Adopt-an-Upstream, Ubuntu Classroom session planned for next week Comment
Upstreams are very important to Ubuntu. Really quite very a lot of much important. So of course we would like to be very good friends with the projects responsible for so much of the awesomeness you can find on the Ubuntu LiveCD and in Ubuntu’s Software Centre. If we cannot be friends, then at the [...]
Indicator Application PPA for Karmic, this evening UODW session on AppInd 6 Comments
UPDATE: I made a mistake. You actually want to use ppa:indicator-applet-developers/indicator-core-ppa and not my PPA since that causes dependency problems with the other indicators.
Launchpad Code Hosting on Ohloh.net Comment
Some of you are already on Ohloh.net, a website that imports code repositories for projects and analyses it. You can register an account to collect all your commits and get a nice overview of your experience.
When code is imported all contributors are not coupled to registered accounts by default, you need to manually claim a [...]
Dutch cabinet falls Comment
After 16 hours of discussing the future of its coalition the Dutch government finally announced at 4am this morning that the members of the PvdA — the Dutch Labour party — had resigned over what started as a disagreement on the future of the Dutch military presence in Uruzgan, Afghanistan.
I’m not going to repeat the [...]
Giving Transmission the Indicator Application 2 Comments
Have got an application? Add an Application Indicator to it! Jorge explains why.
We keep track of applications that need support for Indicator Application on Launchpad with the bug tag ‘indicator-application‘: the list of bugs against applications that need Indicator Application support. There are code snippets on the wiki page of Application Indicator but in this [...]
Users think differently 8 Comments
Maybe you’ve already knew about the hilarious case of the ReadWriteWeb article “Facebook Wants to Be Your One True Login“. By a stroke of luck this article became the #1 result for ‘facebook login’ on Google. Immediately after this had happened thousands of Facebook users started to flood the blog, thinking that this was their [...]
Do something good for the world, adopt a package! Comment
Have you always wanted to do something good for the world, but did you never know what to do? Here is your chance: adopt a package and help making Ubuntu rock where you want it!
Every day a lot of new bugs are reported on Launchpad, adding to the number of open bugs reported against Ubuntu. [...]
Introduction to Planet Ubuntu 2 Comments
Hello! I’m Sense Hofstede. Yesterday I was approved as an Ubuntu Member during the Ubuntu Membership EMEA regional approval board meeting. I’m very happy and the support I received was heart-warming. You may not know me, so let me introduce myself first.
Activities
Most people know me as a member of the Ubuntu Bug Control team, which [...]
Tiny little BugSquad tool: AdoptionStats Comment
In order to make fetching a the number of bugs in each status against a certain package easy I’ve written a small script called AdoptionStats. We’re currently working on the Adopt-a-Package project for the Ubuntu Bug Squad and if you want to be able to keep track of how a package is doing you need [...]
Lucid on Lynx, Alpha 1 Comment
It’s still a bit too early to confirm the statement of the title — if you’d have a look at the release schedule (Where did the artwork drops go to?) you can see Alpha 2 is not going to be released until 14 January — and it is probably not wise to switch to Ubuntu [...]
