All About Ubuntu Flavor Development

What makes up the OS

• Seeds and the meta package - the Flavor package set
  • Strategy for package selection (flavor independent)
  • Packaging - uploading, syncing, merging, PPA, bzr, etc
• How ISOs are built (the build server)

Updates

• Bug Fixes
  • Notification of bugs
  • Fixing bugs upstream in Debian and orig source
• SRU - Stable Release Update
• Backports

Quality Assurance

• Testing ISOs (Pre Release)
• Testing new uploads of packages
  • Notification of changes

Feature Development

• Software Development
• Pushing for changes upstream

Artwork

• Development Process

Tools

• flavor development tools