Re: ubuntu-devel should be the center of ubuntu development

2015-01-10 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Sat, Jan 10, 2015 at 4:11 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Thanks for bringing it up, and sorry for the misunderstanding! No need to apologize, it's just an example of a recent trend that we're all a part of. -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com/ - Automate your Cloud Infrastructure

ubuntu-devel should be the center of ubuntu development

2015-01-09 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hey everyone, happy new year! Someone on google plus pointed out this great page on how users can best apply upstart concepts to systemd: - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SystemdForUpstartUsers Thanks to the people who put this page together, it's been really helpful for me to figure out what I need to

Re: Request: Removal of "ownCloud" package from ubuntu

2014-10-22 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi Lukas, on a partially related note, On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Lukas Reschke wrote: > While we're pretty much Ubuntu fans here, doing the packaging for every > distribution would just be way too much time for us. That’s why we have > created even our own repositories at OBS: To be com

Re: Removing reiserfs support from the installer

2013-09-12 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Sep 12, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Oliver Ries wrote: > Are we providing any type of migration path for users that are running > reiserfs? Was reiserfs ever the default in Ubuntu, iow is there potentially > a userbase that through upgrades is still stuck on that fs? I'm pretty sure we've never defa

Re: Should we sunset brainstorm.ubuntu.com?

2013-05-14 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > Well, in my opinion askubuntu is the better and more vibrant community > of both new & power users, aspiring and advanced developers. Just a sidenote that AU is not for ideas and voting on ideas, though at first glance the two sites appea

Should we sunset brainstorm.ubuntu.com?

2013-05-13 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, I got a ping from the technical board before their semi-annual review of Brainstorm ideas. There are some problems with the site, mainly: a) It is unmaintained (As you can see from the design). b) User interest (as indicated by the voting) is waning. c) It seems that developer intere

Call for lightning talks

2013-03-06 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Just a reminder that: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-1303/Plenaries ... has plenty of room for lightning talks. It's easy, you join the session, you talk about something cool for 5 minutes, then we move on to the next person. You can also ping me during the lightning talks if you want to do somethi

Reminder: UDS Plenaries due today!

2013-03-04 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, We've had 3 submissions for plenaries so far, so there's room for one more, and we have _plenty_ of room for lightning talks. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-1303/Plenaries Today's your last chance! -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://juju.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ub

Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-02-28 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Evan Dandrea wrote: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PhasedUpdates > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker/PhasedUpdates +1 for this, this makes the entire idea much more robust and would let us at least use data to measure the end user updates. How do we handle things

Re: Call for Presenters - Plenaries at UDS

2013-02-27 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 2:16 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > What are the mechanics of giving such a presentation? Is there a way to show > presentation material in a G+ hangout or is some other mechanism going to be > used? You can import your presentation into Google Drive and then be able to dis

Call for Presenters - Plenaries at UDS

2013-02-27 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, We're still planning on having plenaries and lightning talks for the 2 day UDS, so I'm looking for 4 15 minute presentations for Tuesday, and as many 5 minute presentations as we can fit for the Wednesday. If there's a topic you'd like to see discussed, please mail me offlist with yo

State of Juju and the Charm Store

2012-12-07 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hello Ubuntu Developers! At UDS I received some hallway feedback that some of you would like an occasional status report of what's going on in Juju land, a more high level review to give people an idea on how things are coming along and how that relates to Ubuntu. So before people head into the ho

3 months of free HP Cloud instance time for Ubuntu Developers

2012-05-31 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, HP has graciously donated 3 months of instance time to Ubuntu Developers and Juju Charm Authors! This is a _beta_ program that I think will be useful to Ubuntu developers, especially those of you who need more hardware resources than the project can provide. Basically HP will give yo

Re: Blueprints for UDS-Q

2012-04-23 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > > All your blueprints should start with one of those names, example > "desktop-mono-flamewar", "servercloud-juju-charm-growth", > "qa-jenkins-is-awesome", and so on. It was pointed out to me t

Still plenty of OpenWeek instructor slots available!

2012-04-23 Thread Jorge O. Castro
We're still looking for instructors for OpenWeek. We're one week out and still have 9 slots available! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek Ping me offlist if you're interested! -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://cloud.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com

Blueprints for UDS-Q

2012-04-23 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hello everyone, As we wrap up the Pangolin I'd like to announce that you can file your blueprints for UDS-Q on Launchpad here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-q This link is always linked from the main summit.ubuntu.com page. The tracks for UDS-Q are: servercloud community design d

OpenWeek ready to go, 2 May - Friday 4 May, call for instructors

2012-04-09 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hello Ubunteros, The IRC workshop extravaganza known as Ubuntu OpenWeek is ready to go. For those of you not in the know, this is a weeklong (sort of) IRC event where we have instructors and classes on various topics in Ubuntu. The wiki page is now ready to go: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenW

UDS-Q Call for Plenaries (and a demo day idea)

2012-03-15 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hello! The submission process for UDS plenaries is now open! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Q/Plenaries There are some changes to plenaries this time around which are all on the wiki page, however here are the important changes. - There is now a deadline (April 25th) for plenary submissions. This

Bluetooth audio user experience.

2012-03-06 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, I'm posting this here since it's fresh in my mind and I'd like to see if I can put this on someone's radar for 12.10's UDS. I have an android tablet that I wanted to output audio onto my desktop with. Those of you who have looked into this know it can get a bit hairy. Android (and oth

Re: UDS Final Preparation and scheduling

2011-10-19 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 11:18 AM, Jorge O. Castro wrote: > - Due to an increase of rooms being used, the IS team is looking for > people to help set up on Sunday if your travel plans allow for it. I've just been informed that Sean has volunteers already picked out and adding more p

UDS Final Preparation and scheduling

2011-10-19 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, Just doing a quick update on UDS stuff: - The schedule is starting to populate, most of you should be in the middle of working on your blueprints, if you need help with that check out this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS/Scheduling - The plenaries are full, sorry! If you want to sh

Re: Key signing party for UDS/Linaro in Orlando

2011-10-04 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 7:31 AM, Marc Cluet wrote: > I'd happy to help organise the key signing party in Orlando! Alright! I've made this placeholder page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-P/KeySigningParty Let's shoot for Thursday night, we can probably have it somewhere in the foyer area after sessi

Key signing party for UDS/Linaro in Orlando

2011-10-03 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:32 PM, Christian Robottom Reis wrote: > On Mon, Oct 03, 2011 at 12:20:38PM -0700, Deepak Saxena wrote: >> Is there usually a key-signing at UDS? If not, should we organize a >> Linaro one? > > Copying Jorge. > > Yes, there's usually always a massive key-signing at UDS; Jor

Proposing Blueprints and Sessions to UDS-P

2011-09-27 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hello everyone, Some of you have already been asking how to schedule blueprints for UDS-P. We now have a snazzy wiki page with all the information you need: - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS/Scheduling One thing to remember this time, Ubuntu will be using the "other" track for sessions that don't fi

OpenWeek Call for Instructors / Sessions

2011-09-07 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hello! I am pleased to announced the next Open Week dates, 17-21 October, which is the week after release. This IRC workshop _extravaganza_ is our showcase of our community to users, where we hand out tips, tricks, and instructional guides to working with Ubuntu. I am looking for instructors to g

UDS Call for Plenaries

2011-09-07 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hello! If you're interested in giving a plenary at UDS here is the page to put your submissions. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-P We have a total of 6 15 minute slots available, so we'll be picking the most interesting ones once the submissions go over 6. Also remember we do have 5 minute lightning

Re: shrinking the desktop DVD image to 1.5GB

2011-08-12 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Allison Randal wrote: > Any suggestions on other games, developer tools, audio utilities or common > applications in main to include? I would be great to include the parts of Samba that Nautilus uses for Windows file sharing. On a stock install it's a prompt to in

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-30 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 2:01 PM, Michael Bienia wrote: > This leads to the next question: how much do you trust the person > writing the endorsement? I would think that most people who are entrusted with membership understand the responsibilities involved when writing an endorsement based on the

Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-20 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, I am confused as to the definition of the different levels of Ubuntu Developers and how that relates to membership in each of the various teams (though probably involves overall project membership as well). I thought I would bring this up for discussion as it seems to be getting more

Ubuntu Developer Summit, 31 Oct - 3 Nov 2011, Orlando, Florida, USA

2011-07-14 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, Just an announcement that the final dates for the next Ubuntu Developer Summit have been posted: The Caribe Royal, Orlando, Florida, USA,31 Oct - 3 Nov The Caribe Royal, 8101 World Center Drive, Orlando, FL 32821, Tel: +1 (800) 823-8300 All travel information is available at: http

Important scheduling information for UDS for track/tech leads

2011-05-10 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Track/Tech leads, In order to cut down on the churn in the schedule, we will be disabling everyone's access to schedule sessions -- from now on if you want to move/schedule a session you will see Michelle at the registration desk so we do it all in one place. -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http

UDS Scheduling Update for 29 April

2011-04-29 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, The scheduler is now cronned to import the blueprints from launchpad and sessions are appearing: http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-o/ Eyeballing the list of days shows about 50% of the rooms and slots are already booked, so everyone has been doing a great job getting their sessions in, th

UDS/LDS Scheduling updates

2011-04-26 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hello everyone, We're 14 days from UDS and LDS, here's the skinny so far: 119 blueprints have been filed, we had 360 BPs filed for UDS-O, so you should feel "One thirdish" of the way done with your blueprints. The list of blueprints is available here: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-20 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 11:55 AM, Evan Martin wrote: > (Chrome shows a systray icon when it has gone into "background" mode: > no visible windows, but still running.  This allows extensions and > apps to work in an "offline" fashion; e.g. a mail notifier can tell > you you have new mail, and click

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-14 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > I saw a complaint about Dropbox & Keepass yesterday > http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/04/13/%23ubuntu+1.html#t19:28 > I haven't tried Skype, but seeing as it's proprietary (Dropbox too, I > think?) I doubt they'd modify to fit the indicato

Re: Using something better than Gobby for session notes at UDS

2011-04-09 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote: > Perhaps Jorge/Daniel could get an instance running in a beefy Amazon > EC2 instance (m2.4xlarge with 64GB of memory?) and drum up an > Etherpad-testing-day ASAP with your requisite 100+ concurrent > sessions.  I suspect some configuration tw

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-09 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 10:47 PM, Martin Owens wrote: > But what is available isn't classic ubuntu gnome... at least not in > testing so far: Seb128 has fixed this, the Classic GNOME in Natty as of yesterdayish is now what you'd think "Classic" should be. For people who prefer classic they'll get

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-07 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 9:38 PM, Rick Spencer wrote: > 1. There are key feature regressions, for example, there is no systray > support for many important applications. According to the AppIndicator Design document the notification area will be phased out: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CustomStatusMenuD

Call for UDS Plenaries

2011-04-07 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Hi everyone, I've added a little table for plenaries here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-O If you want to give a plenary then please submit a talk/topic here. Plenaries are 15 minutes long, and we have 4 a day after lunch. In the past we've had people combine plenary slots to form longer plenaries,

How to register blueprints at UDS-O

2011-03-30 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Ok everyone, it's that time where we start to submit blueprints for UDS. Here's the info: Tracks: http://uds.ubuntu.com/tracks/ We're back to the "classic" track names, Desktop, Design, Community, Server and Cloud, Foundations, Security, QA, and ARM/Linaro. You register blueprints here: https://

Re: planning for UDS-O

2011-03-29 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Allison Randal wrote: > * April 29th-May 5th: Natty release is done, get blueprints ready for UDS. > The idea is not to hard-bake plans and specifications for the Oneiric cycle > before UDS, but to have a clear idea of what needs discussion at UDS, so we > make the

Re: Using something better than Gobby for session notes at UDS

2011-03-24 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > IIRC when Etherpad was demonstrated at a recent UDS, it crashed almost > instantly when a UDS scale audience tried it. That's because it was on one of Daviey's personal servers and he had no warning and we killed all the hamsters inside. W

Re: Using something better than Gobby for session notes at UDS

2011-03-24 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 2:09 PM, Brad Figg wrote: > Can we please consider an alternative such as: >   pad.ubuntu-uk.org >   https://docs.google.com/a/ubuntu.com I would prefer moving to the web for some other reasons (Regardless of wether it's etherpad or gdocs or whatever): - We have a URL to

Sponsorships for the Ubuntu Developer Summit

2011-03-11 Thread Jorge O. Castro
Just in case anyone missed this, submissions for Sponsorship for UDS are now open. The deadline is 29 March. http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/02/23/ubuntu-developer-summit-sponsorship-now-open/ -- Jorge Castro Canonical Ltd. http://twitter.com/castrojo Help fix Unity Bitesize Bugs: http://goo.gl/i

Re: Clarifying UDS Tracks

2010-10-14 Thread Jorge O. Castro
On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Jono Bacon wrote: >      * Application Selection and Defaults Hi everyone, This is actually Package Selection and Defaults, so your blueprints for this track should be: packageselection-$team-n-$title I've renamed them in Launchpad so everyone should be set, so