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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
Devhelp PPAs for 2.28 and 2.29 1 Comment
Handling the sync request bug #451864 I was confronted with the fact that the version of Devhelp included in Karmic is outdated. We’re still providing Devhelp 0.23-4, even though the latest stable release in Debian unstable is Devhelp 2.28.1 and upstream has already released 2.29.3. The Ubuntu Sponsors for main have been subscribed.
In order to [...]
Ubuntu Bug Control starts mentoring Comment
Do you want to help Ubuntu, but don’t know how? Consider bug triaging! It is a very useful way of contributing, and because we’re being flooded with bug reports, we can use every hand. That includes you!
If you want some help with getting started, Ubuntu Bug Control has got a mentoring program designed for getting [...]
Great way of starting with bug triaging Comment
Recently I’ve joined the Ubuntu Bug Control team again. I’m not even close to bug triaging superstars like Pedro Villavicencio, but I’m contributing my small share.
A good way of finding tasks to work on is the list of packages without direct subscribers — people that watch a package for new bug reports and keep it [...]
