Barry just spilled the beans about it: we are going to have a dh_python2 porting jam on 23rd June. Here’s what he says: This Thursday, June 23rd, we are going to have a dh_python2 porting jam. If you know about packaging, and have meddled with Python packaging before, we invite you to hang out and port a load of packages with us. We have some documentation to explain better what exactly we’re going to be doing, and why:...
Ubuntu Development Update Development of Oneiric (Ubuntu 11.10) is in full swing, we just got Alpha 1 out last week and here’s the list of dates that are coming up in the next few weeks: June 30th, Debian Import Freeze which means that packages will not be synced automatically any more, but have to be requested manually. July 7th, release of Alpha 2. July 11th to 15th, Ubuntu Developer Week! A week full of development tutorials, workshops and interactive sessions....
I’m happy to say that the Packaging Guide project has seen a lot of activity recently, so a bunch of articles have been improved and new articles been added. Thanks a lot to Andrew, Barry and others. You can download it or read it on its preliminary home. (Expect an announcement of its new and lasting place soon.) I got a number of questions about the guide in the last few days and I think it’d make sense to clarify the intention behind the guide....
As part of my job I have often thought about what motivates somebody to get involved with Ubuntu development or more generally with Open Source development in general. There’s a couple of conclusions I came through, both through my own experience and observations and discussions with others. Here’s my Top 3: The project needs to be exciting. The atmosphere needs to be welcoming and friendly. The documentation needs to be clear....
I just set up a daily build for the Ubuntu Packaging Guide. To get the latest goodness, simply: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-packaging-guide-team/ppa sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-packaging-guide <point your browser to /usr/share/doc/ubuntu-packaging-guide> Once installed, you get a handy packaging guide in PDF, HTML, Single HTML and ePub formats. If you have any feedback from the guides, please file bug reports. Also can we need some help massaging the old packaging guide into reStructuredText....
This is another article of the new Ubuntu Packaging Guide project. Please leave your comments below, or report a bug on it, or start helping out. Just branch the code and get involved. The article below is all about fixing bugs in Ubuntu. Fixing a bug in Ubuntu Introduction If you followed the instructions to get set up with Ubuntu Development, you should be all set and ready to go....
This is the second article showcasing what we have in the new packaging guide already. The article this time is about getting your development environment set up. Getting Set Up There are a number of things you need to do in the beginning to enable you to do Ubuntu development. A few of them you have to do locally on your system. In addition to that you also need to inform Launchpad about yourself, so it accepts changes you want to make....
To get the new Ubuntu Packaging Guide project some more exposure, I thought I would blog the first few articles, so if you’re interested in helping out or sharing your feedback, that’d be awesome. The guide below is an introduction to Ubuntu Development. Ubuntu is made up of thousands of different components, written in many different programming languages. Every component - be it a software library, a tool or a graphical application - is available as a source package....
Things are looking good in the sponsoring queue. First of all, here’s a quick explanation what the chart is about: to get changes integrated into Ubuntu if you don’t have upload access yet is quite simple: produce the change and get it reviewed by somebody who can upload already. After you’ve successfully worked with the reviewers for a while you can apply for upload rights yourself. In the past we had times where we struggled a bit keeping up with the backlog of reviews....
I’ll do another videocast later today, 10th March at 16 UTC. Please sign upat ustream.tv, bring all your questions and make it more exciting. All questions around Ubuntu Development are fine, so if there’s something Ubuntu Developer Week you didn’t quite understand or a patch/branch you want us to look at, let’s do it together later on.
This cycle’s Ubuntu Developer Week is over. I know it’s unfortunate, but I hope you all had as great a time as I did. Logs are up on the Ubuntu Developer Week page, so if you want to check out what happened during the week, just go and read what happened. Here’s the summary of the last day, Friday: Getting better bug reports: The day kicked off with Brian Murray and Nigel Babu, who explained how to use and extend Apport for packages that you are interested in....
It’s a shame, I know, but unfortunately it’s true: Ubuntu Developer Week is almost over. We rushed through 4 days in no time now and today is the last day. If you couldn’t make it yesterday, don’t despair: we have logs and here’s the quick summary of what happened: Integrating your package with Launchpad Translations: David Planella kicked off the day and gave a sterling session on getting most out of Launchpad’s Translations goodness in a pain-free and fun way....
We’re deep into **Ubuntu Developer Week **now. 15 sessions have already happened, 10 are still to come. I don’t know about you, but I had a fantastic time up until now. Let’s zip through yesterday and see what happened: TestDrive: First of the day was Andres Rodriguez who talked about TestDrive and how to make use of it for testing and toying around with various Ubuntu (and other Linuxes’) releases. Andres also tried to settle the question where Pisco was originally invented....
Time flies when you’re having fun, eh? With day 2 of Ubuntu Developer Week over, we’re all patiently (or less patiently) awaiting what day 3 brings. Let’s see what happened yesterday: How to write a compiz plugin: Sam Spilsbury gave an excellent session about compiz and its plugin structure. Everything you need to get going to write your own plugin was explained nicely. If you want to bring more bling to Ubuntu, go ahead and check out the log, it also contains links to additional docs....
I simply love Ubuntu Developer Weeks. They’re sometimes a tad hectic, but they’re just so full of energy, it’s awesome! Yesterday we had 320+ people attending, which is fantastic. Thanks to everyone for bringing so much fun to the sessions and thanks to all the speakers and helpers. You all ROCK! For those of you who couldn’t be around yesterday, we put up logs on the Ubuntu Developer Week page. Here’s a quick re-cap of what happened yesterday:...