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| = Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue # 13 = Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter - Issue # for the week of Sept 3 - 10 2006 You can always find this and other Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter == In This Issue == == General Community News == === Upstart goes live === Scott James Remnant threw the switch early this week and made upstart the default init for Edgy. == Security Updates == == Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates == == New Apps In Edgy == Edgy sees GNOME 2.16 this week, uploads of which started on the 3rd and continued all the way through the formal release of GNOME 2.16 on the 7th. GNOME uploading team Sebastian Holbach were reportedly up very early some mornings, eager to beat each to packaging more of GNOME. It used to be that when you popped an Ubuntu cd in, it would ask you if you wanted to upgrade, even if you had put a 4.10 cd in your 5.10 computer. Michael Vogt has finally fixed this and thus renabled support for this feature in '''update-notifier 0.43.1'''. Over the past several weeks the KDE Guidance team has been working on usability of the tools, which has resulted in several straight-from-SVN uploads by various Kubuntu developers, including Anthony Mercatante. Other new releases include: mono 1.1.17.1 dbh 4.5.0 == Ubuntu == == Kubuntu == == Edubuntu == == Xubuntu == == Launchpad News == /!\ NO CLUE what I'm doing, edit at will! -- kiko ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Highlights ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Welcome to another round of Launchpad updates. This has been an even busier three weeks, and the list of changes below seems to go on forever! === Bug tracking === Let's start out by covering a feature in our bug tracker I would like to call your attention to. The advanced search page for bugs now provides a set of interesting options for people managing bugs for a distribution: filtering based on status of remote bugs and upstream reports linked to your bug. Launchpad now offers three new filtering options: * Bugs that need to be linked upstream Ubuntu URL: http://tinyurl.com/oavke The first option is very useful for the bug triage team: it points out bugs that have been identified as upstream issues but for which no remote bug watch has been established yet. * Bugs that are closed upstream: Ubuntu URL: http://tinyurl.com/kdjx7 This option is useful for package maintainers: it points out bugs that have been marked as resolved (or rejected) upstream. These bugs are prime candidates for packaging work, because all that's needed to fix the issue is package a new version. * Bugs not known to affect upstream: Ubuntu URL: http://tinyurl.com/l49be This option lists bugs which have not been identified as upstream issues; this is currently the vast majority of bugs open on Ubuntu. This update also provides us with a number of improvements to bug tags: creating a new tag now offers a confirmation step, you can do advanced searches for tags, and the portlet listing bug tags includes counts of open bugs. === Translations === On the translations front, we are (finally) proud to announce the opening of Edgy translations in Rosetta! After a lot of hard work in getting the initial data setup right, and processing a billion uploaded templates and translations, Rosetta is now offering translators with a new distribution release to work on, but without losing the work that was done in Dapper. Rosetta now also displays the identity of the person who entered the latest version of an approved translation for a string. This allows translation reviewers to assess work done and provide feedback to translators, tightening the process of getting top quality translations. === Support === A number of important changes also went live on the support tracker this week. If you visit the Ubuntu page for tickets at: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+tickets you'll notice that the display is now formatted using a table, which provides a much more compact display of tickets. It also allows for simple searching and ordering through tickets, one of the top requested features for the support tracker; as an example you can see open tickets sorted newest first at: http://tinyurl.com/hjba2 New support requests now go through a guided process, which first tries to locate similar reports, avoiding duplicates and helping users get answers faster. You can test this for yourself on our staging server: https://staging.launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+addticket and entering a summary; the next step will list similar tickets, if they are found. Also new in the support area is the fact that Karma is properly attributed to people providing answers and updating tickets; the listings will soon be updated to include the top contributors in this area as well. === Other news === Other noteworthy updates: the official URL for the specification tracker has been changed to http://features.launchpad.net/ as part of our branding cleanup. A /very/ serious amount of work went into refactoring and cleanup of Soyuz, our distribution management system, and we are currently in the process of running our first smoketest to verify that the changes were successful (and we caught a performance regression already). On the branch management front you can now safely change branch metadata without causing imports to fail; this should make the feature more robust over time and is one of the first practical benefits of the bzr transition. Finally, handling of OpenPGP and SSH keys has been overhauled and sanitized; if you had trouble registering keys, or signing the Code of Conduct, now would be a great time to test and provide us with feedback. Again, I'll close by reminding people of the launchpad-users mailing list which is shared between developers and users of Launchpad: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/launchpad-users Come help us define what Launchpad should become. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Read the full announcement, including a detailed changelog, at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2006-September/000606.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ == Bug Stats == New Bugs: # [[BR]] Closed Bugs: # === Infamous Bugs === == In The Press == == Feature Of The Week - ??? == == Additional News Resources == As always you can find more news and announcements at: http://www.ubuntu.com/news and http://fridge.ubuntu.com/ == Conclusion == Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. See you next week! == Credits == The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by: * Corey Burger * Christian Reis * anyone else that contributes * And many others == Feedback == This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Marketing Team. Please feel free to contact us regarding any concerns or suggestions by either sending an email to ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com or by using any of the other methods on the [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MarketingTeam Ubuntu Marketing Team Contact Information Page]. |
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