last week) Launchpad Report Breakdown by status Blueprint: kernel-maverick-apparmor (jjohansen) Nothing […]

Postponing Ubuntu User Days

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-03

With the second Ubuntu User Day being less than a week away, and in going over our final checklist, it has come to our attention it would be a better event, both in attendance and in the choice of session if we were to postpone this event. While we understand that you may have scheduled […]

Call for Testing: Hardy Firefox Users (or willing to install Hardy in a VM)

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-06-03

Background Firefox 3.0 and xulrunner 1.9 are now unsupported by Mozilla. Rather than backporting security fixes to these now, we are moving to a support model where we will be introducing major new upstream versions in stable releases. The reason for this is the support periods from Mozilla are gradually becoming shorter, and it will […]