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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #151 for the week July 12th - July 18th, 2009. In this issue we cover ...

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In This Issue

General Community News

Karmic Translations Are Now Open

We are pleased to announce that Karmic is now open for translation.

You can now go to

https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+translations

to start translating Ubuntu Karmic into your language.

This will be the first Ubuntu release to feature message sharing functionality, which will initially allow Jaunty and Karmic translations to be shared on a template and message basis. This will mean that you no longer need to translate the same strings in Jaunty and Karmic. Translate it in one, and your translation will automatically -read instantly- appear in the other.

This feature will progressively be enabled for all Ubuntu releases. Stay tuned for the announcement and more information from the Launchpad Translations team.

During the development cycle language pack updates will be released regularly twice per week (except for soft freezes for alpha or beta milestones). The generation of the first language pack has already started and it will be released in a few days - until then, the PPA language pack updates for Jaunty will be put on hold in order not to interfere with this process.

You are encouraged to test those translations in Karmic and report any problems you might find, either in the ubuntu-translators list or against the ubuntu-translations project in Launchpad.

• Ubuntu Translators List: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators

• Ubuntu Translators Project: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-translations

Happy translating!

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-translators/2009-July/002617.html

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 Jaunty

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 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/

# NEEDS UPDATING. # #=== 5-a-day bug stats === # #==== Top 5 contributors for the past 7 days ==== # # * person (#) # * person (#) # * person (#) # * person (#) # * person (#) # #==== Top 5 teams for the past 7 days ==== # # * team (#) # * team (#) # * team (#) # * team (#) # * team (#) # #5-A-Day stats provided by Daniel Holbach. See http://daniel.holba.ch/5-a-day-stats/

Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week

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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

New in Karmic Koala

Empathy is now in Karmic

As of today, the seeds have been switched, and Empathy, the awesome Telepathy IM client with support for both audio and video chat, geo-location, Adium themes, and collaboration via Tubes, is now included in the Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala daily LiveCDs. Let's get testing!

http://blog.thesilentnumber.me/2009/07/empathy-is-now-in-karmic.html

AppArfmor now available in Karmic: Testing Needed

After a lot of hard work by John Johansen and the Ubuntu kernel team, bug #375422 is well on its way to be fixed. More than just forward ported for Ubuntu, AppArmor has been reworked to use the updated kernel infrastructure for LSMs. As seen in #apparmor on Freenode a couple of days ago:

• 11:24 < jjohansen> I am working to a point where I can try upstreaming again, base off of the security_path_XXX patches instead of the vfs patches

• 11:24 < jjohansen> so the module is mostly self contained again

These patches are in the latest 9.10 kernel, and help testing AppArmor in Karmic is needed. To get started, verify you have at least 2.6.31-3.19-generic:

• $ cat /proc/version_signature
• Ubuntu 2.6.31-3.19-generic

AppArmor will be enabled by default for Karmic just like in previous Ubuntu releases, but it is off for now until a few kinks are worked out. To test it right away, you’ll need to reboot, adding ’security=apparmor’ to the kernel command line. Then fire up ‘aa-status’ to see if it is enabled. A fresh install of 9.10 as of today should look something like:

• $ sudo aa-status
• apparmor module is loaded.
• 8 profiles are loaded.
• 8 profiles are in enforce mode.
• /usr/lib/connman/scripts/dhclient-script
• /usr/share/gdm/guest-session/Xsession
• /usr/sbin/tcpdump
• /usr/lib/cups/backend/cups-pdf
• /sbin/dhclient3
• /usr/sbin/cupsd
• /sbin/dhclient-script
• /usr/lib/NetworkManager/nm-dhcp-client.action
• 0 profiles are in complain mode.
• 2 processes have profiles defined.
• 2 processes are in enforce mode :
• /sbin/dhclient3 (3271)
• /usr/sbin/cupsd (2645)
• 0 processes are in complain mode.
• 0 processes are unconfined but have a profile defined.

Please throw all your crazy profiles at it as well as testing the packages with existing profiles, then file bugs:

• For the kernel, add your comments (positive and negative) to bug #375422

• AppArmor tools bugs should be filed with ‘ubuntu-bug apparmor’

• Profile bugs should be filed against the individual source package with ‘ubuntu-bug <source package name>’. See DebuggingApparmor for details. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingApparmor

Thank you Ubuntu Kernel team and especially John for all the hard work.

http://penguindroppings.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/apparmor-now-available-in-karmic-testing-needed/

Launchpad News

Ubuntu Forums News

The Planet

Jussi Schultink: Ubuntu IRC Council News

Sometime ago Jussi was elected to the Ubuntu IRC council. This has been a big step for him, up from regular ubuntu operator and contributor, to a governance role. So now he feels it's time to start writing about what the IRC council is doing, and where and when things are happening.

First up he’d like to mention the next IRCC meeting, coming up on 2 August, at 07:00 UTC, in #ubuntu-meeting. You can find the agenda for the meeting at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcTeam/IrcCouncil/MeetingAgenda - if you have an agenda item, please feel free to add it there.

Second, he'd like to mention the blueprint for a new bantracker and IRC operator helper features that Benjamin (Pici) has kindly popped up on launchpad- you can find it here: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/bantrackertwo

The IRCC would welcome as much community input for that as possible, so please, feel free to add suggestions and ideas to the mix.

For those of you who done know us, the IRCC consists of the following people: jussi01 , Pici, Pricey, elky and nalioth.

They look forward to seeing you all on Freenode/Ubuntu channels soon!

http://jussi01.com/?p=63

Nick Barcet: OpenJDK 6 Certification for Ubuntu 9.04

The Ubuntu Java development team is pleased to announce completed certification of OpenJDK 6 for Ubuntu 9.04, continuing Ubuntu's tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

After signing the Sun TCK agreement earlier this year, Java developers went to work with the certification process and received final certification from Sun in late May.

This certification means that the OpenJDK 6 package included with Ubuntu 9.04 now passes the rigorous testing of the Java SE Test Compatibility Kit (TCK) and is compatible with the Java(TM) SE 6 platform on the amd64 (x86_64) and i386 (ix86) architectures.

OpenJDK is a free and open source implementation of Sun's Java(TM) SE 6 platform. The Java TCK is a toolkit providing tools, tests, and documentation to help determine whether or not Java implementations meet compliance.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-July/000587.html

In The Press

In The Blogosphere

In Other News

Ubuntu Podcast Quickie #9

In this episode:

• 8.04.03 coming 16 July
• Ubuntu 6.06 desktop support ending
• Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase deadline approaching
• updates on Spread Ubuntu

• UbuCon Central America

• 100 Paper Cuts Round 2

http://ubuntupodcast.net/2009/07/15/ubuntu-podcast-quickie-9/

Meeting Summaries

Upcoming Meetings and Events

Community Spotlight

Updates and Security for 6.06, 8.04, 8.10 and 9.04

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 Updates

Ubuntu 8.04 Updates

Ubuntu 8.10 Updates

Ubuntu 9.04 Updates

UWN #: A sneak peek

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