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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #33 for the week March 18th - March 24th, 2007. In this issue we cover ...

In This Issue

General Community News

Newly Approved Ubuntu Members

• Gabor Suveg
• Eric Lake
• Tiago Faria
• Martin Albisetti
• David Farning
• Dave Murphy
• Morgan Collett
• Cory Kontros

TODO: add launchpad profiles and maybe a short summary of what they've done.

LoCo News

Team News

Albin Tonnerre join MOTU

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-March/023438.html

Development News

Matt Zimmerman summarises two months after the split of the development mailing list

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-March/023335.html

New Bug tags, including Bite Size

Daniel Holbach has announced some new bug tags in Malone, including the "bitesize" one for very small tasks. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-March/000263.html

Feedback requested on nfs work

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-March/023433.html

Testing requested on the new desktop-effects and restricted-manager

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-March/023429.html

=== New Kernel Team bug trage policies ==

Ben Collins, lead of the Kernel Team, has announced new bug triage guidelines for the kernel

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-March/000265.html

Bug traceback for the masses

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-March/023440.html

New in Feisty Fawn

Developing using Bazaar (bzr)

Matt Zimmerman sought feedback on the use of Bazaar, the distributed revision control system, for packaging, specifically regarding specific tools such as bzr-builddeb. XXX

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-March/023399.html

Longstanding bug reporting bug fixed

A longstanding bug in Ubuntu, https://beta.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/7839, was fixed this week with the removal of reportbug, a tool inherited from Debian and the finishing of Apport, a new bug reporting tool in Ubuntu. XXX

Launchpad News

In The Press

"Ubuntu Feisty Fawn: Desktop Linux Matured" - OSNews review

http://www.osnews.com/story.php/17505/Ubuntu-Feisty-Fawn-Desktop-Linux-Matured/

In The Blogoshpere

Meetings and Events

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-bugsquad/2007-March/000490.html

Community Spotlight

Updates and security for 6.06 and 6.10

Security Updates

Ubuntu 6.06 LTS Updates

Ubuntu 6.10 Updates

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 [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs

Check out the bug statistics: [WWW] http://people.ubuntu-in.org/~carthik/bugstats/

Infamous Bugs

UWN #: A sneak peek

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Conclusion

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