news 28 Posted January 25, 2009 Welcome to the first edition of Ubuntu Developer News (a.k.a the Keybuk-repeater). For past items or to submit your own please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/News More submissions for the developer news would be very much appreciated. In this issue we have * Jaunty Developer Week logs available * Colin Watson elected to the Technical Board * Package bug reporting guidelines in launchpad * Testing Days * New D-Bus Uploaded * Launchpadlib support in ubuntu-dev-tools * The removal of /dev/.static/dev * udevadm, and why you should stop what you're doing * Developer changes Jaunty Developer Week logs available ------------------------------------ The Developer Week for Jaunty is almost over, and there have been many great sessions. Logs of all sessions have been kept and they are appearing on the wiki as they are processed. They can provide a useful resource on the topics covered. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek Colin Watson elected to the Technical Board ------------------------------------------- Colin Watson became the newest member of the Technical Board. Developers voted in a poll with a choice between him and Kees Cook. https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-dev/+poll/2009-01-tb-nominees Package bug reporting guidelines in launchpad --------------------------------------------- Brian Murray recently reported that Launchpad now supports package bug reporting guidelines, which can help users to file better bug reports by giving them specific instructions for a particular package. He outlined the method by which they will be updated. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-January/027206.html Testing Days ------------ Ara Pulido explained that the QA team are planning to do Testing Days for new features in Juanty, so that the new code is tested before it is announced as a new feature at release. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-January/027159.html New D-Bus Uploaded ------------------ Scott James Remnant announced changes to dbus in order to to fix a security problem. This change may impact any package that ships a dbus service, and may cause them to stop working if their service configuration is incorrect, though an attempt was made to audit services to avoid this. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-January/027220.html Launchpadlib support in ubuntu-dev-tools ---------------------------------------- Markus Korn and Jonathan Davies worked on integrating launchpadlib in to ubuntu-dev-tools to provide more robust access to Launchpad. It uses different credentials to the current ubuntu-dev-tools, so you will be required to generate new credentials. A new tools was also included to make managing these credentials easier. Work is ongoing to transition all of ubuntu-dev-tools to use launchpadlib. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-January/027186.html The removal of /dev/.static/dev ------------------------------- Scott James Remnant explained where /dev/.static/dev went, and what the replacement is. If you relied on access to the static /dev then you should read his post for how to make udev do what you need instead. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-January/027184.html udevadm, and why you should stop what you're doing -------------------------------------------------- Scott James Remnant (yes, him again) explained some of the misuses of udevadm, and how to achieve the desired effect without abusing udev. If you know of a package that calls udevadm in its maintainer scripts then you should update it according to the instructions in Scott's post. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2009-January/027260.html Developer Changes ----------------- * Dustin Kirkland (kirkland) became a core-dev after his impressive work, mainly in the server team. * Stéphane Graber (stgraber) gained upload rights for the LTSP packages in main after being the de-facto maintainer for a long time and recently becoming a MOTU. * Thierry Carrez (Koon) became a MOTU after a few months working in the server and Java teams. * Iulian Udrea (iulian) after sustained and varied contributions to the MOTU team. -- Share this post Link to post
