If I may ... Although I have not been contributing a lot, I have been following the server team progress quite closely in the past three and a half years. I have to say that lucid have been the most productive and vibrant development cycle so far. Lots of stuff I care about are progressing nicely, and the community member involvement have really been picking up and showing.
Go server team! Jos Boumans wrote: > Hi, > > this week the Lucid Alpha3 development phase has started. So in > following our Alpha2 announcement, below is what's on the horizon > for Alpha3; some of these are new blueprints for Alpha3, some are > continued work from Alpha2. > > You can find the full release schedule for Lucid here: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule > > == Alpha3 Projects == > > Since the upcoming release is an LTS, a lot of this cycles work is > centered around stability. Currently, we're broadly targeting the > following 3 areas: > > * Software integration: > * Eucalyptus 1.6.2 [1] > * Moving from MySQL 5.0 to 5.1 [2] > * Provide libraries in PHP/Python/Perl for AWS services[5] > > * Improving our UEC & EC2 experience > * Integrating Puppet & Etckeeper[3][4] > * Provide boothooks & user based configuration [6][7] > > * QA & testing: > * UEC tests [9] > * Automated server tests [10] > * Bug squashing [11] > * Apport hooks [12] > * Daily builds for server packages [19] > * The Server Papercuts project [20][21] > > There are also a few community driven specs which are targeted > for the Lucid release: > > * Asterisk Integration [15] > * Ubuntu Cluster Stack [16] > * Ubuntu Server Containers (LXC, OpenVZ) [17] > * Integration of Amavisd-new, Spamassassin, and Clamav [18] > > The full list of blueprints related to these targets and our progress > can be found on the server team wiki here: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/ReleaseStatus > > or on our work item tracker here: > > http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/canonical-server- > lucid-alpha-3.html > > == Feedback & Involvement == > > * If you have any suggestions for AWS libraries in PHP/Perl/Python > or are interested in packaging/contributing a library in another > language, please let us know in the RFC thread[23] > > * To make the most of our Server Papercuts project[20], please > participate in the email discussion[21] and nominate papercuts > and/or volunteer to fix them! > > * To help us track down bugs and crashes better, we're adding apport > hooks to several key pieces of software. If you'd like to implement > any of those hooks or contribute your own, please let us know in > the blueprint[12] > > * The annual Ubuntu Server Survey[13] has been published and we would > love your feedback. It should be available until the end of > January. > > * The Ubuntu Cluster Stack spec[16] has issued a call for testing[22] > and would love to hear about your experiences. > > As always, you can find the team on #ubuntu-server on irc.freenode.net > if you'd like to ask a question or contribute and/or attend our weekly > public meetings[14]. > > On behalf of the Ubuntu Server team, > > --Jos > > [1] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- > eucalyptus-merging-and-packaging > [2] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-mysql-5.0 > [3] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-puppet- > uec-ec2-integration > [4] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-puppet- > etckeeper-integration > [5] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-aws- > client-libraries > [6] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- > ec2-boothook > [7] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- > ec2-config > [9] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- > uec-testing > [10] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/qa-lucid- > automated-server-testing > [11] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/ReleaseStatus#Bugs > [12] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- > apport-hooks > [13] http://survey.ubuntu.com/index.php?sid=92259 > [14] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Meeting > [15] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- > asterisk-integration > [16] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- > cluster-stack > [17] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- > contextualization > [18] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-more- > mail-integration > [19] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-daily- > vcs > [20] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- > papercuts > [21] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2010-January/ > 003613.html > [22] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2010-January/ > 003615.html > [23] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ec2/2010-January/ > 001254.html > > > -- Etienne Goyer Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd Ubuntu Certified Instructor -- ubuntu-server mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
