Issue512


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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 512 for the week June 26 - July 2, 2017.

In This Issue

  • Ubuntu Artful Aardvark Alpha 1 Released
  • Looking for Community Council nominations
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo Events

  • José Antonio Rey: The SeaGL 2017 Call for Papers is now open!
  • Aaron Honeycutt: System76 Oryx Pro Review
  • Iain Lane: Welcome
  • Leo Arias: User Acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis
  • Iain Lane: Codecs and PackageKit in GNOME Software on Ubuntu Artful

  • Robert Ancell: Back to GNOME
  • Ubuntu Cloud News
  • Canonical News
  • In The Blogosphere
  • In Other News
  • Featured Audio and Video
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security for 14.04, 16.04, 16.10, and 17.04
  • And much more!

General Community News

Ubuntu Artful Aardvark Alpha 1 Released

Simon Quigley announces the availability of the first alpha of Artful Aardvark, which will become Ubuntu 17.10. This milestone includes images for Lubuntu, Kubuntu, and Ubuntu Kylin. Simon includes warnings for those unfamiliar with alpha releases, with links for getting images or more details, before giving a big thank you to the developers and testers for their help in making this alpha happen.

http://fridge.ubuntu.com/2017/06/30/artful-aardvark-alpha-1-released/

Interested in the Flavors? Alpha 1 release announcements for each as follows:

The editors have also collected articles about the release from around the Internet:

Looking for Community Council nominations

Daniel Holbach from the Ubuntu Community Council announces that the Community Council is looking for nominations to restaff the Community Council. He writes, “In the past months and weeks Laura and Mike stepped down from the CC for personal reasons, so we decided to restaff the CC a bit early. Normally, elections would have been in November, so we're a few months early.” He links to where you can find information about the Community Council, and gives instructions for applying.

http://ubuntu-news.org/2017/07/02/looking-for-community-council-nominations/

Ubuntu Stats

Bug Stats

  • Open (132662) -271 over last week
  • Critical (408) -4 over last week
  • Unconfirmed (65725) -6 over last week

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

Ask Ubuntu Top 5 Questions this week

Most Active Questions

Top Voted New Questions

Ask (and answer!) questions at http://askubuntu.com

LoCo Events

The following LoCo team events are currently scheduled in the next two weeks:

Looking beyond the next two weeks? Visit the LoCo Team Portal to browse upcoming events around the world:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/

The Planet

José Antonio Rey: The SeaGL 2017 Call for Papers is now open!

José Antonio Rey announces a Call for Papers for the Seattle GNU/Linux Conference, or SeaGL. José goes on to explain what SeaGL is and how people can propose a talk. More details are provided along with a link to propose a talk, with CFP closing on August 6th.

https://joseeantonior.wordpress.com/2017/06/27/the-seagl-2017-call-for-papers-is-now-open/

Aaron Honeycutt: System76 Oryx Pro Review

Aaron Honeycutt provides a review of the System76 Oryx Pro laptop. Aaron provides details on ports on laptop, his impression on the display, testing laptop with games, sound, and the laptop keyboard.

https://blog.ahoneybun.net/index.php/2017/06/28/system76-orxy-pro-review/

Iain Lane: Welcome

Iain Lane introduces himself, and the Ubuntu Desktop team and their work switching from Unity to GNOME Shell. Iain mentions some issues that differ in GNOME UX and the work done and being done on them. The survey conducted by Ken VanDine is discussed, and issues that lead from interpreting the results.

https://medium.com/@iain.lane/welcome-16c91c0a71fb

Leo Arias: User Acceptance testing of snaps, with Travis

Leo Arias tells us about how Travis CI is used to test software for projects, and how a change now allows snaps to be installed in Travis on Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty). Leo provides a simple introduction to automated testing with snaps, and provides an example using the IPFS snap as the testing subject.

http://elopio.net/blog/travis-snap-testing/

Iain Lane: Codecs and PackageKit in GNOME Software on Ubuntu Artful

Iain Lane writes about coming changes to software installation via GNOME software in Artful Aardvark (17.10). Iain briefly describes PackageKit and how Ubuntu will now be running a later version and what this means using the example of installing codecs for playing media. The work done will become visible from Ubuntu Artful Aardvark Alpha 2 unless you grab it from the provided PPA.

https://medium.com/@iain.lane/codecs-and-packagekit-in-gnome-software-on-ubuntu-artful-447ddd70d3f9

Robert Ancell: Back to GNOME

Robert Ancell blogs on how he'll be spending a lot of his time on Snap support for GNOME Software. Robert then goes on to say goodbye to Unity and lists many of the things he'll miss.

http://bobthegnome.blogspot.com/2017/07/back-to-gnome.html

Ubuntu Cloud News

Canonical News

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Ubuntu Testing Day - with Marco Trevisan

Leo Arias is joined by Marco Trevisan for another regular Testing Day session which covers the subject of testing the Ubuntu GNOME flavor of Ubuntu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMOwozLBdXI

Ubuntu Podcast from the UK LoCo: S10E17 - Live Mycroft Biscuits

“It’s Season Ten Episode Seventeen of the Ubuntu Podcast! Alan Pope, Mark Johnson, Martin Wimpress and a tub of lard are connected and speaking to your brain.

In our second live show at FOSS Talk Live, we have a competition to see who can write the best program in 19 lines, and discuss bugs through the ages. There is a video of this episode available on YouTube.”

http://ubuntupodcast.org/2017/06/30/s10e17-live-mycroft-biscuits/

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 14.04, 16.04, 16.10, and 17.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 14.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2019

Ubuntu 16.04 Updates

End of Life - April 2021

Ubuntu 16.10 Updates

End of Life - July 2017

Ubuntu 17.04 Updates

End of Life - January 2018

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