It's Easy … being Green ….

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-01-14

Hot on the heels of the last Dapper Status report, Jane Weideman brings us the latest status on the next version of Ubuntu, 6.04 (aka The Dapper Drake).

This new report shows how much the developers have gotten done over the past month. The short story is “less red, more green” on the report as people continue to knock out features and fixes for Dapper. This month is especially crucial, as the core team prepared to gather in London, England for a “sprint” in the beginning of February, where they will all meet in person and hack on the goals for the the upcoming release. Development on Dapper will soon be concentrating on bugfixes and stability, as the team gets ready to deliver the first “long lived” Ubuntu release, with three years of support for desktops, and five years of support for servers.

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CC, MOTU, and Dapper Development Status Updates

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-01-11

Daniel Holbach has posted the latest MOTU Report, Issue 11. The MOTUs really put Malone (the new Ubuntu bug tracking system) to the test this past month:

December was packed with merges, but we're happy to announce that there are only a very few left. Just to visualize the combined efforts of MOTUs, MOTU wannabes and one-time contributors in that respect: we generated around 3300 Malone mails.

Jane Weideman posted the latest Dapper Development Status Update, complete with a nifty color chart to hang on your real fridge. These status updates are a good way to track the progress of Dapper from a safe distance. The next meeting is scheduled for Thursday 12 January 2006 at 08:00 UTC.

The Community Council also had it's first meeting of the new year. Fabio Nogueira, Lucas Duailibe, Lorenzo Sfarra, Brian Burger, Michael Banck, Raphaël Pinson, and Brian Shumate were recognized for their hard work on Ubuntu and made members. The next meeting will be on Tuesday 24 January at 21:00 UTC.

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MOTU School Transcripts

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-01-05

Kevin Cole has concocted a nice transcript of December’s MOTU School session, “Packaging without debhelper and/or CDBS”. Paul Sladen added his own notes and files for those who want the short, short version of the tutorial.

Stephan Hermann is also looking for more volunteers to speak about special topics for anyone who is interested.

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Fabio Massimo Di Nitto Interviewed

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-01-04

Here’s a great interview with Fabio Massimo Di Nitto, leader of the Ubuntu Server team. When Fabio’s not cooking up a hearty spaghetti bolognese – with sauce in the shape of the Ubuntu logo! – he’s ploughing fixes and love into Ubuntu, and making it rock for server administrators world-wide. (Please note that the interview was conducted in Italian and translated to English.)

After the first release of the Ubuntu Server CD with breezy, we had a strong demand for extending the scope of the project and we decided to concentrate on the quality of the server-specific packages and on adding features that we think can be more useful for an administrator.

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Documentation News for January

By boredandblogging | Published: 2006-01-02

Following the success of the desktop team’s newsletter, the Documentation Team has begun running their own newsletter, bringing you the latest docs from the land of the wiki. Work has already begun on the Desktop and Server Guides for the next release.

Also be sure to check out the “New Hotness” section, which highlights just some of the awesome work going into user documentation. The MultimediaApplications is particularly good! Archives of the newsletter will be kept here.

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