Author Archives: dholbach

Ubuntu 11.10 Development update

By dholbach | Published: 2011-09-08

Ubuntu Development Update The Ubuntu 11.10 release is getting nearer and nearer. It’s time to start organising your local release party! Only five weeks left until release! So what’s still left to do in these five weeks? Obviously a few bugs still have to be fixed, but the gates are slowly closing: next week the […]

Technical Board is looking for nominations

By dholbach | Published: 2011-09-06

The term length of five of the six members of the Technical Board will end on 1st October. Elected members will stay on the board for two years. The nomination period runs from now until 1500 UTC on 13th September 2011. After a quick deliberation period the election will be announced. All Ubuntu developers are […]

Ubuntu 11.10 Development update

By dholbach | Published: 2011-09-01

Ubuntu Development Update The Ubuntu 11.10 release is coming closer and closer. Only six weeks left until release! So how are things looking? This week Beta 1 will be released and testing efforts are going to ramped up. In two weeks the kernel and the documentation text will be frozen and in three weeks Beta […]

Ubuntu 11.10 Development update

By dholbach | Published: 2011-08-25

Ubuntu Development Update This week we are about to hit UI Freeze and Beta Freeze and we have only 7 weeks left until release. A lot of the great work everybody put into Oneiric is already visible and things look great, even if there are a couple of bugs that still need to be ironed […]

Ubuntu 11.10 Development update

By dholbach | Published: 2011-08-18

Ubuntu Development Update Last week we hit Feature Freeze. This is the big date that all developer dread the most. Now features and new upstream versions have to have landed, everything else will be a matter the release team has to decide upon. We are rushing towards release with UI Freeze and Beta Freeze coming […]