Re: The transition to add support for Python 3.6 is beginning

2017-06-29 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey! On 29 June 2017 at 02:34, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: > > > On 29 June 2017 at 11:22, Barry Warsaw wrote: >> >> Thanks for working on this Michael. > > > Thanks for looking into it! > >> >> >> On Jun 29, 2017, at 10:43 AM, Michael

Upcoming Vacant Developer Membership Board seats: State of nominations

2017-08-07 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
With the memberships of Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre and Adam Conrad expired from the Development Membership board, we are sending out this notice to make sure all Ubuntu Developers are aware of the current DMB nominations state. There were already two calls for nominations sent out some time ago but

Announce: Stable Release Update verification policy change

2017-06-27 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, As part of our continuing improvements to the SRU process, we have decided to require verification-done-RELEASE and verification-failed-RELEASE tags for bug validation instead of their broad versions (i.e. verification-done, verification-failed). This means that for a bug to be

New Ubuntu Core Developer - Jeremy Bicha

2017-06-07 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello! Please congratulate Jeremy Bicha on his successful Ubuntu Core Developer application! Welcome to the team! Cheers, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com www.canonical.com -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Developer Membership Board Election Results - two new members

2017-09-12 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! The vote for the two vacant seats in the Developer Membership Board is now over. Please congratulate our new members: the re-elected Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre and Jeremy Bicha! They will be now part of the DMB for the term of two years. Glad to have you on the team guys! Best

Developer Membership Board Election Results - two new members

2017-09-12 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! The vote for the two vacant seats in the Developer Membership Board is now over. Please congratulate our new members: the re-elected Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre and Jeremy Bicha! They will be now part of the DMB for the term of two years. Glad to have you on the team guys! Best

Artful Aardvark (17.10) Final Beta Freeze

2017-09-25 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
In some short while artful will enter the final beta freeze, with a goal of releasing the Final Beta images hopefully sometime late Thursday. The link to the milestone can be found here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-17.10-beta The queue freeze will last from now until final

New Ubuntu MOTU Member - Simon Quigley

2017-08-28 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! Please congratulate Simon Quigley (tsimonq2) on his successful MOTU application! Keep up the good work and welcome to the team! Cheers, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com www.canonical.com -- ubuntu-devel mailing list

New Ubuntu SRU Developer - Dan Streetman

2017-10-23 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello! After a successful vote on today's DMB meeting, we are pleased to announce a new member of the SRU Developers team - Dan Streetman. Congratulations! Best regards, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com www.canonical.com -- ubuntu-devel mailing

New Ubuntu Server Developer - Andreas Hasenack

2017-12-18 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, Let's congratulate Andreas on his today's successful Ubuntu Server Developer application! He has now been added to the ubuntu-server-dev team, gaining upload rights to Ubuntu server packages. Cheers, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com

Re: Inconsistencies in package versions for stable releases

2018-07-09 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Just a few cents from me as an SRU member. There is no 'inconsistencies' among the SRU team regarding versioning as there is no 'standard' way of versioning packages. Rejection of a package because of the versioning scheme, to me, is only a case of preference and can vary between SRU members.

New Qt5 Uploader - Simon Quigley

2018-03-12 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, Please congratulate Simon on his successful Ubuntu Qt5 Uploaders application! Being part of the team, tsimonq2 now has upload rights to Qt5 packages in the Ubuntu archives. Cheers! -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com www.canonical.com

Bionic Beaver User Interface Freeze and nearing Final Beta reminder

2018-03-28 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
This is a gentle reminder that Bionic Beaver (18.04) is in User Interface Freeze since last week (March 22th). Remember about that when uploading packages into the archive as any freeze-breaking changes per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserInterfaceFreeze need to have an ubuntu-release approved

Bionic Beaver (18.04) Final Beta Freeze

2018-04-03 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
In some short while bionic will enter the final beta freeze, with a goal of releasing the Final Beta images hopefully sometime late Thursday. The link to the milestone can be found here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-18.04-beta The queue freeze will last from now until final

Bionic Beaver (18.04) Final Beta Freeze

2018-04-03 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
In some short while bionic will enter the final beta freeze, with a goal of releasing the Final Beta images hopefully sometime late Thursday. The link to the milestone can be found here: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-18.04-beta The queue freeze will last from now until final

Re: uploading golang-1.10 everywhere

2018-09-26 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Thanks! If no one beats me to it, I will review those tomorrow during my SRU shift. Cheers, On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 at 23:22, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: > > > > On Thu, 27 Sep 2018 at 06:29, Jamie Strandboge wrote: >> >> On Wed, 26 Sep 2018, Michael Hudson-Doyle wrote: >> >> > Hi all, >> > >> >

Re: [Ubuntu Wiki] Update of "StableReleaseUpdates" by xnox

2019-04-04 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
I would also prefer not to see those in the description, especially that we'll have automated bug comments on autopkgtest regressions soon. That being said, I don't think someone not part of the SRU team should be editing the SRU tempate without discussion with the SRU team. Can we get this

Re: [Ubuntu Wiki] Update of "StableReleaseUpdates" by xnox

2019-04-04 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Dimitri, On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 15:59, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > > Hi all, > > On Thu, 4 Apr 2019 at 14:26, Lukasz Zemczak > wrote: > > > > I would also prefer not to see those in the description, especially > > that we'll have automated bug comments on

Ubuntu SRUs: autopkgtest regression handling, MRE distro changes warning

2019-04-05 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, Sending out this e-mail on behalf of the Ubuntu SRU team to give some information regarding two SRU policies: clearing out some confusion regarding autopkgtest regressions and a heads up about distro-affecting changes in MRE-covered uploads. It's mostly relevant only to those of

New PPU uploader - Ross Gammon

2019-03-12 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey everyone, Please congratulate Ross on his successful PPU uploader application! Once the ACLs are applied, Ross will have upload permissions to the following packages: carla grub2-theme-ubuntustudio ubuntustudio-controls ubuntustudio-default-settings ubuntustudio-icon-theme

New PPU uploader - Erich Eickmeyer

2019-03-12 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello! More good news! Please congratulate Erich his successful PPU uploader application as well! Once the ACLs are applied, Erich will have upload permissions to the following packages: carla grub2-themes-ubuntustudio ubuntustudio-controls ubuntustudio-default-settings ubuntustudio-icon-theme

Re: 18.04.2 is coming

2019-01-30 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Seb! Since I am not driving the release, for now let me answer the question of the language pack updates. Those went into -proposed last week so are in progress and the testing deadline passed basically an hour ago (there were two call-for-testing e-mails on the translation ML). You can see

New ubuntu-budgie packageset uploader - David Mohammed

2019-04-08 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, Please congratulate David on his successful ubuntu-budgie packageset uploader application! He will be added to the packageset as soon as possible. Congrats! -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com www.canonical.com -- ubuntu-devel mailing

New Ubuntu Core Developer - Thomas Ward

2019-06-17 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, Please congratulate teward on his today's successful core-dev application! Welcome to the team! Cheers, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com www.canonical.com -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: Staging changes for future SRU landings

2019-08-29 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Currently sru-report shows the block icon for both block-proposed and block-proposed-SERIES. Seeing that block-proposed is indeed devel-specific, I think it makes sense for us to only block SRU uploads on the -SERIES tag. I can switch that in a moment if there's an agreement on that in the SRU

Re: StableReleaseUpdates page (Was: Re: Fw: [scite] Fixed Lua dynamic library loading in Ubuntu 18.04 proposed updates)

2019-08-27 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
The wiki page in the paragraph regarding SRU testing might indeed not be entirely realistic, but it is the *recommended* way of going forward. With my SRU hat on, I personally would never reject someone's SRU verification just because the person performing it was the uploader. Sure, bonus points

Focal Fossa Beta milestone reminder

2020-03-27 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! This is a gentle reminder about the nearing Beta milestone for Focal Fossa (20.04) next week and the also-related Beta Freeze starting on Monday. Please use the occasion to make sure everything is landed and good to go for next week. We're so close! Thanks! -- Łukasz 'sil2100'

Focal Fossa Beta milestone delayed

2020-04-02 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
We have encountered some issues while building candidate images for the Ubuntu 20.04 LTS Beta and are forced to delay the release of the Beta milestone until we get those sorted out. As soon as we have candidate images available we will let you know. We are sorry for the inconvenience. On behalf

Re: Focal Fossa Beta milestone delayed

2020-04-03 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
The image building issues have now been resolved and all the new Beta isos are now built and ready to test [1]. Please pick up your favorite flavor and resume testing as soon as possible. Thank you! [1] http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/411/builds On Fri, 3 Apr 2020 at 01:05, Lukasz

Re: [Proposals] Consult with Flavor Leads before Beta Freeze / Flavors Underrepresented

2020-03-31 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Erich! Sorry to hear that you are not satisfied with the release process so far. The last thing I, and possibly all other release team members, would want is for flavors and flavor leads to feel underrepresented and ignored. With most releases (point-releases) I tend to always check with

Groovy Gorilla is now open for development

2020-04-27 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
We’re pleased to announce that groovy is now *open for development*. auto-sync has been enabled and will run soon. As usual, we expect a large influx of builds and autopkgtests in this initial period, which will cause delays. Please help with fixing any breakage that occurs. For this release

Groovy Gorilla is now open for development

2020-04-27 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
We’re pleased to announce that groovy is now *open for development*. auto-sync has been enabled and will run soon. As usual, we expect a large influx of builds and autopkgtests in this initial period, which will cause delays. Please help with fixing any breakage that occurs. For this release

New Ubuntu Core Developer - Lucas Kanashiro

2020-05-04 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, I am pleased to announce that Lucas Kanashiro (kanashiro) - after his successful application on today's DMB meeting, has now officially joined the Ubuntu Core Developer team! Congratulations! Best regards, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team

Re: stable/ubuntu-20.10 snap channels (lxd, ?) (Re: groovy pre-open analysis)

2020-04-26 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Yeah, it's part of the new-series checklist to inform the right people to create those snap channels. I have now sent e-mails with reminders to the right people. On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 at 21:36, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 02:17:34PM +0200, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > >

Ubuntu +1 Maintenance Report (18th and 19th of May 2020)

2020-05-19 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, This cycle, a few of our teams (Foundations, Desktop and Server) are trying something new by reintroducing the +1 Maintenance idea [1] - but with a 'twist'. We will be rotating a dedicated staff of people for this purpose every week, each person spending most of his work-time

Re: Ubuntu Focal update of broken Calibre package

2020-10-14 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Norbert, With my SRU team hat on, after reading what you said about the status of current calibre, I would say it is possible to update the package version in focal to 5.2.0. But we would need to know a bit more, and there is some (important) paperwork to do. First thing to remember is

Re: Bileto and RiscV64

2020-08-27 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
I think the problem here is the general Bileto architecture, where autopkgtests can only be triggered when all arch builds are finished and 'diffed'. But if there are no objections, I could maybe change Bileto to not care about riscv when performing checks, maybe besides the final publishing step

Groovy Gorilla Beta milestone reminder

2020-09-25 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! Yes, time flies! This is a gentle reminder about the nearing Beta milestone for Groovy Gorilla (20.10) next week and the also-related Beta Freeze starting on Monday. Please use the occasion to make sure everything is landed and good to go for next week. Thank you! -- Łukasz

Groovy Gorilla (20.10) Beta Freeze

2020-09-28 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
As of a short while ago, groovy has entered the beta freeze, with a goal of releasing Beta images sometime late Thursday. *From now until the beta is released, please only upload updates for packages on any release images if you /need/ to get them into the beta itself.* Please hold off with

+1 maintenance report

2020-06-02 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello! I have just finished my second Ubuntu +1 maintenance shift. There have been some ups and downs again, with quite a few private-life interruptions, but in overall I think it was okay. For the most of it, I was trying to resolve issues mentioned on the +1 maintenance status page [1] - from

Re: Sponsorship of fix for OpenVDB package in focal

2020-09-21 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Richard, First of all thank you for your contribution! I have now added an 'affects focal' to the bug which will probably make things a bit clearer regarding what needs to be done. Currently, as far as I know, the sponsorship queue doesn't have a dedicated rotation so sometimes it might

Re: helping golang-golang-x-sys to migrate

2021-01-07 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Reinhard, I see that at least golang-github-canonical-go-dqlite seems like a good candidate to hint with a force-reset-test - I'll do that later today (as it only passed *once* in its whole testing history, so it's not a reliable testsuite). I have retried one of the failures there and will

New Ubuntu Core Developer - Lukas Märdian

2020-12-14 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! We are pleased to announce that at today's DMB meeting slyon has been accepted into the Ubuntu Core Developer family! Welcome aboard! Cheers, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com www.canonical.com -- ubuntu-devel mailing list

New Ubuntu Core Developers - Olivier Tilloy and Sergio Durigan Junior!

2020-11-03 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, After yesterday's DMB meeting, please congratulate our two new Ubuntu core-dev members: oSoMon and sergiodj! Welcome to the team! Cheers, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com www.canonical.com -- ubuntu-devel mailing list

Re: Versions of Theme-D and Theme-D-Gnome

2020-10-30 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Tommi, As per the release schedule, on the 27th of August groovy entered Debian Import Freeze meaning that the autosyncing of packages from Debian has been disabled. The new versions of Theme-D* have been uploaded to Debian afterwards, in September, so without someone explicitly requesting

[SRU] "Regression Potential" is now "Where problems could occur"

2020-11-05 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Dear developers, Per Iain's (and others) proposition, we've made a small tweak to the SRU process in order to help everybody produce SRU bugs that can be accepted with more confidence. = What is the problem? = The "Regression Potential" section is often used as a space for developers to argue

Call for testing: 20.04.2 release candidate images ready!

2021-02-02 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! I'm only sending this e-mail now as previously we were still resolving some unexpected issues regarding the .2 point-release. After a rough start, we now have a *hopefully* stable set of 20.04.2 release candidate images built and published on the .2 milestone:

Question to flavors: touch-base on flavor participation for 21.10!

2021-05-14 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello flavors! As we do around the start of every new cycle, I am reaching out to all the current official Ubuntu flavors to confirm active participation in the upcoming Ubuntu release - 21.10. Working towards a release requires a lot of effort, so we'd like to make sure all the flavors are

Re: Call for testing: ubiquity-based 20.04.2.0 desktop image respins

2021-02-10 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
It is, but uh, I see the image build is stuck for some reason (or failed). Let me investigate! On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 12:56, David Mohammed wrote: > > Lukasz, > > So Ubuntu Budgie isn't affected? > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 11:53, Lukasz Zemczak > wrote: > > > >

Re: Call for testing: ubiquity-based 20.04.2.0 desktop image respins

2021-02-10 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
at 12:58, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > It is, but uh, I see the image build is stuck for some reason (or > failed). Let me investigate! > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 12:56, David Mohammed wrote: > > > > Lukasz, > > > > So Ubuntu Budgie isn't affected? > > >

Call for testing: ubiquity-based 20.04.2.0 desktop image respins

2021-02-10 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, As some of you know, shortly after release of 20.04.2 a regression in the ubiquity installer was discovered [1], leading to certain systems failing to install the Linux kernel (when the connected to the internet during the installation), resulting in unbootable systems. The issue

Hirsute Hippo (21.04) Beta Freeze

2021-03-29 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
As of a short while ago, hirsute has entered the Beta Freeze, with a goal of releasing Beta images sometime late Thursday. *From now until the beta is released, please only upload updates for packages on any release images if you /need/ to get them into the beta itself.* Please hold off with

Hirsute Hippo (21.04) UI Freeze

2021-03-19 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Ubuntu developers, Effective yesterday, we are now officially under the User Interface Freeze for Hirsute: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserInterfaceFreeze In order to help ensure our documentation is accurate for the release, please notify the documentation team and translation teams of

Improvements to the point-release release process - stricter processes for fixes

2021-02-25 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, In an attempt to improve our processes and quality of the LTS point-release images, starting with 20.04.3 (in August) we will be trying a bit of a safer approach. Basically the main noticeable change is that we will now be following the SRU procedures even for any release blockers

Nearing soft-freeze for the upcoming 20.04.3

2021-08-18 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, Just a reminder: tomorrow we will be freezing focal-updates (and focal-security) for the preparation of release candidates for 20.04.3 (planned to be released on the 26th of August). This means that basically after our release candidate images are built, no packages - other than

Call for testing: 20.04.3 release candidate images ready!

2021-08-19 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! Some moments ago we published our first official release candidate images for the 20.04.3 point-release. We seem to have all critical blockers resolved, so my hope is that these images will be the final ones we'll be releasing next week.

Impish Indri (21.10) UI Freeze

2021-09-10 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Ubuntu developers, Effective yesterday, we are now officially under the User Interface Freeze for Impish: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserInterfaceFreeze In order to help ensure our documentation is accurate for the release, please notify the documentation team and translation teams of any

Release candidate preparation for 18.04.6

2021-09-13 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello developers, As you know, we are refreshing the 18.04 images with an additional point release to get installation media bootable again after the key revocations. .6 is special because it's not a standard point-release, with most flavors now being over their support timeline - so essentially

Call for testing: 18.04.6 release candidate images ready!

2021-09-14 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello, As already mentioned in my earlier e-mail, we are working on a limited 18.04.6 point-release for some of the still-supported flavors this week. Yesterday we built our first release candidates, so if you have a moment please help out with doing some usual ISO testing:

Re: Proposal: Stop auto-syncs a week earlier (Debian releases on the 14th)

2021-08-05 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
+1 from my side at least. Seems like a sensible thing to do. Cheers, On Thu, 5 Aug 2021 at 17:53, Julian Andres Klode wrote: > > Hi folks, > > with Debian releasing on the 14th, leaving the auto-sync on until > the 19th would have the effect of drawing in a lot of new packages > just before

Ubuntu 20.04.3 delayed until August 26th

2021-08-10 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello, While working towards the 20.04.3 milestone, we received reports of the currently available shim package causing daily builds of our installation media to fail to boot on some devices[1]. A fix for that is now in progress, but as we would like to make sure the new version of the package is

Re: Ubuntu 20.04.3 delayed until August 26th

2021-08-10 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
... and the footnotes for the earlier e-mail: [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim/+bug/1937115 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-riscv/+bug/1934548 On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 10:30, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Hello, > > While working towards the 20.04.3 m

Impish Indri (21.10) Final Freeze

2021-10-08 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
The final freeze for Impish Indri has now been reached and we are heading into the final stretch of the release cycle with the release of Ubuntu 21.10 next week. The current uploads in the queue will be reviewed and either accepted or rejected as appropriate by pre-freeze standards, but anything

New Ubuntu MOTU - Simon Chopin

2021-10-27 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey everyone, Please congratulate Simon Chopin on his successful Ubuntu MOTU application! He has now been added to the respective team and granted the powers of the Masters of the Universe! \o/ Cheers, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com

New Ubuntu Core Developer - William Wilson

2021-11-29 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello, We are pleased to announce that at today's DMB meeting jawn-smith has been accepted into the Ubuntu Core Developer family! Yay! Another great addition to the team! Happy hacking! Best regards, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com

Developers! New 20.04.4 release date: February 24th

2021-12-09 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Ubuntu developers, Just a quick heads up: we decided to move the release date of the 20.04.4 point-release to February 24th 2022, so 2 weeks later than planned. The schedule has been updated accordingly. We noticed that the previous date collided with the usual Chinese New Year break,

Re: Change unattended-upgrades from Depends to Recommends on ubuntu-server-minimal

2021-12-14 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Matthew! When you check what the ./update script does, it actually executes germinate-update-metapackage from germinate, which on the other hand uses the ubuntu and platform seeds to repopulate the metapackage contents. So to get it removed from ubuntu-server-minimal, you will first need to

New Ubuntu Contributing Developer - Heinrich Schuchardt

2022-03-07 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello, We are pleased to announce that Heinrich Schuchardt's application for Contributing Developer has been reviewed successfully - and they're now officially part of the team! Welcome! Best regards, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team lukasz.zemc...@canonical.com

Soft-freeze of focal-updates for 20.04.4

2022-02-16 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello developers and SRU members, Just a quick heads up: as 20.04.4 is already next week, we're starting to stabilize focal-updates for the upcoming release candidate images (planned for around EOW). This means that things might be a bit slower moving in focal-updates - especially after the

Re: Call for testing: preliminary 20.04.4 release candidate images ready!

2022-02-21 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
, 19 Feb 2022 at 00:34, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > Some moments ago we published our first official release candidate > images for the 20.04.4 point-release. We seem to have most known > blocker issues out of the way, but these will not be final i

Call for testing: preliminary 20.04.4 release candidate images ready!

2022-02-18 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! Some moments ago we published our first official release candidate images for the 20.04.4 point-release. We seem to have most known blocker issues out of the way, but these will not be final images - at least not for the desktop variants (we're waiting for some OEM kernel work to

Jammy Jellyfish Beta milestone reminder

2022-03-23 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! Gentle reminder about the nearing Beta milestone for 22.04 next week (along with the usual Beta Freeze on Monday). Make sure to get as much as possible into the release pocket before that time - the Beta is usually a great occasion to test how things are looking before the

Re: 22.04 Beta call for testing!

2022-03-30 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
n you upload Ubuntu Budgie's ISO - it is missing from the tracker. > > TIA > > David > > On Wed, 30 Mar 2022 at 09:10, Lukasz Zemczak > wrote: > > > > Hello everyone! > > > > As you are all probably aware, we are in the middle of 22.04 Beta > &g

22.04 Beta call for testing!

2022-03-30 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! As you are all probably aware, we are in the middle of 22.04 Beta preparation. Yesterday night we were finally able to get all the essential bits landed - therefore our first beta candidate images have been built and made available on the ISO Tracker here:

OEM archive plans for 22.04

2022-01-18 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, With a few of my hats on (technical board, SRU, release team), as I was diving into documenting some of the OEM archive portions, I started thinking a bit more about the OEM situation for the incoming 22.04 release. I was not part of any of the original discussions for the OEM

+1 maintenance report

2022-01-25 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey! I usually don't do those, but thought I'd try. I had 2 days of +1 maintenance (Monday and Tuesday), and even though I wasn't able to give it my 100% due to other responsibilities, here's what I did more-or-less. These are from my slightly chaotic notes: * Looking into capnproto - Stuck in

Jammy Jellyfish (22.04) Final Freeze

2022-04-15 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
The final freeze for Impish Indri has now been reached and we are heading into the final stretch of the release cycle with the release of Ubuntu 22.04 next week. The current uploads in the queue will be reviewed and either accepted or rejected as appropriate by pre-freeze standards, but anything

Mantic Minotaur (to be 23.10) Beta Freeze

2023-09-19 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
As of now, mantic has entered the Beta Freeze, with a goal of releasing Beta images sometime late Thursday. *From now until the Beta is released, please only upload updates for packages on any release images if you /need/ to get them into the Beta itself.* Please hold off with everything else

Call for testing: 23.10 candidate images

2023-10-10 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, Most of you already know, but sending out an e-mail just in case. We're in the middle of the 23.10 release week right now, with an official set of release candidate images available here: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/449/builds Please pick up your favorite flavor

Call for testing: 22.04 release candidate images ready!

2022-04-19 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! We are now finishing building our latest batch of 22.04 release candidate images to the iso-tracker. From what we're seeing so far things seem to be looking quite nice, so fingers-crossed for those being our final ones! http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/432/builds

Soft-freeze of jammy-updates for 22.04.1

2022-07-28 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello developers and SRU members, Just a quick heads up: as 22.04.1 is already next week, we're starting to stabilize jammy-updates for the upcoming release candidate images (planned for around EOW or Monday). This means that things might be a bit slower moving in jammy-updates - especially after

Call for testing: 22.04.1 release candidate images ready!

2022-08-01 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! We just finished building our first official set of 22.04.1 release candidate images. From what we're seeing so far things seem to be looking quite nice, so fingers-crossed for those being our final ones! http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/437/builds Please pick your

Call for testing: 20.04.5 release candidate images ready!

2022-08-29 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! We just finished building our first official set of 20.04.5 release candidate images. As always, those should be available via the ISO tracker below: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/438/builds Please pick your favorite flavor and start testing! And be sure to

Soft-freeze of focal-updates (and security!) for 20.04.5

2022-08-22 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello developers and SRU members, Just a quick heads up: as 20.04.5 is already next week, we're starting to stabilize focal-updates for the upcoming release candidate images (planned for around Monday next week). This means that things might be a bit slower moving in focal-updates - especially

Re: Call for testing: 20.04.5 release candidate images ready!

2022-08-31 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! Just a quick heads up: we respun most of the 20.04.5 images to fix the nvidia-390 driver situation (new kernel lrm). Please do some re-testing on the new images! Thank you! On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 at 00:02, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > We just finished

Kinetic Kudu (22.10) UI Freeze

2022-09-15 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Ubuntu developers, Effective NOW, we are officially under the User Interface Freeze for Kinetic: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserInterfaceFreeze In order to help ensure our documentation is accurate for the release, please notify the documentation team and translation teams of any further

Re: Call for testing: 22.04.1 release candidate images ready!

2022-08-03 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
> me with a correct link. In the mean time I'll go test Kylin. > > Cheers, > Heather > > On 8/1/22 16:57, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > > > We just finished building our first official set of 22.04.1 release > > candidate images. From wha

Ubuntu 22.04.1 delayed until August 11

2022-08-04 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, This is basically a copy-paste of my discourse announcement earlier. During testing of our 22.04.1 release candidates, we were made aware of an unexpected issue regarding the OEM Installation feature of our Ubuntu Desktop installer images. This bug causes preinstalled snaps not

Re: Call for testing: 22.04.1 release candidate images ready!

2022-08-09 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
/qatracker/milestones/437/builds The ones with "(re-building)" in the name are still building, but many have already finished. Let's give those as much testing as possible and, hopefully, we'll have a swift release on Thursday. Thank you, On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 00:57, Lukasz Zemc

New Ubuntu Core Developer - Athos Ribeiro

2022-08-08 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! We are pleased to announce that at today's DMB meeting athos has been formally accepted into the Ubuntu Core Developer family! Welcome aboard and congratulations! Best regards, -- Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak Foundations Team Tools Squad Interim Engineering Manager

The Developer Membership Board Meeting on the 26th of December 2022

2022-12-12 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, Just sending a quick e-mail that at today's DMB meeting we decided to cancel the next meeting as scheduled for the 26th of December - basically the last one before the end of the year 2022. This means we will only gather once again next year, with the first official meeting of the

Re: Extended call for Ubuntu Technical Board candidates

2022-11-30 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! Some of you might already know me, but just in case: my name is Łukasz Zemczak - also known as 'sil2100' [1] - and I am an official Ubuntu member since 2014. Day-to-day I work from Canonical, joined in 2011, and since around 2014-ish I have been part of the Ubuntu Foundations

Ubuntu 22.04.2 delayed until February 23

2023-01-19 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, This is basically a copy-paste of the discourse announcement here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-22-04-2-delayed-until-february-23/33319 tl;dr - As there were some unexpected complications during the preparation of our HWE 5.19 kernels for jammy, and with shim 15.7 making

Re: Call for testing: 20.04.6 images!

2023-03-17 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
with the release utill Monday. But if you have a moment, please do a spot check of the new images - there should be almost no delta, so not all tests need to be re-done. Thanks! On Wed, 15 Mar 2023 at 01:53, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > As already mentioned, this week we're try

Call for testing: 20.04.6 images!

2023-03-14 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! As already mentioned, this week we're trying our best to get the good-old 20.04 respun with the new shim. Just recently we were able to get some release candidate images built: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/443/builds Please note as this is an exceptional extra

Soft freeze of 20.04 for the incoming auxiliary 20.04.6 point-release

2023-03-13 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, As you know, we recently had new shims for all the stable series, and to make sure the Ubuntu media for 20.04 are still bootable on secure-boot we need to respin the focal images (as those are still supported). As the build infrastructure doesn't really allow us to easily rebuild

22.04.2 pre-release SRU freeze - heads up

2023-02-16 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello developers and SRU members, As we're nearing 22.04.2 preparation date, we're entering a sort-of soft freeze for the -updates and -security pockets. We need to keep things stable during the period of release candidate image creation. SRU members and security: please refrain from releasing

Call for testing: first set of 22.04.2 images building!

2023-02-17 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, First set of images for the 22.04.2 milestone are building as we speak. In some hours I expect all flavors to be ready for testing here: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/442/builds It's hard to say if those are release candidates already - everything should be in

Re: Possibility of accepting a network-based installer of Ubuntu as an official flavor?

2023-02-24 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Aaron! Actually, this is the one thing that sucks when we don't publish our team's roadmaps to the public (which I'm trying our team to start doing, but it's so busy recently that we didn't manage to yet): there is work ongoing on something like this - and actually this cycle! The MPs for

Re: Call for testing: first set of 22.04.2 images building!

2023-02-23 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
there! Thank you! On Fri, 17 Feb 2023 at 18:42, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > First set of images for the 22.04.2 milestone are building as we > speak. In some hours I expect all flavors to be ready for testing > here: > http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestone

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