Author Archives: pleia2

Ubuntu Technical Board Looks at Shuttleworth’s Proposal for Release Management Methodology

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-03-19

In this article, the news team invited Rick Spencer, Vice President of Ubuntu Engineering, to comment on the decisions by the Ubuntu Technical Board and how they will impact users. The Ubuntu Technical Board (TB) discussed Ubuntu Founder, Mark Shuttleworth’s proposal to tweak the release management methodology of Ubuntu releases in its 18 March meeting. […]

Changes in Ubuntu releases decided by the Ubuntu Technical Board

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-03-19

In yesterday’s meeting we covered two of the topics from Mark’s proposal to the Technical Board: Reducing the length of support for our regular (non-LTS) releases The rationale here is that it’s costing a lot of time to maintain all those releases for 18 months. It’s also causing a lot of load on the SRU […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 308

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-03-18

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #308 for the week March 11 – 17, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Beta 1 Released! Ubuntu GNOME is approved as an official flavour Ubuntu Stats LoCo Team Portal Improvements Released And There Was Jam […]

13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Beta 1 Released!

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-03-14

Welcome to the Raring Ringtail Beta 1 release, which will in time become the 13.04 release. This alpha features images for Edubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, UbuntuKylin, Ubuntu Cloud, Ubuntu Studio and Xubuntu. At the end of the 12.10 development cycle, the Ubuntu desktop and server flavours decided that they would reduce the number of milestone images […]

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 307

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-03-11

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #307 for the week March 4 – 10, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Mir + Unity QML + Unity APIs = Unity Not convinced by rolling releases Follow Up from “Let’s Discuss Interim Releases” Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit […]