Announcing this week's Bug Day target – Update Manager – Thursday, May 20th, 2010

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-05-20

This week’s Bug Day target is *drum roll please* Update Manager!

  • 100 New bugs need a hug.
  • 100 Confirmed bugs need a review.
  • 100 Incomplete bugs need a status check.

Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over those egg-timers!

Are you looking for a way to start giving some love back to your adorable Ubuntu Project?

Did you ever wonder what Triage is? Want to learn about that?

This is a perfect time!, Everybody can help in a Bug Day! Open your IRC Client and go to #ubuntu-bugs (FreeNode) the BugSquad will be happy to help you to start contributing!

Wanna be famous? Is easy! remember to use 5-A-day so if you do a good work your name could be listed at the top 5-A-Day Contributors in the Ubuntu Hall of Fame page!

We are always looking for new tasks or ideas for the Bug Days, if you have one add it to the Planning page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/Planning

If you’re new to all this, head to http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs

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Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce Mailing List by Pedro Villavicencio Garrido on Wed May 19 14:27:27 BST 2010

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #193

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-05-17

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #193 for the week May 9th -May 15th, 2010 and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Ubuntu Developer Summit – Ubuntu 10.10 – Maverick Meerkat planned
  • Ubuntu Developer Summit -M Videos
  • Unity, and Ubuntu Light
  • A Case for Modifying the Ubuntu Release Schedule
  • New Default Applications In Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10?
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • Ubuntu DC LoCo InstallFest
  • Release Party In Uruguay was a Big Hit
  • Welcome To Ubuntu in Maryland! May 20th
  • Ubuntu Release Party 10.04 – Alagoas
  • Ubuntu Hams – Our First UDS Session was Great
  • Clarifications around Ubuntu using “Google Chrome”
  • UDS-Maverick recap
  • BTRFS By Default In Maverick?
  • Testing Ubuntu Releases
  • Receive Ubuntu bugs by mail with the Debian PTS
  • Columbia Areas Linux User Group – Featured speaker Mackenzie Morgan
  • In The Press
  • In the Blogosphere
  • Canonical’s Ubuntu support scope
  • Commercial bug-fixes for Ubuntu
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security
  • and much, much more!

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

  • Amber Graner
  • John Crawford
  • Dave Bush
  • Liraz Siri
  • Chris Johnston
  • And many others

    • If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, 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

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #192

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-05-10

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #192 for the week May 2nd -May 8th, 2010 and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

* Maverick is open for development
* Call for Ubuntu User Days Instructors
* Window indicators
* New Ubuntu Regional Membership Boards
* Maverick UDS Translations Sessions
* Patch Day Success!
* Ubuntu Open Week en Español closes on high note
* Ubuntu Open Week – Lucid: Community, Canonical, Collaboration
* Call For Nominations: Ubuntu Women Leader Leadership Committee
* Ubuntu Stats
* LoCo News
* Launchpad News
* The Planet
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Server and Apache Tomcat – supporting MuleSoft
* Full Circle Podcast #6: Mark’s Space Brain from the Future
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* and much, much more!

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

* Amber Graner
* John Crawford
* Craig Eddy
* Dave Bush
* J Scott Gwin
* Liraz Siri
* And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly News, 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

Patch Day Success!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-05-09

The first Patch Day, was held on May 5, 2010. We were able to review 111 bugs with patches over a 49 hour period. There were 185 un-reviewed bugs in the queue at the start of Patch Day, that number came down to 74 un-reviewed bugs by the end of the day, and down to 69 as of now.

I’d like to thank all the folks who helped us review patches. Your assistance has helped us do 60% of what we targeted. Review Leads, thank for volunteering your time in helping with Patch Day.

Patch Day is a concept similar to Hug Days, where we will test patches and forward working patches upstream. If the bug is critical enough, we will try to get the patch applied in Ubuntu immediately. We’d like your help to get these submissions reviewed and if necessary sent upstream so that they don’t bit-rot, and to encourage people to continue helping us improve open source software.

Nigel Babu

Picked up from the Ubuntu-devel mailing list here.

ZaReason are now sponsors of the World Play Day competition!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2010-05-06

ZaReason has kindly come forth as a sponsor for the Ubuntu Women World Play Day competition!

Cathy and Earl of ZaReason have kindly offered their support by donating a Terra A20 netbook and a gold USB necklace

This means that the competition can now offer 3 prizes! Not only that, after contacting Canonical CEO Jane Silber, we can confirm that she would be honoured to choose the second netbook prize!

The prizes are now as follows:

Community Choice: A Terra A20 netbook with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS

Jane’s Choice: A Dell 10n with Ubuntu Moblin Remix

Random Draw: A prize pack of random goodies from The Ubuntu Shop and a gold USB necklace from ZaReason

All winning entries also come with a subscription to their choice of either Ubuntu User Magazine or Linux Pro Magazine.

Entries closes on May 14 — which means you (yes, you) have barely more than a week left to submit. What are you waiting for?

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originally posted here by Melissa Draper