Auto Bug Expiry on Launchpad

I’m sure many of you may have heard by now, but we’re getting close to re-enabling automatic bug expiry on Launchpad. There’s a post about this on the Launchpad blog:

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/enabling-automatic-bug-expiry

What do you mean “re-enabling”?

Launchpad has always advertised that we auto-expire inactive incomplete bugs, but we haven’t done this for awhile now. Some developers are using their own launchpadlib scripts which set bug tasks to the EXPIRED status based on the same criteria that Launchpad will use.

These individual scripts will no longer be needed once we re-enable auto expiry on Launchpad itself.

What does this means for Ubuntu?

Ubuntu is already configured to take advantage of automatic expiry. Next week, we will do a few test runs of the script that expires bugs. We will start with a full run on our staging server, which will not affect the main Launchpad site but will give us an idea if we’re doing the right thing with expiry. We will then begin batched runs against launchpad.net, doing runs of 100 or 200 bugs at a time. Again, this is to make sure we’re not expiring bugs we shouldn’t and to make it easier to recover from mistakes.

Once we get through a few batched runs on launchpad.net and we’re confident we’re expiring the correct bugs and everything is working smoothly with this feature, we will set the bug expiry script to do regular runs, expiring all eligible bug tasks with each run.

Originally posted on the ubuntu-devel mailing list by Deryck Hodge on Fri Oct 15 14:31:38 BST 2010

Demonstration of uTouch on Ubuntu Unity

To see a demonstration of uTouch on Ubuntu Unity click here.

Originally posted on Ubuntu Developers on blip.tv.

Launchpad read-only 22.00 UTC 13th October 2010

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only, with other aspects offline, for around two hours on Wednesday the 13th of October, while we roll-out new Launchpad code.

Starts: 22.00 UTC 13th October 2010
Expected back: 00.00 UTC 14th October 2010

Originally posted here by Matthew Revell on October 12th, 2010 at 9:49 am

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 213

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is Issue #213 for the weeks of September 26th – October 10th, 2010 and is available here.

In this issue we cover:

  • Invitation to Ubuntu Open Week – October 11 -15, 2010
  • Ubuntu 10.10 is Released
  • Kubuntu, Mythbuntu, Edubuntu
  • 10.10 10:10:10 – thank you and Happy Maverick Day!
  • Asia-Oceania RMB Positions Available
  • Something New and Beautiful: Ubuntu, distilled, in type
  • Ubuntu Fridge: We’re moving!
  • Forum Code of Conduct Updated
  • Ubuntu Stats
  • LoCo News
  • Ubuntu on ARM, the best since sliced bread
  • … and we’re live
  • Multi-touch at UDS-N in Orlando, October 25th-29th
  • In The Press
  • In The Blogosphere
  • Ubuntu in the Cloud
  • Interview with Leann Ogasawara
  • Canonical to expand cooperation with PC vendors
  • TurnKey community development contest: let the judging begin!
  • Featured Podcasts
  • Weekly Ubuntu Development Team Meetings
  • Monthly Team Reports: September 2010
  • Upcoming Meetings and Events
  • Updates and Security
  • UWN Sneak Peek

And Much Much More This issue of The Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter is brought to you by:

  • Amber Graner
  • Jonathan Carter
  • Liraz Siri
  • Daniel Calab
  • Nathan Handler
  • Alex Lourie
  • And many others

If you have a story idea for the Weekly Newsletter, join the Ubuntu News Team mailing list and submit it. Ideas can also be added to the wiki!


Except where otherwise noted, content in this issue is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License BY SA Creative Commons License.

Invitation to Ubuntu Open Week – October 11 -15, 2010

You’re invited

to

Ubuntu Open Week

Where: Online in IRC – #ubuntu-classroom & #ubuntu-classroom-chat

When: Monday October 11, 2010 through Friday October 15, 2010

Time: 14:00 UTC – 18:00 UTC

  • Want to find out more about what’s happening in and around Ubuntu as well as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, and Ubuntu Studio?
  • Want a chance to ask Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of the Ubuntu project , a few questions about the project?
  • Want to know more about how you, your LoCo team and your project can be more effective?
  • How about translations – want to know how you can get involved and help in this effort?

If you are interested in Ubuntu Open Week in Spanish go to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek_ES

There is an exciting line up there as well!
If you answered yes to any of those questions then Ubuntu Open Week is for you. However, that’s not all. Below is a list by day of the scheduled sessions. Take a look I’m sure you’ll find something you would like to know more about. If so join #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat on freenode.net on Monday, October 11 through Friday, October 15, 2010.
Reminder all times are listed in UTC. For more information go to http://www.timeanddate.com/ Here’s the exciting line-up for next week’s sessions:

Monday, October 11, 2010

1400 UTC – Introduction and Random Q&A – Jono Bacon and Jorge Castro
1500 UTC – Helping LoCo Teams Help themselves – Laura Czajkowski
1600 UTC – Kubuntu is Awesome -Riddell
1700 UTC – How to contribute to Ubuntu – Mohamed Amine IL Idrissi – devildante

Tuesday, October 12, 2010

1400 UTC – Get started translating Ubuntu David Planella
1500 UTC – How to go from user to contributor: Finding your place in the Ubuntu Community – Laura Czajkowski
1600 UTC – How to Make Posters using Inkscape -Martin Owens
1700 UTC – Qimo 4 kids – Michelle Hall

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

1400 UTC – Accessibility is Important – Charlie Kravetz
1500 UTC – Intro to Ubuntu Development -bilalakhtar
1600 UTC – Intro to Ubuntu and Cloud, running your 1st Ubuntu Server on EC2 -AhmedKamal
1700 UTC – Deploying Web Applications in the Cloud – DustinKirkland

Thursday, October 14, 2010

1400 UTC – Ask Mark – Mark Shuttleworth
1500 UTC – Xubuntu-Alive and Well -Charlie Kravetz
1600 UTC – Screencasting How-to – duanedesign
1700 UTC – Ubuntu in Education -Belinda Lopez

Friday, October 15, 2010

1400 UTC – Best Practices for Translation Teams David Planella
1500 UTC – Ubuntu Studio Q&A – Scott Lavender
1600 UTC – Have you tried turning it off and then on again? – Jessica Ledbetter and Cheri703
1700 UTC – Bug Triaging: Do’s and Do not’s -hggdh

For more information on Ubuntu Open Week go to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek

Hope to see you there!

Originally posted here by Amber Graner on Sunday Oct 10, 2010