Ubuntu IRCC Nominations

By nhandler | Published: 2010-10-18

I’m writing to you to let you all know that in November the terms of 2 of our IRCC members are coming to an end and the Community Council will be appointing or reappointing members for the 2 vacant positions.

The 2 IRCC members that are coming to the end of their terms are Pici (Benjamin Rubin)and jussi (Jussi Schultink).

The process for membership to the IRCC is described at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcCouncil

The relevant part of the document is below:

Appointment Process
Elections of new IRC Council members will be held in the following way:

  • An open call for nominations should be announced in the IRC Community, and people can nominate themselves for a seat on the council. Everyone is welcome to apply.
  • To apply for a seat the candidate creates a Wiki page outlining their work in the community, and inviting others to provide testimonials.
  • When the application deadline has passed, the IRC Council will review the applications and provide feedback on the candidates for the Community Council to review.
  • The Community Council will identify a shortlist for the board and circulate the list publically for feedback from the community. The Community Council will then finalise the appointment of new Council members.
  • In the future, the shortlist identified by the Community Council will be voted upon by team members as described at CommunityCouncil/Delegation. Part of the IRC Council’s role over the Lucid release cycle will be to identify a team of contributors to IRC which is appropriate to perform this vote.

As per this process, we are now asking for nominations for the Ubuntu IRC Council.

All nominations need to be sent directly to the IRC Council: Irc-council@lists.ubuntu.com

Nominees then need to follow the process as described above.

We look forward to seeing your nominations.

Originally sent to the ubuntu-irc Mailing List by Jussi Schultink on

Auto Bug Expiry on Launchpad

By akgraner | Published: 2010-10-16

I’m sure many of you may have heard by now, but we’re getting close to re-enabling automatic bug expiry on Launchpad. There’s a post about this on the Launchpad blog:

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/enabling-automatic-bug-expiry

What do you mean “re-enabling”?

Launchpad has always advertised that we auto-expire inactive incomplete bugs, but we haven’t done this for awhile now. Some developers are using their own launchpadlib scripts which set bug tasks to the EXPIRED status based on the same criteria that Launchpad will use.

These individual scripts will no longer be needed once we re-enable auto expiry on Launchpad itself.

What does this means for Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is already configured to take advantage of automatic expiry. Next week, we will do a few test runs of the script that expires bugs. We will start with a full run on our staging server, which will not affect the main Launchpad site but will give us an idea if we’re doing the right thing with expiry. We will then begin batched runs against launchpad.net, doing runs of 100 or 200 bugs at a time. Again, this is to make sure we’re not expiring bugs we shouldn’t and to make it easier to recover from mistakes.

Once we get through a few batched runs on launchpad.net and we’re confident we’re expiring the correct bugs and everything is working smoothly with this feature, we will set the bug expiry script to do regular runs, expiring all eligible bug tasks with each run.

Originally posted on the ubuntu-devel mailing list by Deryck Hodge on Fri Oct 15 14:31:38 BST 2010

Demonstration of uTouch on Ubuntu Unity

By akgraner | Published: 2010-10-14

To see a demonstration of uTouch on Ubuntu Unity click here.

Originally posted on Ubuntu Developers on blip.tv.

Launchpad read-only 22.00 UTC 13th October 2010

By akgraner | Published: 2010-10-13

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around two hours on Wednesday the 13th of October, while we roll-out new Launchpad code.

Starts: 22.00 UTC 13th October 2010
Expected back: 00.00 UTC 14th October 2010

Originally posted here by Matthew Revell on October 12th, 2010 at 9:49 am

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 213

By akgraner | Published: 2010-10-12

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #213 for the weeks of September 26th – October 10th, 2010 and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Invitation to Ubuntu Open Week – October 11 -15, 2010
  • Ubuntu 10.10 is Released
  • Kubuntu, Mythbuntu, Edubuntu
  • 10.10 10:10:10 – thank you and Happy Maverick Day!
  • Asia-Oceania RMB Positions Available
  • Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type
  • Ubuntu Fridge: We’re moving!
  • Forum Code of Conduct Updated
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo News
  • Ubuntu on ARM, the best since sliced bread
  • … and we’re live
  • Multi-touch at UDS-N in Orlando, October 25th-29th
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Ubuntu in the Cloud
  • Interview with Leann Ogasawara
  • Canonical to expand cooperation with PC vendors
  • TurnKey community development contest: let the judging begin!
  • Featured Podcasts
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Monthly Team Reports: September 2010
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security
  • UWN Sneak Peek

And Much Much More This issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Amber Graner
  • Jonathan Carter
  • Liraz Siri
  • Daniel Calab
  • Nathan Handler
  • Alex Lourie
  • 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!


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