Alpha 1 freeze in effect
Hi all, Alpha 1 freeze[1] is now in effect, and the following flavors are participating in putting out the first Alpha release for 14.04: - Xubuntu - Edubuntu - Lubuntu - Ubuntu GNOME - UbuntuKylin Core packages are now soft frozen at this time (thanks Steve!) until we release out the Alpha 1 images. The ISO tracker [2] is recording testing for the images now, and thank you to those teams who have already jumped on and started testing. :-) The flavor teams would appreciate if anyone with spare cycles can help with the testing. Flavor team leads, please let slangasek know on #ubuntu-release when you've got an image you're happy with and want the daily builds turned off. Thanks for your participation, Kate, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release team. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TrustyTahr/ReleaseSchedule [2] http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/309/builds -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
13.10 (Saucy Salamander) Alpha 1 Released!
Perhaps I'm too saucy or provoking? -- Benjamin Franklin The first Alpha of the Saucy Salamander (to become 13.10) has now been released! This alpha features images for Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Ubuntu GNOME, and UbuntuKylin. Pre-releases of Saucy Salamander 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 as we work towards getting this release ready. Alpha 1 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. While these Alpha 1 images have been tested and work, except as noted in the release notes, Ubuntu developers are continuing to improve Saucy Salamander. In particular, once newer daily images are available, system installation bugs identified in the Alpha 1 installer should be verified against the current daily image before being reported in Launchpad. Using an obsolete image to re-report bugs that have already been fixed wastes your time and the time of developers who are busy trying to make 13.10 the best Ubuntu release yet. Always ensure your system is up to date before reporting bugs. There have been some adjustments to the release schedule for 13.10 since the last vUDS, so for the latest plans, please check: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseSchedule Kubuntu: Kubuntu is the KDE based flavour of Ubuntu. It uses the Plasma desktop and includes a wide selection of tools from the KDE project. The Alpha-1 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/saucy/alpha-1/ More information on Kubuntu Alpha-1 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha1/Kubuntu Lubuntu: Lubuntu is a flavor of Ubuntu that targets to be lighter, less resource hungry and more energy-efficient by using lightweight applications and LXDE, The Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment, as its default GUI. The Alpha-1 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/saucy/alpha-1/ More information on Lubuntu Alpha-1 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha1/Lubuntu Ubuntu GNOME: Ubuntu GNOME is an flavor of Ubuntu featuring the GNOME desktop environment. The Alpha-1 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-gnome/releases/saucy/alpha-1/ More information on Ubuntu-GNOME Alpha-1 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/Alpha1/UbuntuGNOME UbuntuKylin: UbuntuKylin is a flavor of Ubuntu that is more suitable for Chinese users. The Alpha-1 images can be downloaded at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntukylin/releases/saucy/alpha-1/ More information on UbuntuKylin Alpha-1 can be found here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuKylin/1310-alpha-1-ReleaseNote Regular daily images for Ubuntu can be found at: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop Saucy, we suggest that you subscribe to the ubuntu-devel-announce list. 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 A big thank you to the developers and testers for their efforts to pull together this initial Alpha release! Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Quantal Unseeded Universe Final Freeze now in effect.
Dear Developers, The Unseeded Universe Final Freeze is now in effect. This effectively finishes up the changes going into the Quantal Ubuntu archive for the 12.10 release. The archive is looking in very good shape indeed due to your efforts and all those excellent fixes submitted since Beta 2. On behalf of the Ubuntu Release team, Thank you!! Kate -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Final Freeze - now in effect.
Dear Developers, Final Freeze [1] is now in effect. If you know of a bug currently targeted for Quantal that is not going to get fixed in the time remaining, please decide if its a candidate for an SRU, and if so, milestone it as quantal-updates. Also, if its clear the bug is not going to get fixed in Quantal, and is not a good target for an SRU, please nominate it for a 'R' series task, and then mark the bug as won't fix in quantal. This will help the release team focus on those last key bug fixes we'll be trying to get included. Thanks!! on behalf of the release team, Kate [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FinalFreeze -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Starting off R blueprints and cleaning up Q ones.
Dear Developers, After tracking down and resolving several blueprints that weren't labeled properly so they'd get into the list[1] for R series and UDS planning, it seemed like a refresher of the conventions to use might be appropriate. ;) When registering a blueprint, most efficient way to get it created and sorted into the right place is to Register a Blueprint from r-series page [1]. Some conventions to follow: * Name: of blueprint should be of the form track-r-topic name * Propose for sprint: Ubuntu Developer Summit-R * Click on propose for series goal There are also some draft conventions[2] for the content to put in the blueprint that will permit automation. There will be a separate email to discuss those further. Would like to come to closure on this at UDS-R on standard format for all of us to use, so we can start making effective use of bots to help with the housekeeping tasks... And on that note ;), could approvers and assignees of blueprints, please take a pass through the current set of blueprints [3], and make sure they all are up to date by 10/4 1200 UTC. We'll be using the information in them to generate the first pass of the 12.10 Release Notes, and only picking up information from those marked Beta Available or Complete. Specifically we'll be looking for text in the Release Note: section of the whiteboard. If a line item is clearly now not going to make it, please mark it as postponed. We'll be using [5] to summarize the feedback and results of working with the prototype this release, possibly spinning out a separate blueprint to continue the evolution, based on feedback added. As you work through the blueprints, and other issues emerge, feel free to add them to the Whiteboard on [5]. Thanks for your help with this, Kate [1] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/r-series [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BlueprintSpec [3] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/quantal [4] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-release-notes [5]https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-r-prior-release-feedback -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Quantal Beta Freeze now in effect.
Dear Developers, Beta Freeze[1] is now in effect (Thursday, September 20). All uploads to the archive will now have to be approved manually by the release team, prior to inclusion. Please use the rls-q-incoming tag on any bugs found if its urgent to get fixed, so it comes to the attention of the appropriate development team as soon as possible. Also, this is now the time to review your blueprints, and for those blueprints with features ready, please mark them beta available or complete as appropriate. This will aid in generation of better release notes. If you have information that should be added to the techical overview for beta 2, the draft document is now available for input. [2] Thank you for your cooperation, Kate, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetaFreeze [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Quantal Beta Freeze now in effect
Dear Developers, Beta Freeze[1] and User Interface Freeze[2] is now in effect (Thursday, August 30). All uploads to the archive and any user user interface changes will have to be approved manually by the release team. The documentation team and translation teams will also need to be notified of any further User Interface changes. Thank you for your cooperation, Kate, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetaFreeze [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserInterfaceFreeze -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Quantal Feature Freeze - now in effect.
Hello Ubuntu Developers, 2100 UTC has now passed and we are in Feature Freeze[1] for Quantal. Many thank yous to those developers who got their tested work in on time! The focus from here until release is on fixing bugs and polishing. Our next upcoming milestone release[2] is Beta 1 on September 6th. Thanks, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseSchedule -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
12.04.1 Freeze updates
Dear Developers and Testers, The data center move had a few surprises, and some of you may have noticed we haven't had working image builders today.As a result, the last builds and testing prior to final freeze have been impacted. Fixes to be included in 12.04.1 should still be validated by 2100 UTC and copied into -updates. (original FinalFreeze). To give us time to get the final adjustments made (and builders to get back online and caught up), candidate images for 12.04.1 are targetted to be published on the iso tracker on 8/17. We're pushing out the 12.04.1 Release Note Freeze until 2100 UTC 8/20. Kate, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Quantal Alpha 3 milestone release preparation
Dear Developers, We'll be starting to spin the images for Quantal Alpha 3 tonight. We'll be continuing with the processes we used in Alpha 2, since they seem to work fairly well, until the tooling is deployable. For this milestone following rules will apply: - If a package is needed to fix a bug that would block the milestone, it should still be uploaded to quantal. - If a package does not touch any of the images, it can still be uploaded to quantal. - All other uploads should be done to quantal-proposed first. In particular, an upload that will increase the count of uninstallable packages in main, even temporarily, MUST be done to quantal-proposed instead of to quantal. Affected uploads include: - all shared library packages (due to multiarch) - any uploads that will leave packages uninstallable on one architecture while the autobuilders catch up (due to out-of-sync Arch: all / Arch: any binary packages) - any packages that introduce new versioned Conflicts/Breaks and require coordination between multiple source packages If you have any questions about where you should upload, please ask on #ubuntu-release first. Technical Overview information for Alpha 3 can be added to the WIKI page at: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/TechnicalOverview/Alpha3 Thank you for your help getting Alpha 3 ready to ship. Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Re: Freeze next week?
On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 17:07 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Hopefully the subject got people's attention. :-) I don't mean quite what you might think, though. I've been working on a new upload queue management API in Launchpad, and it's almost feature-complete; the next Launchpad deployment will probably contain everything needed to make the API client a full replacement for the old script that archive admins used to run by sshing to a privileged server. I would like to remove the old queue script soon so that we don't have two implementations of essentially the same thing lying around and confusing people. However, I also need to be careful about this. In the past, we have sometimes found that accepting uploads through the Launchpad web UI has timed out, and we've had to fall back to using the non-time-limited script. This tended to particularly affect uploads that closed several bugs with large numbers of subscribers and/or duplicates. I *think* the API client should be a bit less susceptible to this because the cost of rendering the queue view again won't be included in the timeout, but it's possible I'm wrong and that further work is needed. It would be bad to discover during beta or final freeze that we were unable to accept an important fix! I'd therefore like to do a real-world test of a freeze at some point when it doesn't matter too much. We would move quantal into the Pre-release Freeze state, meaning that all uploads to quantal and quantal-proposed would land in the Unapproved queue. However, we wouldn't review packages in the queue manually, but any archive admin would be able to accept them as soon as they noticed them, preferably using the API client. We have enough archive admins in a variety of timezones that we should be able to keep disruption to a minimum. I'm not sure how long it would take to achieve a reasonable level of assurance. I doubt a day would be enough, but people's patience would probably start to wear thin after a week, so probably something in between. I'd like to make sure that we've accepted a few reasonably large sets of changes in the relevant period. Note that uploads to -proposed aren't a terribly good test of this, because they don't close bugs until they're copied to the release pocket (and the copy goes through a separate job queue that has a much more generous timeout); so we can't really test this with SRUs and a sufficiently rigorous test will probably involve people not uploading to quantal-proposed when they otherwise might have done. Similarly, while kernel uploads would ordinarily be good sources of large numbers of bug closures, they're only any use for this if they go straight to quantal rather than going through the canonical-kernel-team PPA or quantal-proposed. Any thoughts? We usually end up soft-freezing from Monday at 2100 until Thursday when we ship. Most of the churn happens between Monday 2100 and Wednesday 2100 - so how about that as the window here? That will give a 2 day test? Would rather this be done sooner than later, so we can start to use this capability going forward. Anyone see anyreasons why not to try this next monday? July 16 - July 18 th? Thanks for all your hard work on getting this ready. :) Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Quantal Alpha 2 milestone release prep
Dear Developers, We'll be starting to spin the images for Quantal Alpha 2 tonight. The experiment we used during Alpha 1 seems to have worked out fairly well :), so we'll be continuing with it in Alpha 2 until better tooling is available. For this milestone following rules will apply: - If a package is needed to fix a bug that would block the milestone, it should still be uploaded to quantal. - If a package does not touch any of the images, it can still be uploaded to quantal. - All other uploads should be done to quantal-proposed first. In particular, an upload that will increase the count of uninstallable packages in main, even temporarily, MUST be done to quantal-proposed instead of to quantal. Affected uploads include: - all shared library packages (due to multiarch) - any uploads that will leave packages uninstallable on one architecture while the autobuilders catch up (due to out-of-sync Arch: all / Arch: any binary packages) - any packages that introduce new versioned Conflicts/Breaks and require coordination between multiple source packages Auto syncs of packages from Debian Unstable have been stopped until we release A2. If you have any questions about where you should upload, please ask on #ubuntu-release first. Thank you for your help getting Alpha 2 ready to ship. Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Re: Releasing Alphas and Betas without freezing
On Thu, 2012-06-21 at 10:11 +0100, Didier Roche wrote: This cycle, the next step for Unity and all related components is that each release is potentially the last one that is uploaded to ubuntu until the finale release. So, each version is a possible release candidate for Quantal. I do not want anymore to see half-backed unity features coming in. This is only possible now thanks to the huge quality increase we had last cycle and that we finally reached the feature level that we can expect from a UI. So, all extras should be precise, polished, reliable before getting into ubuntu. +1 :) So, removing the milestone freeze is completely aligned with that vision. Challenge is that we don't have a good schedule of when the Unity drops are going to happen and what features are emerging when. The other applications and products that work on top of Unity need to interface with it need to get synchronized in some way, so that effective system testing can occur. Having predictable times when we plan to release an image is a forcing function, in that they at least keep us focused on making sure we have system testing going on and that the community flavors, that are part of the Ubuntu project, can system test their emerging bits on the evolving infrastructure with some degree of confidence. Additional system testing and snapshotting of images at more than just the currently scheduled points would, of course, be very welcome and help with improving the quality, especially early in the 6 month cycle. ;) Question 3: shall we increase the rate of manual testing? This question also arose in the thread. I think there is widespread consensus that we should do this, and it is not actually related to the other questions. Community Team, is it feasible to increase the rate of full manual testing runs to every 2 weeks or similar? It was a hard job to keep regular contributors (reporting high quality results) tight redoing serious testing every 2 weeks for unity releases, but I'm completely confident Nick can do this job. :) +1 :) Big challenge for him and the QA team will be when the 12.04.1 testing has to happen in parallel with the quantal development testing. Question 4: shall we keep snapshots of the development release so that we can bisect more easily and find when bugs were introduced? This question also arose, and also is not tied to the other questions. QA Team, is it feasible to keep a set of snap shots somewhere for this purpose? That would really be awesome, especially if the reporting QA tools get better and we can run an older iso under a vm in a minute to just test something quickly :) Am trying to think about what makes sense to keep around, and across which products, and for how long, but if we can secure the disk space for this, agree it would be useful to the developers and testers. Preliminary thoughts are: * Try to keep all image that we characterize (ie. run system tests on, get boot speed measurements, etc.) available for a *useful* period. However since we'll never have infinite disk space, ;) and they are less useful over time, possibly some sort of age out strategy like: * keep at least the last month's worth of these characterized images available (ideally it would be nice to have a set of weekly ones ;) ) * keep at least a monthly snapshots from each of the 6 month development period around for historical reference. * keep these for all images that will be in the release manifest. Seem reasonable? better ideas? Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Releasing Alphas and Betas without freezing
On Mon, 2012-06-18 at 11:49 +0200, Rick Spencer wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote: Sebastien Bacher [2012-06-15 17:26 +0200]: Can we just drop the image rolling part of milestones? We still probably want fixed checkpoints in the cycle to review the features, etc but they don't especially need to be linked with a special image... Our automated tests are still wy to incomplete for this step. In manual testing we have found quite a number of real deal-breaker bugs which the automatic tests didn't pick up. We also need to test the current images on a wider range of real iron; which is something our automated QA could do one day, but doesn't right now. So regular manual testing rounds are still required, and the points when we do them might just as well be called milestones. But if the focus is testing, we should optimize the schedule around testing. For example, I think Ubuntu would benefit from more frequent rounds of such in depth testing than the current alpha/beta milestones provide. (I think every 2 weeks would be a good cadence). https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseInterlock Between the 12.04.1 and Quantal Milestones, the QA Testing and QA Community testing have a pretty full load already. (see columns) What was decided to try with Quantal was to do a more intense round of manual testing on the dailies, the week before the milestone, so that the bugs found could be fixed by development, and still give the developers a good window of focused transitions and feature development time. This possibly could be adjusted to a round of testing 2 weeks prior, but would have to be juggled in with the testing team's other commitments? We're releasing Beta 1 on 9/6, Beta 2 on 9/27 and Final on 10/18 - each 3 weeks apart, so not as much room there. Not sure how many of the other Ubuntu flavors (Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc.) that come out with the alpha milestones would want to participate in a more frequent testing schedule though. They already skip some of the milestones, based on which of their packages are landing and resources are available to do the manual testing, but do have an implied dependency on Ubuntu alpha/betas being available. For Alpha1, we did 2 respin sets after the first set was built, based on what the manual testing was finding and trying to get a set of ARM desktop images. (Note: We did not have quantal arm desktop images until the week of alpha 1, and then didn't have them again with the dailies between 6/10-6/14). Having milestones does force a focus on the full set of images. Daily images and the automated testing are still mostly focusing on unit tests for the x86 desktop and server images in virtualized hardware, and as Martin says, the manual testing is still finding issues on the real hardware that are causing respins. Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Alpha 1 Released!
There either is or is not, that’s the way things are. - Charles Dickens, Great Expectations The 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal) Alpha 1 milestone image set is now released. ;) Pre-releases of Quantal Quetzal 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 as we work towards getting this release ready. Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone images that will be released throughout the Quantal development cycle, in addition to our daily development images. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very recent snapshot of Quantal. You can download them here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/quantal/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Desktop, Server, ARM) Additional images are also available at: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/quantal/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Server Cloud) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/quantal/alpha-1/ (Kubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/quantal/alpha-1/ (Edubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/quantal/alpha-1/ (Lubuntu) Alpha 1 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a more detailed description of the changes in the Alpha 1 release and the known bugs (which can save you the effort of reporting a duplicate bug, or help you find proven workarounds), please see: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop Quantal, we suggest that you subscribe initially to the ubuntu-devel-announce list. 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 Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Quantal Alpha 1 milestone preparation and freeze handling
Dear Developers, It's that time in the cycle to chill the archive again for Alpha 1. As a result of the successful pre-release use of -proposed last cycle, we'd like to take things a step further for Alpha 1 this cycle. We don't yet have tools to make scalable use of -proposed for all uploads, but -proposed is open; so instead of asking developers not to upload packages to quantal at all during the milestone preparation, as for past soft freezes, we are instead only asking you to redirect your uploads to quantal-proposed. For this experiment, the following rules apply: - If a package is needed to fix a bug that would block the milestone, it should still be uploaded to quantal. - If a package does not touch any of the images, it can still be uploaded to quantal. - All other uploads should be done to quantal-proposed first. In particular, an upload that will increase the count of uninstallable packages in main, even temporarily, MUST be done to quantal-proposed instead of to quantal. Affected uploads include: - all shared library packages (due to multiarch) - any uploads that will leave packages uninstallable on one architecture while the autobuilders catch up (due to out-of-sync Arch: all / Arch: any binary packages) - any packages that introduce new versioned Conflicts/Breaks and require coordination between multiple source packages Auto syncs of packages from Debian Unstable have been stopped until we release A1. If you have any questions about where you should upload, please ask on #ubuntu-release first. Thank you for your help with this experiment, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
reminder: Feature Definition Freeze on 5/31 2100 UTC
Dear Developers, Just a reminder to get your blueprints set into the appropriate priority and approved for Quantal before Thursday 5/31[1]. We'll be resetting the trend lines for this release right after the FeatureDefinitionFreeze. Blueprints should have all Work Items, in the new Work Items section, rather than in the Whiteboard section for this release [2]. Also, in order to show up properly on status.ubuntu.com, blueprints must be marked as approved, have an importance set and targetted to the release. If anyone needs help setting up a topic to track cross team activities, please ping me before 2100 UTC on Wednesday 5/30. Thank you for your help getting the Quantal planning figured out before we start doing our milestone releases. :) Kate. on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureDefinitionFreeze [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BlueprintSpec#Blueprint_Work_Items -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Precise Unseeded Universe Final Freeze now in effect.
Dear Developer, The Unseeded Universe Final Freeze is now in effect. This effectively finishes up the changes going into the Precise Ubuntu archive for the release. Iain Lane has kindly gathered some precise statistics ;) (see below) summarizing what has occurred in the Ubuntu project archive this cycle. Thank you to the 386 uploaders, and all those who have been contributing by reviews and feedback, allowing us to get the archive in such good shape for our LTS release! :) On behalf of the Ubuntu release team, Thank you!!! Kate 386 uploaders 18630 non-rebuild non-langpack uploads (including auto-syncs) (12636 excluding) Uploads by day (non-automatic only) dow | count -+--- Tuesday | 2722 Wednesday | 2398 Monday| 2266 Thursday | 2255 Friday| 2092 Saturday | 2065 Sunday| 1318 Top 15 packages by number of uploads source | count ---+--- debian-installer |64 lxc |53 ubiquity |42 libvirt |39 linux |38 gnome-control-center |38 gnome-settings-daemon |36 cobbler |34 nautilus |34 whoopsie-daisy|33 byobu |32 firefox |31 nova |31 thunderbird |29 gtk+3.0 |28 Sponsors signed_by_name | count -+--- Jonathan Riddell| 212 Daniel Holbach | 171 Martin Pitt | 112 Scott Kitterman |62 Ken VanDine |56 Colin Watson|54 Sebastien Bacher|51 Micah Gersten |46 James Page |39 Fabrice Coutadeur |35 Luke Yelavich |28 Felix Geyer |27 Andrew Starr-Bochicchio |23 Stefano Rivera |22 Stéphane Graber |20 -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Precise archive status from now to release.
Dear Developers, We're now 3 weeks out from our 12.04 LTS release, and the archive has be frozen help regulate the fixes we'll be picking up between now and Final Freeze[1] on 4/12. Getting as many of the high and critical bug fixes included before Final Freeze is the current goal for this next week. The release candidate images are planned for 4/19 with release on 4/26. Unseeded Universe package fixes and FFe's should be discussed in #ubuntu-motu Freenode channel. Some of the release team members[2] will be be monitoring that channel for questions. The Unseeded Universe Final Freeze[3] is scheduled on 4/24 at 1200. For questions about fixes for packages seeded in the images contained in Precise's Release Manifest[4], discussion should happen with the release team in #ubuntu-release Freenode channel. Thank you for the fixes you're producing and cooperation in getting them incorporated into the release so that we can minimize regressions. Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FinalFreeze [2] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/+members#active [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnseededUniverseFinalFreeze [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseManifest -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Beta 2 Released.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the final beta release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products. Codenamed Precise Pangolin, 12.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing a few new features but mostly fixing bugs. With Ubuntu 12.04, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Mythbuntu and Ubuntu Studio also reached Beta 2 status today. Ubuntu Changes -- Some of the key new features available since Beta 1 are: * A new Ubuntu kernel (3.2.0-20.33) which is base on the v3.2.12 upstream Linux kernel. Changes to the default kernel flavours have been made for 12.04 LTS. * Updates to our new way to quickly search and access any desktop application's and indicator's menu, called the HUD, can be accessed by taping the Alt key and entering characters. * LibreOffice has been updated to 3.5.1. * Ubuntu One has a new control panel to provides an installer, setup wizard, ability to add/remove folders to sync, and more Please see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ for details. Ubuntu Server and Cloud Images -- * 12.04 Beta 2 is shipping the latest milestones of OpenStack Essex (RC1), and will be upgraded to final before release. * Zentyal as well as OpenMPI 1.5 for ARM are now available in Universe. * KVM 1.0 on x86, which enables nested KVM by default, now allows a virtualisation experience within cloud instances. Ubuntu Core --- Ubuntu Core is a minimal rootfs for use in the creation of custom images, and now includes ARM hard float (armhf) images. Developers can use Ubuntu Core as the basis for their application demonstrations, constrained environment deployments, device support packages, and other goals. Kubuntu --- Kubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 introduces Kubuntu Active as a tech preview, which is a new Ubuntu flavour designed for tablet devices. Please see https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PrecisePangolin/Beta2/Kubuntu for details. Edubuntu Edubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 ships with improved translations, and updates to the new epoptes and LTSP 5.3 releases. For more details on what has changed in Edubuntu 12.04, please refer to http://www.edubuntu.org. Xubuntu --- Xubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 now has new branding and further appearance tweaks have been made. On i386 hardware, the non-PAE kernel is used to support a wider variety of machines. Pavucontrol is now used over xfce4-mixer. For more information about the changes in Xubuntu 12.04, please go to http://xubuntu.org/. Lubuntu --- Lubuntu 12.04 has had its artwork updated, and updates made to LightDM. For more information about the changes in Lubuntu 12.04, please go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu. Ubuntu Studio - Ubuntu Studio 12.04 Beta 2 live DVD now has a new low latency kernel installed by default. There is better Pulse Audio to JACK bridging, an improved ice1712 mixer and ... the XFCE transition has finished! Mythbuntu - Mythbuntu 12.04 Beta 2 contains a pre-release version of MythTV 0.25, which will be updated to final as soon as its available. Please see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/precise/beta2 for more details on the above products. About Ubuntu Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away. Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit http://www.ubuntu.com/support . If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate . Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions really help us to improve this and future releases of Ubuntu. Instructions can be found at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs . To Get Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 -- To upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 from Ubuntu 11.10, follow these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PreciseUpgrades Or, download Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 2 images from a location near you: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/download (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server) . In addition they can be found at the following links: http://releases.ubuntu.com/precise/ (Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server) http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/beta-2/ (Ubuntu Cloud Images) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/beta-2/ (Ubuntu DVD, preinstalled ARM images, source) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/releases/12.04/beta-2/ (Ubuntu Core)
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Beta 1 Released.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the first beta release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Long-Term Support) Desktop, Server, Cloud, and Core products. Codenamed Precise Pangolin, 12.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work throughout this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs. This release introduces a new set of images for the ARMv7 hard float ABI, denoted as armhf. There are still some armel images around, as we finish the migration, but 12.04 for ARM will be based on armhf. The technology that allows GPUs to go into a very low power consumption state when the GPU is idle (RC6) is now enabled by default for Sandy Bridge systems, which should result in considerable power savings when this stage is activated. The CD image size has been adjusted to 703MB to squeeze in every bit of package goodness we can on the installation CD images. With Ubuntu 12.04, Kubuntu, Edubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, and Ubuntu Studio also reached Beta 1 status today. Ubuntu Changes -- Some of the new features now available are: * A new way to quickly search and access any desktop application's and indicator's menu, called the HUD, can be accessed by taping the Alt key and entering characters. * Unity setting can now be configured by the System Setting panel, and Nautilus support has been added to the Unity launcher. * Support for ClickPad devices has been enhanced an now when a button is pressed on the trackpad surface, a second finger may be used to drag the cursor. * The default music player has been switched to Rhythmbox, which again includes the UbuntuOne music store. * LibreOffice has been updated to 3.5 beta 2. Please report any regressions that you notice. * When installing packages through the software center, the corresponding language support packages are now installed automatically as well. Please see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ for details. Ubuntu Server and Cloud Images -- * Improvements to OpenStack, LXC, and server provisioning have been included. * The identity service (Keystone) used by OpenStack for authentication (authN) and high-level authorization (authZ) was updated to Keystone-light (redux branch). Ubuntu Core --- Ubuntu Core is a minimal rootfs for use in the creation of custom images, and now includes ARM hard float (armhf) images. Developers can use Ubuntu Core as the basis for their application demonstrations, constrained environment deployments, device support packages, and other goals. Kubuntu --- Kubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 has updated KDE's plasma and applications to 4.8. In addition other significant changes include: * Telepathy-KDE brings improved instant messaging to Kubuntu, offering easy chat capabilities on Facebook, MSN, GMail and many other services. * Amarok 2.5 has added an MP3 shop and integration with GPodder, an online personal podcast archive. * The Calligra office and creativity suite is now available, featuring Krita the world's best painting app and top MS Office file importers. Please see https://wiki.kubuntu.org/PrecisePangolin/Beta1/Kubuntu for details. Edubuntu Edubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 now ships the newest upstream version of LTSP 5.3, offering improved support for fat clients and other improvements. Other significant changes include: * Epoptes, the new classroom management software, has an updated user interface. * The Ubiquity slideshow has been updated. * pastebinit and vim are now both installed by default. For more details on what has changed in Edubuntu 12.04, please refer to http://www.edubuntu.org. Xubuntu --- Xubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 now uses the new Ubiquity installer. Other significant changes include: * Alacarte is available by default, and will show all Xfce-related menu items on Xubuntu as well. * New wallpaper and other tweaks and improvements to the looks of Xubuntu are in, including lots of GTK3 fixes for the Greybird theme. For more information about the changes in Xubuntu 12.04, please go to http://xubuntu.org/. Lubuntu --- Lubuntu 12.04 now uses Lightdm as the display manager with the default gtk greeter. A new software-center optimized for Lubuntu is now available by default as well. For more information about the changes in Lubuntu 12.04, please go to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Lubuntu. Ubuntu Studio - Ubuntu Studio 12.04 Beta 1 ships a live DVD for the first time, and is properly configured for the lightdm greeter. The XFCE transition is now almost complete, and there is an updated application set for typical desktop tasks (i.e. text editor, movie player, etc) Please see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/precise/beta1 for more details on the above products. About Ubuntu
Precise developers testers: please hold off on upgrading today
An issue has been noticed due to interaction between a recent libc upgrade and the nvidia graphics driver. If you have nvidia hardware, please avoid upgrading until this has been resolved. Investigation is ongoing. Details will be found and tracked in: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers/+bug/929384 Thanks, Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Precise Pangolin Alpha 2 Released!
Welcome to Precise Pangolin Alpha 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 12.04. Pre-releases of Precise Pangolin 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 2 is the second in a series of milestone images that will be released throughout the Precise development cycle. This is the first Ubuntu milestone release to include images for the armhf architecture, for the ARM CPUs using the hard-float ABI. New packages showing up for the first time include: * Linux Kernel 3.2.2 (3.2.0-12.21) * Upstart 1.4 * Unity 5.0 * LibreOffice 3.5 beta 2 You can download Alpha 2 images here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server) Additional images are also available at: http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu Cloud Server) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-core/releases/precise/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu Core) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/precise/ (Ubuntu Netboot) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/precise/alpha-2/ (Edubuntu DVD) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/precise/alpha-2/ (Kubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/precise/alpha-2/ (Lubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/precise/alpha-2/ (Mythbuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/precise/alpha-2/ (Xubuntu) Alpha 2 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a more detailed description of the changes in the Alpha 2 release and the known bugs (which can save you the effort of reporting a duplicate bug, or help you find proven workarounds), please see: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop 12.04, we suggest that you subscribe initially to the ubuntu-devel-announce list. 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 Enjoy, Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Precise Alpha 2 - Soft Freeze in effect
Dear Developers, Its that time in the cycle... soft freeze for Alpha 2. :) If you have to upload something other than a fix to a blocking bug the release team has requested, please ask before uploading in #ubuntu-release. Thanks, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Precise Pangolin Alpha 1 Released!
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy. - Henri Cartier-Bresson We are pleased to bring you the first set of developer images that capture the current fleeting reality of our Precise Pangolin (Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 1) as it starts to emerge. Pre-releases of Precise Pangolin 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 as we work towards getting this LTS release ready. Alpha 1 is the first in a series of milestone CD images that will be released throughout the Precise 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 Precise. You can download them here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Desktop, Server, ARM) Additional images are also available at: http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/precise/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Server Cloud and EC2) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/precise/alpha-1/ (Xubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/precise/alpha-1/ (Edubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/precise/alpha-1/ (Lubuntu) Alpha 1 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a more detailed description of the changes in the Alpha 1 release and the known bugs (which can save you the effort of reporting a duplicate bug, or help you find proven workarounds), please see: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop Precise, we suggest that you subscribe initially to the ubuntu-devel-announce list. 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 Enjoy, -- Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Precise Alpha 1 - Soft Freeze in effect
Dear developers, Its that time in the cycle... soft freeze for Alpha 1. :) This week we'll be testing the new ISO tracker as well as the Alpha 1 release itself, so respecting the soft freeze would be especially appreciated. If you have to upload something other than a fix to a blocking bug the release team has requested, please ask before uploading in #ubuntu-release. Thanks, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Re: Precise Alpha 1 - Soft Freeze in effect
On Mon, 2011-11-28 at 15:44 -0600, Kate Stewart wrote: This week we'll be testing the new ISO tracker as well as the Alpha 1 release itself, so respecting the soft freeze would be especially appreciated. If you have to upload something other than a fix to a blocking bug the release team has requested, please ask before uploading in #ubuntu-release. Just to be clear - this soft freeze is only for seeded packages in main and universe. If you're working on an unseeded package in universe, there is no need to ask before uploading. :) Thanks, Kate -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
pre-release 11.10 images are available for testing....
Hi all, Have been getting some 1:1 questions today, asking about the release candidates, so wanted to follow up with a wider post. Apologies for any duplicates of this message you receive. The images that are the trial run for the official images, were posted up on the iso tester last night/today. The most recent language pack updates should now be included on those images rebuilt today as well. They are now very close to what we'll be building as the formal candidate images on sunday/monday. Any help you can give in testing the images available on the iso tester out over the next couple of days would be much appreciated. The latest images can be found: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/ Thanks for any help you can provide us with testing these pre-release images!!! Kate, on behalf of the release team. -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Unseeded Universe Final Freeze
Dear Developers, There has been some ambiguity around when the unseeded universe will have its final freeze and expectations around it, so clarifying this has been the subject of some recent discussion amongst the release team. For those interested in getting those last important fixes to unseeded universe packages included in the archive for 11.10, unseeded universe final freeze will be on Oct. 11 at 1200 UTC. Submissions well before this date are recommended though. Fixes to important unseeded universe packages will be accepted between now and Oct 11, after review by a release team member [1]. Some of the release team members have agreed to monitor the channel #ubuntu-motu for discussion of pending universe package fixes especially in that last week. Reviews are on a best effort basis. Again, earlier the fix is submitted, more likely someone will be able to review and accept it. ;) A new wiki page has been created to clarify the Unseeded Universe Final Freeze [1]. Updates have also been made to the existing documentation on Final Freeze [2] and Release Process [3] to reflect the results of the discussion. Please let me know if you spot any other pages that need to be updated. Thanks, Kate [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnseededUniverseFinalFreeze [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FinalFreeze [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseProcess -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Final Freeze - now in effect.
Dear Developers, Final Freeze [1] is now in effect. If you know of a bug currently targeted for Oneiric that is not going to get fixed in the time remaining, please decide if its a candidate for an SRU, and if so, milestone it as oneiric-updates. Also, if its clear the bug is not going to get fixed in Oneiric, and is not a good target for an SRU, please nominate it for a 'P' series task, and then mark the bug as won't fix in oneiric. This will help the release team focus on those last key bug fixes we'll be trying to get included. Thanks!! on behalf of the release team, Kate [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FinalFreeze -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2. Codenamed Oneiric Ocelot, 11.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle fixing bugs and introducing a couple of new features as we polish up for the release. Ubuntu Changes since Beta 1 --- Some of the new features now available are: A new set of community supported ARM architecture images will be available between now and the release. The armel+ac100 for the Toshiba ac100 netbook is available for download now, and armel+mx5 targeted at the Freescale i.MX53 Quick Start development board will be available in one of the upcoming dailies. GNOME got updated to current unstable version (3.1.92) on its way to GNOME 3.2 OneConf has now been integrated into the Ubuntu Software Center to help keep your installed applications in sync between computers. And we continue to improve the underlying infrastructure: Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 improves support for installing 32-bit library and application packages on 64-bit systems Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 has a new kernel based on v3.0.4. Ubuntu Server - Beta 2 includes Orchestra which is a collection of the best free software services for provisioning, deploying, hosting, managing, and orchestrating enterprise data center infrastructure services, by, with, and for the Ubuntu Server. Juju (formerly codenamed Ensemble) is now available as a part of Ubuntu Server to handle service deployment and orchestration for both cloud and bare metal. Juju has many Charms available, including OpenStack deployment. Xen hypervisor has been re-introduced to Ubuntu Server. Kubuntu --- Kubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 has the latest KDE software including KDE 4.7.1 Plasma Workspaces and Applications. Along with KDE 4.7.1, the new KDE Personal Information Management (KDEPIM) suite 4.7 is included, which includes the new Kmail 2. The Muon Suite 1.2 which includes Muon Software Center and Muon Package manager is now available. Please see https://wiki.kubuntu.org/OneiricOcelot/Beta2/Kubuntu for details. Edubuntu Edubuntu's Oneiric Ocelot Beta 2 has updates to gobby-0.5 and gbrainy version 2. For more details on what has changed in Edubuntu 11.10, please refer to http://www.edubuntu.org. Mythbuntu - Mythbuntu Oneiric Ocelot Beta 2 has adapted Chromium to replace Firefox by default. It now ships with Ubuntu Software Center. Please see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ for further details. About Ubuntu Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included, and an incredible variety of add-on software is just a few clicks away. Professional technical support is available from Canonical Limited and hundreds of other companies around the world. For more information about support, visit http://www.ubuntu.com/support . If you would like to help shape Ubuntu, take a look at the list of ways you can participate at: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate . Your comments, bug reports, patches and suggestions really help us to improve this and future releases of Ubuntu. Instructions can be found at: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs. To Get Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 -- To upgrade to Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 from Ubuntu 11.04, follow these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/OneiricUpgrades Or, download Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 2 images from a location near you: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/download (Ubuntu and Ubuntu Server) In addition, they can be found at the following links: http://releases.ubuntu.com/oneiric/ (Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server) http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/beta-2/ (Ubuntu Cloud Images) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/beta-2/ (Ubuntu DVD, Alternates, pre-installed ARM Images) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/netboot/11.10/ (Ubuntu Netboot) http://releases.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/oneiric/ (Kubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/oneiric/beta-2/ (Kubuntu DVD) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/oneiric/beta-2/ (Xubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/oneiric/beta-2/ (Edubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/oneiric/beta-2/ (Ubuntu Studio) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/mythbuntu/releases/oneiric/beta-2/ (Mythbuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/lubuntu/releases/oneiric/beta-2/ (Lubuntu) The final version of Ubuntu 11.10 is expected to be released on October 13 2011. More Information You can find out more about Ubuntu and about this
Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Beta 2 Freeze, now in effect.
Dear Developers, Beta Freeze[1] is now in effect (Thursday, Sept 15). User Interface Freeze[2] remains in effect now as well. From now on, all uploads to the archive and any user user interface changes will have to be approved manually by the release team. The documentation team and translation teams will also need to be notified of any further User Interface changes. Thank you for your cooperation, Kate, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetaFreeze [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserInterfaceFreeze -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Reminder: 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Beta Freeze tomorrow
Dear Developers, Just a brief reminder to get those fixes in, as we'll be going into Beta Freeze[1] this Thursday (September 15th) at 2100 UTC[2]. If there are any concerns about whether an upload should be included, please feel free to ping any of the members of the ubuntu-release[3] team on #ubuntu-release for clarification. Thanks, Kate on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetaFreeze [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricReleaseSchedule [3] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Release Team meeting - 2011/09/02 cancelled.
A very big THANK YOU all the developers, testers, and release team members who helped get Beta 1 released today!! We'll be canceling tomorrow's release team meeting, but fear not, a nice summary of the bugs found during the beta testing will be mailed out tomorrow to give you interesting new problems to figure out. ;) Next meeting will be on Sept. 9, 2011. Cheers, Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 (Oneiric Ocelot) Released.
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1. Codenamed Oneiric Ocelot, 11.10 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work through this cycle, introducing new features and fixing bugs. This release introduces a new set images called Ubuntu Core. These include a minimal software and are can be used as the basis for customized Ubuntu distributions and products. The DVD images have been slimmed down to 1.5GB, retaining a complete set of language packs, for faster downloading and use on USB drives. With Ubuntu 11.10, we also welcome a new Ubuntu family member, Lubuntu! Lubuntu, together with Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu, and Ubuntu Studio also reached Beta 1 status today. Ubuntu Changes -- Some of the new features now available are: DVD images have been revised into extended desktop images with additional language support and a few extra applications, and thereby reduced to a more manageable size of around 1.5 GB. Lenses (formerly Places) now integrate multiple sources and advanced filtering like ratings, range, categories. Thunderbird is included as default email client including menu and launcher integration. Déjà Dup is included as the default backup tool, making it easy to create backups and upload them to Ubuntu One. The new gwibber landed in Oneiric bringing improved performance and a new interface using the most recent GNOME technologies. GNOME got updated to current unstable version (3.1.5) on its way to GNOME 3.2 LightDM now uses the new Unity greeter by default. The indicators have been visually refreshed, including a refactoring of the session indicator and a new power indicator. The Ubuntu Software Center adds new top rated views to the main category page and all subcategory pages, it allows you to edit or delete your own reviews, and has had a significant speedup for standalone deb file installation. And we continue to improve the underlying infrastructure: Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 enables support for installing 32-bit library and application packages on 64-bit systems Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 has a new kernel based on v3.0.3. GNU toolchain has transitioned to be based off of gcc 4.6 for i386, amd64, and ARM omap3/omap4 architectures. Please see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ for details. Ubuntu Server - Ubuntu Server now includes Orchestra, a collection of the best free software services for provisioning, deploying, hosting, managing, and orchestrating enterprise data center infrastructure services. Ensemble is now available as well, it is a critical part of Ubuntu Server designed to handle service deployment and orchestration for both cloud and bare metal. OpenStack has been updated to the latest Diablo-4 development release. Ubuntu Core --- Ubuntu Core is a new minimal rootfs for use in the creation of custom images. Developers will be able to use Ubuntu Core as the basis for their application demonstrations, constrained environment deployments, device support packages, and other goals. Kubuntu --- Kubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 sports the latest KDE software including KDE 4.7 Plasma Workspaces and Applications. Along with KDE 4.7, 11.10 also introduces the new KDEPIM suite, which includes the new Kmail 2. The new Amarok 2.4.3 music player has several improvements to make it easier to use. Kubuntu has switched to providing the Muon Software Center and Muon Package manager by default. Please see https://wiki.kubuntu.org/OneiricOcelot/Beta1/Kubuntu for details. Xubuntu --- Xubuntu has changed several default applications: Pastebinit is now included to make it easier to share information. Leafpad is now the default text editor. gThumb has been added to assist with digital The onscreen keyboard, Onboard, is now included in the default Xubuntu menus, under Accessories. For those who require an onscreen keyboard, this will be much easier to access using only a mouse or touchpad. Edubuntu Oneiric Ocelot Beta 1 is the first release of Edubuntu to feature a fully translated installer. LTSP Live has been re-written and is now fully translatable and network-manager aware. This beta also offers a refreshed look and feel with a new wallpaper and login screen. For more details on what has changed in Edubuntu 11.10, please refer to http://www.edubuntu.org . Mythbuntu - Mythbuntu Oneiric Ocelot Beta 1 has transitioned over to the quicker lightdm desktop manager and brings updated builds of MythTV. Please see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/oneiric/beta for more details on the above products. About Ubuntu Ubuntu is a full-featured Linux distribution for desktops, laptops, and servers, with a fast and easy installation and regular releases. A tightly-integrated selection of excellent applications is included,
Reminder: 11.10 Beta Freeze and User Interface Freeze this Thursday
Dear Developers, Just a reminder that we'll be entering User Interface Freeze[1] as well as Beta Freeze[2] this Thursday (August 25th)[3] at 21OO UTC. The user interface must be stabilized so that documentation writers and translators can work on a fixed target that doesn't obsolete screenshots or documentation. Beta Freeze is necessary so we can stabilize the archive and the archive administrators can get the inconsistencies resolved. Thank you for your cooperation on getting those bug fixes for beta and last user interface tweaks made before this Thursday. Kate, on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserInterfaceFreeze [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BetaFreeze [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneiricReleaseSchedule -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Default libjpeg-dev in oneiric
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 11:27 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: On 07/29/2011 10:47 AM, Micah Gersten wrote: On 07/29/2011 02:39 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 06:13:49PM -0500, Kate Stewart wrote: On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 17:54 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: CCing ubuntu-devel so people are aware of the issue Due to the accidental autosync, we pulled in a libjpeg8-dev that provides libjpeg-dev. Should we revert that one change (not provide libjpeg-dev in libjpeg8) or should we try to do the transition? There are a number of incomplete transitions ATM (libnotify, libssl, libav, boost1.4.6, and a few more with ~10 packages each). Attached are a list of rdepends affected. ...ouch. Given we'll be putting out the A3 release next week, and I don't believe this update and transition is essential, my preference would be to revert it for now, and then after A3's out, assess if if makes sense to pull it in and manage the transition, or wait until P-series for this one. Given all the stuff about to land for A3 and Feature Freeze almost upon us, it seems a bit risky to add this in, esp. with folks going on vacation right now. What do others think? I agree, best to back this out. Micah, will you upload the necessary change? (Sooner better than later, so we don't drift too much while libjpeg8-dev is the default?) Actually, libjpeg8-dev isn't the default ATM. Anything with libjpeg-dev as a build depend will FTBFS since 2 packages provide the same virtual libjpeg-dev package. I'll prepare an upload to fix, but I need it sponsored still. Thanks, Micah This has been uploaded and should be available after the next publisher run. Thanks Micah! :) Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Default libjpeg-dev in oneiric
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 17:54 -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: CCing ubuntu-devel so people are aware of the issue Due to the accidental autosync, we pulled in a libjpeg8-dev that provides libjpeg-dev. Should we revert that one change (not provide libjpeg-dev in libjpeg8) or should we try to do the transition? There are a number of incomplete transitions ATM (libnotify, libssl, libav, boost1.4.6, and a few more with ~10 packages each). Attached are a list of rdepends affected. ...ouch. Given we'll be putting out the A3 release next week, and I don't believe this update and transition is essential, my preference would be to revert it for now, and then after A3's out, assess if if makes sense to pull it in and manage the transition, or wait until P-series for this one. Given all the stuff about to land for A3 and Feature Freeze almost upon us, it seems a bit risky to add this in, esp. with folks going on vacation right now. What do others think? Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2 Released
Welcome to Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 2, which will in time become Ubuntu 11.10. Pre-releases of Oneiric Ocelot 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 2 is the second in a series of milestone images that will be released throughout the Oneiric development cycle. New packages showing up for the first time include: * Linux Kernel 3.0-rc5 * gcc 4.6.1 compiler * Firefox 5.0 * Thunderbird 5.0 * A Mesa 7.11 snapshot. You can download Alpha 2 images here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu, Ubuntu Server) Additional images are also available at: http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/alpha-2/ (Ubuntu Server Cloud ) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/oneiric/alpha-2/ (Xubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/oneiric/alpha-2/ (Edubuntu) Alpha 2 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a more detailed description of the changes in the Alpha 2 release and the known bugs (which can save you the effort of reporting a duplicate bug, or help you find proven workarounds), please see: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop Oneiric, we suggest that you subscribe initially to the ubuntu-devel-announce list. 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 Enjoy, Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Ubuntu Release Meeting - 2011/07/01 - cancelled.
The release meeting today will be cancelled since it is unlikely we'll have quorum, due to a scheduling conflict with the wrap up meeting at the Dublin Rally. The agenda can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-07-01 Reminder we passed the following milestones yesterday: Debian Import Freeze: June 30, 2011 10.04.3 Content Freeze: June 30, 2011 Next week: 11.10 Alpha 2: July 7, 2011 Leads, please review the critical and high milestoned bugs in the agenda, and let me know directly if you see issues resolving the release blocking bugs. If you could add links/text into the Agenda WIKI page directly with your weekly status, it would be appreciated. Thanks, Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Do you use Binary package hint: line in bug description?
On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 15:08 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:52:17PM -0400, Francis J. Lacoste wrote: Hello, When user file bugs on the distribution and enter a package name in the widget, Launchpad automatically adds a line to the description with Binary package hint: binarypackagename That binarypackagename actually comes from the last binary generated from the sourcepackage found by the user. (If the user actually entered a binary package name, we will find the corresponding sourcepackage name and then set the binarypackage hint line to the 'official binary name' - not the one entered to the user.) Is that feature useful to you? The logic to retrieve this binary package name is really convulated and there doesn't seem to be a strong use case for it. I'd really like to get rid of it. But maybe that Binary package hint: is really useful to you? Personally in my own usage I find it unuseful and cluttery. I generally delete it if I am editing bug descriptions. I've never encountered a situation where it was of any use. I double-checked with Brian Murray, who has a broader view of bugs; he doesn't see a usefulness for it either. Additional notes: that only happens when user file bugs through email or the /ubuntu/+filebug page (which is hidden away behind a wiki page discouraging people to use it). That's different from the comment added 'The original reporter indicated...' which is added when we cannot find a related source package to what the user entered. Eagerly waiting for your ok to fire the deletion trigger :-) +1 from me. Fairly sure no one will even miss it. I've not seen it be used commonly, and getting rid of the special cases and standardizing the data available is desirable. Unless someone can provide a good justification for keeping it, I'm +1 as well. Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Oneiric Ocelot Alpha 1 Released
Ocelot, ocelot, where are you now? Won't you come out to play? - phish Our Oneiric Ocelot (Ubuntu 11.10 Alpha 1) is poking its young head out of the den, and looking for some developers and testers to play with. Pre-releases of Oneiric Ocelot 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 Oneiric 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 Oneiric. You can download them here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Desktop, Server, ARM) Additional images are also available at: http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/releases/oneiric/alpha-1/ (Ubuntu Server Cloud and EC2) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/oneiric/alpha-1/ (Kubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/oneiric/alpha-1/ (Xubuntu) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/oneiric/alpha-1/ (Edubuntu) Alpha 1 includes a number of software updates that are ready for wider testing. This is quite an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs. For a more detailed description of the changes in the Alpha 1 release and the known bugs (which can save you the effort of reporting a duplicate bug, or help you find proven workarounds), please see: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/ If you're interested in following the changes as we further develop Oneiric, we suggest that you subscribe initially to the ubuntu-devel-announce list. 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 Enjoy, -- Kate Stewart, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Oneiric Alpha 1 freeze: soft freeze in effect.
Dear developers, Its that time in the cycle... time for an Alpha 1. :) This is a soft freeze, but we'd appreciate it if you held off on uploads unless its fixing one of the blocking bugs. Thanks, Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Oneiric weekly release meeting - staying on Friday
At UDS, I took the action to explore finding a new day as opposed to Friday for Oneiric Release Review. After talking to several of the stake holders, it looks like we've got too many conflicts, and my hope of moving the meeting to earlier in the week is not going to work this cycle. (Wednesday looked close to working, but another meeting moving to #ubuntu-meeting, stomped it). Net, the weekly Oneiric Release meeting will continue to be on Friday at 1500 UTC for this cycle. Thanks, Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2. Codenamed Natty Narwhal, 11.04 continues Ubuntu's proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution. The team has been hard at work since Beta 1, fixing bugs and getting things all nice and natty. For PC users, Ubuntu 11.04 now supports laptops, desktops and netbooks with a unified look and feel based on Unity. A special Ubuntu Netbook version is provided for platforms based on ARM technology, such as the Panda and Beagle boards. Ubuntu Server 11.04 has made it easier to provision servers, and reduce power consumption. Ubuntu Server 11.04 for UEC and EC2 is available as well, with a new kernel and improved initialization and configuration options. The Ubuntu 11.04 family of Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, Mythbuntu, and Ubuntu Studio, also reach Beta 2 status today. Ubuntu Changes -- Some of the new features now available are: Unity is now the default Ubuntu desktop session. The Unity launcher has many new features, including drag and drop re-ordering of launcher icons, full keyboard navigation support, launcher activation through keyboard shortcuts, right-click context menu quick-list and switching between running applications. The Ubuntu One control panel now allows selective syncing, and the launcher icon now displays sync progress. File syncing speed has been improved as well. The Ubuntu Software Center now allows users to rate review installed applications, share reviews via integration with social networking services added into Gwibber, and has other usability improvements. Key applications have been updated to newer versions: Ubuntu 11.04 comes with the latest Firefox 4.0 as standard web browser. LibreOffice 3.3.2 has been included in 11.04 as the default office package. Banshee 2.0 is the standard music player now and has been integrated into the sound menu. And we continue to improve the underlying infrastructure: 11.04 Beta 2 has a kernel based on 2.6.38. X.org 1.10.0 and Mesa 7.10.1 are the new versions included with 11.04. GNU toolchain has transitioned to be based off of gcc 4.5 for i386, amd64, and ARM omap3/omap4 architectures. All main packages have now been built and and are installable with Python 2.7. dpkg 1.16.0-pre brings us up-to-date with staged changes for the upcoming Debian 1.16.0 dpkg release, as well as pulling in the current version of the in-progress multiarch work Upstart has been updated to 0.9.4-1. There are a lot of new features: its now chroot-aware, there is support for basic job/event visualization, there are two new initctrl commands (show-config, check-config), a socket bridge is now provided, the latest D-Bus version now allows D-Bus services to be activated via Upstart, a manual job configuration stanza, and override file support is now available Please see http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/natty/beta for details. Ubuntu Netbook on ARM The ARM version is the first one to ship with our new Unity 2D interface by default. The 2.6.38 kernel for OMAP4 has had many driver improvements, most notably the display driver was switched to use the HDMI port by default and auto detect the monitor resolution. For developers, an Ubuntu Headless image is available for omap3 and omap4 hardware. Headless is fully set up for the serial port and contains a minimal command line install. Ubuntu Server - cobbler and mcollective have been included, which will make provisioning servers easier. Powernap 2.0 uses a new method to reduce power consumption and can now monitor user activity (Console, Mouse, Keyboard), system activity (load, processors, process IO), and network activity (wake-on-lan, udp ports tcp ports) Default dhcpd server updated from dhcp3 to isc-dhcp (version 4). Eucalyptus is now the latest stable point release (2.0.2) with security and efficiency fixes. (Known bug against the dhcpd server) OpenStack (nova) in Universe is a technology preview, with a recent snapshot of 2011.2 (Cactus) release. libvirt is updated to 0.8.8 with new features and bug fixes (see upstream change log for full information 0.8.3-0.8.8) Ubuntu Server for UEC and EC2 - cloud-init has been updated to 0.60. This feature includes support resizing of the root file system at first boot, adds minimal OVF transport (iso) support and allow setting of hostname when first booting. Rightscale support has been added to cloud-config and cloud-init. Some of the supporting technologies that have been packaged and included are, Cassandra 0.7.0, ZeroMQ, Membase, and XtraBackup. Kubuntu --- Kubuntu 11.04 Beta 2 sports the latest KDE software including KDE Platform 4.6.1. Kubuntu now provides a working Samba file sharing module that lets you add and manage shares from the folder's Properties dialogs. The new
Natty Beta 2 Freeze, now in effect, and up coming dates...
Hi, Some questions have been coming up as to what the Natty release schedule looks like for the remainder of the month. Here's what was discussed on ubuntu-release mail list and referenced in the weekly meetings over the last month, Beta 2 freeze - 4/11 (0900 UTC) - hard freeze today Beta 2 release - 4/14 Main/Seeded Final Freeze 4/14 (basically archive stays frozen, only important bug fixes from this point forward) Last bug fix 4/21 (0900 UTC)- hard freeze (only release blocking bug fixes, requested by release team) Unseeded Universe/Multiverse Final Freeze - 4/26 (1200 UTC) Natty release 4/28 If you've got any questions or concerns, please send an email to the ubuntu-release mail list or join us on #ubuntu-release, on Freenode. Thanks, Kate on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team. -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
2011/03/25 Ubuntu 11.04 Release Meeting
Due to DST, we're off a bit still until Europe switches over. Natty release meeting will be at 1500 UTC (that's 1100 EDT / 1000 CDT for North America folks) Reminders: Beta and User Interface Freeze now in effect. Beta 1 release schedule for March 31. Now that we're in beta freeze, only bug fixes should be uploaded. * Location: #ubuntu-meeting * Agenda: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/Agenda Ubuntu Release Team Info: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Request for help... want to see a specific image in Ubuntu's Natty Release?
Dear Developers, Testers and Passionate Hardware Platform Enthusiasts, One of the decisions from UDS last October was that we wouldn't be releasing any unverified images in Natty. In working through all the daily builds we do, there are some release images without folks signed up to verify that the images created are ready to ship and make a go/no go decision on them. If you have the necessary hardware for a specific release image and an interest in seeing that a specific product is available with the Natty release, we need some volunteers to sign up to do the sanity testing for the product images without contacts listed in: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyNarwhal/ReleaseImageContacts What's involved you ask? - A commitment to test the specific image on the following days: 3/29-30 (Beta 1), 4/12-13 (Beta 2) and 4/26-27 (Proposed final image). - Work with the Ubuntu testing team to make sure the results of tests for that image (and any bugs found) are recorded on the ISO tracker for that image. - Notify the Ubuntu release team of any issues that should be documented in the release notes. If you're able to help out, feel free to go onto the wiki and edit it to add your name as the contact for a specific product and send a note to the specific product manager and myself letting us know you're willing to help. Please feel free to contact me directly via email or IRC (#ubuntu-release on freenode) if you have further questions. Thanks for your help with this! Kate Stewart on behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
2011/03/11 Ubuntu Release Meeting Agenda
Hi, Just a reminder we'll be having the Natty release meeting tomorrow. Agenda is now up on the WIKI, and includes the bugs that were flagged during A3 iso testing last week. If I've missed any critical ones that should be on the we need to get this fixed list, please let me know. * Time: 15:00 UTC * Location: #ubuntu-meeting * Agenda: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/Agenda Thanks, Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
2011-01-14 Ubuntu Release Meeting Minutes
Highlights: Alpha 2 tasks, as indicated by the burn down charts, are starting indicate progress due to nice burst of work at the rally but overall are above trend line. Please see: http://people.canonical.com/~platform/workitems/natty/all-natty-alpha-2.html Milestoned bugs for alpha2 can be found https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.milestone=33572 There hasn't been much progress on the bugs and its starting to get a bit worrying. There are 3 critical and 31 high. Could the leads please take a look at the ones associated with their projects and update them, if it doesn't look like they'll be fixed in alpha 2. Agenda/Minutes/Logs can be found: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-01-14 Next meeting will be on 20110121, Colin Watson will moderate. Thanks, Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
2011-01-17 Ubuntu LTS and SRU bi-weekly - minutes
Thanks to those of you who were able to attend the meeting earlier today. For those of you on holiday, please scan the minutes. Highlights: 10.04.2 - targetted for release on 2/17 - freeze is 1/20 (this Thursday)... get your bug fixes in now. - QA and HW cert testing between 10.04.2 and Natty Alpha 2 will be consuming most of the testing cycles. Will be defering an SRU cycle until after 10.04.2 goes out. SRU - -proposed candidate Maverick(Bug:697948) and Lucid(Bug:699885) kernels released on 1/11. - Lucid -proposed candidate is likely to be 10.04.2 kernel The meetings will be shifting from bi-weekly to weekly for next few weeks until after 10.04.2 is released. Victor Pilau will host the next SRU/LTS meeting on 1/24. Agenda Minutes can be found: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-01-17-SR Thanks, Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
2011/03/04 Ubuntu Release Meeting Agenda
Thank you to all the developers and testers who participated this week in adding those last features, finding, and fixing bugs, so we could get A3 released yesterday! Well done! Just a reminder that we'll be having a release meeting for Natty in a couple of hours, sorry the reminder didn't go out yesterday, but the A3 release took precedence ;) Agenda is still getting this the bugs from this weeks A3 testing added to it. I'm not expecting updates on any of the new bugs from this week but feel free to provide updates on the ones that have been lingering though ;). The round table today will be used to review where things are with the tasks for the milestones, and make sure any interlocks/dependencies are surfaced. * Location: #ubuntu-meeting * Agenda: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/Agenda Ubuntu Release Team Info: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
2011-02-25 builder incident - summary
Dear Developers, Earlier today (14:39 UTC) our builders had their sudo package updated to 1.7.2p1-1ubuntu5.3 from Version: 1.6.9p10-1ubuntu3.8. This had an unexpected side affect of setting the permissions with different defaults. This resulted in bad permissions being generated for several packages that otherwise built successfully. This change has now been reverted. The affected packages have been rebuilt and the builders have been turned on again. A list of the known affected packages between 14:39 UTC and 21:13 UTC (when we turned off the builders) can be found: http://paste.ubuntu.com/572428/ If you are aware of other packages that could have been affected, after checking their permissions, please join us on #ubuntu-devel to discuss. Thanks, Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
2011-02-11 Ubuntu Release Meating Minutes
Overall: Teams are starting into the A3 feature groove :), bug backlog is still a bit high in some areas. Team Summaries: * QA: Linux, LibreOffice, and Unity are toping the list of incoming bugs over last week. * HW Cert: All servers for 11.04 except 1 are now reporting results, desktop runs not done this week due to hardware relocation. * Bugs under focus: 714829, 695842, 715871 * Security: Making progress on work items for Natty, nothing A3 critical * Bugs under focus: bug:344878, bug:712662 (pending doko input), bug:714908, bug:714958, bug:715874. * Kernel: uploaded two kernels with the latest v2.6.38-3.30 (v2.6.38-rc4 based) with lots of fixes for graphics, now mostly watching mainline * Bugs under focus: see Kernel team report. * Foundations: btrfs installs now confirmed to work properly again, Upstart visualisation and interactive boot work * Bugs under focus: made progress this week, switching back to features for A3 * Server: working on awstrial, new openstack snapshot, working on LXC on openstack, and new packages including Handbreak plugin for mysql. Eucalyptus still remains to be a problem in Natty. * Bugs under focus: regression showing up with bug:590201, will provide feedback on above list post meeting. * Desktop: cleanup of A3 WI's in progress, annoying compiz bug about invisible windows should be fixed now, python-gobject ABI breakage has been hotfixed, so pygtk apps are running normally again * Bugs under focus: 638827 is blocked on mozilla. * UbuntuOne: shotwell not looking likely for Natty, unity integration has started, and banshee still needs some work. * Kubuntu: kubuntu mobile mostly working again, libindicate-qt updated for new API, Qt being built with gcc 4.4 to work around issues with gcc 4.5 on ARM * Thorny areas that need some focus and/or decisions: * plymouth timing interactions with vesab (kernel, foundations) * Eucalyptus (server) * X - rolling back, or working around? (desktop, arm, kernel) * python 2.6/2.7 vs. 2.7 only? (motu, foundations) * picking up Linaro recent toolchain drop? (arm, foundations, linaro, kubuntu) Action Items: * [release team] to revisit release freeze date, and its relation to beta 2 * [zul] to provide update on status of server bugs highlighted in agenda * [wendar] to post resolution on the Python 2.6/2.7 vs Python 2.7 inclusion in Natty * [skaet] follow up with doko after he returns on Linaro toolchain inclusion. Full summary and links to logs can be found: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-02-11 Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Natty Schedule Adjustments (Beta 2 added, Release Candidate dropped)
Dear Developers, After reviewing the plans at the end of this release, it was felt that a release candidate release on April 21st showing up just before the easter holiday would be a bit late. After discussing this with the key stakeholders and not getting any negative feedback from them or in the weekly release meetings, we're going to go ahead and add a Beta 2 for this release, and drop the Release Candidate from the Natty Schedule [1]. Natty Beta 2 will be on April 14th, 2011. If you anticipate any problems due to this change, please let us know. Thanks, Kate Stewart on behalf of Ubuntu release team [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce
Natty Schedule Adjustments (Beta 2 added, Release Candidate dropped)
Dear Developers, After reviewing the plans at the end of this release, it was felt that a release candidate release on April 21st showing up just before the easter holiday would be a bit late. After discussing this with the key stakeholders and not getting any negative feedback from them or in the weekly release meetings, we're going to go ahead and add a Beta 2 for this release, and drop the Release Candidate from the Natty Schedule [1]. Natty Beta 2 will be on April 14th, 2011. If you anticipate any problems due to this change, please let us know. Thanks, Kate Stewart on behalf of Ubuntu release team [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
Re: Release Targeting and Milestones
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 08:53 -0800, Brian Murray wrote: On Mon, Feb 07, 2011 at 05:13:29PM -0600, Kate Stewart wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 14:36 -0800, Brian Murray wrote: Bug tasks being targeted to the release (e.g. having a Natty task) and not being assigned to anyone. The wiki page indicates that the tasks should have an assignee. It is important for bugs to be on release team's radar especially if they don't have an assignee so I think the wiki page should be modified in this case. If the actual assignee isn't known, I suggest that the team it likely belongs to be flagged, so it shows up on some team's radar. (Teams are good at reassigning if it isn't in their problem space ;) ) Anything that is release critical/high needs to have an owner/go to point. In which case I'd like to change the language from: the nomination should not be accepted without finding someone to do the work on the bug. to the nomination should not be accepted without assigning the bug task to a person or team. Sounds fair to me. At least that way the team knows what's in the queue waiting, even if there is no one at that specific time able to work on it. Thanks! Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
2010-12-10 Ubuntu Release Meeting Minutes
Highlights from today's meeting: Overall, reasonable progress on work items for alpha 2, but expecting it to start to slow for holidays soon. See individual team statuses for details. Python 2.7 Transition: - python 2.7 transition progressing fairly well. Summary of what's left can be found: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=python27 - OO.o builds are breaking CD images (due to python 2.7 transition and problems with python-uno) looking at options to work around. - unity foundations work mostly done, but will hold off on upload until January, to avoid dependency conflicts until python stabilizes. Toolchain Concerns: - gcc/arm issues resolved, builds are progressing again for ARM team and Kubuntu. - still considerable backlog on the linker side in MOTU, that needs some help General Updates: - natty upstart spec finalized, improvements planned are: debug stanza, override files, job visualisation, socket activation, D-Bus activation, chroot support, user sessions and visible job start/stop in plymouth details view. - desktopcouch 1.0 should release today, initial zeitgeist integration to be released next week - new kernel (2.6.37-rc5) will permit re-enabling NX support for modules, and re-enabling a number of drivers that were disabled for the rebase. Details, including IRC log can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-12-10 -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
2010-11-26 - Natty Release Status
Based on discussions today, it doesn't seem absolutely urgent to have a meeting on Friday, so the weekly meeting on 11/26 will be cancelled. However... there are several alpha 1 milestoned bugs sitting in the queue, so it would be great if the leads could please take a look at the ones highlighted for their areas in the current status report: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-11-26 There will be a meeting early next week to do a quick synch up on the outstanding bugs, and some last minute planning for Alpha 1's release on 12/2 - please keep a look out for it in your inbox. Best wishes for an excellent Thanksgiving break to those folk in the US. Thanks, Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
2010-11-22, Ubuntu SRU and LTS - minutes
Thank you to all who attended this initial meeting earlier today. :) Action Items taken down during the meeting were: * [cjwatson, apw, Keybuk, azul] - to come up with proposal to handle upstart interaction/bug 642555 * [victorp] look at adding hardware cert reports with architectures as one of the pieces of info tracked for SRU meeting * [pedro, marjo] - look at adding regression test report as one of the pieces of info tracked for SRU meeting. * [victorp, pedro, bjf, skaet] to set date for next target SRU release. We'll be skipping Dec. 2. * [skaet, victorp, bjf, pitti] - meet to discuss SRU release of maverick post hardware cert testing results Detailed minutes from the meeting can be found at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-11-22-SR Thanks, Kate -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
2010-11-22, Ubuntu SRU and LTS - biweekly meeting
At UDS we decided to go to a 2 week cadence for SRU kernel releases, and are working our way through the ripples of this changed process and how it will interact with the existing SRU processes, and 10.04.2 LTS. We don't know all the answers at this point, but are trying to figure out the right questions to ask. :) We've put together a straw man agenda for next Monday's meeting (see link below), which is an attempt to capture some of the questions, and get some focus started on 10.04.2 (which will be here before we know it.) If you're interested in this topic, please feel free to attend or scan through the agenda and add questions into the agenda WIKI (see link below). This meeting will be bi-weekly, and is * Date: Monday, * Time: 1600UTC - 1700UTC * Location: #ubuntu-meeting * Chair: Kate Stewart kate.stew...@canonical.com * Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/StableReleaseAgenda -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
2010-11-19, Ubuntu Release Meeting Agenda
First meeting for Natty ... blueprints still solidifying but Alpha 1 will soon be upon us. ;) * Time: 1500UTC - 1630UTC * Location: #ubuntu-meeting * Chair: Kate Stewart kate.stew...@canonical.com * Agenda: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/Agenda Ubuntu Release Team Info: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
