Last cycle we saw quite a number of changes to the way that planning works for Ubuntu. Some of these changes are causing issues that the current implementation of the Ubuntu Status Tracker is not easily able to handle. The main issue that I have noticed from helping people setup their work items and blueprints for tracking is that tracking needs to not be so closely dependent on the Ubuntu release cycles. This is causing issues in two ways. The first that I have seen is that a feature is …

Next Tuesday, May 14 starts the second Virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit. Based on feedback, this vUDS will be three days long. Don’t forget to register for the event. A list of currently approved blueprints is available on Launchpad. If you find that one is missing, you can create your own. Keep an eye out this week for scheduling to start.
Tracks…

App Development: Alan Pope, David Planella & Michael Hall
Community: Daniel Holbach, Nick Skaggs & Jono Bacon
Client: Jason Warner & Sebastien Bacher
Server & Cloud: Dave Walker & Antonio Rosales
Foundations: Steve Langasek

Bugs…
One of …

I have been a Google Chrome user for a while now, and I have two different ‘Users’ in Chrome. The default user is my personal account, and then I have a work account. For my personal email I use a Google Apps Gmail account and just check my email with Chrome. I use Thunderbird to check my work email. For a while now I have had an issue where I click a link from Thunderbird and it tries to open in my default Chrome user. This doesn’t work very well …

Friday I decided to create a new OpenPGP key to migrate off of my 1024D keys to something a little more current as far as how secure it is. With this, I created a 8192R key. I have also created a transition statement. If you trust me and wouldn’t mind signing the key and uploading it back to the keyserver after you are complete, it would be very much appreciated.

Yesterday Anthony Lenton released django-openid-auth version 0.5 which includes support for Django 1.1 through 1.4. It also has quite a number of bug fixes in the release as well. The new version is available from PyPi today. I plan on getting the new version into Raring soon if someone else doesn’t get to it first. I will also work with the Debian maintainer to get it into Debian soon.

Most people are probably aware by now that this Tuesday, 5 March starts the first of the new virtual Ubuntu Developer Summit events. In order to handle the changes nicely, we have made some changes to the Summit Scheduler. The changes that we made allows a meeting and/or a summit to be set as ‘virtual.’ When a meeting is set as virtual, the meeting page will render with a new virtual layout. This layout includes the Google Hangout broadcast, the IRC channel via the webchat client, and the Etherpad, all …