Issue314


Contents

  1. In This Issue
  2. General Community News
    1. Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Released
    2. The Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Scorpionfish. Not.
    3. Pablo Rubianes and Marcos Costales appointed to the Loco Council
    4. Welcome New Members and Developers
  3. Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories
    1. Thanks everyone!
  4. Ubuntu Stats
    1. Bug Stats
    2. Ubuntu Brainstorm Top Ideas this week
    3. Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week
  5. LoCo News
    1. Ubucon Latinamerica 2013 will be in Uruguay!
  6. Ubuntu Cloud News
    1. Dave Walker: Ubuntu 13.04 - (Raring Ringtail) - Released
    2. James Page: Ubuntu Cloud Archive Bug Reporting
  7. The Planet
    1. Ubuntu Classroom: Ubuntu Open Week for Raring: Call for Instructors
    2. David Planella: Upcoming Qreator release – call for translations
    3. Jorge Castro: Join us for a virtual Charm School!
    4. Canonical Design Team: Responding to orientation
    5. Ted Gould: Indicators in Upstart
    6. Sergio Meneses: My testing activities in Raring Ringtail
    7. Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: Please don’t add pointless comments to bug reports
    8. Benjamin Kerensa: Ubuntu Documentation: Call for Contributors!
    9. Colin King: Firmware Test Suite New Features in Ubuntu Raring 13.04
  8. In The Press
    1. Canonical says smartphone focus makes Ubuntu 13.04 more efficient
    2. Ubuntu 13.04 available Thursday, brings a streamlined footprint to the forefront (update)
    3. Ubuntu 13.04 'Raring Ringtail' debuts, to be followed by 'Saucy Salamander'
    4. Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) review
    5. Behold Ubuntu Server 13.04: Focus on hypervisors and OpenStack
  9. In The Blogosphere
  10. In Other News
    1. Full Circle Magazine #72 – Sixth Birthday Edition!
    2. LibreOffice Special Edition Volume 02
  11. Other Articles of Interest
  12. Featured Audio and Video
    1. Ubuntu UK Podcast: S06E09 – The Big Ubuntu
    2. [VIDEO] Mark Shuttleworth 'Chillin' on Ubuntu 13.04
  13. Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  14. Upcoming Meetings and Events
  15. Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04
    1. Security Updates
    2. Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
    3. Ubuntu 10.04 Updates
    4. Ubuntu 11.10 Updates
    5. Ubuntu 12.04 Updates
    6. Ubuntu 12.10 Updates
    7. Ubuntu 13.04 Updates
  16. Subscribe
  17. Archives
  18. Additional Ubuntu News
  19. Conclusion
  20. Credits
  21. Glossary of Terms
  22. Ubuntu - Get Involved
  23. Feedback

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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 314 for the week April 22 - 28, 213.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Released
  • The Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Scorpionfish. Not.
  • Pablo Rubianes and Marcos Costales appointed to the Loco Council
  • Welcome New Members and Developers
  • Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories
  • Ubuntu Stats

  • LoCo News

  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Ubuntu Classroom: Ubuntu Open Week for Raring: Call for Instructors
  • David Planella: Upcoming Qreator release – call for translations
  • Jorge Castro: Join us for a virtual Charm School!
  • Canonical Design Team: Responding to orientation
  • Ted Gould: Indicators in Upstart
  • Sergio Meneses: My testing activities in Raring Ringtail
  • Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: Please don’t add pointless comments to bug reports
  • Benjamin Kerensa: Ubuntu Documentation: Call for Contributors!
  • Colin King: Firmware Test Suite New Features in Ubuntu Raring 13.04
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • Other Articles of Interest
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 8.04, 10.04, 11.10, 12.04, 12.10 and 13.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Released

Adam Conrad, member of the Ubuntu Release Team, announces the release of Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail. This release highlights daily quality, and performance improvements, as well as scaling capabilities on Server. More information on those highlights can be found at:

In this email to the ubuntu-announce mailing list, Conrad notes that the following flavors also announced their releases as well.

In this announcement, Conrad also welcomed two new flavors to the Ubuntu archive--Ubuntu GNOME and UbuntuKylin.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2013-April/000171.html

The Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Scorpionfish. Not.

Mark Shuttleworth congratulates the entire extended Ubuntu community for the 13.04 release and reveals the codename for the next Ubuntu release: Saucy Salamander. “The salamander is one of nature’s most magical creatures; they are a strong indicator of a pristine environment, which is a fitting way to describe the new world emerging around Ubuntu Touch. [...] And we’re saucy too – life’s too short to be stodgy or stilted”, states Shuttleworth.

http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1252

Pablo Rubianes and Marcos Costales appointed to the Loco Council

Sergio Meneses announces the newly appointed LoCo Council members--Pablo Rubianes and Marcos Costales. Meneses also thanks all nominees and notes they had great applicants from which to choose as always.

http://lococouncil.ubuntu.com/2013/04/26/pablo-rubianes-and-marcos-costales-appointed-to-the-lococouncil/

Welcome New Members and Developers

Results for the Developer Membership Board meeting, 2013-04-22:

Congratulations!

Community Acknowledgments and Success Stories

Thanks everyone!

Daniel Holbach sends out a “Thank You” to all those who contributed to the 13.04 release. You can see who contributed to the 13.04 release at:

In this email to the ubuntu-devel mailing list, Holbach cautions, “Bear in mind that lots of commits were auto-landed and some fixes not correctly attributed, but still it's a great thing to see how many people from how many different places contributed to the Raring Ringtail."

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2013-April/037066.html

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (106020) + 480 over last week
  • Critical (74) - 1 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (51897) +145 over last week

As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top Ideas this week

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

Ubucon Latinamerica 2013 will be in Uruguay!

Sergio Meneses announces the Ubucon Latinamerica 2013 to be held in Montevideo, Uruguay in early June. Meneses also thanks the Uruguayan team for all the help they have been giving to plan this huge event.

http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/ubucon-latinamerica-2013-will-be-in-uruguay/

Ubuntu Cloud News

Dave Walker: Ubuntu 13.04 - (Raring Ringtail) - Released

Dave Wakler writes about the new Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail from the Cloud perspective, focusing on Juju, OpenStack, MAAS, and many more.

http://blog.daviey.com/2013/4/26/ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail-released/

James Page: Ubuntu Cloud Archive Bug Reporting

James Page reminds readers that users can now report bugs for packages on the Cloud Archive using apport, and these will get correctly routed to the right project on Launchpad, with lots of extra information.

http://javacruft.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/ubuntu-cloud-archive-bug-reporting/

The Planet

Ubuntu Classroom: Ubuntu Open Week for Raring: Call for Instructors

José Antonio Rey, from the Ubuntu Classroom Team, makes a call for instructors for the upcoming Ubuntu Open Week to take place on the 21st and 22nd of May, from 13:00 to 18:00 UTC each day.

http://ubuntuclassroom.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/ubuntu-open-week-for-raring-call-for-instructors/

David Planella: Upcoming Qreator release – call for translations

David Planella makes a call for translators for the Qreator app, the QR code creator for Ubuntu. He also indicates 10 languages have been fully translated, and 26 languages are nearly completed.

http://davidplanella.org/upcoming-qreator-release-call-for-translations/

Jorge Castro: Join us for a virtual Charm School!

Jorge Castro invites the community to join the upcoming virtual Charm School, which will be taking place on Ubuntu on Air! this Friday, May 3rd, at 17:00 UTC.

http://www.jorgecastro.org/2013/04/24/join-us-for-a-virtual-charm-school/

Canonical Design Team: Responding to orientation

Calum Pringle, from the Canonical Design Team, reminds the community about the publishing of a new chapter on the App Design Guides for the phone and tablet. This chapter is all about how to handle orientation.

http://design.canonical.com/2013/04/responding-to-orientation/

Ted Gould: Indicators in Upstart

Ted Gould writes about what indicators can do for us in Upstart and summarizes the plans for the next cycle.

http://gould.cx/ted/blog/Indicators_in_Upstart

Sergio Meneses: My testing activities in Raring Ringtail

Sergio Meneses writes about his experience with the Ubuntu Quality Assurance team during the last cycle and more.

http://sergioandresmeneses.wordpress.com/2013/04/25/my-testing-activities-in-raringringtail/

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos: Please don’t add pointless comments to bug reports

Adolfo Jayme Barrientos suggests that the community not make pointless comments on bug reports. He notes these comments are unproductive and an annoying noise to bug subscribers. He also recommends reading Bugzilla’s etiquette and Ubuntu’s Bug Reporting Guidelines for more information on filing effective bug reports.

http://fitoschido.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/please-dont-add-pointless-comments-to-bug-reports/

Benjamin Kerensa: Ubuntu Documentation: Call for Contributors!

Benjamin Kerensa makes a call to the community for contributors to the Ubuntu Documentation Team. “Even if you can’t commit to helping each cycle perhaps you can just join in and provide some feedback on our processes and suggest some ideas for getting more folks involved during the Ubuntu 13.10 cycle," writes Kerensa.

http://benjaminkerensa.com/2013/04/25/ubuntu-documentation-call-for-contributors

Colin King: Firmware Test Suite New Features in Ubuntu Raring 13.04

Colin King announces the arrival of the Firmware Test Suite, also known as fwts, in 13.04. He also thanks Alex Hung, Ivan Hu, Keng-Yu Lin and Matt Fleming for all the improvements to fwts for this release.

http://smackerelofopinion.blogspot.com/2013/04/firmware-test-suite-new-features-in.html

In The Press

Canonical says smartphone focus makes Ubuntu 13.04 more efficient

Lawrence Latif from The Inquirer, interviews Jane Silber, Canonical’s CEO, about the latest Ubuntu release.

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2263810/canonical-says-smartphone-focus-makes-ubuntu-1304-more-efficient

Ubuntu 13.04 available Thursday, brings a streamlined footprint to the forefront (update)

Zachary Lutz from Engadget shares his expectations on Ubuntu 13.04.

http://www.engadget.com/2013/04/24/ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail-available/

Ubuntu 13.04 'Raring Ringtail' debuts, to be followed by 'Saucy Salamander'

Katherine Noyes of PCWorld, writes about the recently released version of Ubuntu, and highlights some of its features.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2036415/ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail-debuts-to-be-followed-by-saucy-salamander.html

Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) review

Terry Relph-Knight of ZDNet provides a detailed review of Ubuntu 13.04 and list pros and cons about the release.

http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-13-04-raring-ringtail-review-7000014497/

Behold Ubuntu Server 13.04: Focus on hypervisors and OpenStack

Timothy Prickett Morgan from The Register analyzes the focus on OpenStack given by Ubuntu Server 13.04.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/24/canonical_ubuntu_server_13_04/

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Full Circle Magazine #72 – Sixth Birthday Edition!

In this month’s issue:

  • Ubuntu News.

  • How-To: Programming in Python, LibreOffice, and Network Settings.

  • Graphics: Blender, and Inkscape.
  • Book Review: The Book of GIMP.
  • Review: SolydXK

plus: Q&A, Command & Conquer, Linux Labs, Ask The New Guy, My Story, and soooo much more! Get it while it’s HOT!

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2013/04/26/full-circle-magazine-72-sixth-birthday-edition/

LibreOffice Special Edition Volume 02

The LibreOffice series continues and in this issue the FCM team continue their assembly of Elmer Perry’s LibreOffice series.

http://fullcirclemagazine.org/2013/04/24/libreoffice-special-edition-volume-02/

Ubuntu UK Podcast: S06E09 – The Big Ubuntu

Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Tony Whitmore, and Laura Cowen return for the ninth episode of Season Six of the Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo Team!

We take a look at what’s been happening in the news, catch up with what’s happening in the Ubuntu community, events, and more.

http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2013/04/25/s06e09-the-big-ubuntu/

[VIDEO] Mark Shuttleworth 'Chillin' on Ubuntu 13.04

Datamation posts a video where Mark Shuttleworth calls the Ubuntu release 'performance art' and talks about Unity, GNOME, Kylin, Wayland, and Mir.

http://www.datamation.com/open-source/mark-shuttleworth-chillin-on-ubuntu-13.04-video.html

Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings

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, 12.10 and 13.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

None.

End of life - May 2013 (Server)

Ubuntu 10.04 Updates

End of Life - May 2013 (Desktop) - April 2015 (Server)

Ubuntu 11.10 Updates

End of Life - May 2013

Ubuntu 12.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2017

Ubuntu 12.10 Updates

End of Life - April 2014

Ubuntu 13.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2014

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Credits

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Glossary of Terms

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