Weekly News #46

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-06-27

Issue #46 for the week June 17th – June 23rd, 2007 is now available. In this issue we cover Dell’s live thread about Ubuntu, Jordan Mantha joining the Ubuntu Core Team, planned features for Gutsy, the release of Launchpad 1.1.6 and much more.

  • Want to know more about Ubuntu on Dell?
  • Jordan Mantha Joins Ubuntu Core Team
  • Gutsy Goals Released
  • Release of Launchpad 1.1.6
  • In the Press & In the Blogosphere
  • Upcoming Meetings
  • Bug information
  • Security and updates information

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Ubuntu Hug Day

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-06-24

It is time for our next Hug Day on Wednesday, June 27th. Our theme for this Hug Day will be server bugs and in this end, we will joined by Soren Hansen and Rick Clark from the Ubuntu Server Team. The focus will be the packages samba, php5, openssh, mysql, apache2, postfix, and openldap2.3.

Just like the last Hug Day the event will be held in #ubuntu-devel on the Freenode network. More information is on the Bug Day wiki page.

The list of specific bugs will be finalized shortly before the start of the 27th to ensure that all the bugs on it still need attention. Our goal is to deal with all of the bugs on the list.

Hug Day is a great day to join the Ubuntu QA team.

If you’re interested in helping, please stop by. And feel free to ask shawarma, dendrobates, bdmurray, heno the rest of the team for ways to help out. Hope to see you there and your name on the list of bug huggers!

So on 27 June 2007, come join us.

New bug statuses and more in Launchpad 1.1.6

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-06-21

One of the agenda items at UDS Sevilla was to improve the efficiency of Ubuntu’s bug workflow. If you work with Ubuntu bugs, you may already have noticed that some of the bug status names have changed:

  • New: was Unconfirmed
  • Incomplete: was Needs Info
  • Invalid: was Rejected.

The meaning of these statuses hasn’t changed. However, there are two new bug statuses:

  • Triaged: this bug has a complete report, has been confirmed and is ready to be fixed.
  • Won’t Fix: this bug has been confirmed but, for whatever reason, won’t be fixed.

These two new statuses are available only to either a project’s owners or members of its Bug Contact team. So, in Ubuntu’s case it’s available to members of the Ubuntu Drivers and Ubuntu Bugs teams. This means that developers can view the Triaged queue knowing that an experienced triager considers those bug reports complete.

The Confirmed status still works, though, so it’s down to each project’s bug workflow policy to decide whether to use Triaged and Won’t Fix.

More people can nominate bugs

To relieve the bottle-neck caused by Ubuntu drivers being the only people able to nominate bugs for release, now anyone with the relevant upload permissions for a component can also nominate bugs in that component. For example: if a developer has upload permissions for universe, she can also nominate universe bugs for release.

Other highlights for the Ubuntu community

  • Answer contacts will now receive notification of new questions in their preferred languages only.
  • Team members can now renew their own memberships, when their membership is close to expiry if the team is set-up with an on-demand policy.
  • Teams can now only join other teams with the approval of the first team’s administrator.
  • It is now possible to see how many and which translations diverge from upstream.

Find out more

There’s plenty more to Launchpad 1.1.6, including the fabulous new Launchpad News blog! You can find the full release notes on the launchpad-users mailing list.

Weekly News #45

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-06-20

Issue #45 for the week June 10th – June 16th, 2007 is now available. In this issue we cover Mark’s reply about a possible Microsoft deal, Gutsy translation opening, an interview with Matthew East and much more.

  • Mark debunks rumour of Microsoft patent deal
  • Gutsy translation open
  • New developer forum on ubuntuforums.org
  • Interview with Matthew East, new Community Council member
  • In the Press & In the Blogosphere
  • Upcoming Meetings
  • Bug information
  • Security and updates information

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Gutsy translations open!

By boredandblogging | Published: 2007-06-12

If you’re an Ubuntu translator, you can get to work on Ubuntu Gutsy straight away!

Simply visit https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/gutsy/+translations

Thanks to some great work from the Launchpad Translations team, Ubuntu translations will now open much earlier in the development cycle.

Previously, Launchpad had to go offline to import the translation strings for a new Ubuntu release. Launchpad developer Jeroen Vermeulen explained why:

“Setting up translations for a new Ubuntu release involves the movement of massive amounts of data, often with complex interrelationships. You don’t just pick it up and put it somewhere else; people continue to add, review, and edit translations while we try to make a faithful copy of the previous release’s current translation state. It’s a bit like keeping a business running normally while one of its largest departments is moving to a new office, or painting a picture of a group of people who continue to move around normally.”

Thanks to some great work from the Launchpad Translations team, they can now import a new Ubuntu release’s translation strings without taking Launchpad offline. This means that translations for future Ubuntu releases will open as soon as the Ubuntu developer team is ready.

Daily language pack updates

Throughout Gutsy’s development, the Ubuntu team plan to release daily language pack updates through the official repositories. Gutsy users will receive these daily updates as standard.

Daily updates will be a great way for Ubuntu translators to see their work in place almost straight away. Once Gutsy is released as Ubuntu 7.10, its official language pack updates will be sent once a month.