Kernel Hug Day - Tues Oct 7th

Hi Everyone,

We just want to announce that the next Ubuntu Hug Day target will
be . . . The Kernel!  With the Intrepid Ibex 8.10 Beta just being
released it's important that we be aware of any new bugs introduced as
well as any existing ones that get resolved.  So please add the date to
your calender.

 * Tuesday October 7th
 * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20081007

We will be in #ubuntu-bugs (FreeNode) ready to answer your questions and
help you out.  We can't stress enough that everyone can help.  Whether
you choose to blog about it, triage a few bugs, or help answer
questions, every little bit helps and is much appreciated.  If you're
new to all this, head to:

http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs

Thanks again and here's to having a great hug day!

Sincerely,
Leann Ogasawara and the BugSqad

(X)Ubuntu HugDay

Xubuntu Hug Day!!!

Fellow Xubuntu Lovers!

My name is Charlie, hanging around IRC as charlie-tca. I'm helping
organize this week's HUG DAY!

This week's target is ** drum roll please ** XUBUNTU!

  * 118  New bugs need a hug
  * 50   Confirmed bugs just need a review

Bookmark it, add it to your calendars, turn over your egg-timers!
  * Thursday, October 2nd
  * http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20081002

Can't stress it enough: EVERYONE can help !

BLOG IT! Especially those on the Planet! There are people who want to
help but don't know how and sit on the sidelines of the blog-o-sphere
reading. I need your help to get those eyes from blogs to bugs. Let us
combine blog-powers to educate, "Bug work is a fun way to get
involved!" I think the best effect will be if we coodinate together in
our blogs:
  * Publish about the Hug Day Thursday October 2nd to get everyone
excited.
  * Hug some bugs and add yourself to the HugDay's wiki for your
readers!

Make a difference: Join the HugDay on Thursday October 2nd. We will be

OpenOffice.org Hugday

Fellow Ubuntu Lovers!

It's that time a week again... oh wait? It's the return of the Tuesday HugDay!?
 Beta is coming up quick but there are still a lot of bugs to hug, so without fu
rther adue;

This Tuesday's HugDay target is *drum roll please*
OpenOffice.org!
 * 166 New bugs need a hug~

Bookmark it, add it to your calenders, turn over those egg-timers!
 * Thursday September 30th
 * http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20080930

Can't stress it enough: everyone can help!

BLOG IT! Especially those on the Planet! There are people who want to
help but don't know how and sit on the sidelines of the blog-o-sphere
reading; I need your help to get those eyes from blogs to bugs. Let us
combine blog-powers to educate, "Bug work is a fun way to get
involved!" I think the best effect will be if we coordinate together
in our blogs:
 * Publish about the upcoming Hug Days to get everyone excited.
 * Hug some bugs and add yourself to the HugDay's wiki for your readers!

Make a difference: We will be in #ubuntu-bugs (FreeNode) all day and
night, and will be ready to answer your questions about how to help.
Or just come and say Hi, I'm lurking around as Awsoonn.

Ubuntu 8.10 beta freeze now in effect

Hello Ubuntu developers,

We are now one week from the beta release of 8.10 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/intrepid/+bugs?field.milestone=1325

Thanks,
--
Steve Langasek
On behalf of the Ubuntu release team

[1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release

update-manager Hugday

Fellow Ubuntu Lovers!

This week's HugDay target is *drum roll please* update-manager!
 * 158 New bugs need a hug
 * 104 Confirmed bugs just need a review

This is a very important hug day, first Intrepid Beta is about to be released an
d with is will no doubt be a surge of curious users ready to try out the new bet
a, lets try to give them a good run!

Bookmark it, add it to your calenders, turn over those egg-timers!
 * Thursday September 25th
 * http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20080925

Can't stress it enough: everyone can help!

BLOG IT! Especially those on the Planet! There are people who want to
help but don't know how and sit on the sidelines of the blog-o-sphere
reading; I need your help to get those eyes from blogs to bugs. Let us
combine blog-powers to educate, "Bug work is a fun way to get involved!"
I think the best effect will be if we coordinate together in our blogs:
 * Publish about the upcoming Hug Days to get everyone excited.
 * Hug some bugs and add yourself to the HugDay's wiki for your readers!

Make a difference: We will be in #ubuntu-bugs (FreeNode) all day and
night, and will be ready to answer your questions about how to help.

If you're new to all this, head to
  http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs

Ubuntu 8.10 beta approaching

The Ubuntu 8.10 beta release is approaching, scheduled for October 2nd
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseSchedule). Please refer to the
milestone overview in Launchpad for a list of remaining items:

  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=1325

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/intrepid/+bugs

The beta freeze will begin tomorrow, September 25th; after that point
uploads will require approval from the release team, which will generally
only be granted if they fix beta-critical bugs. The toolchain freeze begins
now; toolchain changes require approval from the release team.

Over the next few days, please pay attention to eliminating
inconsistencies in the archive, including:

  http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/testing/intrepid_probs.html
    uninstallable packages in main and restricted

  http://conflictchecker.ubuntu.com/possible-conflicts/intrepid/
    undeclared Replaces or Conflicts (contact Michael Vogt about false

Serious, potentially hardware-damaging e1000e driver issue on Intrepid

Dear developers,

Reports have been coming in that the e1000e ethernet driver for Intel GigE
chipsets, as included upstream in Linux 2.6.27, may under certain conditions
irreparably damage your ethernet hardware by corrupting the on-board
firmware.

While we expect alphas to include a fair number of bugs, and rely on your
continued support and testing to help resolve these bugs for Ubuntu
releases, bugs that damage hardware are quite another matter.  As a result
of this bug we must recommend that users do *not* use Intrepid alphas,
including the LiveCDs, on machines with Intel GigE ethernet.

Efforts to safeguard the hardware of affected users are ongoing, though
initially this will consist of a workaround in the form of disabling the
e1000e driver.  Alpha 6 CD images will not be re-issued for this fix, so
affected users are advised to either use daily CD images once a resolution
is in place, or to wait for the release of the 8.10 beta, due to be released
on October 2.

Further discussion of this issue can be found on the ubuntu-devel mailing
list at
<https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-September/026559.html>,
and progress on resolving this issue can be tracked at
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/263555>.

--

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/

Intrepid Alpha 6 released

Hello Ubuntu developers,

Welcome to Intrepid Ibex Alpha-6, which will in time become Ubuntu 8.10.

Pre-releases of Intrepid are *not* encouraged for anyone needing a stable
system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional, even
frequent breakage.  They are, however, recommended for Ubuntu developers and
those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.

Alpha 6 is the sixth in a series of milestone CD images released throughout
the Intrepid development cycle. The Alpha images are known to be reasonably
free of showstopper CD build or installer bugs, while representing a very
recent snapshot of Intrepid. You can download it here:

  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/intrepid/alpha-6/ (Ubuntu)
  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-6/ (Ubuntu Education Edition)
  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/kubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-6/ (Kubuntu)
  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/intrepid/alpha-6/ (Xubuntu)
  http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntustudio/releases/intrepid/alpha-6/ (UbuntuStudio)

See http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mirrors for a list of mirrors.

Alpha 6 includes a number of software updates that are ready for large-scale
testing.  Please refer to http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha6 for
information on changes in Ubuntu.

This is an early set of images, so you should expect some bugs.  For a list
of known bugs (that you don't need to report if you encounter), please see:
http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha6

ISO Testing, before 1700 UTC Thursday

Hey all,

If you have any spare time, and feel like testing Ubuntu, the Ubuntu
Release Team would appreciate more testers for the Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6
ISOs.  The standard warnings about how it might kill your hard drive,
etc, might apply - but no one's found them this far.  These images
should be good to go, and have no known release critical bugs.

The information, and downloads are at http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/.  There
are links down the side of the page, showing other flavours, which also
need testing.

If you want to discuss this on irc, please do so in #ubuntu-testing on
irc.ubuntu.com, or #ubuntu-bugs.

Thanks,

Hobbsee

Hey all,

If you have any spare time, and feel like testing Ubuntu, the Ubuntu
Release Team would appreciate more testers for the Intrepid Ibex Alpha 6
ISOs.  The standard warnings about how it might kill your hard drive,
etc, might apply - but no one's found them this far.  These images
should be good to go, and have no known release critical bugs.

The information, and downloads are at http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/.  There

Kernel Hug Day!!

Fellow Ubuntu Lovers!

Its me again, giving your spam filters the slip, and you know what that
means, this week's HUG DAY!

This week's target is *drum roll please*
The Linux Kernel!
 * 67 New bugs need a hug
 * Over 500 new bugs are in the queue on launchpad

Bookmark it, add it to your calenders, turn over your egg-timers!
 * Thursday September 18th
 * http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20080918

Can't stress it enough: everyone can help!
 * BLOG IT!
 * Wiki-gnome? Add debugging info and stock responses to the wiki page
 * Member of bug control? I think you know what to do. *poke*
 * If you're new to all this, head to
   http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs

Make a difference! Join the Hug Day this Thursday. We will be in
#ubuntu-bugs (FreeNode) all day and night, ready to answer your
questions about how to help. My handle is Awsoonn so please say hi!

Have a awesome day,
   Dereck Wonnacott
  (from the BugSquad)

Main frozen for Alpha 6

Hi everyone,

We're two days before the scheduled release of Intrepid Alpha 6, and the
milestone "freeze" is now in effect.  Please take care that any packages
that you upload to main between now and the Alpha 6 release will help us in
the goal of a high quality and timely alpha, and hold any disruptive or
unnecessary uploads until after the alpha is out.  Again, this means the
primary focus should be on resolving these bugs:

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/intrepid-alpha-6

The number of bugs targeted to this milestone is still small, but there's
plenty of other work to be done in getting the archive in a consistent state
so that we don't have uninstallable packages for the alpha-6 milestone:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/PackageArchive#Consistency

Remember that this is a "soft" freeze, so you are each responsible for
making sure your uploads are appropriate - Launchpad will not be your safety
net.

Packages that are not seeded on the CDs (i.e., most packages in universe,
with the exception of UbuntuStudio[1] and Xubuntu[2] packages) may be
uploaded as usual - bearing in mind that the Feature Freeze is also in
effect[3].

Cheers,
--
Steve Langasek
On behalf of the Ubuntu release team