Category Archives: Interviews

Interview with Balloons

By ubuntu-news-team | Published: 2012-02-24

I came across Balloons in the #ubuntu-community-team a few months ago when seeking some advice on a forum matter. Balloons is a “new” member of the Canonical Community Team working as the QA Community Coordinator. I asked if he would be willing to do an interview, he said yes and here we are now… 1. […]

Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update

By dholbach | Published: 2012-02-23

Development Update Nine weeks until release and one thing is clear already: 12.04 will be a kick-arse release. Thanks everyone for your hard work on it! Still there’s a few things which still need to get done. Today User Interface Freeze and Beta Freeze will kick in, next week we will do a test rebuild […]

Interview with Gema Gomez-Solano

By pleia2 | Published: 2012-02-23

Elizabeth Krumbach: Can you tell us a little about yourself? Gema Gomez-Solano: I love good software and computers. When I was at high school, and I watched the film Sneakers, I decided to become a Computer Engineer. I admired those computer wizards who could do almost anything with a keyboard. I really wanted to be […]

Ubuntu 12.04 Development update

By dholbach | Published: 2012-02-16
Robert Roth

Development Update And again we are in the most interesting time of the release cycle. Today we will hit Feature Freeze at around 21:00 UTC. The time where we stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release. Today marks the end of a couple of very busy […]

Ubuntu 12.04 Development update

By dholbach | Published: 2012-02-09

Development Update Ubuntu 12.04 is shaping up nicely. Last week Alpha 2 got released, which means you should be testing by now. Next week we will hit Feature Freeze, by which time we “stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release”. This also means that new upstream […]