Jane brings us one last report of the “distro sprint” in London, UK, which concluded this past week. As you can see from her past reports, much work was accomplished by the core team this week. Expect to see a great deal of these improvements in the next development snapshot, which has yet to be announced.
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The core team continues to drive development of Ubuntu forward, as Jane continues to keep us updated on the work being done in London. Summaries for Day 4 and Day 5 have been posted, as well as a video of Scott James Remnant's presentation on the kernel, titled New World Order. (Yes, that is a mohawk.)
In related development news, Ian Jackson has posted a status report on an automated testing framework for .deb packages and Adam Conrad is looking for volunteers willing to test a new “madwifi-ng” driver. If you've got an Atheros card in your laptop and are willing to test, then please send Adam your test feedback directly.
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This week the core team has been working out of the Novotel London Excel Hotel, in London, UK, to crank out feature goals for the next release of Ubuntu, version 6.04, aka “Dapper Drake”. Known as a “sprint”, this meeting is decidedly boring from an outsider perspective; no fancy presentations, meetings, or fanfare, just a bunch of hackers working on Ubuntu.
Our consummate reporter, Jane Wiedeman, brings us the gritty details, with Day 1 and 2 and Day 3 summaries of the work being done on Dapper. Lots of good progress being done, stay tuned throughout the rest of the week as we'll be bringing you more status reports.
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We've got two updates for you today, as Jane Weideman dutifully brings us the current development report for the Dapper Drake. Twenty-five specifications have been fully completed, as the core team continues to drive towards release in April.
The human status clock, Dennis Kaarsemaker, also brings us the latest status report from the Community Council. The Ubuntu team continues to swells is ranks, as Edward A. Robinson, Grant Galbraith, Naaman Campbell, Licio Fernando, Anthony Mercante, Manu Cornet, Hou Zhengpeng, and Ming Hua come on board as members of the team.
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Michael Vogt has put in a call for testing for the new upgrade tool for Ubuntu. The general idea is that when a new version of Ubuntu is released, that there should be an easy way to upgrade without manually editing text files. Ruben Vermeersch asked if this tool would be pushed to breezy so that existing users will be able to upgrade to Dapper when it is released; to which Michael replies:
Yes, we plan to make it available in breezy-updates for a breezy->dapper upgrade.
So if you're planning on upgrading to Dapper during the development cycle, this is a good way to help test a feature that will no doubt make upgrading to the new hotness very easy. Michael has also posted screenshots.
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