Tomorrow: Ubuntu Developer Week

By dholbach | Published: 2013-01-28

Tomorrow, 29th January, will see the start of Ubuntu Developer Week, the best opportunity this cycle to get involved in Ubuntu Development. We will have a variety of sessions around, all having to do with how Ubuntu is put together and how you can help out and get involved. Here a few examples of topics covered:

  • Ubuntu Development and Packaging (introduction, get set up, working with upstreams, patch systems, cross-building, and many more)
  • Automated Testing strategies
  • Fixing memory leaks, using u1db, Unity Integration and App development

Join in and ask all the questions you have, get to know some of Ubuntu’s developers and make new friends.

Check out our timetable – there will surely be something of interest for you too! Join in tomorrow!

Here are some of the fine people who are going to take you on a tour through Ubuntu Development:

Alex Chiang

Alex Chiang

Nicholas Skaggs

Nicholas Skaggs

Benjamin Drung

Benjamin Drung

Bhavani Shankar

Bhavani Shankar

David Planella

David Planella

Michael Hall

Michael Hall

Chris Wilson

Chris Wilson

Oliver Grawert

Oliver Grawert

Martin Pitt

Martin Pitt

Stefano Rivera

Stefano Rivera

Ubuntu Developer Week – 29th-31st Jan

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-01-24

We are delighted to announce the next Ubuntu Developer Week. From 29th to 31st January 2013 we will have a great selection of sessions all about Ubuntu Development, which not only showcase the great work which goes into Ubuntu, but should also help you get involved.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

Among the topics this time: general development and packaging, working with projects outside Ubuntu, apps in Ubuntu, fixing memleaks, automated testing, u1db, Ubuntu images, and many may more.

I talked to a number of speakers, here’s what they have to say about their sessions:

The majority of sessions will happen on IRC, some will be hangouts on air though. Simply review the UDW wiki page for more information.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

This is a great opportunity to get involved, so be there, ask your questions and get started! We hope to see you all there. It’s going to be a great event. 🙂

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list on Thu Jan 24 16:52:58 UTC 2013 by Daniel Holbach

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 300

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-01-22

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #300 for the week January 14 – 20, 2013, and the full version is available here.

In this issue we cover:

The issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Elizabeth Krumbach
  • Jasna Benčić
  • J Phani Mahesh
  • Jim Connett
  • Matt Rudge
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!

Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License

Application Review Board restaffing results

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-01-18

Hello everyone,

The Application Review Board has been seeking new members for the past month and closed the nomination period on the 14th of January.

Only a single nominee, Jonathan Carter, came out of this for the 3 seats that were available on the board.

The usual procedure is for the Technical Board to setup a CIVS poll for such restaffing, though in this particular case, we do not feel it’d serve any real purpose and so decided to simply confirm Jonathan’s membership on the Application Review Board.

Please join me on welcoming Jonathan back on the ARB!

PS: Note that the ARB is still understaffed by 2 members so if anyone would like to join, please get in touch with them.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel mailing list on Fri Jan 18 15:40:12 UTC 2013 by Stéphane Graber

Vacant Developer Membership Board seat: Call for nominations

By pleia2 | Published: 2013-01-15

We will soon have four vacant Developer Membership Board seats. Benjamin Drung, Stéphane Graber, Iain Lane and Cody Somerville will reach the end of their terms on 2013-02-13. This mail is a call for nominations.

The DMB is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers, meeting for about an hour once a fortnight. Candidates should be Ubuntu developers themselves, and should be well qualified to evaluate prospective Ubuntu developers and decide when to entrust them with developer privileges or to grant them Ubuntu membership status.

The new member will be chosen using Condorcet voting. Members of the ubuntu-dev team in Launchpad will be eligible to vote. To ensure that you receive a ballot in the initial mail, please add a visible email address to your Launchpad profile (although there will be an opportunity to receive a ballot after the vote has started if you do not wish to do this).

The term of the new board member will be 2 years. Providing at least five nominations are received, voting will commence on Monday 28th January 2013 and will last for 2 weeks, ending on Monday 11th February
2012. The DMB will confirm the appointments in its next meeting thereafter.

Please send nominations to developer-membership-board at lists.ubuntu.com (which is a private mailing list accessible only by DMB members) by midnight UTC on 28 January 2013.

If nominating a developer other than yourself, please confirm that the nominee is happy to sit on the board before emailing the DMB.

Please consider writing a short statement on your wiki page if nominating so that others get a better idea of who they are voting for.

If you include a link to this in your nomination mail or a followup, the DMB will share it when the call for votes begins.

Originally posted to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list on Tue Jan 15 18:05:45 UTC 2013 by Iain Lane