GNOME infrastructure upgrade this weekend

2007-03-29 Thread Colin Watson
that they have local or mirrored copies of anything from gnome.org that they need, just in case the downtime takes longer than expected or affects gnome.org DNS. Our friendly local GNOME sysadmin (kurt at ubuntu.com) can field any queries about this that Ubuntu folks may have. Cheers, -- Colin Watson

Ubuntu 7.04 frozen for release candidate preparation

2007-04-05 Thread Colin Watson
by the release team here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-7.04 Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] (acting release manager while Tollef is on holiday) signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu

Untargeting bugs

2008-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
on the targeted bugs list (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+bugs), then instructions on changing this are here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RCBugTargetting#Untargeting%20bugs HTH, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital

Jaunty Alpha 1 released

2008-11-22 Thread Colin Watson
://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu Enjoy, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] On behalf of the Ubuntu release team signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Landscape stable update policy; criteria for other similar updates

2009-03-11 Thread Colin Watson
-meeting.html -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

GRUB 2 now default for new installations

2009-06-08 Thread Colin Watson
that this is as close to trouble-free as possible for users doing fresh installations of 9.10 when it's released. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce

Archive reorganisation: summary of pending work

2009-06-10 Thread Colin Watson
. We hope these changes will give us much more flexibility for the next five years of Ubuntu development and beyond. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu

GRUB menu hiding

2009-08-10 Thread Colin Watson
as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/grub2/+bug/386789. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2009-08-11

2009-08-12 Thread Colin Watson
= Attendees = Scott James Remnant Mark Shuttleworth Colin Watson (chair) Matt Zimmerman = Notes = (copied from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoard/TeamReports/09/August) * Review of outstanding actions; actions carried over: + Action: Scott to implement Developer Membership Board

Changes to releases.ubuntu.com rsync/FTP access

2009-10-02 Thread Colin Watson
access, please use the new hostnames rsync.releases.ubuntu.com or ftp.releases.ubuntu.com respectively. Access methods such as BitTorrent and jigdo are unaffected by this change. Regards, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] signature.asc Description: Digital

Merge-o-Matic repaired

2010-01-26 Thread Colin Watson
Following up to: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2009-December/000660.html ... Merge-o-Matic is now repaired and open for business at the usual location, http://merges.ubuntu.com/. -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com

Minutes from the Developer Membership Board meeting, 2010-02-02

2010-02-09 Thread Colin Watson
Chair: Colin Watson Present: Emmet Hikory, Michael Bienia, Soren Hansen, Stéphane Graber Absent: Cody Somerville, Richard Johnson This was the first meeting of the new board following the recent election. = Action review = * [ACTION] persia to ask CC to make DMB an admin of ~universe

Maverick Alpha 1 released

2010-06-03 Thread Colin Watson
://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs Enjoy, -- Colin Watson, on behalf of the Ubuntu release team signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-announce

Minutes of the Developer Membership Board meeting, 2010-09-14

2010-09-16 Thread Colin Watson
Chair: Colin Watson Present: Michael Bienia, Richard Johnson, Stéphane Graber = MOTU Application: Artur Rona = Request: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArturRona/MOTUApplication Approved: 4 in favour = Universe Contributor Application: Angel Abad = Request: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AngelAbad

Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2012-09-17

2012-09-18 Thread Colin Watson
Technical Board meeting, 2012-09-17 = Attendees = * Colin Watson (chair) * Martin Pitt * Matt Zimmerman * Stéphane Graber * Bryce Harrington * Iain Lane * Jonathan Carter * Scott Kitterman = Notes = * nvidia/fglrx expedited SRUs; nvidia-experimental * https://lists.ubuntu.com

12.04.2 status

2013-01-25 Thread Colin Watson
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12.04.2 release notes

2013-02-04 Thread Colin Watson
affect compatibility: for example, we should have release note items for the backports of secure boot and the enablement kernel/X.org stack. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel-announce

Debian Import Freeze for 13.10 moved five weeks later

2013-06-26 Thread Colin Watson
don't need to worry about selectively syncing changes from Debian to packages we haven't modified. [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2013-June/002422.html Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] signature.asc Description: Digital

Debian import freeze

2013-07-26 Thread Colin Watson
on you should think hard about whether it's appropriate to pull in new upstream versions. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com

Minutes from the Technical Board meeting, 2013-09-02

2013-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
Technical Board meeting, 2013-09-02 = Attendees = * Colin Watson (chair) * Martin Pitt * Soren Hansen * Stéphane Graber = Apologies (US holiday) = * Kees Cook * Matt Zimmerman = Notes = * Review our current provisional Micro Release Exceptions * We agreed to continue this by e-mail

UI/doc freeze today; final beta freeze on Monday

2013-09-19 Thread Colin Watson
-migration/update_excuses.html * if you are QAing images, nominate/target any bugs you find that must be fixed for release See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SaucySalamander/ReleaseSchedule for the rest of the schedule in the run-up to Ubuntu 13.10. Thanks, -- Colin Watson

12.04.4 status

2014-02-03 Thread Colin Watson
updates to their subpages to fill in information about substantive changes in 12.04.4. I'll be preparing the detailed change summary tomorrow morning. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-devel

Re: Impending launchpad-buildd/sbuild upgrade

2015-06-25 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 05:48:33PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: We'll shortly be upgrading the non-virtual builders in the Launchpad build farm ([1]) to launchpad-buildd 129. I don't have an exact schedule, but it will probably be in the next couple of days. This is now done. As before, let us

Launchpad builder changes: schroot and LXD

2017-09-06 Thread Colin Watson
else amiss, although as usual please try to reproduce problems locally before attributing them to the build environment. [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~cjwatson/launchpad-buildd/sbuild-schroot/+merge/327634 -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com