Issue118
WORK IN PROGRESS
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
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
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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 . 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
Ubuntu 8.10 Japanese Remix CD was released on 31st October. http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/News/ubuntu810-desktop-ja-remix
The Japanese Team exhibited at the Kansai Open Source on 8th November.2008 http://k-of.jp/2008/index.htmlon
In seminar, Hajime Mizuno talked on "Life with Ubuntu" https://launchpad.net/~mizuno-as
- Published:
- New archive/CD image mirror server are deployed.
- Redistributing ubuntu-dvd/ubuntu-umpc too.
- Team member have written articles for following local magazines:
Software Design: Learning Unix Technology- "What is init daemon" http://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2008/200812 and
True face of Ubuntu 8.10 Server: http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/MAG/20081105/318539/
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
UWN #: A sneak peek
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