Issue310
WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 310 for the week March 25 - 31, 2013.
In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) server, 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop and 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) reaching End of Life on May 9 2013
Adam Conrad, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the formal End of Life (EOL) dates of Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) server, 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) desktop and 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) desktop and server.
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
- Critical (#) +/- # over last week
- Unconfirmed (#) +/- # 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 Quantal
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
- Language (#) +/- # over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 12.10 "Quantal Quetzal", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal/ and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Translations
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/
Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
Ask (and answer!) your own questions at http://askubuntu.com
LoCo News
Hey North America, Africa, South America, Europe, Asia! Are You On the Map?
Randall Ross writes a series of blog posts calling out to teams in continents throughout the world to get themselves added to the global portal of teams at loco.ubuntu.com.
http://randall.executiv.es/on-the-map-north-america
http://randall.executiv.es/on-the-map-africa
http://randall.executiv.es/on-the-map-south-america
http://randall.executiv.es/on-the-map-europe
http://randall.executiv.es/on-the-map-asia
The Planet
Daniel Holbach: Accompanying a new generation of developers
Daniel Holbach gives an overview of the work done by the Ubuntu Developer Advisory Team in the last three release cycles and makes a call for more volunteers to join them in their efforts to reach out to new contributors, help new contributors get involved and collect feedback on how the development process can be improved for newcomers.
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/03/accompanying-a-new-generation-ofdevelopers/
Rick Spencer: User Interaction with Ubuntu Components
Rick Spencer shows how he used Ubuntu Components to add actions to his Ubuntu Touch app.
http://theravingrick.blogspot.com/2013/03/user-interaction-with-ubuntu-components.html
Jono Bacon: Smart Scopes Not Landing In 13.04, Will Land in 13.10
Jono Bacon reports that the dash team has withdrawn their Feature Freeze Exception (FFE) to allow further time for Smart Scopes to mature before including it as part of Ubuntu. Further time working on the user experience is expected to improve the quality enough for it to launch normally with 13.10.
http://www.jonobacon.org/2013/03/29/smart-scopes-not-landing-in-13-04-will-land-in-13-10/
Nicholas Skaggs: Beta Testing Extraordinaire with Ubuntu Quality
Nicholas Skaggs of the Ubuntu Quality team announces an online testing event for the final beta ISO image on Tuesday April 2nd from 1800-2200 UTC.
http://www.theorangenotebook.com/2013/03/beta-testing-extraordinaire-with-ubuntu.html
Other Community News
Canonical News
In The Press
In The Blogosphere
In Other News
Other Articles of Interest
Featured Audio and Video
Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
Weekly Official Ubuntu Flavors Team Meetings
# Edubuntu Team, Lubuntu, Studio and Xubuntu currently (01/2012) have active regular meetings.
Monthly Team Reports: <MONTH> <YEAR>
Upcoming Meetings and Events
For upcoming meetings and events please visit the calendars at fridge.ubuntu.com: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/
Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04 and 12.10
Security Updates
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
Ubuntu 12.10 Updates
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