news 28 Posted March 14, 2010 Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #184 for the week March 7th - March 13th, 2010. In this issue we cover: Lucid Kernel now Frozen, Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 freeze now in effect, Intel, Eucalyptus and Canonical join forces to help user build cloud infrastructures confidently, Call for Testing: Cluster Stack – Load Balancing, Google Summer of Code 2010: Ubuntu application, New Ubuntu Members: Asia Oceanic Board & Americas Board, Request for input for Lucid Beta 1 technical overview, International Womens Day "How I Discovered Ubuntu" Winners, Ubuntu Global Jam(LoCo Style), Getting started with launchpadlib: Launchpad’s Python library, Ubuntu Global Jam – what’s it all about, New stuff for the Ubiquity slideshow(Proposed), Alan Pope: Why (I think) Ubuntu is Better Than Windows, Ubuntu hits HTC's Touch Pro2, is any Windows Mobile handset safe, and much, much more! == UWN Translations == * Note to translators and our readers: We are trying a new way of linking to our translations pages. Please follow the link below for the information you need. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Translations == In This Issue == * Lucid Kernel now Frozen * Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 freeze now in effect * Intel, Eucalyptus and Canonical join forces to help user build cloud infrastructures confidently * Call for Testing: Cluster Stack – Load Balancing * Google Summer of Code 2010: Ubuntu application * New Ubuntu Members: Asia Oceanic Board & Americas Board * Request for input for Lucid Beta 1 technical overview * International Womens Day "How I Discovered Ubuntu" Winners * Ubuntu Stats * Ubuntu Global Jam(LoCo Style) * Getting started with launchpadlib: Launchpad’s Python library * Ubuntu Global Jam – what’s it all about? * New stuff for the Ubiquity slideshow(Proposed) * Alan Pope: Why (I think) Ubuntu is Better Than Windows * In the Press & Blogosphere * Ubuntu hits HTC's Touch Pro2, is any Windows Mobile handset safe? * Upcoming Meetings & Events * Updates & Security == General Community News == === Lucid Kernel now Frozen === The Lucid Kernel is now frozen. This means that the kernel moves from active development into its stabilization phase. All planned kernel features are now set, included, and enabled and the kernel team focus now moves from new enabling to testing, bug isolation, and fixing of issues found in the kernel. The kernel will now transition over to the stable maintenance team, they will be responsible for patch acceptance from here on. What does this transition mean for you. Now is the time to test things you care about and report any issues in Launchpad against the linux package. If you have bugs open found earlier in the cycle please retest with the latest and greatest kernel and report back whether those bugs are still present and where you tested. The upcoming Beta-1 release is an ideal test platform. Additionally this transition means that is will be much harder to make a change the kernel. From today patches will need to meet the same criteria as would be required for SRU[1] to a released kernel. That means that the patch must have a Launchpad bug open, it must be a fix for an actual bug being experienced in the field, it must be sent to the kernel-team email list for review, it must receive two acknowledgements from kernel team members, and finally you must test the updated kernels and report back. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/StableKernelMaintenance Lucid will be with us for a long time so please help us make this the best kernel possible. Please test beta-1 and report your issues. Thanks! https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-March/000689.html === Ubuntu 10.04 beta 1 freeze now in effect === We are now one week from the first beta release of 10.04, scheduled for March 18 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule and have just entered beta freeze. During the freeze, all uploads to main must be approved by a member of the release team [1], so if you have fixes which are important to get in, please do get in touch as soon as possible. Uploads to universe require a manual push through the queue, but are not subject to release management approval. Issues which are important for the beta release will be tracked by the release team here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs?field.milestone=21446 If you have bugs on this list, please fix them at the earliest possible opportunity, or (in consultation with other developers and the Ubuntu QA team) un-milestone them if they are not required for beta. If you have bugs you think should be on this list, talk with the Ubuntu QA team or the Ubuntu release team about having them milestoned. Please also do not lose sight of the list of bugs affecting the release as a whole: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs Over the next few days, please pay attention to eliminating inconsistencies in the archive, including: * uninstallable packages in main and restricted - http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/testing/lucid_probs.html * obsolete packages which still have reverse-dependencies - and http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/NBS/ Archive administrators should spend time ensuring that any pending mainuniverse component changes have been processed http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/component-mismatches.txt Developers, if you are waiting for something on this list, please help out by filing good main inclusion reports. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2010-March/000691.html === Canonical Blog: Intel, Eucalyptus and Canonical join forces to help user build cloud infrastructures confidently === A few weeks ago myself and Dustin Kirkland had the privilege of travelling to the Intel facility in Hillsboro, Oregon to work with Billy Cox, Rekha Raghu, Paul Guermonprez, Trevor Cooper and Kamal Natesan of Intel and Dan Nurmi and Neil Soman of Eucalyptus Systems and a few others on developing a proof of concept whitepaper on the use of Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud on Intel Xeon processors (Nehalem). http://www.intel.com/software/cloudbuilder The whitepaper is published today on the Intel site (registration required) so it seems like a good time to talk about why we collaborated. The Intel Cloud Builder program is intended to develop some best practice information for businesses and institutions looking to take advantage of the promise of cloud computing. As we do consistently with UEC, we are being specific when we talk about cloud as the ability to build Infrastructure as a Service behind a corporate firewall – that is on your own systems, protected by your own security protocols. In Portland we had access to some great hardware and as an ex-Intel man, it was good to mess directly with the metal again. Intel defined a number of use and test cases and the guys from Intel, Eucalyptus and myself were able to have some fun putting UEC through its paces. And the results were good. We documented them and the whitepaper gives numerous code and scenario examples to help anyone new to cloud to get up to speed really quickly and the make the most of the capabilities of the Xeon processor in supporting an internal IaaS infrastructure. You can find out how to get started on UEC with existing documentation. but this whitepaper takes it to the next stage. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC Being able to test the software as part of the Intel Cloud Builder program and jointly publish this whitepaper is a great endorsement of what is still a young technology. And I hope it will give users confidence to start building their own UEC deployment on x86 technology. Nick Barcet, Ubuntu Server Product Manager http://blog.canonical.com/?p=348 === Call for Testing: Cluster Stack – Load Balancing === Continuing with the Ubuntu Cluster Stack testing, it is time now for Load Balancing. During UDS, we discussed that we should based the Load Balancing as part of the Ubuntu Cluster Stack using Keepalived due to its speed. However, since the main Cluster Stack is based in Pacemaker, we decided to do Load Balancing with Pacemaker/ldirectord too. The wiki page showing the procedure is here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ClusterStack/LucidTesting#Load%20Balancing If you find any bugs in the documentation, please let us know by leaving your comments at the END of the wikipage in preparation for the Documentation that might be included in the Ubuntu Server Guide. All the packages are now in the archives. So please test the configurations and if you find any bugs, please report them in LP. http://www.roaksoax.com/2010/03/call-for-testing-cluster-stack-load-balancing === Google Summer of Code 2010: Ubuntu application === We are very excited to announce that Ubuntu has applied as to be a participating organization in the Google Summer of Code 2010! We submitted an organizational application, along with suggested ideas for potential projects for students. We also encourage students to come up with their own ideas. If you're a student interested in Open Source (or if you know students who are), now is the time to act to get involved in Google's wonderful Summer of Code program. Also, if you are thinking about becoming a student's mentor please visit: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GoogleSoC2010 Make sure you read all the necessary information carefully and join the Share this post Link to post
