Category Archives: Development

Ubuntu 12.04 Development update

By dholbach | Published: 2011-10-21

Ubuntu Development Update It is always an exciting time when a new release opens. As a developer you get to finally merge the feature you would have liked to see in the last release already and you can merge changes you submitted to Upstream. We have a 27 weeks until the new release gets out, […]

OpenWeek Summary for Tuesday

By akgraner | Published: 2011-10-19

NOTE! We are starting a bit early today at 1300UTC, and also today we have Rick Spencer’s Q+A. Rick is the engineering manager for the Ubuntu Platform, so he’s got good working knowledge of Ubuntu as a whole, so bring your hard questions! Here’s the logs from yesterday’s sessions: Getting Started with Ubuntu Development – […]

Ubuntu 11.10 Development update

By dholbach | Published: 2011-10-13

Ubuntu Development Update Today is not a day of long blog entries, but it’s a day of celebrating everybody’s hard work in Ubuntu 11.10. It’s released. So check out what’s new! Two pages that did a great job explaining and visualising what’s new are the ubuntu.com tour and the other one being “the new Ubuntu“. […]

P is for…

By akgraner | Published: 2011-10-05

It’s a perennial pleasure to pick pertinent and/or pithy placeholder names for Ubuntu releases. At least, I like to think of them as pertinent and/or pithy. I’ve had diverse feedback, shall we say. Nevertheless, it’s now a tradition, and it’s a pressing priority as we approach the release of Oneiric. So, what will be our […]

Ubuntu 11.10 Development update

By dholbach | Published: 2011-09-30

Ubuntu Development Update These are the days where the release team is awake for 24 hour per day. Every issue that comes up on their radar has to be evaluated and checked if it warrants re-spinning all the CD images, re-doing all the testing, or if it should go into a stable release update after […]