As promised, here is picture proof of Ania and Beata on the roof of Africa: And as it happens, they are both Ubuntu users
Archives
September 2010 M T W T F S S « Jan 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30
Category Archives: Uncategorized
Ubuntu on Mt. Kilimanjaro
Monday, January 4, 2010
My girlfriend Ania (who some of you will have met at UDS) has just come down from the Uhuru peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro (the highest point in Africa at 5895m elevation). I’m very impressed considering they had five days of heavy rain and freezing temperatures near the top. She claims to have been photographed at [...]
Hiring: Ubuntu QA team manager
Monday, June 15, 2009
We are seeking an experienced QA manager with background in open source to lead the Ubuntu QA team at Canonical. Quality is key to our whole project, but as with many things Ubuntu, QA for the distro is a bit different than QA most other places. In traditional tech companies that deliver a moderate number [...]
Better bugs
Sunday, May 31, 2009
In a session at UDS about increasing the use of Apport we agreed to run a series of experiments in Launchpad to encourage people to use Apport (via ubuntu-bug and ‘Report a Problem’) to report all bugs in Ubuntu. As others have pointed out, this is key to improving the quality of bug reports and [...]
Avoiding regressions
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Jonathan, you are right to call for regressions to be minimised — these bugs have a greater impact on the user experience than most. However, I don’t think delaying the release is something we should do lightly. Once we start accepting delays in a time-based release schedule we will soon start to see creep where [...]
The Bugmaster
Monday, June 16, 2008
Check out Ubuntu Bugmaster Brian Murray on the Fresh Ubuntu podcast! He explains the life cycle of a bug and how to file useful reports. Oh, and he’s on youtube as well The point he made about using the ‘Report a bug’ menu entry is worth repeating: It’s the preferred method for filing a bug [...]
testing hardy-proposed
Thursday, May 29, 2008
As 8.04 is an LTS release we will be preparing regular updates including updated CD images. Packages targeted for the CDs first go into the hardy-proposed archive where they can be tested by users who have opted in. During the run up to a regular release we get invaluable feedback from the huge number of [...]
QA team key positions
Friday, May 9, 2008
The QA team has vibrant communities around both bug triage and testing. Community contributors and Canonical employees share a range of key positions between them such as bugmaster, QA website developer and Windows-related test lead. This model where one or two team members take primary responsibility for a certain topic has evolved organically as people [...]
UME testing
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
As you may know, the Ubuntu team is working on a mobile version of the OS for mobile internet devices. But because there isn’t much of this hardware around, the UME builds don’t get the natural community testing that the desktop and server editions do. But if you are interested there is a way you [...]
Ubuntu needs easy backup
Friday, February 29, 2008
Most people don’t make backups until they lose all their data at least once. And even the, they only do it if it’s quite easy. Several simple backup solutions have been suggested for Ubuntu, but nothing has been integrated with the desktop so far. I think it’s important that we get this right. Please vote [...]