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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #118 for the week November 16th - November 22nd, 2008. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 1 released

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-November/000513.html

The Ubuntu Hall of Fame

http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1407 (Include link to site: http://hall-of-fame.ubuntu.com/)

Ubuntu for the Holidays

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/us-based-shop

New Community Developers

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-November/000282.html (short summary that follows the announcement, be sure to include his launchpad and wiki page links)

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-November/000283.html (same as above)

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (#) +/- # over last week
  • Critical (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
  • Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
  • All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Infamous Bugs

Translation Stats Intrepid

  1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
  5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/

5-a-day bug stats

Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days

  • crimsun (392)
  • maco.m (60)
  • chrisccoulson (47)
  • hew (35)
  • angusthefuzz (29)

Top 5 teams for the past 7 days

  • dcteam (452)
  • ubuntu-au (35)
  • ubuntu-us-ohio (29)
  • ubuntu-pl (15)
  • ubuntu-cl (12)

5-A-Day stats provided by Daniel Holbach. See http://daniel.holba.ch/5-a-day-stats/

Kubuntu News

The Kubuntu team had a meeting

Richard "Arby" Birnie (ISO Tester, system-config-printer-kde hacker) and Ralph "txwikinger" Janke (5-a-day hero) were grilled and given membership.

We also discussed specs for UDS, KDE 4.2 Beta packaging, bug status and the kubuntu-users mailing list.

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Meetings/Minutes/2008-11-18

LoCo News

Ubuntu-IR release party

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-November/000284.html

Ubuntu-CO to host it's 1st UbuCon

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-November/000286.html

Ubuntu-ZW host 1st release party

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-November/000287.html

Ubuntu Presentation: Ubuntu Peruvian LoCo

http://roaksoax.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/ubuntu-presentation/

Ubuntu Irish Team release party

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/IntrepidReleaseParty

New in Intrepid Ibex

Launchpad News

Launchpad offline November 24th

http://news.launchpad.net/notifications/launchpad-offline-0300-utc-24th-november

Meet Barry Warsaw

http://news.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-barry-warsaw

OpenID from your Launchpad profile

http://news.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/openid-from-your-launchpad-profile

Launchpad t-shirts

http://news.launchpad.net/general/threaded-development-launchpad-t-shirts

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7729978.stm

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_904_features&num=1

http://www.rpath.com/corp/component/content/article/14-2008-news/293-11192008

http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=3664

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/6040.html

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Ubuntu Podcast #12

http://boredandblogging.com/2008/11/17/ubuntu-podcast-12/

Linux Identity Magazine: Ubuntu Family

http://www.linuxidentity.com/us/index.php

On Distributions, Kubuntu, and KDE

http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/on-distributions-kubuntu-and-kde/

Meeting Summaries

Mobile Team

  • Brutally hack contacts to build a -hildon package Wink ;) . Requires review.

  • On pursuing an acpid cleanup quest we found a module-init-tools bug: modprobe --all foobar would exit 0, but not with --quiet in the flags; the conclusion from this is that initramfs-tools was leaking a lot of environment vars, including MODPROBE_OPTIONS.
  • Tested new python ubuntu-vm-builder and discovered a bunch of small regressions; provided bzr branches for some features and fixed most issues; thanks to Nick for fixing lpia mirror detection!
  • Experimented with use of xdm as a display manager for -MID. Initial results were positive. This will become a spec for Jaunty.
  • Initial filtering of packages to be removed from the archive as part of Moblin 1.0 EOL and general cleanup from gutsy/hardy Mobile efforts.
  • Tried unsuccessfully to find good ways to identify packages that have lpia-specific compilation. Suggestions would be welcome
  • bootstrapped an initial build system based on mojo and built an initial kernel based on the linux-omap tree - rolled the image and published it for intrested developers to help getting ARM ready in the archive.

Japanese Team

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

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