questions about current ways of work in Ubuntu release process
Hi All, Some of you might remember me, some of you won't. I used to be part of the Ubuntu community and loved every minute of it. I've been drawn to some other open source projects since then, but the apparent quality boost I'm experiencing with 12.04 has left me eager and curious about things, not to mention Mark's helped to engage this curiosity[0]. So, I'm terribly curious about: 1) we’ll ratchet up the continuous integration - What sort of continues integration system Ubuntu is using now? I guess its based on Jenkins ? I'd love to read the gory details somewhere. 2) smoke testing - is it done by hand by Ubuntu members, or also taken care of by the CI system? 3) automated benchmarking of the release - How's that done? Again, happy to read the gory details somewhere ;) 4) ..both qualitative and quantitative, with user research and testing continuing to shape our design decisions.. - How is user research being conducted? for testing, I suppose there's the community QA team the has the test cases executed by hand? How is it shaping the design decision? Are there new Launchpad modules that assist in that? 5) Is 'Fauna' another software / cloud component? (I've never seen such a blog post with so many cryptic words for the non native English speaker ;) 6) Where can I read more about 'Quantum' , the virtualized network madness in the cloud ;) ? Kudos to the great team of Ubuntu - reading all of this and asking all those question makes me wanna rejoin the party again, doing some catching up. I might also try to pitch up some of the practices to the other open source projects I'm part of ;) (I've always admired the way we do things in Ubuntu!) -- -Sivan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: questions about current ways of work in Ubuntu release process
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Sivan Greenberg si...@omniqueue.comwrote: Hi All, Some of you might remember me, some of you won't. I used to be part of the Ubuntu community and loved every minute of it. I've been drawn to some other open source projects since then, but the apparent quality boost I'm experiencing with 12.04 has left me eager and curious about things, not to mention Mark's helped to engage this curiosity[0]. So, I'm terribly curious about: 5) Is 'Fauna' another software / cloud component? (I've never seen such a blog post with so many cryptic words for the non native English speaker ;) English borrows that from Latin: flora fauna === plants animals He was simply referring to the animal code names that Ubuntu uses. Also, I believe you missed your footnote link: [0] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1121 Sorry I can't help with any of the other more interesting questions. Evan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Re: questions about current ways of work in Ubuntu release process
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 6:40 PM, Evan Huus eapa...@gmail.com wrote: English borrows that from Latin: flora fauna === plants animals Yes, flora I know - I was not familiar with fauna. Phew, I was going to email this to ubuntu-devel but then the bounce back told me only ubuntu-developers are allowed to post to it. He was simply referring to the animal code names that Ubuntu uses. Also, I believe you missed your footnote link: [0] http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/1121 Indeed I have, thanks for re-mentioning it. -Sivan -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
Problems with setuid app in Ubuntu 12.04
Hi all. I've recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 64bit. I'm using a proprietary VPN utility from Juniper Networks on my Linux system. In previous versions of Ubuntu, it worked just fine. In the current version of Ubuntu, I'm getting failures. For some reason it's not letting me invoke a setuid application. The way it is deployed is it unpacks into a hidden directory under $HOME, then the main VPN program needs to be made setuid root so that it can be invoked by me but do root-y things. Then, you can either run the tool directly from the command line or you can run a little Java control window which manages the VPN. If I run the program directly from the command line, the setuid works and the VPN comes up and works fine. But, I can't control it or see how long it's been up. Whenever I try to use the Java control panel the GUI comes up and tries to run the setuid program, but it fails and then the whole thing crashes. I get this error: Failed to setuid to root. Error 1: Operation not permitted But I have clearly set the right bits and it works when invoked directly. I've tried many different variations of Java including downloaded ones directly from Sun/Oracle. One note, the application is 32bit and so I need to run 32bit Java as well. Not sure if that matters. Has the 12.04 release installed some new security measures that might be keeping my setuid program from working properly? I've tried putting Java under /opt/jvm and also run service apparmor teardown to try to be sure apparmor is not involved, but I don't know enough to know if I succeeded. I'm really stuck and could use any pointers or tips anyone has. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
