Going mobile in 2013

Hi folks You are at the heart of the most important bastion of free software today - giving the world a genuinely free platform for innovation and everyday computing. We can all be very proud of what we have built together. Today begins a new phase for Ubuntu, and it's a phase that requires our

Re: Ubuntu 13.10 should be upgraded to LTS status

13.10 makes an excellent test harness for folks evaluating Ubuntu as an alternative to XP; the availability of 14.04 in April means that fresh LTS installs can take place upon the effective expiration of XP maintenance. My recommendation to business users considering the move from XP to Ubuntu

Community Council nominations and confirmation polls

Members of the Ubuntu community, We have 5 nominations to expand the community council, and voting starts today. Each candidate is standing individually, so there are 5 separate votes. If a majority of the voters approve that candidate, then (s)he will be confirmed as a new member of the CC with

Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope

As we approach the launch of Ubuntu 8.10, it's time to create space for future plans, and so I'm writing to introduce you to The Jaunty Jackalope. Jaunty, the code name for what will most likely become Ubuntu 9.04, will be the focus of our efforts from November through to April next year. We

Run-off ballot for Tech Board place, from today till 20 Jan 2009 09:00 UTC

There is now a ballot of Ubuntu developers, to select a new member of the Technical Board: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-dev/+poll/2009-01-tb-nominees/+vote-simple The candidates in alphabetical order are Colin Watson and Kees Cook. In a departure from tradition, we will have a race between

TechBoard 2009

Thank you to everyone who voted in the Tech Board election, which came to a result last night. We had 84 votes from 130 eligible voters. The new Tech Board in reverse alphabetical surname order is: * Matt Zimmerman * Mark Shuttleworth * Scott James Remnant * Martin Pitt

2009 Community Council vote complete

Thanks to all Ubuntu members who participated in the CC ballot, which was completed today. The new community council takes office immediately, and (in alphabetical order) comprises: Alan Pope Benjamin Mako Hill Daniel Holbach Elizabeth Krumbach Matthew East Mike Basinger Richard

Re: Strawman: merge main and universe

Scott James Remnant wrote: The distinction between main and restricted is done based on licensing: software in main fulfils the necessary freedoms for modification and redistribution, software in restricted may not. [snip] I therefore propose an alternative. We move all packages from

Re: Universe Freeze Imminent

Jonathan Riddell wrote: The universe archive for hardy will be frozen solid at 0800UTC tomorrow (Wednesday 23rd). Uploads which fix important bugs and are approved by motu-release will be accepted before then. Preparation of ISO images for 8.04 is in progress (join us for testing in

Re: Universe Freeze Imminent

Doh. That was intended for JR. Oh well, congrats to everyone else who's been working on the KDE4 remix :-) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: making deals with M$

Mark Fink wrote: I just read this article: http://boycottnovell.com/2008/06/07/ubuntu-remix-codecs/ I hope this is wrong or I will have to stop using ubuntu and find another distro to use. Such a shame... Mark, Remco There is (again) absolutely no truth to the rumour that Canonical has

Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience

The server is more difficult to define as a single thing than the desktop. We've taken the view that the best service we can provide to the free software community is to ensure that Ubuntu's server offering is highly modular, so you can start with something minimalist (the out of the box

Re: Firefox 3 HugDay!

Dereck wrote: This week's HugDay target is *drum roll please* Firefox 3! * 658 New bugs need a hug * 131 Confirmed bugs just need a review I don't think anything needs to be said about how important Firefox is, it just needs to work. With over 1300 bugs currently open, we can use a lot of

Re: Release notes

I think we should put a URL in the release notes, rather than an explicit list, so that it's current whenever people read it. Mark -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 released

Congratulations to everyone on the release of the Ibex! There are a number of highlights that everyone is talking about but for me the real highlight is the way our community continues to grow. It's wonderful to see so many people from so many disciplines across so many different communications

Re: Updates to Mesa in an LTS - How do you get one?

I think being on an RC, as opposed to a final release, is as awkward for us as it is for everyone else. It makes all of our updates harder, because the codebase is unique to us, it's not a release that upstream cares about. So, in this case, I think it's a perfect candidate for -proposed, which

Re: ubuntu-release delegations for unseeded packages in universe/multiverse

On 21/09/10 20:20, Stefan Potyra wrote: For universe/multiverse packages, that are NOT found on any installation media, Feature Freeze Exceptions [1] can be obtained from one of the delegates in addition to ubuntu-release until the date of Final Freeze for universe [2]: * mythbuntu:

Re: ubuntu-release delegations for unseeded packages in universe/multiverse

On 22/09/10 15:45, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Very nice, organised communication, thanks Stefan! How are the delegations working out, now that we have a couple of substantial teams carrying their respective responsibilities? Any observations / suggestions / concerns on your end? *cough*. Reply

Re: Unity, consistency and password-protected web pages

On 28/03/11 04:32, Dylan McCall wrote: Something I've noticed lately has me a little concerned. I am hoping you folks can put my fears at ease! When I look at bug reports for Unity, I often encounter links to what I assume are design documents internal to Canonical. Here is one of those bug

Re: Expansion of Valve free games offer to Ubuntu developers

That's super - thanks Neil! Please pass appreciation on to the relevant person at Valve. On 10/02/14 15:51, Neil McGovern wrote: Hi all, As I'm sure most will be aware, for the last couple of weeks, Valve have offered access to all Valve produced games free of charge to Debian Developers

Re: Changes to build-dependency handling in Ubuntu xenial beyond

On 08/04/16 17:39, Steve Langasek wrote: > Thanks to some stellar work by Dimitri Ledkov and Colin Watson, and as > discussed on ubuntu-devel over the past couple of months[1,2], a change has > been landed to Launchpad and the archive reports[3] to allow packages in > main to build-depend on

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

On 12/07/16 08:52, Colin Watson wrote: > I would strongly prefer to keep the port building as normal, but > deemphasise it in whatever ways are useful to discourage people from > using it, and perhaps not worry too much about failures further up the > stack. +1 -- ubuntu-devel mailing list

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

OK, I'm reassured that we're thinking about this appropriately, thanks Dimitri & friends. Mark -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

OK, I'm reassured that we're thinking about this appropriately, thanks Dimitri & friends. Mark -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

Folks, I think we need to understand whether i386 won't be widely used for very small IoT devices and hence be important for developers targeting those. I accept i386 i no longer relevant for PC's and laptops, but I would not be surprised if 32-bit x86 is used in small 'embedded' environments.

Re: Installation Media and supportability of i386 in 18.04 LTS Re: Ubuntu Desktop on i386

Folks, I think we need to understand whether i386 won't be widely used for very small IoT devices and hence be important for developers targeting those. I accept i386 i no longer relevant for PC's and laptops, but I would not be surprised if 32-bit x86 is used in small 'embedded' environments.

Re: Make systemd journal persistent | remove rsyslog (by default)

On 11/01/17 05:05, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Mittwoch, den 11.01.2017, 08:29 +0100 schrieb Martin Pitt: >> Jamie Strandboge [2017-01-10 16:27 -0600]: >>> Remote logging. Rsyslog is far superior in this regard. Granted, >>> remote logging >>> is not enabled by default but it is a requirement

Re: NEW reviews needed for Kubuntu [was: Kubuntu required package-set updates for Zesty (17.04)]

Hi folks - thanks for the nudge, let's climb in to help Kubuntu clear these items through NEW. Also, I believe there has been good progress on KDE snapping, which bypasses the archive integration thanks to isolation. Not sure if we are ready to make that as a standard recommendation (would look

Re: Which openssl for zesty?

Seems to me that 17.04 is a good release for a sweeping change that might shake out lots of minor issues. We'd much rather take that hit in a non-LTS release, and this will let us focus much more on quality as we head towards 18.04. Mark On 09/02/17 13:17, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Thu, Feb 9,

Re: netplan and post-up/pre-down scripts

On 06/01/17 13:12, Mike Pontillo wrote: >Long story short: in order to get the behavior I wanted, I wrote a > custom script that monitors *operational status* (aka physical link > up/down status), and I launch it using /e/n/i's `post-up`, and bring > it down using /e/n/i's `pre-down` scripts.

Re: Yakkety Yak Beta 1 Released

Nicely done :) Mark On 25/08/16 18:14, Set Hallstrom wrote: > "The Jogpa, in our mad flight, cut off a long lock of the yak's silky > hair. Having secured this, he appeared to be quite satisfied, let go, > and sheathed his sword." > > ― Arnold Henry Savage Landor > > > The first beta of

Re: Bootloader manager from Clear Linux

The Clear Linux guys are doing fantastic work on performance, so it's a reasonable ask. Is this something you think is interesting only for guest images or on the metal too? Mark On 20/04/17 02:24, Marcos Alano wrote: > Hi, > > Any one studied the clr-boot-manager from Intel's Clear Linux to a

Re: Developer Membership Board Election Results - two new members

Congratulations both, and thank you! Mark On 09/12/2017 08:44 AM, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: 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

Ubuntu Community Council 2017 election under way!

** *The UbuntuCommunity Council election has begun and ballots sent out to allUbuntu Members . Voting closes September 27th at end of day UTC.* * The following candidates are standing for 7 seats on the

Re: New Ubuntu SRU Developer - Dan Streetman

On 10/23/2017 11:42 PM, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: 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! Congrats Dan! Mark -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: Drop "Ubuntu Desktop USB" task?

+1 Mark On 11/30/2017 06:56 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > There is an "Ubuntu Desktop USB" task and seed that the Ubuntu Desktop > team hasn't maintained in years and would like to drop. I think this > is a legacy from when Ubuntu's ISO's were limited to CD size. "Ubuntu > Desktop USB" is a

Re: need help resolving python-setuptools backport fail

On 12/06/2017 05:32 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: > hi, > Am Dienstag, den 05.12.2017, 10:29 -0800 schrieb Walter Lapchynski: >> On Tue, 05 Dec 2017 10:27:14 +0100 Oliver Grawert >> said: >>> did you consider a snap ? >> No, I did not. What guarantee would there be that a user with

Re: Recommending people Snap things in response to valid packaging problems (WAS: Re: need help resolving python-setuptools backport fail)

On 12/06/2017 05:43 PM, Simon Quigley wrote: > I guess maybe I'm not a fan of the fact that now apparently the standard > solution to "I'm having this interesting packaging problem, any ideas?" > is now "have you tried packaging the thing in this completely different > packaging format that

Re: Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

On 05/09/2018 08:33 AM, Didier Roche wrote: > Some of us on the desktop team are volunteering for that task. > > I personnally remember when I received those 2 separate live and > install CD from Ubuntu 4.10. I was already praising the number of > simplifications that Ubuntu added in the Debian

Ubiquity NG - was Re: ubiquity migrated to git

Thanks Dimitri for this! I'd like to start a thread on Ubiquity NG, and this seems like the best place and time to start :) First, a trip down memory lane. MDZ and I were shooting the moon on a Saturday afternoon in my apartment in London when the idea for Ubiquity formed. A live CD that would

Re: [ubuntu/cosmic-proposed] brotli 1.0.4-1 (Accepted)

Given how much I admire both of the folks on this thread, I'm going to suggest an excellent and well-earned weekend for both of you to recharge batteries. Jeremy, I've seen doko in action on go-karts, there's no gap between the green light and the accelerator pedal on the course :) Mark --

Re: Who pulled the plug on the server installer?

On 06/04/2018 07:22 PM, Phillip Susi wrote: > Perhaps we shouldn't be promoting this new live installer on the web > site until it is ready. The new one is far simpler for the cases it supports; it also can get refreshed more easily out of cycle (i.e. we can deliver bug fixes to the installer

Re: RFC: Ubuntu Seeded Snaps

On 02/09/2018 11:48 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > For better or worse, the snap store doesn't have teams. Should this be > rephrased in terms of collaboration or something? Well, I'd rather we set the expectation that the snap store learn to use LP teams. Mark -- ubuntu-devel mailing list

Re: FYI: switch of default Launchpad VCS to git

On 10/05/2018 06:21 AM, Robie Basak wrote: > Now that we have experimental "git-ubuntu" git repositories available > for most packages in main, we (the server/git-ubuntu team) will be > switching the default VCS for the Launchpad "ubuntu" distribution over > to git. Wow! This is a milestone worth

Re: New Ubuntu Core Developer - Tiago Stürmer Daitx

On 11/21/18 5:36 AM, Olivier Tilloy wrote: > On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 5:43 AM Simon Quigley wrote: >> Yesterday (Monday) Tiago was approved as an Ubuntu Core Developer by the >> Ubuntu Developer Membership Board. He now has upload rights to the >> entire Ubuntu archive. > Congratulations Tiago! >

Re: New PPU uploader - Ross Gammon

On 3/12/19 11:20 AM, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > Please congratulate Ross on his successful PPU uploader application! Congrats Ross! Mark -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Call for nominations: Developer Membership Board

I think public nominations might be more nerve-wracking for good candidates than inspiring. My sense is that we would benefit from more pro-active identification of people who 'do things the right way', and reach out to them directly. Often, good people don't think of themselves as leaders, they

[URGENT] Key Server license

True. Please send bitcoins to this address if you can. Mark -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: PHP 7.4 in Focal

On 26/03/2020 18:47, Bryce Harrington wrote: > The in-archive transition from PHP 7.3 to PHP 7.4 is complete. I expect > PHP 7.3 will be removed from Focal soon. > > PHP 7.4 is a new feature update, bringing typed properties, arrow > functions, weak references, and unpacking inside arrays among

Re: Communication Improvements/frustrations

It has been an intense time for multiple groups, thank you both for being willing to pull this frayed thread back into the tapestry. The many flavours of Ubuntu are an important part of our story, and occasionally it helps to remind ourselves of that. Free software is great because it enables

Re: Ubuntu on the M1 chip

On 18/12/2020 20:16, Matthias Klose wrote: > Installed Ubuntu 20.10 server (couldn't find an arm64 desktop iso, are we only > shipping Pi images?). Something tells me that will have to change :) Mark -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: Revisiting default initramfs compression

On 08/12/2021 23:02, Julian Andres Klode wrote: I'd kind of like us to ship "default" initramfs in like linux-initrd-$uname-r and linux-initrd-generic and so on. Maybe even signed somehow so that the kernel can verify its integrity when booting. Such that booting with authenticated FDE is fully

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

LXD images called "Ubuntu Server" should behave as similarly as possible to bare metal images called "Ubuntu Server". Unless there is a documented technical reason for the delta, I suspect the difference is a consequence of org boundaries and should be revisited. There is definitely a need

Re: isc-dhcp: should we start phasing it out?

On 16/05/2022 18:34, Andreas Hasenack wrote: Could we perhaps start with phasing out the client, get its rdeps to use alternatives, and then stop building it, and eventually get to the server? This could be a lot of work, as I said, isc-dhcp is a classic, but if upstream is shifting its focus

Re: Replacing the telegram-desktop deb by a snap installer in stable series?

On 24/02/2023 12:18, Robie Basak wrote: I don't know. Sorry I don't have time to go into this right now. But the current situation seems worse, given that an automatic transition to an "external" snap, without prompting, goes against the principle that the TB already has consensus on. But,