Issue220
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue ## for the week MONTH DAY - DAY, YEAR. In this issue we cover ...
In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (88703) +8170 over last week
- Critical (32) -6 over last week
- Unconfirmed (49470) +3942 over last week
* Open (88764) +8231 over last week * Open (88456) +7923 over last week * Open (88237) +7704 over last week * Open (86978) +6445 over last week * Open (86961) +6428 over last week * Open (85842) +5309 over last week * Open (86550) +6017 over last week * Open (86579) +6046 over last week * Open (86580) +6047 over last week * Open (85603) +5070 over last week * Open (84023) +3490 over last week * Open (83340) +2807 over last week * Open (83331) +2798 over last week * Open (83533) +3000 over last week * Open (83533) +3000 over last week * Open (83529) +2996 over last week * Open (83284) +2751 over last week * Open (82915) +2382 over last week * Open (82388) +1855 over last week * Open (81686) +1153 over last week * Open (81403) +870 over last week * Open (81396) +863 over last week * Open (81009) +476 over last week * Open (81001) +468 over last week * Open (80991) +458 over last week * Open (80473) -60 over last week * Open (80408) -125 over last week * Open (80400) -133 over last week As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
Translation Stats Lucid
- English (UK) (7) -4379 over last week
- Spanish (5891) -2803 over last week
- Brazilian Portuguese (27264) -2713 over last week
- French (34564) -4996 over last week
- Turkish (43316) -8071 over last week
1. English (UK) (7) -4379 over last week 1. English (UK) (7) -4379 over last week 1. English (UK) (7) -4379 over last week 1. English (UK) (7) -4379 over last week 1. English (UK) (7) -4379 over last week 1. English (UK) (7) -4379 over last week 1. English (UK) (2) -4384 over last week 1. English (UK) (2) -4384 over last week 1. English (UK) (2) -4384 over last week 1. English (UK) (2) -4384 over last week 1. English (UK) (20) -4366 over last week 1. English (UK) (20) -4366 over last week 1. English (UK) (20) -4366 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week 1. English (UK) (1) -4385 over last week Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/
Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week
Use HTTPS for all Ubuntu websites (like brainstorm.ubuntu.com, ubuntuforums.org) - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28020/
.Trash clearing on usb storage for new files - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27999/
Generating grub.cfg several times increases update times - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/27982/
Fullscreen text terminals (tty) are too small on larger screens - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28015/
Limited amount of space for elements in the Unity Launcher - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/28005/
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
Laura Czajkowski: LoCo Team re approvals are underway
1 week after being announced, 3 LoCo teams out of a total of 27 teams have submitted applications for re-approval. The LoCo Council is using bugs on Launchpad to track re-approval statuatuses. Teams can also request to have their applications reviewed at the LoCo Council's monthly IRC meeting: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/Agenda
More information can be found at: http://www.lczajkowski.com/?p=1037
Alan Bell: Ubuntu UK LoCo CDs
Alan Bell announced that while his chickens might enjoy playing with the CDs, the Ubuntu UK LoCo would rather send them to people who need them. People on dialup can request a CD by emailing alanbell [at] ubuntu.com with a clear subject saying you would like a CD and then sending a stamped self-addressed envelope large enough to hold a CD to the address he replies with. The LoCo will also be giving CDs to people distributing recycled PCs pre-installed with Ubuntu so that they can also include a CD with the computer, and to people representing Ubuntu at events and conferences.
More information can be found at: http://www.theopensourcerer.com/?p=2937
Launchpad News
Coming soon: improved bug subscriptions
Due to some bugs, the Launchpad developers have decided to postpone taking the new subscription system out of beta. The new plan is to take it live on June 8th, which will allow them to fix these last few issues. You can join the beta team (https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-beta-testers) if you are interested in helping to test the new subscription system early.
More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=2490
Congrats, nigelb and chrisjohnston!
Chris Johnston and Nigel Babu just got their first changes into Launchpad. To quote Jonathan (jml) Lange's talk (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Cxs9OHIBcs&t=17m44s) from UDS:
"I’m not going to kid you, [changing Launchpad is] not easy but it’s sooo worth it, you get to help all these people and you get thunderous applause like I did earlier, and really should have gone to those five guys."
More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=2467
Tilde or not tilde
The Launchpad developers are looking to try and clarify who is who when two people share the same real name by also displaying the unique Launchpad ID in the person picker and at the top of the profile pages. Based on the results of a recent survey to try and determine whether to display a tilde (~) before the ID to clarify that it is a person, they have learned that a vast majority of users do not think the tilde is needed. The Teal Squad will now process these results and work on implementing this.
More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/?p=2514
Countdown to the pie
Developers are racing to fix 203 critical bugs before the Dublin Thunderdome in one month. So far, they have been fixing these bugs at a rate of about 12 per week, which would allow them to meet their goal in about 18 weeks (3 months too late). If they do manage to meet this goal, Jono, Ted, and Neil have each agreed to take a pie in the face.
More information can be found at: http://blog.launchpad.net/general/countdown-to-the-pie
Ubuntu Forums News
The Planet
The Fridge: Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) end-of-life reached on April 30, 2011
Kate Stewart announced that the support period for Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) officially ended on May 1, 2011. There will no longer be Security Notices or updated packages released for it. Information about upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) is available here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LucidUpgrades
More information can be found here: http://ubuntu-news.org/?p=3640
Jono Bacon: Future LoCo Team Portal Plans
Jono discusses his plans to make the LoCo Directory more tab-worthy, a hub of activity, and to encourage teams to share updates and other achievements. He is going to be having phone calls with several people to try and make these goals a reality. He has also prepared an initial design for how this LoCo Team Portal could look.
More information can be found here: http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/05/26/future-loco-team-portal-plans/
Ara Pulido: Ubuntu Friendly Squad
The Ubuntu Friendly program (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFriendly) is a community-driven hardware validation program. They have just created the Ubuntu Friendly Squad (https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-friendly-squad) for people to start participating in the program. People participating at this stage will be helping to get the team organized. There is a mailing list and a Launchpad project (https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-friendly) for people interested in getting involved.
More information can be found here: http://arapulido.com/?p=389
Dustin Kirkland: key-mon, now in the Ubuntu Oneiric Archive
key-mon, a tool for adding live on-screen keyboard and mouse status for screencasts and other presentations, has been uploaded to the Ubuntu Oneiric repositories. Install it and run it from Applications -> Graphics -> KeyMon or with the key-mon command from a command line.
More information can be found here: http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2011/05/key-mon-now-in-ubuntu-oneiric-archive.html
Mackenzie Morgan: User Experience Survey
Mackenzie, along with members from various parts of the community, has created a survey to help people working on the many aspects of Ubuntu determine areas in need of improvement.
The survey can be found here: https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGRLSmxTQ05VYzh6NmdBN3BsakhpM3c6MQ#gid=0
And translations of the survey can be sent to maco [DOT] m [AT] ubuntu [DOT] com with a subject that clearly indicates that you are sending translations.
Translated versions and eventually results will appear at http://people.ubuntu.com/~maco.m/survey.html
More information can be found at: http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com/2011/05/user-experience-survey.html
Jorge Castro: Advert team survey
The Ubuntu Advertisements Team (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuAdverts) is running a user experience survey. You can find it here: http://bit.ly/lZk5xw
More information can be found at: http://castrojo.tumblr.com/post/5766647068
Daniel Holbach: Getting people involved
Daniel discusses his top 3 ideas for getting people involved in contributing to Ubuntu. They are:
- The project needs to be exciting. The atmosphere needs to be welcoming and friendly.
- The documentation needs to be clear.
- Contributors need to find their first tasks easily.
He also mentions that people are still actively working on revamping the Packaging Guide and that the ubuntu-dev-tools package contains a bitesize script for marking bugs that are appropriate for new contributors to work on.
More information can be found at: http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/?p=1000
Jono Bacon: Community Team Plans For Oneiric
Jono talks about the different projects that the members of the community team (Jono Bacon, Daniel Holbach, Jorge Castro, David Planella, and Ahmed Kamal) will be working on during the Oneiric development cycle. Some other misceclaneous activities that they will be working on include:
- A mentoring program
- Various Classroom events
- Release Parties
- Ubuntu Developer Summit
and bringing LoCo teams to the next level
More information can be found at: http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=3415
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Featured Podcasts
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Ubuntu Desktop Team Meeting Minutes for May 24th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2011-05-24
Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting Minutes from May 26th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileTeam/Meeting/2010/20110526
Ubuntu Server Team Meeting Minutes for May 24th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20110524
Ubuntu Kernel Team Meeting Minutes for May 24th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting/2011-05-24
Ubuntu Release Team Meeting Minutes for May 25th, 2011 - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-05-25
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Monday, 30 May 2011
Security Team Catch-up
- Start: 17:00 UTC
- End: 17:30 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
- Agenda: nothing formal, just a weekly catch-up. Weekly Ubuntu Security Team catch-up meeting. Anyone is welcome to join if they want to watch, contribute, etc.
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting
- Start: 13:00 UTC
- End: 14:00 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Server Team IRC Meeting
- Start: 16:00 UTC
- End: 17:00 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
- Agenda: Not listed as of publication
Desktop Team Meeting
- Start: 16:30 UTC
- End: 17:30 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-desktop on irc.freenode.net
Kernel Team Meeting
- Start: 17:00 UTC
- End: 18:00 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
- Agenda: Not listed as of publication
App Review Board Meeting
- Start: 18:00 UTC
- End: 19:00 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Wednesday, 1 June 2011
Ubuntu Cloud Community and Q+A Meeting
- Start: 14:00 UTC
- End: 15:00 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-cloud on irc.freenode.net
- Agenda: Not listed as of publication
Weekly Ubuntu QA Team Meeting
- Start: 17:00 UTC
- End: 18:00 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Jono Bacon @ Home Videocast: Various Topics and Q+A
- Start: 18:00 UTC
- End: 19:00 UTC
Location: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/at-home-with-jono-bacon
- Ageda: This is a weekly videocast by the Ubuntu Community Manager, Jono Bacon in which he discusses a range of topics and also provides a regular weekly Q+A.
Thursday, 2 June 2011
Ayatana UX Team Meeting
- Start: 12:00 UTC
- End: 12:30 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
- Agenda: 1.) Introductions, 2.) Re
view Team Charter, 3.) Organize first UX activity, 4.) Brainstorm future UX activities
Ubuntu Translations Meeting
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:00 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TranslatingUbuntu/Events/Meetings
Technical Board Meeting
- Start: 18:00 UTC
- End: 19:00 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
- Agenda: Not listed as of publication
Friday, 3 June 2011
Oneiric Release Meeting
- Start: 15:00 UTC
- End: 16:30 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Weekly Q+A
- Start: 16:30 UTC
- End: 17:30 UTC
- Location: #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net
Unity Developer Q+A
- Start: 18:00 UTC
- End: 19:00 UTC
- Location: #ayatana on irc.freenode.net
- Agenda: Not listed as of publication
Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 9.04, 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10
Security Updates
USN-1133-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1133-1
USN-1134-1: APR vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1134-1
USN-1135-1: Exim vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1135-1
USN-1136-1: rdesktop vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1136-1
USN-1137-1: Eucalyptus vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1137-1
USN-1138-1: DBus-GLib vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1138-1
USN-1138-2: NetworkManager and ModemManager update - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1138-2
Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
apache2 2.0.55-4ubuntu2.13 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2011-May/012916.html
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
adobeair 2.0.2.12610-1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2011-May/012658.html
apr 1.2.11-1ubuntu0.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2011-May/012659.html
dbus-glib 0.74-2ubuntu0.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2011-May/012660.html
network-manager 0.6.6-0ubuntu5.8.04.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2011-May/012661.html
Ubuntu 9.04 Updates
- None Reported
Ubuntu 9.10 Updates
- None Reported
Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
debootstrap 1.0.20ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012313.html
apr 1.3.8-1ubuntu0.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012314.html
rdesktop 1.6.0-2ubuntu3.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012315.html
exim4 4.71-3ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012316.html
rampart 1.3.0-0ubuntu7.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012317.html
eucalyptus 1.6.2-0ubuntu30.5 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012318.html
zarafa 6.40.8-27223-0lucid1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012319.html
dbus-glib 0.84-1ubuntu0.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012320.html
modemmanager 0.3-0ubuntu2.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012321.html
network-manager 0.8-0ubuntu3.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/lucid-changes/2011-May/012322.html
Ubuntu 10.10 Updates
apr 1.4.2-3ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-May/009474.html
rdesktop 1.6.0-3ubuntu2.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-May/009475.html
exim4 4.72-1ubuntu1.3 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-May/009476.html
rampart 1.3.0-1ubuntu1.1 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-May/009477.html
eucalyptus 2.0+bzr1241-0ubuntu4.2 - https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/maverick-changes/2011-May/009478.html
UWN Translations
- Note to translators and our readers please follow the link below for the information you need.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations
Subscribe
Get your copy of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter delivered each week to you via email at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-news
Archives and RSS Feed
You can always find older Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter issues at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter
You can subscribe to the Ubuntu Weekly News via RSS at: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/uwn/feed
Additional Ubuntu News
As always you can find more news and announcements at:
and
Conclusion
Thank you for reading the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter.
See you next week!
Credits
The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:
- Nathan Handler
- Liraz Siri
- Jens Leineweber
- And many others
Glossary of Terms
Other acronyms can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/glossary
Ubuntu - Get Involved
The Ubuntu community consists of individuals and teams, working on different aspects of the distribution, giving advice and technical support, and helping to promote Ubuntu to a wider audience. No contribution is too small, and anyone can help. It's your chance to get in on all the community fun associated with developing and promoting Ubuntu. http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate
Feedback
This document is maintained by the Ubuntu Weekly News Team. If you have a story idea or suggestions for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list at https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-news-team and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Ideas. If you'd like to contribute to a future issue of the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, please feel free to edit the appropriate wiki page. If you have any technical support questions, please send them to ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com.
Except where otherwise noted, content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License Creative Commons License 3.0 BY SA