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Subject: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #132
From: johnc4510 () ubuntu ! com (John Crawford)
Date: 2009-03-08 21:09:13
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #132 for the week March
1st - March 7th, 2009. In this issue we cover: Karmic Koala release
schedule, QA Team: Next testing day, Hug Day: March 12th, Americas
Board: New Ubuntu Members, LoCo Directory Moves Forward, Ubuntu Tunisia:
Migration Project, Ubuntu in the Cloud, Community Interview: Michael
Godawski, Simplifying Forums Categories, Mark a thread as Solved, mail
Stack Improvements in Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu Encrypted home with 2 factor
authentication, Ubuntu Drupal: Planet Module, Introducing Tarmac,
TurnKey: 12 new Ubuntu-based server appliances released, Technical Board
Meeting, Server Team Meeting Minutes: March 3rd, and much, much more!
== UWN Translations ==
* Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of
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== In This Issue ==
* Karmic Koala release schedule
* QA Team: Next testing day
* Hug Day: March 12th
* Americas Board: New Ubuntu Members
* Ubuntu Stats
* LoCo Directory Moves Forward
* Ubuntu Tunisia: Migration Project
* Ubuntu in the Cloud
* Inside the Launchpad Foundations Sprint
* Ubuntu Forums News
* The Planet
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* TurnKey: 12 new Ubuntu-based service applications
* Technical Board Meeting
* Server Team Meeting Minutes: March 3rd
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
== General Community News ==
=== Karmic Koala release schedule ===
The release schedule for Karmic is now available:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule
* You can expect to see the first Karmic milestone in mid-May.
* A cease of automatic syncs from Debian towards the end of June.
* Feature freeze in late August.
For details of the Karmic Ubuntu Developer Summit, please go to
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-March/000543.html
=== QA Team: Next testing day ===
The QA Team is having a testing day on Monday, March 9, 2009, for the
*buntu desktop of your choice. Details can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/UbuntuTestingDay/20090309. The goals on
the day will be to test the installer and applications on the CD as well
as those you download from repositories and use regularly. Go to
#ubuntu-testing on the freenode network to find out more and get involved.
http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/35
=== Hug Day: March 12th ===
March 12, 2009 is the next Bugday.
* Target: samba
* Page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090312
* IRC: #ubuntu-bugs
* Infos: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs/
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-March/000433.html
=== Americas Board: New Ubuntu Members ===
The approval results from Friday's Americas Membership meeting are as
follows:
Charlie Kravetz(charlie-tca): Charlie is from Idaho, USA and has been
using Ubuntu since 5.04. He is the Quality Assurance lead for Xubuntu, a
role which involves a considerable amount of bug triage and testing. As
such, he is an active member of ubuntu-bugsquad and bug-control. He also
spends a considerable amount of time in the #xubuntu channel helping
users. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~charlie-tca Wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CharlieKravetz
Martin Owens(doctormo): Martin operates the approved Ubuntu
Massachusetts LoCo team and lead the Ubuntu Case Badges initiative in
2007 and recently worked with ZaReason to launch another run of badges.
Currently he is involved in bringing local Community centers into a
Learn to Teach, Teach to learn project, where FOSS and Ubuntu are taught
to students who are then encouraged to teach others. Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~doctormo Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MartinOwens
Nick Fox(nickj-fox): Nick has been using Ubuntu since 6.04 and working
on the Mythbuntu project since the 7.04 development cycle. He is
currently a Mythbuntu core dev, and has helped to support, improve upon,
and generate new code in an effort to make the user experience better
and management of the MythTV and Ubuntu based systems easier. He also
makes a continuing effort to support the community in ways to help
promote bringing new users into the Ubuntu community. Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~nickj-fox Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NickFox
Thomas G. Mashos(tgm4883): Thomas is a Mythbuntu developer and been
using Ubuntu since Edgy. He actively supports users in the
#ubuntu-mythtv support channel. Currently much of his effort is focused
on working with Mythbuntu on getting MythTV related things packaged and
into the repos, or at least a PPA. He also runs development version of
Mythbuntu and spends time fixing bugs as he encounters them. Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~tgm4883 Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThomasMashos
Matthew Lye(lyematt): Matthew has been using Ubuntu since mid 2007, and
works on developing Ubuntu images for large scale education
environments. He is an active member of the Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team
Education and IRC help groups, preparing tutorials and teaching
materials for the Beginners Team to use to help new users understand
Ubuntu and preform complex tasks. Currently he is focused on helping new
users and Ubuntu for education environments, and eventually hopes to
contribute in improving the user experience of Ubuntu starting with bug
work. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~lyematt Wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Vantrax
John Baab(rhpot1991): John hails from Pennsylvania, USA and has been
using Ubuntu as his primary OS since 2004. He has spent the past two
years as an active member of the Mythbuntu development team, he works
upstream and is the maintainer of MythExport in the Ubuntu repos. He
intends to continue his work with Mythbuntu and MythExport and has
recently joined the Pennsylvania LoCo team. Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~rhpot1991 Wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/rhpot1991
Andrew Rufkahr(st33med): Andrew has been an active contributor to the
Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team for about two and a half years. He
regularly helps users both on the forums and in IRC, and has developed
and hosted several Python courses through the Beginners Team Education
Focus group. His future plans involve hosting more courses and getting
involved more heavily in Python-related development within Ubuntu.
Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~ajr1991 Wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/st33med
The Americas Board is very happy to welcome all these fantastic new
Ubuntu Members to the project!
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-March/000435.html
== Ubuntu Stats ==
=== Bug Stats ===
* Open (47855) +297 over last week
* Critical (21) +1 over last week
* Unconfirmed (19270) +76 over last week
* Unassigned (40220) +228 over last week
* All bugs ever reported (256359) +2032 over last week
As always, the Bug Squad needs more help. If you want to get started,
please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
=== Translation Stats Jaunty ===
* Spanish (19265) -717 over last week
* French (56320) +13 over last week
* Brazilian Portuguese (64590) +8 over last week
* Swedish (68153) -3832 over last week
* English (Uk) (82415) -1393 over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 9.04 "Jaunty Jackalope," see
more at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty/
=== Translation Stats Intrepid ===
* Spanish (15881) +/-0 over last week
* French (61243) +/-0 over last week
* Swedish (72647) -9 over last week
* Brazilian Portuguese (73976) +/-0 over last week
* English (UK) (81134) +/-0 over last week
Remaining strings to translate in Ubuntu 8.10 "Intrepid Ibex," see more
at: https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/
=== Ubuntu Brainstorm Top 5 this week ===
* Not enough feedback to brainstorm
* init.d showing it's age. Complex layers of shell script, with no
standards.
* Automatic backup before upgrading to new release
* Not all problems are valid
* There is no list of new packages that are waiting for acceptance
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 ==
=== LoCo Directory Moves Forward ===
In a brief posting, Jono Bacon shows off screen shots of the new LoCo
directory. The idea was to take the information from the LoCo Team List,
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamList, and gather it in a database that
was easier to read and access. This is still a work in progress, but the
design is coming along well. Thanks to Rich Johnson for doing the
developing work, and efrain for importing the data shown in the screen
shots.
http://www.jonobacon.org/2009/03/02/loco-directory-moves-forward/
=== Ubuntu Tunisia: Migration Project - National Engineering School of
Sfax (ENIS) ===
The project was launched under the initiative taken by the ENIS to
migrate its computing equipment to a free solutions. Our LoCo was
contacted by the ENIS administration to contribute to this project by
providing presentations on Ubuntu and free software and support them for
migration. This migration was carried out in two phases. A first phase
in December 2008, code name ENIS Event 8.12, and a second phase in
January 2009, code name ENIS Event 9.01. The initial planning of the
first phase was scheduled over two days (December 20th and 21th, 2008):
a conferences day and another for assistance to the migration.
Members of the ubuntu-tn LoCo provided various presentations to
students, teachers and ENIS technical staff (around 80 people). These
presentations focused on the presentation of Ubuntu, the switching to
OpenOffice.org, the Ubuntu administration, programming, virtualization,
security and Ubuntu server for TPE/PME. Each presentation was followed
by a discussion between ubuntu-tn LoCo members and the audience in the
amphitheater. Pictures of the event at the links.
* French Summary:
http://nizaurs.blogspot.com/2009/03/projet-de-migration-ecole-nationale.html
* English Summery:
http://nizaurs.blogspot.com/2009/03/migration-project-national-engineering.html
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-March/000434.html
== New in Jaunty Jackalope ==
=== Ubuntu in the Cloud ===
Eucalyptus (Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for Linking Your
Programs To Useful Systems) was placed in Jaunty before the feature
freeze. This means that a cloud infrastructure will be able to be built
upon Ubuntu Server. In addition, some Java related components have been
added:
1. Apache Axis2 is a Web services engine. Both SOAP and REST style
web-service are supported with binary data being exchanged via MTOM.
1. The WS-Security specification is provided by the rampart package,
the Apache web services security engine.
In addition, some virtualization related components were also updated,
such as kvm, libvirt 0.6.0, cirt-manager 0.6.1, and opennebula.
http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/february-in-the-archive-a-view-from-the-ubuntu-server-team/
== Launchpad News ==
=== Inside the Launchpad Foundations Sprint ===
The Launchpad Foundations team, and some Canonical engineers have been
meeting in Montreal to prepare for the release of the Launchpad code.
Part of this process is to separate out the parts that are not specific
to Launchpad, and place them in a new framework called LAZR. These will
be libraries that can be reused in other projects. The down side is that
a lot of these libraries have dependencies to Launchpad that need to be
removed. The up side is that when they get done, these libraries will
be able to be used in any project that uses Zope interfaces to describe
its data objects.
http://blog.launchpad.net/api/inside-the-launchpad-foundations-sprint
== Ubuntu Forums News ==
=== Community Interview: Michael Godawski ===
Please meet Michael Godawski,
http://matthewhelmke.net/2009/02/26/an-interview-with-michaelgodawski/
from Germany. He was born in Poland and studies History of Art and
Sociology. Michael is the perfect example of a non-geeky member,
consistently helpful with new users, always patient and kind. Like many
others, his first computer encounter was with an Atari 2600. He is now a
member of the Beginners Team and Unanswered Posts Team and writes
tutorials you can find on his website:
http://ubunturesources.ub.ohost.de Enjoy!
=== Simplifying Forums Categories ===
Over the last month, several changes have been made to rearrange the
forums categories. In particular, the Other OS Talk section was merged
back with the general support sub-forums, and links to the major Linux
distributions or other OS support forums provided. Hopefully, we will be
able to send back traffic to the other Linux projects, as Ubuntu Forums
has a fast growth (current on-line user record is 35,611) and are
pushing our hosting servers walls. A new [other_os] prefix has been
added to help identify and search specific thread topics.
=== Mark a thread as Solved ===
We used to have a specific plug-in to add "Solved" in the thread title
when needed. This plug-in (along with the "Thanks" feature) gave
troubles with the database and had to be disabled. Tags can be used
instead, as they are shown next to the thread title, in a different color.
== The Planet ==
=== Mail Stack Improvements in Ubuntu 9.04 ===
Up until the Ubuntu-server 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) release, sysadmins
needed to manually set up all parts of a mail server; IMAP, POP, SMTP,
SASL authentication, and TLS/SSL support for all of the services before
any other custom configuration could begin. Working toward a more
perfect installation process, the Ubuntu Server team has come to the
conclusion that there needed to be an integrated mail stack with a safe
default set up. The new Dovecot-Postfix install will enable the default
install of a working e-mail server out of the box. Not all mail
configuration problems are solved with the default install, as set up
for antispam and antivirus countermeasures must be setup separately.
http://blog.init.hr/?p=3
=== Ubuntu Encrypted home with 2 factor authentication ===
There are ways to keep your encrypted home folder safe, defeating the
casual hack of using a LiveCD to access the average setup. The methods
of securing this data are discussed as to limiting physical access to
the pass-phrase file through removable media, by using two-factor
authentication. Then you just need to ensure that you protect that
device! Pop it out, if you're leaving your system alone, and keep that
device on your person. You can read Dustin's advice on encrypted
directories by using the links below.
* Jaunty encrypted home directories:
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/02/jaunty-encrypted-home-directories.html
* How eCryptfs Works:
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/02/how-encrypted-home-ecryptfs-works.html
* Mounting Encrypted Home using a LiveCD:
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/03/mounting-your-encrypted-home-from.html
http://blog.dustinkirkland.com/2009/03/ubuntu-encrypted-home-with-2-factor.html
=== Ubuntu Drupal Team: Planet module ===
Introducing the Drupal Planet module, which allows Drupal users to add
specific feeds instead creating a whole new site, the Drupal Planet
module places feeds under the /planet directory. Users have the ability
to add as many feeds as desired, where the feeds are updated
automatically using cron. This makes feed aggregation possible now by
using a single module.
http://profarius.com/content/planet-module-drupal
=== Introducing Tarmac ===
Announcing the release of Tarmac, the robotic landing bot for Launchpad.
The idea is simple. You have a development focus branch that constantly
needs to have branches landed on it, but you're too busy writing your
own code to manually land them in trunk. Tarmac takes the difficulty out
of this by checking your development focus branch for approved merge
proposals, and merging them automatically. This first release is just a
little more than "the simplest thing that could possibly work." Feature
requests and patches are most certainly welcome.
http://theironlion.net/blog/2009/03/04/introducing-tarmac-launchpad-branch-lander/
== In The Press ==
=== Has Ubuntu hit a plateau? ===
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes of ZDNet wonders, has Ubuntu hit a plateau? After
he downloaded the alpha 5 release of the upcoming Ubuntu 9.04, what
surprised him was he felt that there was very little for him to get
excited about. In fact, even the just announced 9.10 release which is
over six months away, has nothing that really gets his blood moving.
Adrian states, "Don?t get me wrong, I like Ubuntu. Of all the Linux
distros that I?ve tried, it?s the one that seems to show the most
promise of being able to go mainstream. It?s fast, reliable and secure."
He goes on to question the need for the six month release schedule
because in his opinion, these releases are feeling more and more like
service packs than evolutionary steps forward.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=3669&tag=nl.e589
=== Ubuntu's "plateau" = Good news for education ===
Christopher Dawson of ZDNet responds to Adrian Kingsley-Hughes' article
summarized above. Dawson wants to know why it's such a bad thing that
the six month release schedule has turned into more of a service pack.
"What this means is that Ubuntu has reached an incredible state of
maturity and schools can now use it without fear of obsolescence in 6
months. It also means that incremental updates are easily applied
without significant disruption to labs or servers, while allowing users
to take advantage of new features." While the geek in him is always
looking for something new, improved, and uber-cool, the IT admin. in him
just wants something that works well and consistently.
http://education.zdnet.com/?p=2207
=== Linux Desktop heads for the clouds ===
Matt Asay of Cnet News thinks that while evangelists of Linux
distributions built for personal computers point to Netbooks as an
indication of renewed life in their chances to compete for consumers,
new data suggests that this may be a fool's hope. Instead, such
advocates would do well to follow the leads of Canonical and Red Hat, as
they respectively extend the desktop with cloud services, and deliver
desktop functionality from the cloud. Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth told
Asay last year that his Ubuntu desktop strategy would increasingly
include cloud services. Recently, Canonical started to deliver on this
vision. The point isn't to replicate the Windows desktop. The point is
to completely change the way desktops are delivered, and their services
used. Anyone still worried about Linux on Netbooks is fighting the wrong
battle. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10189098-16.html
=== Ubuntu vs Windows: Memory and a backup solution ===
Martin compares Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Ubuntu RAM usage; backs up
the whole machine with Acronis; and finds some things Ubuntu does well,
and others that he can't seem to get working. At startup, Windows 7 for
x64 had a memory footprint of 1.24GB, with the Windows Vista for x64
memory having a memory footprint of 1.34GB. On the same machine, Ubuntu
8.10 had a memory footprint of 349 MB of RAM. In other words, a whole
gigabyte less than Vista. Heller goes on to discuss using Acronis to
back it up, and what features work well for him in Ubuntu.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/stratdev/archives/2009/03/ubuntu_vs_windo.html
=== Acer Aspire One with Moblin 2, Ubuntu 8.10 ===
Jordan Spencer Cunningham of OSnews reviews Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
on his Acer Aspire One. Jordan found that startup is basically as fast
as Windows XP, and Windows 7. Everything seems to work out of the box
except for the wireless, camera, and microphone. The overall system
works flawlessly, and seemingly as fast as Windows 7, even in
full-graphics mode. He did have some problems with unplugging or
plugging the AC power causing the system?s power manager to halt.
Overall, he gives the Ubuntu 8.10 system on the Acer Aspire One a 7/10.
Aside from some very minor bugs, it is a very netbooker-friendly system.
If the wireless was included naturally in the distribution without
having to do any serious tweaking, Ubuntu would be as ready, if not more
so than Windows 7 to be a netbook system.
http://www.osnews.com/story/21070/Review_Acer_Aspire_One_with_Moblin_2_Ubuntu_8_10_Windows/page4/
== In The Blogosphere ==
=== Taking Ubuntu 9.04 Out For A Spin ===
Wanting to get a taste of what to expect come April, Jeremy LaCroix of
IT News Today takes a look at the upcoming version of Ubuntu, code named
?Jaunty Jackalope.? After running into a few bugs on a daily build of
Jaunty, LaCroix switched to Jaunty Alpha 5 for the install. Once the
installation was complete, he was presented with the GDM log in screen,
which was sporting a brand new theme, that he thinks looks awesome.
LaCroix notes the new notification system, but the best thing he noticed
about Ubuntu 9.04 so far, is how fast it is. "The developers weren?t
lying when they talked about speed, this thing is FAST." Even though he
installed it on an older machine, he says you wouldn?t notice it because
even with an older processor, Jaunty is probably the most responsive
version he has ever used. http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=215
=== My Experiences With Ubuntu 9.04 So Far ===
Blogger Jerremy LaCroix from IT News Today gives us a preview of
Kubunutu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. He makes sure that everyone knows before
hand that this it is still in development, so a full review would not be
fair or accurate. He will write a full review of the release once it
comes out in April. He didn't say anything about the installation
process, because he didn't see much change in it. He did comment on how
stable and fast jaunty is, even though it's still in development. He
continues by saying that "it's very abnormal to have this much stability
in the operating system at this point in its development." He was happy
that there was a new network manager, so that there was one less legacy
KDE3 application being used. He is having difficulty connecting to a
network, but contributes this to the release still being in development.
We are also informed of KPackageKit which is the new package manager
that KDE4 is using. Adept is also installed by default, so you can pick
which one you want to use. He describes the KDE4 install as "yet another
vanilla KDE 4 installation." This is because the theme is still the
same, and even the desktop is still the same as previous releases. In
conclusion he says that the speed increase alone is enough to warrant
upgrading to 9.04. http://www.itnewstoday.com/?p=198
=== Hive Five: Best Home Server Software ===
Blogger Jason Fitzpatrick from Life Hacker goes over what people voted
as the top 5 pieces of software that people use to power their home
servers. In the top 5 were: FreeNas, Ubuntu Server Edition, Apache,
Debian, and Windows Home Server. He talks about the capabilities of all
5 of these pieces of software, and what benefits that they give to the
user. For Ubuntu Server Edition, he covered the ease of use of it. He
liked the automated LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP) installation.
This is because it's much easier to install the core components of a
server this way, than to have to configure each component on your own.
He then tells us about the abundance of applications that make
integration with the rest of your home network easier. He says that
"Ubuntu is more than powerful and capable enough to handle all your
media streaming, remote back up, and file serving needs."
http://lifehacker.com/5162026/best-home-server-software
=== Memo to Mark Shuttleworth: Don?t Settle for Ubuntu Linux Desktops ===
Joe Panettieri of Works With U wants to let Mark Shuttleworth know where
he believes Ubuntu should be concentrating its efforts. He strongly
agrees with continuing to push Ubuntu Server Edition, and not relying on
just Ubuntu Desktop Edition. This is because he believes that companies
that only have one "cash cow" die. He doesn't like the logic behind
pulling back from the server market, and pushing harder in the Desktop
market. He points out that a lesson is to be learned from Windows NT,
and when it first came out for the server market. In conclusion he says
that the server efforts shouldn't slow down, they should be accelerated,
while holding ground in the Desktop market.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/03/03/memo-to-mark-shuttleworth-dont-settle-for-ubuntu-linux-desktops/
=== Ubuntu Directory Service: Canonical Calls for Help ===
Joe Panettieri of WorksWithU reports that Canonical is developing a
Directory Services strategy that could help Ubuntu Server Edition
compete, and integrate more effectively with Microsoft, Windows Server
and Active Directory. In addition to a relationship with Likewise
Software, Canonical is seeking external experts to help accelerate some
Directory Services efforts. According to Nick Barcet, Canonical?s Ubuntu
Server product manager, ?OpenLDAP is our LDAP implementation of choice
in Ubuntu Server Edition. Around it we are putting together the base
configuration and tools that we need to offer a better ?out of the box?
experience. In 8.10 we implemented a method for schema update to be
automatically replicated to multiple OpenLDAP instances in the network.
9.04 should implement the basis of certificate management as well as a
saner default DIT.? Barcet concedes Canonical is juggling multiple
priorities at the moment ? which means a full-blown directory service
isn?t a top priority at the company. However, while this is not the top
priority, it is something they are very conscious about, and progress is
only limited by the resources they have. If some readers would have some
spare time to help in that direction, they would be more than welcome.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/03/05/ubuntu-directory-service-canonical-calls-for-help/
== In Other News ==
=== TurnKey: 12 new Ubuntu-based server appliances released ===
To those unfamiliar with TurnKey Linux, it's an easy way to get a
pre-integrated Ubuntu system up and running on your server or VM
(VMware, VirtualBox, Xen, KVM) of choice, and in just a couple of
minutes. The project recently announced its most exciting and ambitious
batch of releases yet. The 2009.02 release, based on Ubuntu 8.04.2 LTS,
features extensive improvements to usability, security and stability:
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/news
Since its last appearance in the UWN, the project has added 9 new
appliances to its family, which now includes LAMP stack, Ruby on Rails,
MediaWiki, Joomla, Drupal, LAPP stack, Django stack, MySQL, PostgreSQL,
TurnKey Core (102MB) and Bootstrap (67MB):
http://www.turnkeylinux.org/appliances
According to the project's developers "next up are appliances for Apache
Tomcat, Wordpress, Moodle, Movable Type and phpBB." The project has only
gotten this far thanks to the warm reception it received from the Ubuntu
community when they were just starting out. Thanks to everyone who tried
the appliances, gave them feedback, and got involved!"
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-March/000428.html
== Meeting Summaries ==
=== Technical Board Meeting ===
Attendees: Matt Zimmerman (chair), Mark Shuttleworth, Colin Watson, and
Scott James Remnant
* Should technical-board at lists.ubuntu.com be public?
* Technical-board@ serves two purposes:
1. a contact address to reach the TB (and only the TB)
2. a mailing list to discuss TB matters
for 1., a private list is appropriate, but for 2., it is not.
* Currently, the Technical Board is responsible for the following
documents and processes:
1. The Ubuntu Package Policy,
2. Ubuntu Release Feature Goals,
3. Ubuntu Package Selection,
none of that stuff should be private, however there needs to be a
quick, easy and memorable way to talk privately to or among the TB.
* No objections to subscribing select people to the TB list who are
also participating but not actually on the TB. It was also
reaffirmed that where possible, we should shift discussion of public
matters from t-b@ onto ubuntu-devel@
The TB will stay private so long as we only use it for discussions
which ought to be private, and nothing else e.g. if someone emails
technical-board@ and raises a technical concern, we must redirect
that to ubuntu-devel at .
* MOTU Council list of nominees for MOTU Council Election
* Appointments to the board are made by Mark Shuttleworth subject to
confirmation by a vote amongst the maintainers
* The CC (and TB) will determine a shortlist of candidates and set up
Launchpad polls accordingly so team members can vote.
* The polls might take the form of confirmation votes or of a race
between more candidates than the available seats on the Team Council.
MC has been well organized, growing it gives an opportunity to
develop more leadership talent so 2 other seats will be added.
* The three nominees are: Daniel Holbach, Nathan Handler, and Jonathan
Davies
ACTION: sabdfl to set up Launchpad polls including per-package uploaders
for MC nominee confirmations
* SRU guidelines for Landscape
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LandscapeUpdates
* Sometimes, the Landscape client code must be updated to take
advantage of improvements/updates to the Landscape server...and this
is their reasoning for the need to be part of an SRU.
* The reasons why Landscape is suitable, given the negotiations to
date, are:
- it has an extensive test suite (yes, like other packages in the
archive)
- its developers have committed to doing specific QA on a variety of
upgrade and fresh-install combinations
- it has very limited interactions with the rest of Ubuntu, that are
straightforward to enumerate so that we can have a clear idea of
regression potential
- those interactions have been specifically called out in the
mandatory QA process that each upgrade must go through
- its developers have agreed to work within the Ubuntu update
process
* Landscape developers originally raised:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/landscape-client/+bug/306360
* We want assurance that the potential impact is limited, and that the
testing conducted is sufficient to provide the level of assurance we
expect for stable updates.
* We've entrusted the SRU team to assess the QA aspect and will review
that ourselves as well based on the document that outlines the
criteria we used to make the decision and includes the sentence ("the
TB will consider additional applications in due course following
similar criteria")
ACTION: cjwatson to write up a formal decision which the TB can then
vote on
* Upload permission for Romain Francoise for emacs-snapshot
* https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs-snapshot
* Jono has been in touch with Romain. To be followed up
* Other
* Codecs in ffmpeg, jono is working on
* Archive reorg governance ACTION: cjwatson to rework archive reorg
proposal to unblock governance work
* mdke's application was dealt with by email and privileges granted.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-March/000431.html
=== Server Team Meeting Minutes: March 3rd ===
Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online with
the irc logs here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20090303
* SRU bug tracking: ivoks raised the SRU bug tracking point last
meeting but hadn?t had time to prepare something for this week.
* ACTION: ivoks to add to the server team agenda an item about better
SRU management.
* Postfix and Dovecot integration: ivoks reported that he hadn?t
received any feedback yet. mathiaz suggested to write a blog post about it.
* ACTION: ivoks to blog about the postfix dovecot integration.
* Ubuntu and EC2: zul gave a quick status of Ubuntu on EC2: the beta2
images were released last week and are based on intrepid. Follow the EC2
Getting Started guide to help testing the beta2 image. zul is also
working on images based on hardy and jaunty.
* Samba bug day: mathiaz announced that next Thursday, March 12th,
will be dedicated to triaging bugs related to samba. The QA team is
currently gathering a list of bugs for the coming Bug day. mathiaz and
ttx agreed to provide support to the bug triagers during the whole Bug
day. There were also some discussions about announcing the samba bug day
via several blog posts.
* ACTION: mathiaz to blog about samba bug day on Thursday.
* ACTION: ttx to blog about samba bug day on Monday.
* ACTION: nijaba to blog about samba bug day Wednesday from next week.
* ACTION: ttx to cover the first part of the samba hug day.
* ACTION: mathiaz to cover the second part of the samba hug day.
* Exchange support for Evolution: seb128 reported that the
evolution-mapi package had been uploaded to jaunty and was waiting for
review in the NEW queue. He is looking for testers that have access to
an Exchange infrastructure. ivoks volunteered for some testing.
* ACTION: ivoks to test the evolution-mapi package in an Exchange
environment.
Next meeting will be on Tuesday, March 10th at 15:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.
http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2009/03/03/server-team-20090303-meeting-minutes/
== Upcoming Meetings and Events ==
=== Monday, March 9, 2009 ===
==== Alpha 6 Smoke Testing day - all day event ====
=== Tuesday, March 10, 2009 ===
==== Technical Board Meeting ====
* Start: 14:00 UTC
* End: 15:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
==== Server Team Meeting ====
* Start: 16:00 UTC
* End: 17:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Meeting
==== Desktop Team Meeting ====
* Start: 16:30 UTC
* End: 17:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-desktop
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting
==== Kernel Team Meeting ====
* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: Not listed as of publication.
=== Wednesday, March 11, 2009 ===
==== Foundation Team Meeting ====
* Start: 16:00 UTC
* End: 17:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication.
==== QA Team Meeting ====
* Start: 17:00 UTC
* End: 18:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings/
=== Thursday, March 12, 2009 ===
==== Jaunty Alpha 6 - all day event ====
==== Hug Day - all day event ====
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090312
==== Ubuntu Mobile Team Meeting ====
* Start: 12:00 UTC
* End: 13:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication.
==== Ubuntu Java Meeting ====
* Start: 14:00 UTC
* End: 15:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
=== Friday, March 13, 2009 ===
==== MOTU Council Meeting ====
* Start: 06:00 UTC
* End: 07:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
==== MC Meeting ====
* Start: 07:00 UTC
* End: 08:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: None listed as of publication
==== Jaunty Weekly Release Meeting ====
* Start: 14:00 UTC
* End: 15:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2009-03-13
== Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10 ==
=== Security Updates ===
* USN-726-1: curl vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-726-1
* USN-727-1: network-manager-applet vulnerabilities -
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-727-1
* USN-727-2: NetworkManager vulnerability -
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-727-2
* USN-726-2: curl regression - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-726-2
* USN-729-1: Python Crypto vulnerability -
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-729-1
* USN-728-1: Firefox and Xulrunner vulnerabilities -
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-728-1
* USN-728-2: Firefox vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-728-2
* USN-728-3: Firefox vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-728-3
* USN-730-1: libpng vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-730-1
=== Ubuntu 6.06 Updates ===
* None Reported
=== Ubuntu 7.10 Updates ===
* None Reported
=== Ubuntu 8.04 Updates ===
* None Reported
=== Ubuntu 8.10 Updates ===
* linux-meta 2.6.27.13.16 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009694.html
* debian-installer 20080522ubuntu28 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009695.html
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