Lucid Alpha 1 released

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-12-12

I know where the bobcat hunts, oh yes,
When the air hangs dark and the city sleeps,
When it moves about with stealth of breath;
Its form a shadow to make you guess
If you see a cat or just nighttime creeps;
But a hunter could be there nearby
For I know where the bobcat lies!

— Jason Hogle

Welcome to Lucid Lynx Alpha 1, which will in time become Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Pre-releases of Lucid are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable
system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even
frequent breakage. They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and
those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be
released throughout the Lucid development cycle. The Alpha images are
known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while
representing a very recent snapshot of Lucid. You can download it here:

http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu)
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/lucid/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Server for UEC and EC2)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/lucid/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu ARM)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/lucid/alpha-1/ (Kubuntu)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/lucid/alpha-1/ (Xubuntu)

See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors.

Alpha 1 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider
testing. Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/alpha1 for
information on changes in Ubuntu.

This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a
list of known bugs (that you don’t need to report if you encounter), please
see:

http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/lucid/alpha1

If you’re interested in following the changes as we further develop
Lucid, have a look at the lucid-changes mailing list:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lucid-changes

We also suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list
if you’re interested in following Ubuntu development. This is a
low-traffic list (a few posts a week) carrying announcements of
approved specifications, policy changes, alpha releases, and other
interesting events.

http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Bug reports should go to the Ubuntu bug tracker:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

[Discuss Lucid Alpha 1 on the Forum]

Originally sent to the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list by Steve Langasek Thu Dec 10 17:55:16 GMT 2009

LoCo Directory

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-12-12

After hours of work of lots of nice people, we’re happy to announce

http://loco.ubuntu.com

The LoCo Directory has been talked about for a long time now and we’re happy to release a first functional release, which is 0.1.0. In this first release we simply want to keep team data up to date.

Make sure your LoCo Team is in http://launchpad.net/~locoteams and if you are approved in http://launchpad.net/~locoteams-approved – then you can, if you are an team admin or team owner of the team, edit your team data and we can slowly replace https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList

There’s a lot of things we still need to do and lots of ideas kicking around for version 0.2.0, which will let you put up Events data for your LoCo team.

If you want to help out:

Thanks a lot to everybody who worked on the code, made designs, helped fix stuff, had conversations about it, specced it out, filed bugs and translated it. You are all awesome!

Go and try it out, edit your team data and file bugs. 🙂

[Discuss the LoCo Directory on the Forum]

Originally sent to the loco-contacts mailing list by Daniel Holbach on Fri Dec 11 16:59:24 GMT 2009

Ubuntu EMEA Regional Membership Board seeking new member

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-12-10

The Ubuntu EMEA Regional Membership Board (EMEA RMB) is seeking an
additional Ubuntu community member to join as a member of the board. More details about the RMB can be found at the following links:

Regional Boards Membership Wiki
Regional Boards EMEA Wiki
EMEA Membership Board Launchpad

The Regional Membership Boards are responsible for considering Ubuntu member applications and do this via a regular public meeting held on IRC. Ideally the candidate should reside in an timezone which is conducive to attending one hour online meetings which are typically held at around 20:00 UTC, and can commit to attending those meetings wherever possible.

The EMEA RMB will collate nominations and pass the list (in full) to the Community Council who will select one person from the list supplied. The plan looks like this:-

* Nominations open with this mail on 10th December 2009
* Nominations close on 17th December 2009
* EMEA RMB to collate nominees and pass to the Community Council by
24th December
* Community Council to select from above pool and announce accordingly

If you are an Ubuntu member and are interested in joining the EMEA RMB, or know someone else who is an existing member and might be suitable, please drop an email to the board at the following address: EMEA mailing list

Note: This is a private mailing list so your mail will be held in moderation, and you may be notified of this via a reply. We will approve all nomination mails to the list.

Please pass this notification on to your teams.

Many thanks,
For the Community Council and EMEA Regional Membership Board

Unified SRU policy and team for main/universe

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-12-10

Attention Ubuntu developers! During the course of general archive re-organization, and a recent (short) discussion on ubuntu-devel@ [1] and on IRC, the SRU teams for main (ubuntu-sru) and universe (motu-sru) have now joined together in: ubuntu-sru

This now means that any member can review/approve/reject any SRU request. However, only the archive administrators amongst the team members can actually press the buttons to accept uploads, but that’s the smallest part of SRU review really.

The policy was already updated a while ago to uniquely apply to the entire archive: Stable Release Updates

In particular, you now should just subscribe “ubuntu-sru” to all SRU requests. “motu-sru” will still work, since ubuntu-sru is now the sole member of motu-sru, but its usage should be phased out.

[1] ubuntu-devel mailing list archive.

Launchpad Read Only Notification

By boredandblogging | Published: 2009-12-10

Launchpad’s web interface will be read-only for one hour from 22.00 UTC on Wednesday the 16th December 2009 for the release of Launchpad 3.1.12. During that time, other services, including PPAs, code hosting and the email interface, will be offline.

Starts: 22.00 UTC 16th December
Expected back: 23.00 UTC 16th December

This is the final Launchpad code release of 2009! We’ll post the 2010 release calendar to the Launchpad blog in the next few days: Launchpad Blog

Follow Launchpad’s official status feed for full status information:Launchpad Status