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Subject: Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #133
From: johnc4510 () ubuntu ! com (John Crawford)
Date: 2009-03-15 21:41:32
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Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #133 for the week March
8th - March 14th, 2009. In this issue we cover: Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 6
released, Ubuntu Testing Day: Notify-OSD, MOTU Council News, Hug Day:
March 19th, Ubuntu Florida Rocks Florida Linux Show, gmail filters for
bug email, Inside Launchpad AJAX sprint, Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team,
Ubuntu Forums Interview: Connor Imes, Canonical QA Desktop Automation
Sprint, Ubuntu Women project status, Ubuntu Drupal 6.2.0 released,
Ubuntu Podcast #21, Server Team Meeting Minutes, US Teams Meeting
Minutes, and much, much more!
== UWN Translations ==
* Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of
linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the
information you need.
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== In This Issue ==
* Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 6 released
* Ubuntu Testing Day: Notify-OSD
* MOTU Council News
* Hug Day: March 19th
* Ubuntu Stats
* Ubuntu Florida Rocks Florida Linux Show
* gmail filters for bug email
* Inside Launchpad AJAX sprint
* Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team
* Ubuntu Forums Interview: Connor Imes
* Canonical QA Desktop Automation Sprint
* Ubuntu Women project status
* Ubuntu Drupal 6.2.0 released
* In the Press & Blogosphere
* Ubuntu Podcast #21
* Server Team Meeting Minutes
* US Teams Meeting Minutes
* Upcoming Meetings & Events
* Updates & Security
== General Community News ==
=== Jaunty Jackalope Alpha 6 released ===
Announcing the release of Jaunty Jackalope Alpha-6, which will in time
become Ubuntu 9.04. Alpha 6 is the sixth in a series of milestone CD
images that will be released throughout the Jaunty development cycle.
The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of show stoppers CD
build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of
Jaunty. You can download it here:
* Ubuntu Desktop, Server, Netbook Remix, & MID:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/jaunty/alpha-6/
* Ubuntu Education Edition:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/jaunty/alpha-6/
* Kubuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/jaunty/alpha-6/
* Xubuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/jaunty/alpha-6/
* Ubuntu Studio:
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/jaunty/alpha-6/
* Mythbuntu: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/jaunty/alpha-6/
Pre-releases of Jaunty 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.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-March/000551.html
=== Ubuntu Testing Day: Notify-OSD ===
Ubuntu Testing Day will be next Monday, March 16th. Ubuntu Testing day
is a special day where the Ubuntu Community comes together with a shared
goal of testing a specific set of ISO images (Alpha, Beta, RC, Gold or
Point releases), a specific feature, or bugs needing verification.
Taking the idea from the Ubuntu Bug Day, Ubuntu Testing Day will apply
the same concepts to ISO testing.
The goal for this testing day will be testing a cool new feature in
Jaunty: the new notification system. This is a complete new feature in
Ubuntu, so it can be fun to play with it, and find bugs no one else has
found before! Please, visit the wiki page for more information and test
cases to drive your testing efforts.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/UbuntuTestingDay/20090316
Who can join the Testing Day? Everyone! You don't need to be a
developer, or know how to code. Everyone is welcome. If you don't know
how to help, then just stop by #ubuntu-testing, and they'll explain
everything to you. One of the objectives of Testing Day is to help
people get started learning, and testing Ubuntu.
Where to join the Testing Day? Come to #ubuntu-testing on freenode IRC.
The team will be there day and night resolving any testing questions you
might have. For this particular Testing Day, you can ping eeejay and
MacSlow to ask for help. Drop in for Ubuntu Testing Day and help make
Ubuntu even better!
http://blog.qa.ubuntu.com/node/37
=== MOTU Council News ===
Fabrice Coutadeur(fabricesp) joined the ranks of the Ubuntu Contributing
Developers. He has done a great job overall and we're happy he is part
of the team. One of his primary interests is video editing. Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~fabricesp Wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FabriceCoutadeur
Roderick Greening(rgreening) joined the MOTU team. His great work in the
Kubuntu community did not go unnoticed and we're happy to have a new
MOTU on board. Launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~roderick-greening Wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/rgreening
Andreas Wenning(a|wen) did amazing work in the Kubuntu team and we're
very happy he joined the MOTU team. Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~andreas-wenning Wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndreasWenning
=== Hug Day: March 19th ===
Another day of bug fixing is on the schedule for the Ubuntu Community to
help the BugSquad smash those pesky bugs.
* Date: March 19th, 2009
* Target: cups
* Planning Page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090319
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-bugs on irc.freenode.com
* Additional Info: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs/
Learn about the BugSquad here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-news-team/2009-March/000446.html
== Ubuntu Stats ==
=== Bug Stats ===
* Open (48148) +293 over last week
* Critical (20) -1 over last week
* Unconfirmed (19774) +504 over last week
* Unassigned (40568) +348 over last week
* All bugs ever reported (258584) +2225 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 (25434) +6169 over last week
* French (54145) -2175 over last week
* Swedish (54783) -13370 over last week
* Brazilian Portuguese (58736) -5854 over last week
* English (Uk) (86555) +4140 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 (15260) -621 over last week
* French (59025) -2218 over last week
* Swedish (63241) -9406 over last week
* Brazilian Portuguese (66221) -7755 over last week
* English (UK) (78012) -3122 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 ===
* A Screen Resolution app that actually works
* Better install experience
* Ubuntu needs easy-to-use, effective backup software
* Gnome-Panel: Do we really need to manually accomodate each item?
* New users tell that Ubuntu is slow (live sessions)
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 ==
=== Ubuntu Florida Rocks Florida Linux Show ===
The Florida Linux Show was held on March 9th, and Ubuntu Florida took
pictures and named names. The LoCo Team was there to help promote Linux
to individuals and businesses in the area. In addition to attending the
informative talks, they handed out CDs, brought new people to the LoCo
and area LUGs, and had an all-around great time. See the team picture
here: http://www.ubuntu-fl.org/images/stories/fls_fl-loco_edited.jpg
http://www.ubuntu-fl.org/index.php/news/60-loco-news/134-ubuntu-florida-rocks-florida-linux-show.html
== Launchpad News ==
=== gmail filters for bug email ===
What does you do when you deal with bugs on Launchpad and get the emails
about them through gmail? Grouping a large amount of mail in one folder
is problematic at best. The author of the Launchpad blog found a
solution. He created filters to automatically sort those emails into
folders, making it easier to search through them and follow up. His
extensive tutorial may even be applicable to other situations, but it
certainly is a solution to the problem he faced. See how he solved the
problem at the link.
http://blog.launchpad.net/bug-tracking/gmail-filters-for-launchpad-bug-email
=== Inside Launchpad AJAX sprint ===
Recently ten people from Launchpad and other parts of Canonical came
together in Berlin to hack on Launchpad?s new YUI 3 JavaScript
interface. The sprint was tremendously successful, producing four fully
functioning YUI 3 Widgets, complete with test suites, and live demo
pages. Here is a brief summary.
* The morning of day one kicked off with a walk through some video
proof-of-concepts that they would bring to life. At the end of the day
eight of the sprinters split into pairs, each pair picking a widget to
work on.
* Day two saw the four teams plan their attack, then dive into the code.
* Day three saw more code, tests, and their first working widget.
* By noon of day four most of the remaining widgets were functional,
if not fully styled. Day four?s afternoon was spent in a team review of
the fully functional fancy Overlay widget.
* Everyone had great momentum going into day five. All four widgets
were fully functional, with only a few rough spots remaining. Day
five?s afternoon was spent with everyone in a Review Jam.
http://blog.launchpad.net/general/inside-the-launchpad-ajax-sprint-a-week-with-widgets-and-yui-3
== Ubuntu Forums News ==
=== Ubuntu Forums Beginners Team (UFBT) ===
UFBT has taken a step forward, with guidance from Bodhi Zazen, and
collaboration with Ubuntu Classroom. They are offering IRC events and
courses, held in #ubuntu-classroom. Events are less formal, based on a
Q&A format, or a one day topic. A course is more formal, including
series of sessions all related to the same topic (Python 101, Python
201, etc). Upcoming topics are Security, Packaging, How to use LP, How
to triage bug reports, How to stay current with Ubuntu Events/Community,
How to IRC (clients, registration, channels, etc). Not all potential
topics have been scheduled yet. The first two events will be on Security
(March 19th and March 26th, see the Events link below for an actual
schedule). See you there ! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Classroom
Events: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Education/Events
Courses:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Education/Schedule
Proposed topics (feel free to add):
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BeginnersTeam/FocusGroups/Education/Proposals
UF discussion thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1093535
=== Ubuntu Forums Interview ===
Please meet with Connor Imes, aka Rocket2DMn, one of the UF Moderators:
http://matthewhelmke.net/2009/03/14/an-interview-with-rocket2dmn/.
Rocket has been on Staff since July 2008, after being heavily involved
in the UF Beginners Team and Unanswered Posts Team. Currently in
Philadelphia, his first encounter with computers was with DOS and
Windows 3.1. Always present when it comes to decimating spammers, Rocket
also bridges the Forums with Launchpad where he spends time reporting
and following bugs that are discussed on UF, and with the doc Team. Enjoy!
== The Planet ==
=== Canonical QA Desktop Automation Sprint ===
Various representatives of Canonical QA gathered in Oxford to
collaborate on automating the Ubuntu desktop testing effort. Some of the
areas discussed were tools, team collaboration, best practices, and
roadblocks. cgregan, the author of the Open Source QA blog, discusses
Desktop Automation, particularly with respect to the efforts of the
Canonical QA team. "Testing automation is a key process in the testing
efforts. It could simplify testers' lives by automating things that are
repeatable and leaving human effort to things that cannot be automated
by a machine, like usability bugs." --
Automation wiki - Get involved: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Automation
Original article:
http://ubuntu-mobile-edition.blogspot.com/2009/03/desktop-automation.html
=== Ubuntu Women project status ===
The Ubuntu Women project, held a meeting on March 4th discussing the
current state of projects and future goals. During the meeting they did
some brainstorming and came up with a few ideas:
* Provide more encouragement to women to speak at events and be
visible within the project
* Launch a ?Women Behind Ubuntu? interview series for inclusion in
Full Circle Magazine and on our wiki
* Revitalize the website
From the minutes of the meeting, the Ubuntu Women are genuinely and
heavily involved with many projects within the Ubuntu Community, and
have great ideas for what should be acted upon in the future.
To get involved: http://ubuntu-women.org/
IRC channel: #ubuntu-women
Original article: http://princessleia.com/journal/?p=1489
=== Ubuntu Drupal 6.2.0 released ===
The Ubuntu Drupal Development team has released version 6.2.0 of the
development package. With this release comes great new things:
* Ability to set the width of the page
* Ability to display/hide IE banner
* Ability to change text of banner
* Ability to modify the right side of the footer
* Multiple IE bugs fixed
* A few generic bugs fixed
* Added a Planet module
* Updated modules with their own great changes
* And a few other little extras
* Jaunty artwork is being considered at this point
They've also complete a Wiki to help users implement this project at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDrupal. This includes a setup guide as well.
You can grab this latest release at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-drupal/6.x
The team wants to make this a perfect solution for every LoCo. If you
have ANY suggestions for modules or find any bugs, please file them
appropriately at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu-drupal
Original article: http://profarius.com/content/ubuntu-drupal-620-released
== In The Press ==
=== Ubuntu 9.10 sees the cloud above the trees ===
Next month Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty Jackalope, hits an FTP or torrent site
near you. With its features set frozen, the masterminds at Canonical are
looking to the future. Ubuntu 9.10 is already being touted as
"cloud-centric," with aims to keep it at the forefront of cloud
computing. The cloud storage space can be used for backing up data, but
the more visionary approach is that applications can be deployed to the
cloud. You can construct applications for others to use, and you can
make applications available no matter where you are working on the
Internet. Ultimately, Ubuntu wants to make the Amazon cloud as
straightforward as their existing Ubuntu package management tool for
loading new apps onto your hard drive.
http://www.itwire.com/content/view/23719/1141/
=== French police: we saved millions of euros by adopting Ubuntu ===
ars technica's Ryan Paul tells us that France's Gendarmerie Nationale,
the country's national police force, has saved millions of dollars by
migrating its desktop software infrastructure away from Microsoft
Windows, and replacing it with the Ubuntu Linux distribution. The
Gendarmerie began its transition to open source software in 2005 when it
replaced Microsoft Office with OpenOffice.org across the entire
organization. It gradually adopted other open source software
applications, including Firefox and Thunderbird. After the launch of
Windows Vista in 2006, it decided to phase out Windows and incrementally
migrate to Ubuntu. At the current stage of the migration, it has adopted
Ubuntu on 5,000 workstations and based on the success of this pilot
migration, it plans to move forward and switch a total of 15,000
workstations to Ubuntu by the end of the year. It aims to have the
entire organization, and all 90,000 of its workstations, running the
Ubuntu distribution by 2015.
http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars
=== Dvorak discovers Linux (Ubuntu) ===
Henry Kingman, writing for DesktopLinux.com, notes that John Dvorak will
install Ubuntu 8.10 permanently on his latest machines. Dvorak has
shied away from it before, due to hardware issues. But now, the LiveCD
feature allows him to test his hardware first. Dvorak adds, "The
critical mass has been reached, and it's time everyone tried Ubuntu."
Some of his interest in Linux stemmed from his experiences with Windows.
Those interested in what else appealed to Dvorak can get more
information at his editorial for PCMag.com.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342703,00.asp
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8559496096.html
=== 15 free downloads to pep up your old PC ===
Preston Gralla of Computerworld lists 15 free downloads that can breathe
new life into an old PC, and one of his suggestions is Ubuntu.
"Frustrated with your old operating system but don't want to spend the
money to get a new one? No problem." He suggests using Wubi which
installs Ubuntu as a dual-boot option on your PC for free. Preston goes
on to say that if you haven't installed Linux before, you'll be quite
surprised at how peppy it is. It has lower hardware requirements than
Windows, which makes it quite fast, even on an older PC. There's also
plenty of free software available in the repositories, and it ships with
a good deal of free software, including the office suite OpenOffice.org.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Software&articleId=9129351&taxonomyId=18&pageNumber=7
== In The Blogosphere ==
=== RightScale Puts Ubuntu Server In the Cloud, Too ===
Joe Panettieri of WorksWithU reports that the Ubuntu Server revolution
is starting, but it doesn?t involve traditional on-premise systems.
RightScale, a well-known cloud computing company, today announced ?full
support? for Ubuntu as part of the RightScale Cloud Management platform.
It?s big news, and here's why: "The Ubuntu software development
community can now use RightScale to easily deploy and manage cloud
applications on cloud infrastructures such as Amazon EC2 with complete
control and portability." About six months ago, Panettieri assumed
Windows Server and Red Hat Enterprise Linux would dominate Amazon?s
Elastic Compute Cloud. But moves by RightScale, Turnkey Linux and
Canonical itself suggest that Ubuntu Server Edition has a strong chance
to become a dominant application server on multiple cloud platforms.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/03/12/rightscale-puts-ubuntu-server-in-the-cloud-too/
=== 12 Ubuntu Server Appliances Meet the Cloud ===
Joe Panettieri of WorksWithU says that Ubuntu is converging quickly with
cloud services. A prime example: Turnkey Linux is launching 12 Ubuntu
Server Edition software appliances that users can deploy in various
cloud services. The news comes only a few weeks after Canonical said
Ubuntu 9.10 will leap into Amazon.com?s cloud. Initial server appliances
from Turnkey Linux support the LAMP stack, Ruby on Rails, Drupal CMS,
Joomla CMS, MediaWiki, Django framework, MySQL and PostgreSQL database
engines, and LAPP. Turnkey Linux's press release also stated that
appliances for Apache Tomcat, Wordpress, Moodle, Movable Type and phpBB
are currently under-going private testing before a public release.
Panettieri says he's certainly intrigued by Ubuntu and software
appliances heading into the cloud.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/03/12/12-ubuntu-server-appliances-meet-the-cloud/
=== Possible data loss in Ext4 ===
A bug report posted in Launchpad bug tracker for the next version of
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) describes a massive data loss problem
when using Ext4. The report describes a crash occurring shortly after
the KDE 4 desktop files had been loaded. Developer Ted Ts'o explains the
background of the problem. Like other modern file systems, such as XFS,
Ext4 implements delayed allocation ? writing new data can take up to 60
seconds. This increases the performance and allows for optimization of
the data organization on the hard drive platter. Ts'o says that the
application should be fixed so it does not write and rewrite small
files. He advises that "this is really more of an application design
problem more than anything else."
http://www.h-online.com/open/Possible-data-loss-in-Ext4--/news/112821
=== Testing Ubuntu Jaunty and Ext4 WITHOUT Trashing Your Data ===
Scott Wegner reports that Ubuntu 9.04 ?Jaunty Jackalope? is set for
release in less than two months, and is currently in the ?Alpha 6?
testing stage. Arguably, the hottest new feature is stable support for
Linux?s new file system, ext4. The new file system has been shown to
have significant performance gains over any other Linux file system to
date. But think twice before you upgrade to ext4, as many users have
been reporting considerable data loss. It manifests itself after a
system crash, where open files will simply be emptied and erased. It is
particularly prevalent in users? settings files, such as those used for
GNOME or KDE. Fortunately, the cause of the bug is relatively
well-known.
http://www.automaticable.com/2009-03-12/testing-ubuntu-jaunty-and-ext4-without-trashing-your-data/
=== Ubuntu for Business: The Missing Pieces ===
A blogger from Works With U points out several things that Ubuntu is
missing to compete well with Microsoft in the business market. They are
email access, word processor, spreadsheet, and the ability to
collaborate by having access to shared documents all within a secure
framework to prevent any unauthorized access or malicious activity. He
points out that a Windows Server/Desktop solution is the only one that
can currently satisfy all of these functions. When he compares this to
Ubuntu, there is OpenOffice. This gives the word processor and
spreadsheet applications. The only functionality, that he says is
missing, is an email server linked to a centralized user authentication
system. This is available with Ubuntu, but not without going through
some tedious setup. This blogger says that the one thing that Ubuntu
needs to do to make it a great solution for businesses, is to gain
integrated directory and email services.
http://www.workswithu.com/2009/03/08/ubuntu-for-business-the-missing-pieces/
=== Five things Ubuntu really needs ===
Blogger Darren Yates goes over some of the "bigger-picture" things that
he believes Ubuntu, and Linux in general could use help with. The first
suggestion is "More encouragement for beginners." Darren would really
like to see experienced Linux users feeding their vast knowledge back to
the community, and helping people who have just started with Linux. The
next suggestion he gives is "Better support from big name brands." The
US and the UK have pretty good support already, but Darren Yates is from
Australia where this support is not nearly as good. The third suggestion
that he has is "better netbook/notebook support." This is coming with
9.04, but netbooks have been out for 18 months now, and it has taken
Ubuntu this long to get serious about them. The last suggestion that he
has is "More supporters introducing it to their friends." He finishes by
saying that more than anything, people have been saying, Linux needs
people showing it to their friends and family.
http://darrenyates.com.au/?p=918
== In Other News ==
=== Ubuntu Podcast #21 ===
In this podcast Nick and Josh bring you:
* 9.04 countdown banner needed by end of March
* LoCo Teams Meeting
* new Xfce 4.6 will be Xubuntu 9.04
* Jaunty encrypted home directories
* Phoronix test suite to be in 9.04 repositories
* Qimo 4 kids
* and X.org
http://ubuntupodcast.net/2009/03/12/ubuntu-podcast-episode-21/
== Meeting Summaries ==
=== Server Team Meeting: March 10th ===
The Server Team meeting minutes can be found online with the irc logs
here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20090310
* Samba Bug Day: mathiaz reminded that next Thursday is dedicated to
triaging samba bugs. Ubuntu Server members are welcomed to join the
effort and invited to join #ubuntu-bugs to give a hand to bug triagers.
* Postfix and Dovecot integration: ivoks wrote a blog post about the
dovecot/postfix integration. mathiaz mentioned bug 339966 reported by a
user that had an existing working dovecot server, and installed the
dovecot-postfix package, resulting in a broken system.
* Exchange support for Evolution: ivoks made some tests with the new
evolution-mapi plugin. Although the openchange mapi clients are working
evolution is unable to connect to the exchange server. ivoks is not sure
what the problem is - further debugging is required.
* Support for likewise-open krb5 patch: mathiaz gave an update on the
likewise-open patch he had applied to the krb5 package in Jaunty. One of
the Debian maintainer contacted him to inquire about the future of this
patch. The upcoming version of MIT kerberos, 1.7, includes a different
implementation of the GSS service than the one provided by the
likewise-open patch. Implementations are API incompatible. The Debian
maintainer suggested to rework the patch to not change the public header
and include the types and prototypes in the likewise package instead.
* Planet ubuntuserver: dantalizing mentioned he started to aggregate
Ubuntu Server related blogs on The Completely Unofficial Ubuntu Server
Planet. http://ubuntuserver.org/
* KVM backport in hardy: kirkland announced he had backported the
userspace part of KVM 84 to hardy. Packages are available in the
ubuntu-virt team PPA. Anyone having long-standing issues with kvm-62 on
hardy should try that package and let the Ubuntu Server team know how it
works in #ubuntu-virt. https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-virt/+archive/ppa
* QEMU 0.10.0 in Jaunty: kirkland reported that a new version of qemu
(0.10.0) had been released upstream. He plans to push it to jaunty if
the Feature Freeze Exception is accepted by the MOTU release team.
The next Server Team meeting will be on Tuesday, March 17th at 15:00 UTC
in #ubuntu-meeting.
http://ubuntuserver.wordpress.com/2009/03/10/server-team-20090310-meeting-minutes/
=== US Teams Meeting: March 5th ===
* Planet
* Do we want the US Planet to include unapproved teams?
* The official stance is that unapproved teams should not have websites
* The reality is that many unapproved teams have websites
* We found no reason that unapproved teams should not be allowed to
participate in the planet if they have a site, but we should uphold the
official stance (share your feed if you have one, but we won't encourage
unapproved teams to make sites to participate)
* We now have access to the planet, pleia2 will be working on making
the template more US-oriented
* Website
* johnc4510 volunteered to work on the Drupal site that Canonical is
hosting as a Mentor he will be given Administrative access
* MTecknology and Yasumoto also offered up their expertise
* At the time of writing, it was decided to stick with Canonical
hosting unless a reason to look for hosting elsewhere is uncovered
* Content?
* Will we aggregate news? Who would write news? Should planet be
news? Undecided.
* For now we will keep current content, and expand upon it as time,
ideas and initiative dictate
* Mentors
* John Crawford(johnc4510) of the US-AZ LoCo was approved as a
mentor: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JohnCrawford
* Dan Trevino(dantalizing) of the US-FL LoCo was approved as a
mentor: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanTrevino
The US LoCo Teams Project is happy to welcome it's new mentors. Plans
are moving forward with the current website hosting situation. The
planet will continue to be updated with a new theme and more feeds to be
added soon.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/USTeams/Meetings/Minutes/2009-03-05
== Upcoming Meetings and Events ==
=== Monday, March 16, 2009 ===
==== DX & checkbox testing day ====
==== Co-operation between *buntu* flavors ====
* Start: 16:00 UTC
* End: 17:00 UTC
* Location: #ubuntu-meeting
=== Tuesday, March 17, 2009 ===
==== Community Council Meeting ====
* Start: 11:00 UTC
* End: 13:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda
==== Asia Oceania Membership Board Meeting ====
* Start: 15:00 UTC
* End: 16:00 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-meeting
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/AsiaOceania
==== 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 18, 2009 ===
==== Ubuntu-us-pa LoCo Team Meeting ====
* Start: 12:30 UTC
* End: 13:30 UTC
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-us-pa
* Agenda: None as of publication
==== 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 19, 2009 ===
==== Jaunty Beta Freeze ====
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetaFreeze
==== Rebuild test ====
==== Ubuntu Bug Day ====
* Start: ALL DAY
* Location: IRC channel #ubuntu-bugs
* Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay
==== 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
== Updates and Security for 6.06, 7.10, 8.04, and 8.10 ==
=== Security Updates ===
* USN-731-1: Apache vulnerabilities - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-731-1
* USN-732-1: dash vulnerability - http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-732-1
=== Ubuntu 6.06 Updates ===
* mailgraph 1.12-1ubuntu0.1 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/dapper-changes/2009-March/012775.html
=== Ubuntu 7.10 Updates ===
* pidgin 1:2.2.1-1ubuntu4.4 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2009-March/010330.html
=== Ubuntu 8.04 Updates ===
* syslinux 2:3.53-1ubuntu2.1 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012193.html
* ytnef 2.6-1ubuntu0.0.8.04 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012194.html
* meta-gnome2 1:2.20.2.2ubuntu0.1 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012195.html
* gcc-snapshot 20090125-0ubuntu1 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012196.html
* debian-installer 20070308ubuntu40.8 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012197.html
* samba 3.0.28a-1ubuntu4.8 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012198.html
* gvfs 0.2.5-0ubuntu4 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012199.html
* apache2 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.4 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012200.html
* pidgin 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.3 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012201.html
* bio2jack 0.9-1ubuntu0.1 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012202.html
* alpine 1.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/hardy-changes/2009-March/012203.html
=== Ubuntu 8.10 Updates ===
* kde4libs 4:4.1.4-0ubuntu1~intrepid1.1 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009696.html
* xen-3.3 3.3.0-1ubuntu7.1 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009697.html
* gvfs 1.0.2-0ubuntu3 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009698.html
* xorg-server 2:1.5.2-2ubuntu3.1 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009699.html
* cryptsetup 2:1.0.6-6ubuntu2.3 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009700.html
* dpkg 1.14.20ubuntu6.2 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009701.html
* pidgin 1:2.5.2-0ubuntu1.1 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009702.html
* linux 2.6.27-14.30 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009707.html
* linux-ports-meta 2.6.25.2.4 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009705.html
* linux-restricted-modules 2.6.27-14.19 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009706.html
* linux-backports-modules-2.6.27 2.6.27-14.15 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009708.html
* gnome-user-docs 2.24.0+svn20080922ubuntu2 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009704.html
* cups 1.3.9-2ubuntu8 -
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/intrepid-changes/2009-March/009703.html
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== Glossary of Terms ==
1. API - Application Programming Interface.
1. FTP - File Transfer Protocol.
1. IRC - Internet Relay Chat.
1. KVM - Kernel based Virtual Machine.
1. LAMP - Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl (or some say PHP).
1. LAPP - Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL, Perl (or some say PHP).
1. LUG - Linux User's Group.
1. MOTU - Master Of The Universe - Developers responsible for the
Universe and Multiverse repositories.
1. OSD - On Screen Display.
1. PPA - Personal Project Archive.
1. Q&A - Question And Answer.
1. RC - Release Candidate.
1. UF - Ubuntu Forums.
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