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| === Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala === | === Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala: Mark Shuttleworth === Mark Shuttleworth has announce the code name for Ubuntu 9.10 will be '''Karmic Koala'''. Here is an overview of what is in the planning for this new, "Cuddly Bear" version of Ubuntu. Server: A good Koala knows how to see the wood for the trees, even when her head is in the clouds. Ubuntu aims to keep free software at the forefront of cloud computing by embracing the API's of Amazon EC2, and making it easy for anybody to setup their own cloud using entirely open tools. We're currently in beta with official Ubuntu base AMI's for use on Amazon EC2. During the Karmic cycle we want to make it easy to deploy applications into the cloud, with ready to-run appliances or by quickly assembling a custom image. Ubuntu-vmbuilder makes it easy to create a custom AMI today, but a portfolio of standard image profiles will allow easier collaboration between people doing similar things on EC2. Wouldn't it be apt for Ubuntu to make the Amazon jungle as easy to navigate as, say, APT? What if you want to build an EC2-style cloud of your own? Of all the trees in the wood, a Koala's favourite leaf is Eucalyptus. The Eucalyptus project, from UCSB, enables you to create an EC2-style cloud in your own data center, on your own hardware. It's no coincidence that Eucalyptus has just been uploaded to universe and will be part of Jaunty - during the Karmic cycle we expect to make those clouds dance, with dynamically growing and shrinking resource allocations depending on your needs. A savvy Koala knows that the best way to conserve energy is to go to sleep, and these days even servers can suspend and resume, so imagine if we could make it possible to build a cloud computing facility that drops its energy use virtually to zero by napping in the midday heat, and waking up when there's work to be done. No need to drink at the energy fountain when there's nothing going on. If we get all of this right, our Koala will help take the edge off the bear market. Let me invite you to join the server team at UDS in Barcelona, when they'll be defining the exact set of features to ship in October. First impressions count. We're eagerly following the development of kernel mode setting, which promises a smooth and flicker free startup. We'll consider options like Red Hat's Plymouth, for graphical boot on all the cards that support it. We made a splash years ago with Usplash, but it's time to move to something newer and shinier. So the good news is, boot will be beautiful. The bad news is, you won't have long to appreciate it! It only takes 35 days to make a whole Koala, so we think it should be possible to bring up a stylish desktop much faster. The goal for Jaunty on a netbook is 25 seconds, so let's see how much faster we can get you all the way to a Koala desktop. We're also hoping to deliver a new login experience that complements the graphical boot, and works well for small groups as well as very large installations. For those of you who can relate to Mini Me, or already have a Dell Mini, the Ubuntu Netbook Edition will be updated to include all the latest technology from Moblin, and tuned to work even better on screens that are vertically challenged. With millions of Linux netbooks out there, we have been learning and adapting usability to make the Koala cuddlier than ever. We also want to ensure that the Netbook Remix installs easily and works brilliantly on all the latest netbook hardware, so consider this a call for testing Ubuntu 9.04. The desktop will have a designer's fingerprints all over it - we're now beginning the serious push to a new look. Brown has served us well but the Koala is considering other options. |
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #130 for the week February 15th - February 21st, 2009. In this issue we cover ...
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In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu 9.10 - Karmic Koala: Mark Shuttleworth
Mark Shuttleworth has announce the code name for Ubuntu 9.10 will be Karmic Koala. Here is an overview of what is in the planning for this new, "Cuddly Bear" version of Ubuntu.
Server: A good Koala knows how to see the wood for the trees, even when her head is in the clouds. Ubuntu aims to keep free software at the forefront of cloud computing by embracing the API's of Amazon EC2, and making it easy for anybody to setup their own cloud using entirely open tools. We're currently in beta with official Ubuntu base AMI's for use on Amazon EC2. During the Karmic cycle we want to make it easy to deploy applications into the cloud, with ready to-run appliances or by quickly assembling a custom image. Ubuntu-vmbuilder makes it easy to create a custom AMI today, but a portfolio of standard image profiles will allow easier collaboration between people doing similar things on EC2. Wouldn't it be apt for Ubuntu to make the Amazon jungle as easy to navigate as, say, APT?
What if you want to build an EC2-style cloud of your own? Of all the trees in the wood, a Koala's favourite leaf is Eucalyptus. The Eucalyptus project, from UCSB, enables you to create an EC2-style cloud in your own data center, on your own hardware. It's no coincidence that Eucalyptus has just been uploaded to universe and will be part of Jaunty - during the Karmic cycle we expect to make those clouds dance, with dynamically growing and shrinking resource allocations depending on your needs. A savvy Koala knows that the best way to conserve energy is to go to sleep, and these days even servers can suspend and resume, so imagine if we could make it possible to build a cloud computing facility that drops its energy use virtually to zero by napping in the midday heat, and waking up when there's work to be done. No need to drink at the energy fountain when there's nothing going on. If we get all of this right, our Koala will help take the edge off the bear market. Let me invite you to join the server team at UDS in Barcelona, when they'll be defining the exact set of features to ship in October.
First impressions count. We're eagerly following the development of kernel mode setting, which promises a smooth and flicker free startup. We'll consider options like Red Hat's Plymouth, for graphical boot on all the cards that support it. We made a splash years ago with Usplash, but it's time to move to something newer and shinier. So the good news is, boot will be beautiful. The bad news is, you won't have long to appreciate it! It only takes 35 days to make a whole Koala, so we think it should be possible to bring up a stylish desktop much faster. The goal for Jaunty on a netbook is 25 seconds, so let's see how much faster we can get you all the way to a Koala desktop. We're also hoping to deliver a new login experience that complements the graphical boot, and works well for small groups as well as very large installations.
For those of you who can relate to Mini Me, or already have a Dell Mini, the Ubuntu Netbook Edition will be updated to include all the latest technology from Moblin, and tuned to work even better on screens that are vertically challenged. With millions of Linux netbooks out there, we have been learning and adapting usability to make the Koala cuddlier than ever. We also want to ensure that the Netbook Remix installs easily and works brilliantly on all the latest netbook hardware, so consider this a call for testing Ubuntu 9.04. The desktop will have a designer's fingerprints all over it - we're now beginning the serious push to a new look. Brown has served us well but the Koala is considering other options.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-February/000536.html
UDS Karmic Koala
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/02/19/announcing-the-karmic-koala-ubuntu-developer-summit/ (be sure to include this link to the UDS Wiki page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSKarmic)
Jaunty feature freeze in effect - Alpha 5 freeze ahead
The Feature Freeze is now in effect for Jaunty. The focus from here until release is on fixing bugs and polishing. If you believe that a new package, a new upstream version of a package, or a new feature is needed for the release and will not introduce more problems than it fixes, please follow the Freeze Exception Process by filing bugs and subscribing ubuntu-release or motu-release as appropriate, or by contacting a designated delegate. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-February/000533.html
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess
Please also make sure that specs assigned to you for Jaunty are updated to their current status (which should be at least Beta Available if not Deferred, or unless granted a freeze exception). https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/
The next testing milestone, Jaunty Alpha 5, is scheduled for next Thursday, February 26. Jaunty Alpha 5 will again use a "soft freeze" for main. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-January/000363.html This means that developers are asked to refrain from uploading packages between Tuesday and Thursday which don't bring us closer to releasing the alpha, so that these days can be used for settling the archive and fixing any remaining showstoppers. The list of bugs targeted for alpha-5 can be found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/+bugs?field.milestone=2213
Per the policy described at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RCBugTargetting, this list is used for tracking bugs that are blockers for the alpha 5 milestone - so as you can see, the list is currently quite short. If you know of other bugs that should be considered blockers, please nominate them for release and set the milestone target for those bugs. If you have questions about whether a bug should be considered a blocker, please contact a member of the release team. https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/+members
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-February/000534.html
New Ubuntu Members - Americas Board
The following is to report on the Membership meeting held by the Membership Board of Americas. The board noted the great amount of support for the applicants from great people in the community. We are pleased to present the new members of the Ubuntu Project.
Dave Bush(myrtlebeach) - Dave is an LPI level 1 certified on his way to UCP certification, and he currently work as a Infrastructure Engineer at the Myrtle Beach office of a network security company based in Atlanta, GA. He is an active participant in the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. He currently takes care of The Blogosphere, In Other News. He had previously worked with the Security and Updates listings. He is a member of the Ubuntu South Carolina Team (US team). Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~myrtlebeachbums Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DaveBush2
Kenny McHenry(kennymc0) - Kenny recently graduated in DeVry University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Electronics Engineering Technology at the end of October 2008. His significant participation in Ubuntu is through his Arizona LoCo team work, and his contributions to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter team. He has helped the Arizona Team organize release parties and other events, and he has also contributed to the teams website. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~kennymc0 Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kennymc0
Michael Lustfield(MTecknology) - Michael is the current LoCo team Contact for Ubuntu South Dakota LoCo Team. He is working hard on promoting the team nad has even set up a website. His contributions are also noticeable in the LoCo-Drupal project. He is a very active bug squasher. Michael had applied for membership a couple of months ago and he was told to try again in the future. His contributions to Ubuntu have surpassed the expectations of the Council. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~MTecknology Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MTecknology
Chris Crisafulli(itnet7) - Chris is the LoCo team contact for the Florida Team. He is currently very active in participating in events across the state and the country. He belongs to other LUGs and SIGs where he actively promotes Ubuntu. He is also working on bugs and he is encouraging Bug Jams and other events in his region. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~itnet7 Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/itnet7
The Membership Board of Americas bids welcome to these great community contributors. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-February/000415.html
Next Ubuntu Hug Day
Here is the information for the next Ubuntu BugDay:
- Date: 26th of February, 2009
- Target: Apport bug with failed traces
- IRC: #ubuntu-bugs
Remember, you can't contribute if you don't participate. Get involved and help squash those pesky bugs! https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-February/000416.html
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 Jaunty
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Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/
Translation Stats Intrepid
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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
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Top 5 teams for the past 7 days
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5-A-Day stats provided by Daniel Holbach. See http://daniel.holba.ch/5-a-day-stats/
Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
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Ubuntu Brainstorm is a community site geared toward letting you add your ideas for Ubuntu. You can submit your own idea, or vote for or against another idea. http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
LoCo News
Global Bug Jam Chicago
The Ubuntu Chicago Global Bug Jam was held Feb. 20th, 2009. It was a great day for all, with people still showing up at 8:15 PM. There are pics and the link below, and more here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nixternal/sets/72157614128315299/
http://blog.nixternal.com/2009.02.20/ubuntu-chicago-global-bug-jam-kicks-off/
Global Bug Jam - Berlin
Berlin had a great Global Bug Jam and was termed Rockin by some who attended. Lots of bugs got terminated by the group. Pictures at the link.
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=368
New in Jaunty Jackalope: Mark Shuttleworth
New Notification
Thanks to the concerted efforts of Martin Pitt, Sebastien Bacher and several others, notify-osd and several related components landed in Jaunty last week. Notify-OSD handles both application notifications and keyboard special keys like brightness and volume.
MPT has posted an overview of the conceptual framework for “attention management” at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotificationDesignGuidelines, which puts ephemeral notification into context as just one of several distinct tools that applications can use when they don’t have the focus but need to make users aware of something. That’s a draft, and when it’s at 1.0 we’ll move it to a new site which will host design patterns on Canonical.com.
There is also a detailed specification for our implementation of the notification display agent, notify-osd, which can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD and which defines not only the expected behaviour of notify-osd but also all of the consequential updates we need to make across the packages in main an universe to ensure that those applications use notification and other techniques consistently.
There are at least 35 apps that need tweaking, and there may well be others! If you find an app that isn’t using notifications elegantly, please add it to the notification design guidelines page, and if you file a bug on the package, please tag it “notifications” so we can track these issues in a single consistent way.
Together with notify-osd, we’ve uploaded a new panel indicator which is used to provide a way to respond to messaging events, such as email and IRC pings. If someone IM’s you, then you should see an ephemeral notification, and the messaging indicator will give you a way to respond immediately. Same for email. Pidgin and Evolution are the primary focuses of the work, over time we’ll broaden that to the full complement of IM and email apps in the archive - patches welcome.
There will be rough patches. Apps which don’t comply with the FreeDesktop.org spec and send actions on notifications even when the display agent says it does not support them, will have their notifications translated into alerts. Thanks very much to all involved! And thanks to David Barth, Mirco Muller and Ted Gould who lead the development of notify-osd and the related messaging indicator. There is a screen shot at the link.
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/265
Launchpad News
Meet Martin Albisetti
http://blog.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-martin-albisetti
AJAX in Launchpad
http://blog.launchpad.net/coming-features/ajax-in-launchpad
Ubuntu Forums News
In The Press
Mark Shuttleworth interview - We are our own worst enemy
http://video.golem.de/desktop-applikationen/1875/mark-shuttleworth-interview-(part-one).html
http://video.golem.de/desktop-applikationen/1876/mark-shuttleworth-interview-(part-two).html
Ubuntu 9.04 will not ship with Linux 2.6.29 Kernel
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=NzA1OA
Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala will eat tasty eucalytus
Linux, nComputing and overheated classrooms
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/linux_ncomputin.html (Ubuntu is highlighted in the next to the last paragraph)
In The Blogosphere
Does Ubuntu have the "Guts" to beat Apple
http://www.buntfu.com/news,page,59,topic_id,content_pages
Exploring Ubuntu 9.04
http://certcities.com/editorial/columns/story.asp?EditorialsID=352
Google Android - Pushing Ubuntu off of Netbooks?
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/02/17/google-android-pushing-ubuntu-off-netbooks/ (Use the part under: Canonical's new competitor)
First Look: Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/02/17/first-look-ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope/
HP to certify Ubuntu Server Edition for Pro``Liant servers
http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=4160
In Other News
Canonical's April 2009 Surprise - More than Ubuntu 9.04
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/02/19/canonicals-saas-landscape-upgrade-managing-ubuntu-from-afar/
Barcelona - Canonical discusses Ubuntu Mobile Internet Devices
Meeting Summaries
Technical Board Meeting
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TeamReports/February2009
QA Team Meeting
http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/32
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Monday, February 23, 2009
LoCo Council Meeting
- Start: 20:00 UTC
- End: 21:00 UTC
- Location: None listed as of publication
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
Technical Board Meeting
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:00 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
Server Team Meeting
- Start: 16:00 UTC
- End: 17:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Desktop Team Meeting
- Start: 16:30 UTC
- End: 17:30 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop
Kernel Team Meeting
- Start: 17:00 UTC
- End: 18:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: Not listed as of publication
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Foundation Team Meeting
- Start: 16:00 UTC
- End: 17:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
QA Team Meeting
- Start: 17:00 UTC
- End: 18:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Jaunty Alpha 5
Ubuntu Bug Day
- Location: #ubuntu-bugs
Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
- Start: 12:00 UTC
- End: 13:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
Ubuntu Java Meeting
- Start: 14:00 UTC
- End: 15:00 UTC
- Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
MC Meeting
- Start: 17:00 UTC
- End: 18:00 UTC
- Location: None listed as of publication
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
Friday, February 27, 2009
REVU Day
Location: http://revu.ubuntuwire.com/
Jaunty Weekly Release Meeting
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:00 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-meeting
- Agenda: Non listed as of publication
Saturday, February 28, 2009
LoCo Team Meeting
- Start: 17:00 UTC
- End: 18:00 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-locoteams
- Agenda: None listed as of publication
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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