8 outstanding merges « Ubuntu Server Blog

As pointed out by Colin Watson in an email to ubuntu-devel-announce the Debian Import Freeze is coming soon. In particular he stated that:

all packages should have been merged from Debian at least once by this time. After 26 June, merging a package from Debian that hasn’t been merged since Hardy will require a freeze exception

Following last week post about merges related to the Ubuntu Server Team I’ve dived into the list of outstanding merges and come out with the following suggestions about merges that should be easy to do:

The Ubuntu Server Team roadmap has been updated and I’ve noticed that more than half of the suggested merges last week had been done – well done fellow Ubuntu developers !

Dustin Kirkland’s Ubuntu Server posts

Results of the Ubuntu Virtualization Survey

A big thanks to everyone that participated in the Ubuntu Virtualization Survey. I am pleased to share the results with you now.ResultsAnswersI will provide a few of my own observations, but we are very interested in your own conclusions!There were a total of 354 responses -- excellent feedback!Nearly 2/3 of all responders use virtualization on Ubuntu every d […]

Introducing Testdrive!

I'm pleased to introduce a new package I have created for Ubuntu called testdrive!Testdrive makes it simple to run any Ubuntu release in a virtual machine, safely, and without affecting your current Ubuntu installation.This is a great way to "try out" the Ubuntu release beyond your current version, before upgrading. For example, if you're […]

Ubuntu 9.10 Byobu and OpenWeek Session

I thought I would provide a brief set of highlights about Byobu accomplishments during the Karmic development cycle, now that we have released Ubuntu 9.10. Also, I'd like to promote my Ubuntu Open Week Presentation on Byobu, which is scheduled for 18:00 UTC, tomorrow, Tuesday November 3, 2009. It will included a live demonstration, in Amazon EC2. Be pre […]

Kees Cook’s Ubuntu Server posts

karmic and log rotation

In Ubuntu’s Karmic and and Debian’s Lenny, sysklogd was replaced with rsyslog. This is fine, since rsyslog will have converted your /etc/syslog.conf to /etc/rsyslog.d/50-default.conf. However, if you modified the (maddeningly strange sysklogd-specific) log file rotation in /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd or /etc/cron.weekly/sysklogd, you’ll want t […]

TPM as RNG

I was reminded about some TPM coding I’d done to get random bytes from the pRNG on my TPM-enabled system from Matt Domsch’s recent post. I’m not fully convinced that the pRNG of the TPM is an appropriate source of entropy, but it does pass my simple FIPS-140-2 test. I had to find the Intel TPM docs to figure out how to enable TPM on my syst […]

uninstall sun-java6

With the vrms meme raging on Planet Ubuntu, I noticed some people still have sun-java6 installed. I’ve been using openjdk-6 since Hardy, and everything I use works fine with it (e.g. Vuze, Catan, Eclipse, FreeMind, and even Facebook’s photo uploader thing). Given the Ubuntu Tech Board’s “remove sun-java6 from the archive” Agenda […]

Mathias Gug’s Ubuntu Server posts

RFP: packages to promote to main and demote to universe for Lucid Lynx LTS

The Ubuntu Server team is requesting feedback on the list of packages to be promoted to main and demoted to universe during this release cycle. Lucid being an LTS release we wanna make sure that packages in main are maintainable for 5 years. Useful packages should be promoted to main while packages that provide duplicated functionalities or are not maintain […]

Sep 20 – Sep 25 Wrap-up

Spent most of my week in Portland to attend conferences. Conferences Attended LDAPCon 2009 and published report. Attended LinuxCon 2009. Image Store Proxy Updated image-store-proxy to 1.0. This version brings support for gpg signed images. Still need testing against the real-world Canonical Image Store infrastructure.

A summary of LDAPCon 2009

On Sunday, September 20th and Monday, September 21st I attended LDAPCon 2009 in Portland, OR. Most of the open source projects were there – with the notable absence of Port 389 (Redhat) – as well as some vendors (Apple and UnboundID). Most of the slides are available online. Apache Directory project The Apache Directory folks gave several present […]

Thierry Carrez’s Ubuntu Server posts

UDS Lucid

This week, Dallas hosts the Ubuntu Developer Summit for the Lucid Lynx release. This is the key moment where we define what will be done for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, and discuss how it will be done. There will be plenty of interesting sessions in all the tracks, and sometimes I wish I could attend two sessions at the same time. In the server track, Monday will have […]

Run your own Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, part 3

In part 1 and part 2 of this series, we saw how to set up a minimal cloud infrastructure and bundle a basic image (and test it). In this final article, we’ll play with our cloud from an end-user perspective. Setting up the web UI First of all, before accepting end users, as the administrator of the cloud you will have to setup a few things on the web U […]

Run your own Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, part 2

In part 1 of this series, we saw how to install the cloud infrastructure. In this article, we’ll bundle and upload an EMI (Eucalyptus Machine Image), based on Ubuntu Server 9.10 Beta, and validate that we can run an instance of it. Download required elements Go to the cloud/cluster controller and download the required items. For a 64-bit image: $ URL= […]

Jamie Strandboge’s Ubuntu Server Posts

AppArmor sVirt security driver for libvirt

Serving up Sftp and AppArmor

AppArmor now available in Karmic — testing needed

After a lot of hard work by John Johansen and the Ubuntu kernel team, bug #375422 is well on its way to be fixed. More than just forward ported for Ubuntu, AppArmor has been reworked to use the updated kernel infrastructure for LSMs. As seen in #apparmor on Freenode a couple of days ago: 11:24 < jjohansen> I am working to a point where I can try upstre […]

2 Responses to “8 outstanding merges”

Feed for this Entry Trackback Address

1 Onkar Friday, 20 June 2008 at 1:55 pm

I have filed merge bug for libservlet2.4-java long time back.
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libservlet2.4-java/+bug/233958

It is waiting for attention from Matthias aka ‘Toolchain God’.

2 foo Saturday, 21 June 2008 at 12:02 pm

What about merges the other way, are they frozen too?

Ubuntu Server Blog