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WORK IN PROGRESS
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #97 for the week June 22nd - June 28th, 2008. In this issue we cover...
UWN Translations
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In This Issue
General Community News
Ubuntu 8.04.1 freeze proposed
The release schedule at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule, shows we're now just two short weeks away from the scheduled release of 8.04.1, the first point release of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. As such, the hardy-proposed queue is now frozen with respect to packages that are included on any of our ISO images. The only uploads that are being accepted for these packages are those fixing bugs that have already been approved as targets for the 8.04.1 point release. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-June/000439.html
Intrepid Alpha 1 released
Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Intrepid development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD builds or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Intrepid. The primary changes from Hardy have been the re-merging of changes from Debian and the upgrade of the Linux kernel to a pre-release version of 2.6.26. Pre-releases of Intrepid are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2008-June/000440.html
New Ubuntu Universe Contributor
Pedro Fragoso has been approved as an Ubuntu Universe Contributor. Pedro has been working with the Desktop and Accessibility teams for some time now, and has been a welcome help in maintaining packages. Please give him a warm welcome to the development team. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-motu/2008-June/004126.html
Ubuntu Brainstorm News
Assigning ideas to projects, tags, and user contact
- Assigning ideas to a project: You can now link ideas to projects. Projects include not only software projects, but also Ubuntu websites, and Ubuntu editions! That will make the job easier for people tracking ideas for their favorite projects. We recommend every idea author to review their ideas and link them to a project! This feature is the first step before we can make the project-specific sub-brainstorm websites.
- Tags: You can now tag an idea, mark ideas with your own tags, and make groups of related ideas! This has been a long standing popular request.
- Contact a Brainstormer: You have seen people willing to work on an idea, and you want to participate too? As requested, you can now contact each others using the "contact" area in the user page.
- Faster Brainstorm: Overall, you should find Brainstorm faster. The only exception is the search function, which has an hard time looking at all your ideas! That should be fixed in the next update.
http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/16
Developer Responses for 25 June
Ubuntu developer Martin Pitt (pitti on irc) has responded to some of your ideas:
Easy file sharing between local users: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3916/
Warn on shutdown when muliple users are logged on: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/3859/
gksudo if you try to do an action you don't have access to: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4347/
Work on printer drivers: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/190/
Codec Manager: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/316/
Tease programming on Ubuntu: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/4354/
Password strength: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5682/
Easy GUI creation and handling of encrypted partitions: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/214/
Offer to create a separate /home partition and use existing ones: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/5390/
http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/22
Ubuntu Women Project Status - Mid 2008
Thanks to a considerable amount of work by emmajane we now have a RoadMap. We’ve also transferred our Course program into a partnership with Ubuntu Classroom, which is working on formation and hosting of regular classes. The overall participation of women in the Ubuntu community and in leadership positions has grow over the past year. Ubuntu Women is focusing more on helping women and getting involved with core projects (like Ubuntu Classroom) rather than striking out on our own initiatives. In keeping with a return to our core, we’ve worked to make the website and wiki documentation be more specific to our goals and easier to navigate. We’ve also committed to a monthly article in Full Circle Magazine. There has been considerable interest for Ubuntu Women mentoring, but we’d like to see the program become more successful. http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1257
New Members
The results from tonight's Americas Membership meeting are as follows:
Chuck Frain: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ChuckFrain https://launchpad.net/~chuckfrain Chuck is the leader of the approved US Maryland LoCo team. He's also done bug work, which is helping drive the organization of a BugJam with his loco team and intends to expand his bug involvement in the future.
Federico Torres: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FedericoTorres https://launchpad.net/~fetova Frederico is the leader of the Mexican LoCo team. In addition to being the administrator of the project and several of the project resources, he has worked with other LoCo teams as a mentor.
Justin Dugger: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JustinDugger https://launchpad.net/~jldugger Justin is a member of the toshiba-tablet team, works with xorg bug triage and is the bug contact for several packages. He plans on expanding his involvement in bugs, with a focus on resolving outstanding issues for tablet users.
1) Nicholas Ng Boon Liang
Nicholas has been with Ubuntu Malaysia Team since its inception and has contributed in conducting various awareness programs to take Ubuntu to the people of Malaysia. His wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/nbliang
2) Khairul Aizat Kamarudzzaman
Khairul is also part of Malaysian Ubuntu Team. His notable contribution include activities to take Ubuntu to the officials in Malaysian Government. His wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/fenris
We're happy to welcome these fantastic folks to the project!
Ubuntu Stats
Bug Stats
- Open (#) +/- # over last week
- Critical (#) +/- # over last week
- Unconfirmed (#) +/- # over last week
- Unassigned (#) +/- # over last week
- All bugs ever reported (#) +/- # over last week
As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
Infamous Bugs
Translation Stats Hardy
- 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 8.04 "Hardy Heron," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/
LoCo News
http://www.chuckfrain.net/2008/06/22/ubuntu-maryland-summer-08
Launchpad News
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-June/003836.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-June/003841.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/launchpad-users/2008-June/003838.html
Ubuntu Forums News
In The Press
http://www.linux.com/articles/139214
In The Blogosphere
http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/145
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/6495/1/
http://copywriterunderground.com/2008/06/22/the-ubuntu-project-is-linux-right-for-word-workers/
http://bryceharrington.org/drupal/node/53
In Other News
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-June/000069.html
Full Circle Magazine - Issue #14
Full Circle - the Independent Magazine for the Ubuntu Linux Community are proud to announce the release of our fourteenth issue.
This month:
- Command and Conquer - Man pages, and what not to type.
- How-To : Create an Ubuntu Plug 'n' Play Zone, Create Your Own Server Part 6, Using GIMP Part 3 and Put Photos on your iPod.
- My Opinion - Excited About Ubuntu in South East India
- MOTU Interview - Soren Hansen
Letters, Q&A, MyDesktop, Top5 and more!
Get it while it's hot! http://fullcirclemagazine.org/issue-14/
http://popey.com/Ubuntu_UK_Podcast_Episode_8_Out_Now
Meeting Summaries
Upcoming Meetings and Events
Community Spotlight
Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.04, 7.10, and 8.04
Security Updates
Ubuntu 6.06 Updates
Ubuntu 7.04 Updates
Ubuntu 7.10 Updates
Ubuntu 8.04 Updates
UWN #: A sneak peek
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Conclusion
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