Category Archives: Planet

Ubuntu Membership Board call for nominations

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-03-22

Ubuntu Membership is a recognition of significant and sustained contribution to Ubuntu and the Ubuntu community. To this end, the Community Council recruits members of our current membership community for the valuable role of reviewing and evaluating the contributions of potential members to bring them on board or assist with having them achieve this goal. […]

Catch up with the Community Council

By José Antonio Rey | Published: 2013-03-20

Following on from the last few weeks of discussions many of the Community Council have been approached to discuss various topics. While we regularly meet with many of the other boards and councils on a regularly scheduled basis, it’s not limited to just those representatives. We’d like to invite anyone who has any issues or […]

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 […]