news 28 Posted October 18, 2009 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #164 for the week October 11th - October 17th, 2009. In this issue we cover: Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10, Unseeded Universe/Multiverse Final Freeze Schedule, Ubuntu Open Week: November 2-6, 2009, LoCo News, New lpx project group for Launchpad extensions, Launchpad’s status page, Ubuntu Forums Tutorial of the Week, Stefan Lesicnik: Debian 2 Ubuntu - Security FTW, Ubuntu-UK Podcast: Beautiful Chaos, 0 A.D. Promises Real Gaming for Ubuntu, and much, much more! == UWN Translations == * Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the information you need. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations == In This Issue == * Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10 * Unseeded Universe/Multiverse Final Freeze Schedule * Ubuntu Open Week: November 2-6, 2009 * Ubuntu Stats * Karmic release party Dublin * Ubuntu-ie: change of LoCo Team Point of Contact * New lpx project group for Launchpad extensions * Launchpad’s status page * Ubuntu Forums Tutorial of the Week * Stefan Lesicnik: Debian 2 Ubuntu - Security FTW * In the Press & Blogosphere * Ubuntu-UK Podcast: Beautiful Chaos * 0 A.D. Promises Real Gaming for Ubuntu * Upcoming Meetings & Events * Updates & Security == General Community News == === Archive frozen for preparation of Ubuntu 9.10 === We are one week out from the 9.10 release candidate and two weeks from the final release, so the archive is now frozen and will not thaw again before release. During the freeze, all uploads to main must be approved by a member of the release team, so if you have fixes that are important to get in and will need discussion, please do get in touch as soon as possible. Uploads to main should at this point focus on release-critical bugs only. Uploads to universe should again follow the guidelines described here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-April/025259.html The list of release-critical bugs that we want to still try to resolve before the release candidate on October 22 is tracked here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+bugs?field.milestone=12698 Additional bugs that are still considered "targets of opportunity" for the release are found at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+bugs If you have bugs which you believe should be listed there but aren't yet, please get in touch with me or another member of the release team. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-October/000633.html === Unseeded Universe/Multiverse Final Freeze Schedule === The factors that drive final freeze for packages that are not on any ISO image have changed somewhat from previous releases, so we can freeze slightly later. The motu-release team have conferred and here's the plan: Currently, continue uploads before. MOTU Release approval is only needed for feature changes (FFe). Since the archive is frozen, the release team will manually push these uploads through without a detailed review. Universe final freeze will be at 1200UTC on Sunday, 25 October. After that time, MOTU Release will approve all uploads. As with Main, you do not need get approval before upload, we can review in the upload queue, but no uploads will be accepted without MOTU Release review and approval. Important bugfixes (particularly FTBFS fixes) are still encouraged. The deadline for an upload to be approved by MOTU Release will be 1200UTC on Tuesday, 27 October. If very critical fixes are identified after that, there is a small chance the Ubuntu Release team might approve it, but it is more likely that it will be directed to the proposed queue. Throughout this process, we will be monitoring the progress of the build queues. If needed, we may start deferring uploads to proposed earlier to ensure that all builds are tried/finished on all architectures before the archive is locked for the release. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-October/000634.html === Ubuntu Open Week: November 2-6, 2009 === We are pleased to announce that this cycle’s Ubuntu Open Week will be held the week after Ubuntu 9.10’s release, from 2 November to 6 November in #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode. The sessions take place from 1500UTC to 2200UTC. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek Ubuntu Open Week is a week full of IRC tutorial sessions on a range of subjects, designed to help people get involved in the Ubuntu community. It is given by many of the brightest, most capable members of the Ubuntu community, and covers a range of subjects including packaging, bug triage, translations, accessibility, automated testing, loco teams, mentoring, Launchpad, desktop team, training team and much more. There will also be the always popular “Ask Mark” session (Wednesday 4 Nov ( -at -) 15.00UTC) in which you have an hour to ask Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu, your burning questions. Jono will also be providing an Introduction and Community Q+A session (Mon 2 Nov ( -at -) 15.00UTC) in which you can ask your questions about the community, Ubuntu, Canonical and anything else. For the very first time we're going to have a week of IRC sessions in Spanish in order to motivate community members from Spanish speaking countries to get involved in the Ubuntu community. More info here. Visita elv? nculo y s? mate para aprender m? s acerca de Ubuntu, la comunidad, como usarlo y aportar. Hay charlas para principiantes, usuarios avanzados y expertos https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek_ES https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-October/000724.html == Ubuntu Stats == === Bug Stats === * Open (66582) +1206 # over last week * Critical (29) -1 # over last week * Unconfirmed (31828) +813 # over last week * Unassigned (57921) +1164 # over last week * All bugs ever reported (328554) +4054 # 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 Jaunty === * Spanish (10258) -232 over last week * French (36368) -44 over last week * Brazilian Portuguese (45832) -693 over last week * Swedish (53271) -33 over last week * English (United Kingdom) (53331) -11 over last week Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/ === Translation Stats Karmic === * Spanish (15026) -1600 over last week * French (60215) -1992 over last week * Brazilian Portuguese (65091) -3250 over last week * Swedish (69241) -2051 over last week * English (Uk) (88105) -709 over last week Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala", see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/ === Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week === * Gmail Integration in Evolution - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21786/ * Ubuntu lacks a standard for webcam settings - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21768/ * Allow gparted to save/restore partition images - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21765/ * Show the user's name in the FUSA, rather than their username - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21781/ * Rethink dependency from Debian - http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21761/ 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 == === Karmic release party Dublin === The Irish LoCo is going to be celebrating the Karmic Release party on Saturday 31st October. They’re going to grab a bite to eat in Jimmy Chungs at 13:30 but they would like to know who is coming as last time we kept having to add 2 chairs at a time and had 18 people show up! the poll is here: http://www.doodle.com/ys6c9872u3c3tmvg * Jimmy Chungs: http://www.jimmychungs.com/locate/loc_dublin.htm Afterwards we’re going to head to a pub, but that’s where we cannot make our minds up and we want you to chose. We’ve a poll done up so go pick here: http://www.doodle.com/tm7pip827vbdzfqv http://www.lczajkowski.com/2009/10/15/karmic-relase-party-dublin/ === Ubuntu-ie: change of LoCo Team Point of Contact === Yesterday we had the monthly Ubuntu-ie IRC meeting, Maciej Danielski announced that he would be stepping down from the Ubuntu-ie Point of Contact position. This is mainly due to lack of time, and he doesn't want to be blocking or slowing down the team. He will not disappear, and plans to still try to stay as active as he possibly can. Please give a warm welcome to Rory McCann, who has volunteered to take over this position. We agreed to 30 days transition period so Rory has the necessary support and gets up to speed. In the next few days Maciej will change the details on the respective sites. http://meanmachine.wordpress.com/2009/10/15/ubuntu-ie-change-of-loco-team-point-of-contact/ == Launchpad News == === New lpx project group for Launchpad extensions === Launchpad has a pretty awesome public API, implemented using lazr.restful. I’ve written a few small scripts for it, and the Launchpad team has a few scripts that they use internally for doing admin tasks. * public API: https://launchpad.net/+apidoc * Lazr.restful: https://launchpad.net/lazr.restful The Ubuntu Platform team does a heap of stuff with the Launchpad API. James Westby has been using it to make sure that there’s a branch on Launchpad for every single package in Ubuntu. There’s all this great work, but there’s been nothing to tie the room together. I’ve seen hardly any discussion about how to write Launchpad API applications, or how to test them, or how to get launchpadlib working in GTK+. I haven’t even seen much code sharing. * launchpadlib: https://launchpad.net/launchpadlib So, borrowing a trick from Twisted’s tx super-project, I’ve created an ‘lpx‘ project group on Launchpad. Bring it your scripts, your applications, your huddled masses. If you want to know more about the API, look at the API help page: http://help.launchpad.net/API Also, if you’re using the Launchpad API — directly or through the launchpadlib Python library — add some info about your app to the API Uses wiki page: https://help.launchpad.net/API/Uses http://blog.launchpad.net/api/new-lpx-project-group-for-launchpad-extensions === Launchpad’s status page === When writing about the hardware running Launchpad, or even the complexity of the codebase, I’m always tempted to start off by borrowing from Douglas Adams’ introduction to The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “Launchpad is big. Really big.” With such a big system, it’s inevitable that from time to time we have to rearrange the furniture a little. Aside from our monthly code roll-out, where Launchpad goes read-only for an hour or so, we occasionally have to swap out or reconfigure hardware, as you’d expect. Up until now, we’ve used a combination of this blog and the Share this post Link to post
