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.

It’s been two years since we introduced the Regional Membership Boards and since then they have done a fantastic job recognising the contributions of new Ubuntu members.

The term of most board members in the Americas, Asia/Oceania and EMEA (Europe, Middle East, Africa) ended yesterday and the Community Council asked for nominations.

Here are the new members of the Membership Boards:

Americas:
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– Greg Grossmeier (still on board)
– Martin Albisetti (still on board)
– Nick Ali (still on board)
– Elizabeth Krumbach
– Belinda Lopez
– Nathan Handler
– Duda Nogueira
– Mackenzie Morgan

Asia/Oceania:
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– Zhengpeng Hou (still on board)
– Matthew Lye
– Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman
– amachu: ?. ???? ???????
– Robert Collins
– Emmet Hikory
– Muhammad Takdir
– Melissa Draper

EMEA:
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– Jonathan Carter (still on board)
– Laura Czajkowski
– Alan Pope
– Dennis Kaarsemaker
– Stéphane Graber
– Oliver Grawert
– David Rubin

Congratulations to everybody who made it on board and thanks a lot to everybody who put hard work into keeping the Regional Membership Boards up and running.

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Originally sent to the ubuntu-news-team Mailing List by Daniel Holbach on Thu May 6 08:21:06 BST 2010