We all want more quality. We all wasted too many hours trying to fix broken software and we all know that new users struggle the most when facing crashes or other unexpected results. We probably all also agree that testing is a good idea and if it’s automated, then that’s even better. Automatically exercising large [...]

In the Ubuntu 13.04 cycle the development team have been working on making a series of improvements to the dash to improve search quality as well as the breadth of areas, software, and services that the dash can search. This will result in a significantly greater number of scopes (potentially 100) shipped by default and [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #301 for the week January 21 – 27, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Developer Week is back Ubuntu Stats Romero, the Ubuntu-BR-SC LoCo Team’s game server January Business Meeting for Ubuntu Ohio Parcel in the post: Stickers! [...]

Tomorrow, 29th January, will see the start of Ubuntu Developer Week, the best opportunity this cycle to get involved in Ubuntu Development. We will have a variety of sessions around, all having to do with how Ubuntu is put together and how you can help out and get involved. Here a few examples of topics [...]

We are delighted to announce the next Ubuntu Developer Week. From 29th to 31st January 2013 we will have a great selection of sessions all about Ubuntu Development, which not only showcase the great work which goes into Ubuntu, but should also help you get involved. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek Among the topics this time: general development and [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #300 for the week January 14 – 20, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Happy 300th Issue of UWN Vacant Developer Membership Board seats: Call for nominations Application Review Board restaffing results Ubuntu Stats Working on Errors Ben Howard: [...]

Hello everyone, The Application Review Board has been seeking new members for the past month and closed the nomination period on the 14th of January. Only a single nominee, Jonathan Carter, came out of this for the 3 seats that were available on the board. The usual procedure is for the Technical Board to setup [...]

We will soon have four vacant Developer Membership Board seats. Benjamin Drung, Stéphane Graber, Iain Lane and Cody Somerville will reach the end of their terms on 2013-02-13. This mail is a call for nominations. The DMB is responsible for reviewing and approving new Ubuntu developers, meeting for about an hour once a fortnight. Candidates [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #299 for the week January 7 – 13, 2013, and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu Phone Welcome New Members and Developers Ubuntu Stats LoCo News Juju and MAAS for human beings [videos] Ubuntu Classroom: Introduction to QA / Testing [...]

Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter. This is issue #298 , and the full version is available here. In this issue we cover: Ubuntu in 2013 It’s official: Ubuntu now fits phones Ubuntu Stats FOSDEM 2013 Ubuntu Cloud Images go Social (okay, just Twitter) Randall Ross: Tips #5-10 for Ubuntu Evangelists (and Advocates) Robert Ancell: [...]

We’ll be hosting our next Ubuntu User Days on Saturday February 9th, 14:30 UTC – Sunday the 10th 2013, 3:00 UTC. “User Days was created to be a set of courses offered during a one day period to teach the beginning or intermediate Ubuntu user the basics to get them started with Ubuntu” In order [...]