All About Ubuntu Flavor Development

What makes up the OS

• The Packages
  • Seeds - the Flavor package set
  • The flavor Meta
  • task-installs
• Debian Packaging - uploading, syncing, merging, PPA, bzr, etc
• Strategy/Policy for package selection (flavor dependent)
• How ISOs are built (the build server)

Updates

• Bug Fixes
  • Notification of bugs
  • Fixing bugs upstream in Debian and orig source
• SRU - Stable Release Update
• Backports

Quality Assurance

• Testing ISOs (Pre Release)
• Testing new uploads of packages
  • Setting Up Notification of changes
• Using Testing Tools - Autopilot, UTAH, scripts

Feature Development

• Software Development
• Pushing for changes upstream

Artwork

• Development Process

Tools

• The Launchpad Server
• flavor development tools