June 2010
22 posts
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Daily Builds for Upstream Projects
Over the next few weeks the folks on the Launchpad team will be landing various bits for Daily Builds in Launchpad. I thought I’d talk about this feature because it can be a very useful tool for software projects.
So first of all, why? We want to enable you to get the latest build out to testers as soon as possible. Need someone to confirm that you’ve finally caught that regression?...
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New Laptop, an Acer Aspire TimelineX 1830T
I wanted a netbook to test UNE, but I also wanted something with a bit more oomph than an atom, so I got the 11.6 inch 1830T. This is a notebook in a netbook’s body! (i3-330UM processor) However it’s also much pricier than a netbook.
Someone already had excellent documentation on the wiki on the older 1810TZ, so I have adapted this page for the 1830T and will be documenting my...
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Cleansweep Updates
Here are the stats for the last week’s worth of patch review, as part of Operation Cleansweep:
Total bugs with patches: 2243 (-27)
Reviewed patches: 321 (+11)
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Bugs with ‘patch-needswork’: 82 (+2)
Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-upstream’: 123 (+4)
Bugs with ‘patch-forwarded-debian’: 38 (+5)
Bugs with ‘indicator-application’: 43 (-1)
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Puppet cost me my best friend...
My best friend moved to California this week to work for a large company who is deploying tons of Puppet. It’s a tremendous opportunity for him.
He was working on Puppet for a while at a place and I spent a relatively long time complaining to him that he should just get involved in the project instead of just keeping his home grown stuff around (since in the long run that’s also more...
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Debian Derivatives Front Desk
In case you missed Nigel’s post to -devel the Debian project is firing up a “Derivatives Frontdesk”. This is a place where developer and contributors of Debian-based derivatives can work together, so if you’re a contributor who has always wanted to learn how to work better with Debian, then this is the place for you. You’ll also find us on #debian-ubuntu....
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Application Menu Status for 25 June
Not to be outdone by the (excellent) work of the other Unity folks, Ted and Cody have released indicator-appmenu 0.0.7 and appmenu-gtk 0.0.8 which are now in Maverick and the Lucid PPA.
Overall:
We’re getting close to including the menu by default in Unity (right now you have to explicitly install it). There’s a few issues left to iron out, basically submenus and some still-partial...
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Adopt an Upstream: Victor Vargas
We’ve been banging on about adopting upstream packages as a great way to take care of a certain class of bugs with Launchpad.
Victor Vargas (aka Kamusin) has been working on multiple packages on the GNOME side, he recently adopted the rhythmbox package and he’s doing great work so far, doing Triage work on the Ubuntu side and also reporting those bugs to the Upstream Bug Tracker...
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Some of my friends are crazy (a guide)
I don’t have many friends, so here’s my guide. And no, I don’t mean the hippies, I mean your other friends:
Multitasking on your phone wasn’t important, until today-ish (or maybe in the last few months). Depends, ask them if they have the one that is all futuristic looking, or the one that looks from 1975. If the phone is square, then you’re wrong.
Copy and paste,...
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googlecl searching contacts for mutt
Here’s the magical command for those of you like me who just scrape by on mutt:
set query_command = “google contacts list —title ‘(?i).*%s’”
Thanks to Rick Harding for the help.
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Acer Timeline owners ...
I’ve been mulling moving to a smaller form-factor laptop, something more netbook-y. I’ve been eyeballing the Aspire Timeline 1830T.
Does anyone with a current 1810T or 1810TZ care to comment on how it’s running with Ubuntu? I found this thread on a notebook forum, and the tips on the help site look helpful. Any information on real-world battery performance would be useful!
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FOSSCON @ RIT
I got to spend the weekend at FOSSCON, hosted at RIT in Rochester, New York. First of all, Rochester is a great town, we had a good time checking out the sights (like the Erie Canal and the zoo.)
I learned more about OpenHatch, the OpenCourseware Consortium, more about Open Streetmap, I gave a talk on how to find good linux help on the internets, and was also given a chance to do a lightning talk...
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OpenHatch way awesomer than the last time you...
I’m at FOSSCON in a workshop listening to Asheesh Laroia work with two volunteers about how to make your first contributions to an open source project. He’s built (along with others) a tool called OpenHatch.
It’s basically designed to connect people who want to work on stuff with projects. I’m a big fan of the “I want to help” button, and it’s ability to...
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Application Menu Status for June 18
Just in case you missed it, since I’m posting on ayatana-dev now, here is the latest status report for progress on the application menu for UNE 10.10.
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Operation Cleansweep making progress... (updated)
As you may know, a crack team of volunteers from around the internet have been making a concerted effort to go through patches found on Launchpad, clean them up, and integrate them. We call this Operation Cleansweep.
As of this writing Ubuntu contributors working on Cleansweep have sent around 225 patches (FIX: that’s 225 bugs, 135 of which contained patches that were forwarded, 77 need...
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Application Menu goings on ...
As you may or may not know, we’re working on a global application menu for the Netbook Edition of Maverick. Here’s the latest update from Friday, as well as some new updates on bugs. So far it’s coming along, once we crack those three big bugs this week we should be in fine shape for Alpha 2, thanks to the hard work of Cody Russell and Ted Gould.
I’d also like to...
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New Unity release ready for testing ...
Just a reminder that the new interface for the Ubuntu Netbook Edition released .2 yesterday, and we’re looking for more testing and feedback! Here are the instructions with the PPA you need for Lucid (it’s in Maverick too).
Remember to file bugs as you see em!
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More great messaging menu apps
Ken Van Dine has packaged up Matt Mossholder’s gvoice-notifier in a PPA. I’ve added the PPA to the list of messaging menu applications. If you want to help package these up and get them rocking then feel free to grab one! We’re always looking for great applications!
(If you just thought, “Oh neat, if I could SMS from the me menu like you can with the chrome...
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Progress on patches ...
Bobbo has posted an update on the progress of getting the number of unreviewed patches under control.
If you want to help David and Nigel keep plugging at this then please consider joining the Ubuntu Review team, there will be a session on Thursday on IRC if you want to get started:
10th June, 12:00 UTC
#ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net
Pretty good progress so far!
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Predictability in donating
GNOME is looking for a sysadmin!
Don’t forget that you can support GNOME by becoming a Friend of GNOME! One thing I learned from people on the Board is that having a monthly subscription is more helpful to the project. I used to give one lump sum every year, but that’s a bit unpredictable.
When you sign up for a monthly subscription it makes things like having a reliable source of...
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Collecting up Messaging Menu applications
I’ve sent this to the Ayatana mailing list, but here it is for good measure!
I ran into this yesterday:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/05/add-more-apps-to-ubuntu-messaging-menu.html
… and I realized that more and more people are making applications for the messaging menu and they’re all over the place. We should embrace this enthusiasm for the technology with some...
Someone want to help out Redshift?
I just found out about redshift, which changes the color temperature of your monitor according to the time of day. I don’t know if this makes a difference yet or not (just started using it), but I did run into a bug request for application indicator support. In lp answers the author states:
I will gladly accept patches. It seems it’ll have to be done eventually, so I’ll...
Testing the UNE Application Menu, part II
Reposting from my mail to ayatana:
Thanks to everyone who has responded to Jono’s call for testing the application menu[1]. Now that this has kicked off I’d like to explain the plan moving forward. First off, the wiki page with all the information on this project is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationMenu
If anything is unclear to you from that page or...
