Countdown Banner Deadline

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-09-15

You can make a highly visible contribution to Ubuntu 9.10 by helping to create the release countdown banner… but only if you get your submission in soon! By noon UTC on Sept 22nd you need to post your concept to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website/KarmicCountdownBanners so that a banner can be chosen. You do not have to complete your banner by the 22nd but you do have to submit a design for review. Anyone is welcome to participate. Discussions will take place on the Ubuntu Web Presence team's mailing list and chat room at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Website#Mailing%20List

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Originally sent to the ubuntu-news-team mailing list by Matthew Nuzum on Tue Sep 15 16:43:57 BST 2009

Launchpad Bug Filing Changes for Ubuntu

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-09-15

As a part of the Increase Apport Adoption specification we are going to kick off an experiment and redirect all of Ubuntu’s /+filebug links in Launchpad to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs. This change has been tested on staging.launchpad.net already and will be landing shortly on edge.launchpad.net (There will be a +filebug?no-redirect if you really really need it).

If you review the specification and the documentation bug reporters will be redirected to, you will notice that we spent a lot of time and energy on ensuring that we improve the quality of bugs when they are reported. The time many of us spend on triaging very incomplete bugs is not sustainable given the volume of bug reports. Having reporters use ubuntu-bug (apport more specifically) to report bugs will reduce many of these problems for us.

In order to make the transition for our users smoother, we’d like to ask you to help out with a few things:

  1. If you take care of a high-profile package, consider adding it to
    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage which is linked to from
    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs.

  2. Please consider writing an apport hook for the packages you take care of, if you need special information in bug reports – it’s REALLY easy: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport/DeveloperHowTo#Package%20Hooks
  3. If the area of Ubuntu that you take care of is better suited by symptom based bug reporting (“storage”, “boot”, “install”, “sound”, etc.), consider contributing to the apport-symptoms package – it too is REALLY easy: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Apport/DeveloperHowTo#Symptoms

By helping us receive higher quality bug reports, we will help to make Ubuntu even better!

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Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list by Brian Murray on Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 5:53 PM

UDS Update

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-09-15

I just wanted to provide everyone with a quick update on where we are with planning for the Ubuntu Developer Summit.

The twice-annual Ubuntu Developer Summit is the event in which we get together to design, discuss and plan the next version of Ubuntu. It is a critical event in the Ubuntu calendar not only for assessing what we would like put into the next release, but also getting many facets of our community together to bond, share ideas and thoughts and have some valuable face-time for a community so thoroughly distributed.

We are putting the organizational wheels in motion for the next UDS and while some details are still yet to be finalized, I didn’t want this to hold me back giving you an update on where we are. So, let’s cut to the chase:

* The next UDS will take place from Monday 16 Nov 2009 – Friday 20 Nov 2009 in a location that is yet to be confirmed but will certainly be in the USA.
* This will be the L release and while Mark has picked the name, it has not been announced yet. I will wait for him to get that juicy nugget of information out for you.
* Each year we (Canonical) provide travel and accommodation assistance for a limited number of community members. Again, I want to remind the many Ubuntu community rock-stars that we can only sponsor some community rock-stars due to limited resources. If you have a lot to offer the next UDS, go and find out details of how to apply here.
* Details as they emerge will appear on the UDS wiki pages

More details as I get ‘em!

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Originally posted by Jono Bacon here on Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 at 1:56 am

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #159

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-09-13

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #159 for the week September 6th – Septenber 12th, 2009 is available.

In this issue we cover:

* Karmic Alpha 6 freeze ahead
* UI freeze in place for Karmic
* Ubuntu One has moved
* New Ubuntu Developers
* New Ubuntu Members
* Ubuntu Stats
* US LoCo Wiki Doc Day 2009
* Ubuntu Pennsylvania
* Launchpad meet-up: Sept. 28th in London
* Meet Deryck Hodge
* Ubuntu Forums Unanswered Post Team Meeting
* An interview with Nathan Handler
* Screencasting using Ubuntu: Part 1
* Jono Turning ?? – Wishlist Predictable
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Jolicloud Innovates Atop Ubuntu Netbook Remix
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
* And much, much more!

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

* John Crawford
* Craig A. Eddy
* Dave Bush
* Daniel Holbach
* Liraz Siri
* Sayak Banerjee
* 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 LicenseAttribution 3.0 License

Ubuntu One is moving from ubuntuone.com to one.ubuntu.com

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-09-08

Hi! Ubuntu One will be moving from https://ubuntuone.com to https://one.ubuntu.com later today.

Expect a few minutes of downtime, and ubuntuone.com will be set up to redirect to one.ubuntu.com to avoid breaking old links, etc. We’ve tried to plan things carefully to make it go as smoothly as possible, but there may be a bump or two during the transition. We’re doing the move now before Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) goes into beta so that we can minimize the impact on users.

This doesn’t imply any servers moving, or any data shifting around, so no risk to user data. As mentioned before, the web UI will be offline for a few minutes but the background syncing of your files should not be affected as we’ll keep some servers running at the old addresses for a couple of weeks to give everyone time to update to the new packages.

If you run into any problems related to the move or Ubuntu One in general, as always please let us know by filing bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone/+filebug