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Howard Chan: Ubuntu Studio 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Beta 2 released!

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For the first release of mine being Ubuntu Studio Release Manager, I’m pleased to tell you that Ubuntu Studio 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Beta 2 is released to YOU!

This final Beta of the 13.04 release incorporates the latest -lowlatency kernel based on the upstrean Linux kernel v. 3.8, a whole new wallpaper theme, a rewritten icon theme, new applications, new ubiquity and much more!

The release notes are available at here. Download the ISOs in here.

Install and have fun!

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Howard Chan: Gah too many April Fools Day joke from Ubuntu community

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Yes that’s the title. Ubuntu gave me too many jokes yesterday.

1. Scott Lavender’s annoucement of resigning as Ubuntu Studio’s Project Lead

This is the first joke which turned out to be a non-joke. I was heartbroken.

I joined the Ubuntu Studio Team in August 2012, as an interested QA tester. At that time, it was Scott who contacted and welcomed me first. He was indeed a marvellous leader, pushing Ubuntu Studio on the conversion of the default desktop environment to Xfce and developing the initial idea of workflows.

Scott has been rather inactive in the 13.04 cycle due to his work, and he announced his resignation yesterday.

I was surprised since I was expecting the discussion of this matter in the 13.10 cycle, not the real thing on April Fools Day.X-(

Anyway, I would like to thank Scott and wish him every success in future development.

And now, the Ubuntu Studio Team enters “the zequence Era”!!!! (LOL). Scott has appointed Kaj Ailomaa (zequence) as the Ubuntu Studio Team’s new Project Lead. He has been working very extensively in the 12.10 & 13.04 cycle, writing documentation, doing SRUs, finding contributors, and much more. I do hope that every Ubuntu Studio Team member and user would support him as much as I do.

2. Oliver Grawart’s announcement about developers needing to pay money to upload packages and draft blueprints

This is so ridiculous that I really think this IS an April Fools Day joke. I mean, I need to PAY to upload packages and draft blueprints? Why? This clearly violates freedom of software packaging and makes people more unwilling to contribute to Ubuntu.

If this is the real thing, I either need somebody to sponsor me for this, or I just simply can’t contribute.

Please, Canonical and Ubuntu, stop going making Ubuntu a full commercial product.

So these jokes hit me yesterday and I don’t want anymore.

smartboyhw away from home in Hangzhou, China

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Howard Chan: Ubuntu Studio will be in for 13.04 Beta 1.

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The original release schedule for Ubuntu Studio in Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) is to have only a Beta 2 (a.k.a Final Beta) and the release itself, just like Ubuntu Desktop. However many things have changed during the 13.04 cycle for Ubuntu Studio (including a completely new icon theme + new applications) and the Ubuntu Studio Release Team (Scott Lavender, Kaj Ailomaa and me) decided that we shall opt-in for Raring Beta 1. I will post out a call for contributors to test the ISO images when the images get into the “Raring Beta 1″ milestone in the ISO QA Tracker.

This would also be the first time we will be using our full release procedure (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/ReleaseProcedure) for our Beta 1 release.

 

 

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Charles Profitt: Freedom and Community

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I have read a great many posts about the events of the past ten days in the world of Canonical. Each has an opinion and I, as a rule, understand that people have their own unique opinions. I will not call them wrong or incorrect even though I may disagree with them. Why? It is because I know everyone has a different lens to view the events from; they may see things I do not and vice versa. What follows is a sample of these comments and my opinion.

Canonical started making the relationship unequal, though. They have their reasons and they make sense to them. But they are hurtful to me and I can’t be true to myself and live under them at the same time.

Their true side starts to show itself in those heated moments when you wonder what is really going through  their head.

 Greg Grossmeier (full text)

The first part quote from Greg’s post is spot on. Greg no longer ‘agrees’ with the decisions and direction of the community. Everyone has a right to have an opinion and a belief. What troubles me is the the second quote from the post; it implies that Canonical has been dishonest. If you read the rest of the post Greg clearly states that Canonical has been lying to him. I will admit that I am not fully aware of the relationship between Greg and Canonical, but I do believe there could be another explanation. An explanation that does not require one of the partners to be vilified. Is it possible that both Greg and Canonical shared the same vision and dream in the beginning, but things have changed? Is it possible that Greg and Canonical had similar visions and dreams, but that Greg missed slight differences?

When Ubuntu launched I doubt many thought smart phones would run full blown OSes and be capable of replacing laptops. It took the iPad in 2010 to make people believers in tablets as computing devices for the masses. The slogan was Linux for Human Beings. At launch that meant desktops, laptops and servers, not tablets and phones. I do not view the push to go to tablets and phones as a deviation from that original slogan. The computing world is changing and that is driving changes to how things need to get done in order for Ubuntu to be Linux for Human Beings.

People are leaving

From Planet Ubuntu + Google+ at least 4 community members have left the Ubuntu community because of Canonical’s decisions. Most of them even gave up Ubuntu membership. Is this what we want? Canonical being “Big Brother” in the Ubuntu community?

Howard Chan (full text)

It is true that people are leaving the community. People were leaving the community before these announcements. People are also joining the community after these announcements. Here again there is an assertion that Canonical is being bad when the image of George …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Howard Chan: Some thoughts about Canonical and the community

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Yesterday I had a chat with Jono Bacon and Michael Hall from the Canonical Ubuntu Community Team. I first asked them why aren’t they doing at least one physical UDS per year, and they clearly seemed opposing my argument. Then I asked how about per post-LTS and such, and they still don’t see the need for it. Then I saw Pasi Lallinaho’s post about UDS and Canonical away from community, and I agreed.

The problem we have here is this:

Community finds it difficult to adopt

For example, we are now just near Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) Feature Freeze, and now suddenly Canonical’s Technical Lead Rick Spencer wants to step in and say “let’s cancel it for good”. It clearly destroys all the original plans for 13.04, especially for flavours. For example, Ubuntu Studio originally has some plans made for 13.04. Now it’s even unsure would these not be released to the public on April this year.

Update: Jonathan Riddell saved it for good, but fhe future of 13.10 and 14.10 is unknown.

UDS destroys comunity friendship

Canonical is happy that they don’t need to sponsor anyone now, but then this really breaks the Ubuntu community, especially teams of flavours, which now doesn’t have much chance to meet each other……..

People are leaving

From Planet Ubuntu + Google+ at least 4 community members have left the Ubuntu community because of Canonical’s decisions. Most of them even gave up Ubuntu membership. Is this what we want? Canonical being “Big Brother” in the Ubuntu community?

Summary

Canonical has been annoucing decisions that threatens the Ubuntu community. I really hope that the relations can be repaired.

Leave comments if you wish:-)

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Howard Chan: QA Cadence Week 7 Global Jam Special + Testcase Conversion script

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Hello world!

Ubuntu Global Jam is coming to town (seriously) from 1st to 3rd March, 2013, with different Ubuntu contribution projects that you can play with friends in your city or on the Internet.

Our QA Cadence Week 7 is at the same time as it, so Nicholas Skaggs has posted a new wiki page for all people to check out what YOU can do for QA. Find it at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Cadence/Raring/Week7UbuntuGlobalJam.

We will be focusing on three aspects:

Application testing: This time we have multiple applications for you to test, including Deja-dup, Empathy, Evince, Eye of Gnome, Fileroller, Firefox, Gedit, Gnome Screenshot, Gnome Terminal, LibreOffice, Nautilus, Network Manager, Orca, Pulseaudio, Rythmnbox, Shotwell, Thunderbird, Totem and Ubuntu One. Just follow the detailed testcases and report bugs along the way. Make sure you report them through terminal using `ubuntu-bug (packagename)`.

Images testing: We have Raring daily images freshly prepared for you to come and test. Bring along your spare machine or VM (or even a Nexus 7!) to play with testing. Make sure it installs and works and no bugs.

Hardware testing: If you have a laptop, try to install the Raring daily images and make sure not only the software but the hardware works too, like Trackpad, DVD drive, USB, sound, etc.

If you want to write manual testcases and followed the format but don’t know if it is right or wrong, check out Javier P.L. (chilicuil)’s script in https://raw.github.com/chilicuil/learn/master/sh/test_case_format Download the script and run `./test_case_format (testcase)` to get it converted. Then submit a merge request against lp:ubuntu-manual-tests !

WELCOME TO QUALITY ASSURANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Howard Chan: ISO Testing on Ubuntu Global Jam?

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Now if you know me from the Ubuntu Community Quality Assurance team, you would know that I exceptionally like (sorry, I LOVE) ISO Testing. So, here are some great tips for you to play with ISO testing in your 3-day Ubuntu Global Jam event.

1. Make sure you have some spare machines. Virtual machines can also be used, but if you have some machines that aren’t used for ages, please help. For example, if you have a PowerPC computer from Apple Computer, Inc., you could use it for testing. As I know the QA Team from Lubuntu really needs people testing for it (although I foresee the day soon when PowerPC will NOT be supported).

2. Make sure you have a Launchpad account. This is extremely important since you need it for access to login and report testcases to the ISO QA Tracker. You would also need it to report bugs against Ubuntu or a specific package (For example ubiquity).

3. If you think something that should happen doesn’t, please report a bug. Even if the bug turns out invalid, at least it makes you know that exists and you don’t report it again next time.

4. Make sure you come to #ubuntu-quailty on irc.freenode.net to get advice and help from the QA Team members.

So enjoy having fun ISO Testing in Ubuntu Global Jam!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Howard Chan: Hello guys! New Ubuntu member here!

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Welcome everyone to smartboyhw’s blog!

Few introduction of myself:

I’m Howard Chan, 14 from Hong Kong.

Currently I work as an Kubuntu Ninja (which basically means packager) and tester, Ubuntu Studio QA Tester and Ubuntu QA Team (+ Ubuntu Testcase Admins Team) member.

My wiki page is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/smartboyhw. My Launchpad profile is at https://launchpad.net/~smartboyhw

I just got approved in yesterday’s 1200 Regional Membership Board meeting, so that’s the first post here:)

Next post: Some rant….. (Sorry)

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu

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Ubuntu Classroom: Your first ISO test

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We’re happy to announce that next week, on Wednesday, February 13th at 13:00 UTC, in #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net (#ubuntu-classroom-chat for questions). Howard Chan (smartboyhw) will be hosting the final scheduled session by the Quality team, Your first ISO test. Phill Whiteside (phillw) and Nicholas Skaggs (balloons) will also be available during this session to assist with questions. Please visit the Section 3 requirements wiki page if you wish to actively follow the exercises in this class.

In other Quality news, the logs for our most recent sessions with the team are available. The first is their series on bugs by Phill Whiteside (phillw) and Gema Gomez-Solano (gema):

We then had a series of laptop testing sessions presented by Sergio Zanchetta (primes2h) Carla Sella (Letozaf) and Sergio Meneses (SergioMeneses):

Today Phill Whiteside (phillw) and Jackson Doak (Noskcaj) of the Quality team hosted a series of sessions in #ubuntu-quality about the QA tools available for ISO testing:

Thanks to everyone who participated and the effort put into making the schedules work!

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Planet Ubuntu