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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #118 for the week November 16th - November 22nd, 2008. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 1 released

Has this been announced yet. I couldn't find it

The Ubuntu Hall of Fame

http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1407 (Include link to site: http://hall-of-fame.ubuntu.com/)

Ubuntu for the Holidays

http://www.ubuntu.com/news/us-based-shop

New Community Developers

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-November/000282.html (short summary that follows the announcement, be sure to include his launchpad and wiki page links)

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-November/000283.html (same as above)

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 Intrepid

1. Language (#) +/- # over last week
2. Language (#) +/- # over last week
3. Language (#) +/- # over last week
4. Language (#) +/- # over last week
5. Language (#) +/- # over last week

Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/

5-a-day bug stats

Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days

• crimsun (392)
• maco.m (60)
• chrisccoulson (47)
• hew (35)
• angusthefuzz (29)

Top 5 teams for the past 7 days

• dcteam (452)
• ubuntu-au (35)
• ubuntu-us-ohio (29)
• ubuntu-pl (15)
• ubuntu-cl (12)

5-A-Day stats provided by Daniel Holbach. See http://daniel.holba.ch/5-a-day-stats/

Kubuntu News

The Kubuntu team had a meeting

Richard "Arby" Birnie (ISO Tester, system-config-printer-kde hacker) and Ralph "txwikinger" Janke (5-a-day hero) were grilled and given membership.

We also discussed specs for UDS, KDE 4.2 Beta packaging, bug status and the kubuntu-users mailing list.

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Meetings/Minutes/2008-11-18

LoCo News

Ubuntu-IR release party

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-November/000284.html

Ubuntu-CO to host it's 1st UbuCon

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-November/000286.html

Ubuntu-ZW host 1st release party

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2008-November/000287.html

Ubuntu Presentation: Ubuntu Peruvian LoCo

http://roaksoax.wordpress.com/2008/11/21/ubuntu-presentation/

Ubuntu Irish Team release party

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/IntrepidReleaseParty

New in Intrepid Ibex

Launchpad News

Launchpad offline November 24th

http://news.launchpad.net/notifications/launchpad-offline-0300-utc-24th-november

Meet Barry Warsaw

http://news.launchpad.net/meet-the-devs/meet-barry-warsaw

OpenID from your Launchpad profile

http://news.launchpad.net/cool-new-stuff/openid-from-your-launchpad-profile

Launchpad t-shirts

http://news.launchpad.net/general/threaded-development-launchpad-t-shirts

Ubuntu Forums News

In The Press

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7729978.stm

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_904_features&num=1

http://www.rpath.com/corp/component/content/article/14-2008-news/293-11192008

http://www.tectonic.co.za/?p=3664

http://mybroadband.co.za/news/Software/6040.html

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Ubuntu Podcast #12

http://boredandblogging.com/2008/11/17/ubuntu-podcast-12/

Linux Identity Magazine: Ubuntu Family

http://www.linuxidentity.com/us/index.php

On Distributions, Kubuntu, and KDE

http://weblog.obso1337.org/2008/on-distributions-kubuntu-and-kde/

Meeting Summaries

Mobile Team

• Brutally hack contacts to build a -hildon package . Requires review.

• On pursuing an acpid cleanup quest we found a module-init-tools bug: modprobe --all foobar would exit 0, but not with --quiet in the flags; the conclusion from this is that initramfs-tools was leaking a lot of environment vars, including MODPROBE_OPTIONS.
• Tested new python ubuntu-vm-builder and discovered a bunch of small regressions; provided bzr branches for some features and fixed most issues; thanks to Nick for fixing lpia mirror detection!
• Experimented with use of xdm as a display manager for -MID. Initial results were positive. This will become a spec for Jaunty.
• Initial filtering of packages to be removed from the archive as part of Moblin 1.0 EOL and general cleanup from gutsy/hardy Mobile efforts.
• Tried unsuccessfully to find good ways to identify packages that have lpia-specific compilation. Suggestions would be welcome
• bootstrapped an initial build system based on mojo and built an initial kernel based on the linux-omap tree - rolled the image and published it for intrested developers to help getting ARM ready in the archive.

Japanese Team

• Ubuntu 8.10 Japanese Remix CD was released on 31st October. http://www.ubuntulinux.jp/News/ubuntu810-desktop-ja-remix

• The Japanese Team exhibited at the Kansai Open Source on 8th November.2008 http://k-of.jp/2008/index.htmlon

  • In seminar, Hajime Mizuno talked on "Life with Ubuntu" https://launchpad.net/~mizuno-as

  • Published:

    • Presentation: https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/HajimeMizuno?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=kof2008.odp

    • Movie: http://cliplife.jp/clip/?content_id=i09924c2

• New archive/CD image mirror server are deployed.
  • Redistributing ubuntu-dvd/ubuntu-umpc too.
• Team member have written articles for following local magazines:

  • Software Design: Learning Unix Technology- "What is init daemon" http://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2008/200812 and

  • True face of Ubuntu 8.10 Server: http://itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/MAG/20081105/318539/

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 7.10 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

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