News

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Developer News

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There are occasions when something would be of interest to a large portion of the development community, but is not worth a post to ubuntu-devel-announce@. For these cases you are invited to mail the Ubuntu news team with the item. These will then be collected and sent out to ubuntu-devel-announce@ in batches when there are enough to warrant it.

If the item is of wider interest to the Ubuntu community then the news team will take it and may use it in something like the UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter.

Items of interest

  • Upcoming or completed transitions, major new versions or new packages in the archive.
  • Success at things like triaging all bugs for a particular set of packages, or fixing all build failures on an architecture.
  • Availability of a new tool in ubuntu-dev-tools that may save people some time.
  • Summaries of mailing list discussions.
  • Events in Debian that may be of interest.

Submitting an item

  • Write a draft of the item. Typically it will be 1-3 paragraphs with links for more information. It doesn't have to be perfect.

  • Send the item to ubuntu-news-team@lists.ubuntu.com starting the subject with "[Developer]". The list is moderated for non-subscribers. The list is low traffic, and subscribing would allow you to help with the next section.

  • Maybe work with the editors to provide some more information or clarify some things.
  • If the item is time sensitive then you can state this, but in that case it may be best to send it yourself.

Aggregating items

  • Take the items that have been received since the last mail went out and pull them in to one mail using the template below.

  • Send out the mail to ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com

  • Add the items to the top of the archive at the bottom of this page.

More people are needed to help with this task. Subscribe to the ubuntu-news-team list and keep an eye on articles. When there are 4 or 5 outstanding then do the above.

If there are not enough submissions to do at least one a month then we either need to encourage more submissions or do more newsworthy things.

Template

Subject: Ubuntu Developer News Issue <x>

Welcome to Ubuntu Developer News issue number <x>. For past items or
to submit your own please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/News.
In this issue we have

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Archive

Issue 1

Welcome to the first edition of Ubuntu Developer News (a.k.a the Keybuk-repeater). For past items or to submit your own please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/News More submissions for the developer news would be very much appreciated.

In this issue we have

  • Jaunty Developer Week logs available
  • Colin Watson elected to the Technical Board
  • Package bug reporting guidelines in launchpad
  • Testing Days
  • New D-Bus Uploaded
  • Launchpadlib support in ubuntu-dev-tools
  • The removal of /dev/.static/dev
  • udevadm, and why you should stop what you're doing
  • Developer changes

Jaunty Developer Week logs available

  • The Developer Week for Jaunty is almost over, and there have been many great sessions. Logs of all sessions have been kept and they are appearing on the wiki as they are processed. They can provide a useful resource on the topics covered.

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek

Colin Watson elected to the Technical Board

Package bug reporting guidelines in Launchpad

Testing Days

New D-Bus Uploaded

  • Scott James Remnant announced changes to dbus in order to to fix a security problem. This change may impact any package that ships a dbus service, and may cause them to stop working if their service configuration is incorrect, though an attempt was made to audit services to avoid this.

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-January/027220.html

Launchpadlib support in ubuntu-dev-tools

  • Markus Korn and Jonathan Davies worked on integrating launchpadlib in to ubuntu-dev-tools to provide more robust access to Launchpad. It uses different credentials to the current ubuntu-dev-tools, so you will be required to generate new credentials. A new tools was also included to make managing these credentials easier. Work is ongoing to transition all of ubuntu-dev-tools to use launchpadlib.

    https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-January/027186.html

The removal of /dev/.static/dev

udevadm, and why you should stop what you're doing

Developer Changes

  • Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) became a core-dev after his impressive work, mainly in
    • the server team.
  • Stéphane Graber (stgraber) gained upload rights for the LTSP packages in main after
    • being the de-facto maintainer for a long time and recently becoming a MOTU.
  • Thierry Carrez (Koon) became a MOTU after a few months working in the server and
    • Java teams.
  • Iulian Udrea (iulian) after sustained and varied contributions to the MOTU team.