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| 1. | 2004/12/13 - 2004/12/17 | (0 posts) | Ubuntu Conference (Week 2) Megathread |
| 2. | 2004/12/03 - 2004/12/21 | (73 posts) | Ubuntu Documentation Team Happenings |
| 3. | 2004/12/13 | (8 posts) | Testing Language Packs |
| 4. | 2004/12/10 - 2004/12/15 | (5 posts) | Multisync Packages |
| 5. | 2004/12/14 | (0 posts) | Managing Branding Changes (BOF) |
| 6. | 2004/12/15 | (1 post) | Array CD 2 |
| 7. | 2004/12/15 | (0 posts) | Accessibility BOF |
| 8. | 2004/12/15 | (0 posts) | Security BOF |
| 9. | 2004/12/16 | (0 posts) | Python In Essential (BOF) |
| 10. | 2004/12/17 | (0 posts) | Announcing Rosetta |
| 11. | 2004/12/14 - 2004/12/17 | (4 posts) | Ubuntu Security Notifications |
Introduction
Welcome to the seventeenth edition of Ubuntu Traffic. This issue covers the week of December 11 - December 17, 2004. Ubuntu Traffic summarizes the most important mailing list and IRC discussions involving the Ubuntu GNU/Linux distribution.
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First, the following bits and pieces didn't get a full story but are worth mentioning:
Mailing List Stats For This Week
We looked at 1243 posts in 5466K.
There were 361 different contributors. 200 posted more than once. 172 posted last week too.
The top posters of the week were:
1.
Ubuntu Conference (Week 2) Megathread
2004/12/13 - 2004/12/17
(0 posts)
Subject: "[many]"
As I mentioned in the introduction, I've highlighted a few BOFs which I thought were the most essential and put them in full stories below. The rest are described here. Please read the notes on the wiki where they are available if you're interested (the links are in there).
Martin Pitt described the use of encrypted storage for the following goals and use cases:
He went into depth on each of these solutions.
This BOF was a conversation between Python upstream, represented by Anthony Baxter, and Ubuntu hackers. It asked:
There were a handful of other BOFs that did not have notes available at the time I wrote this. I've done my best to list those here. This list includes:
There is also notes and information from a number of sessions at the conference that were not proper BOFs but that have notes anyway. These involve a few events that were not really part of the conference but that ran alongside and involved conference attendees. These included:
Additionally, the conference included a long day of workshops catering to press, government and Spanish Debian variants. The event was called the Mataró Sessions Workshops. The talks (and the Canonical/Ubuntu person who facilitated each session jointly with a Spanish participant from the community) included:
Finally, over the weekend, there was an unofficial pyGTK mega-BOF led by Christian Robottom Reis and many of the other participants who have had a hand in pyGTK.
2.
Ubuntu Documentation Team Happenings
2004/12/03 - 2004/12/21
(73 posts)
Subject: "I think the book is aleady done :-)"
People:
John Hornbeck, Chua Wen Kiat, Corey Burger, Enrico Zini, Christoph Haas
The Ubuntu Documentation Team mailing list clocked in another big week while mostly focusing on two major topics.
The first was the unveiling of The Ubuntu Guide, the massive (and massively hyperlinked) document by Chua Wen Kiat. The document is online at: http://ubuntuguide.org/
John Hornbeck pointed folks to it with a, "Has anyone seen this? That is amazing. Who is this guy?" The author of the document came across the thread on the Doc Team list and introduced himself. The team had talked a little bit about the lack of Free licensing for the guide. Very responsive, Chua Wen Kiat almost immediately released a new version under the GNU GPL. He also announced that he was a bit overwhelmed saying:
I am going to launch a club soon. And my team will be promoting and doing workshops with ubuntu to our members. The members are consist of students from colleges/universites. Currently 10 institutes had already signed up. We are expecting 5k members by march. The guide was written to assist the members to get knowledge from a one stop station. It was published on the web so that it can be shared across rather than just our members. We have already contacted canonical regarding this club.
The guide is not completed yet. People are already contributing directly through email. I'm still workin on it. It will be the framework for a more detailed version for Hoary.
The second big topic was the Ubuntu Quickguide. The Quickguide was one of the proposals that was put forward in the Hoary Documentation Goals BOF held at Mataró and summarized in last week's traffic. There were a few issues raised in relation to the new Quickguide project. Corey Burger asked:
Currently, the quickguide is svn is different from that that plovs did a mockup here at the con. The fundamental difference is that mockup was by program and the current mockup is task based. I am kind of inclined to go with the taskbased one in the respository, as it seems to better for a quickguide.
Enrico replied saying:
I agree that a task-based guide would really be cool. However, an intro for applications would be very useful anyway, and in most cases it's missing.
So, I propose that at the moment we stay with what we started, for the satisfaction of saying "DONE!" and the curiosity to see how it looks, and then, why not, give a try to the task-oriented one.
Christoph Haas clarified things by listing the two projects:
- User's Guide: task-based
- Nutshell: program-based
3.
Testing Language Packs
2004/12/13
(8 posts)
Subject: "Request for testing new libc6 for language packs"
People:
Martin Pitt, James Troup, Colin Watson
Martin Pitt announced:
In the course of preparing language pack support for Ubuntu, I prepared a new glibc version which supports an alternative gettext tree in /usr/share/locale-langpack/ (in addition to the usual /usr/share/locale/) and uses whichever file is newer.
If /usr/share/locale-langpack is not present, the new glibc should behave exactly as the old one. For testing I attached a mocked up coreutils.mo gettext file which contains the German translation of coreutils plus a modified string in the "head" help.
I ask you to do the following:
Install the new glibc:
deb http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/langpack/ / deb-src http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/langpack/ /Check whether your system still works :-)
Install the mock coreutils translation:
wget http://people.ubuntu.com/~pitti/langpack/coreutils.mo sudo install -D coreutils.po /usr/share/locale-langpack/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.moThe following command should give the normal english head help:
LANGUAGE=en_US head --help(basically any language other than en_GB should work normally)
The following command should give German help with the changed string "If you can read this, the gettext file in /usr/share/locale-langpack is used and the new libintl works.":
LANGUAGE=en_GB head --helpYou can play around with copying the new file also to /usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/coreutils.po (it does not exist yet), modifying it (using msgunfmt -- edit -- msgfmt), and touching them to make one file more recent than the other (which selects which one is actually used).
Unless somebody reports a serious breakage (or gettext file selection does not work), I will upload this at Wednesday. Then we can start to upload language packs and rebuild the archive to not ship files in /usr/share/locale by default.
Martin Pitt followed up to himself to say, "I forgot to mention an important detail: you must have these locales installed to make this work. Check with locale -a to show all installed locales. If you don't have an en_GB/en_US locale, you need to install them using sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales or install the coreutils.mo file into a different language directory."
James Troup took issue with Martin Pitt's comment about rebuilding the archive and protested that this was not possible saying, "but rebuilding the archive is quite simply not an option. Even if you meant rebuilding hoary/main, that's neither desirable nor sane. A large percentage of packages will naturally be rebuilt between now and hoary release. If enough aren't and we're still short on CD space, we should do targeted and selective rebuilding of packages, ordered by how much space a rebuild would save us."
Colin Watson replied to say, "I understood Martin to mean manually uploading various packages that need locale changes to modify what they spit out, rather than an automatic archive rebuild. Even if I understood him wrongly, that's what I think would be the sane option."
Martin Pitt replied again saying:
Indeed; given the amount of synced packages from Debian and the current upload rate, there shouldn't be sooo much packages left at the end which still contain translations. To avoid apt/dpkg troubles, the remaining packages should be uploaded with a new version number at the end (but no other changes).
I would vote against not rebuilding untouched packages, though. It's not only a matter of CD space, but also a matter of avoiding to download redundant data in debs.
4.
Multisync Packages
2004/12/10 - 2004/12/15
(5 posts)
Subject: "Multisync packages ready for hoary"
People:
Michael Banck
Michael Banck finished his Ubuntu Multisync packages (which have been given passing mentions in traffic before) saying:
I believe now would be a good time to have multisync in hoary/universe.
Over the last days I have (i) NMU'd the Debian package to fix the outstanding crashers in the Evolution2 plugin and (ii) submitted a patch and got it applied in upstream's CVS which fixes building multisync with e-d-s 1.1.
I have prepared hoary source packages with this minimal patch (the interdiff to the revision in unstable is attached), maybe somebody wants to upload those to universe. Otherwise, you could just wait until multisync-0.83 will be release (though there seems to be no ETA yet) and eventually tickle into unstable and finally universe.
A signed source (there are binaries there as well) package is at
deb-src http://people.debian.org/~mbanck/ubuntu-hoary/ ./
Matt Zimmerman said thanks and uploaded those packages into Hoary.
5.
Managing Branding Changes (BOF)
2004/12/14
(0 posts)
Subject: "ManagingBrandingChanges"
People:
Jeff Waugh
Branding is a Hoary+1 goal (it won't be done for Hoary) but it still warrented some serious discussion because it's somewhere that Ubuntu is very serious about going.
The bulk of the notes include:
Goal
- brand any distro/derivate complettely
What needs to be done:
- exchange text, images in applications, configuration-files
- documentation changes
- code changes (d-i, vim)
- infrastructure change (bugtracker, live-cd, install-cd,archive)
Proposals/Ideas
- use Replace on hunderts of packages
- use Divert on hunderts of packages
- change hunderts of source packages (patch it or use hct with tagged branches)
- use gettext (and push the problem to rosetta)
- make a general branding framework (make each package brandable and provide brand-packages)
Proposed solution:
- parameterized source packages change + buildd (dh_brand) and a enviroment
- variable include file replacement
- have one $distro-branding and one $distro-artwork package
Problems:
- We'll get fuzzy translations because of the branding changes (rosetta needs to optimize for it)
- Some dispute about what parts of the branding need to be done at runtime and what at buildtime
The BOF spent the second half talking about what needs to be changed and where specific problem area for branding lie.
6.
Array CD 2
2004/12/15
(1 post)
Subject: "Array CD 2"
People:
Colin Watson
Colin Watson announced a finished version of Array CD 2 saying:
Array CD 2 is ready, live from the Ubuntu conference in Mataró, Spain. This is the second in a series of milestone CD images released once every two weeks or so (theoretically; this one is belated, for which I apologise), as images that are known to be reasonably free of showstopper CD-build or installer bugs, while representing very current snapshots of Hoary. You can download it here:
- http://cdimage.ubuntulinux.org/releases/hoary/array-2/
- rsync://cdimage.ubuntulinux.org/cdimage/releases/hoary/array-2/
See http://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/Archive for access instructions. I recommend rsync if possible, as you can then download future images based on this one to save bandwidth.
Pre-release versions of Hoary are not encouraged for anyone needing a stable system or anyone who is not comfortable running into occasional breakage. They are recommended for Ubuntu developers and those who want to help in testing, reporting, and fixing bugs.
Some notable installer improvements and bug-fixes in this release:
The installer uses udev and hotplug rather than devfs and discover. This brings it into more or less the same hardware detection sphere as the installed system, which should result in more consistent installations and fewer places for us to modify when adding support for new hardware.
However, there will be hardware that is temporarily no longer supported due to this change, since we haven't yet made sure everything interesting in the discover database is found by hotplug. Please file a bug with 'lspci' and 'lspci -n' output if you have a problem like this.
Netboot installs should get second-stage packages from hoary now, rather than warty.
Upgraded parted by several upstream versions; while this changed API/ABI so several other packages needed to be rebuilt, this is believed finally to correct the problem where Ubuntu installations rendered Windows unbootable with certain partition table layouts and BIOS versions (#1566). Please test.
Linux kernel 2.6.9.
Commented-out examples in /etc/apt/sources.list are added for updates (#3122) and security (#3599).
Installing using an image written to a USB drive should now be supported, although due to being at the Ubuntu conference I haven't been in the best position to test it.
Added the ia64 architecture, although the installer is untested.
'custom' boot option renamed to 'server'.
The two errata from Array CD 1 have also been fixed.
Known installer issues:
- The new hotplug support brings with it a few race conditions in hardware detection, so you may have problems with the framebuffer not being loaded or with your CD-ROM drive not being detected which are cleared up by trying the installation again. This class of problem is being actively worked on, and I believe we should have a solution soon.
- Network interface names aren't displayed properly in the network configuration stage of the installation, because they used to come from discover1-data which we aren't using any more. This will be fixed by using lspci instead.
If you're interested in following changes as we further develop Hoary, have a look at the hoary-changes list: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/hoary-changes
Bug reports should go here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/
7.
Accessibility BOF
2004/12/15
(0 posts)
Subject: "AccessibilityBOF"
Description:
Unfortunately, Henrik Omma, the head of the accessibility team for Ubuntu, was not able to attend the meeting in Mataró so Jeff Waugh took his place running the accessiblity BoF.
The highlights of the BoF included a look at the tools useful for accessiblity including:
Other issues that were raised included:
8.
Security BOF
2004/12/15
(0 posts)
Subject: "SecurityBOF"
Martin Pitt ran a BOF that talked about how to improve proactive security in Ubuntu.
This discussion involved Derootification which has already enjoyed a huge amount of progress plus:
Compiler enhancements
Kernel enhancements
Mandatory access control
As the for immediately future, Fabio Massimo Di Nitto will prepare a kernel with SE Linux (turned off by default) and Martin Pitt will build a PaX enabled kernel (also off by default) for universe. Martin will also compare various kernel enhancements of different distributions.
9.
Python In Essential (BOF)
2004/12/16
(0 posts)
Subject: "PythonInEssential"
One of the feature goals of Hoary to to have Python as an essential package. Of course, python comes with a large library (i.e., "batteries included.") In order to make Python essential, the team needs to find a way to exclude the batteries and still have it work.
The notes from the BOF are very in-depth and don't lend themselves well to summary. They begin by comparing the bits and pieces of perl-base to the bits and pieces of the python core library to find out what was absolutely essential and what could be excluded.
The notes above contain a list of those modules that will be not be included in the essential version of the library.
10.
Announcing Rosetta
2004/12/17
(0 posts)
Subject: "Announcing Rosetta"
People:
Dafydd Harries
The big announcement this week from Mataró was that Canonical unveiled a web-based translation portal for PO files. The announcement, in full came from Dafydd Harries:
Rosetta: A Web-based Translation Portal For PO Files
This announcement and translations of it into various languages are available on the UbuntuLinux wiki: https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/RosettaReleaseAnnouncement
The Rosetta Translation Portal team is pleased to announce that the portal is now ready for widespread use. Rosetta's goal is to make the process of translating free software as easy as possible for both translators and software maintainers. Maintainers can send us PO Templates and PO Files, which will be published through the web for translation. PO Files can then be downloaded at any time.
Rosetta is part of the Ubuntu Launchpad at: https://launchpad.ubuntu.com
Happy translating!
Rosetta Resources
Several resources are available to Rosetta users and anybody else interested in Rosetta.
The rosetta-users mailing list is available for dicussing Rosetta: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/rosetta-users
Another place for discussion is the #rosetta channel on the Freenode IRC network (irc.freenode.net)
How to Start Using Rosetta
In order to do translation with Rosetta, you will need to register an account on the ubuntulinux.org website: http://www.ubuntulinux.org/join_form
Next, find something you would like to translate. If there is something you would like to translate which you cannot find in Rosetta, feel free to ask on the mailing list or the IRC channel and we will try and import it for you.
Once you have found the thing you want to translate, start translating!
The Rosetta team is happy to answer any questions you might have.
Bugs in Rosetta
Although Rosetta is being used for translation today, it is expected that users will discover bugs. We will endeavour to fix bugs quickly as they are found, but hope users will understand that this is a new tool.
Currently, the preferred method of reporting bugs in Rosetta is to send a message to the mailing list. Feedback about Rosetta is encouraged and welcomed.
Acknowledgements
We would like to thank all the people who tested Rosetta, found bugs and gave us feedback before the release.
11.
Ubuntu Security Notifications
2004/12/14 - 2004/12/17
(4 posts)
Subject: "Ubuntu Security Notifications"
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-38-1 (CAN-2004-0814, CAN-2004-1016, CAN-2004-1056, CAN-2004-1058, CAN-2004-1068, CAN-2004-1069, CAN-2004-1137, CAN-2004-1151)
Affected Release: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
Affected Packages are:
Fix: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 2.6.8.1-16.3. You need to reboot the computer after doing a standard system upgrade to effect the necessary changes.
More Information: http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2004-December/000040.html
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-39-1 (CAN-2004-1074, USN-30-1)
Affected Release: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
Affected Packages are:
Fix: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 2.6.8.1-16.4. You need to reboot the computer after performing a standard system upgrade to effect the necessary changes.
More Information: http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2004-December/000041.html
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-40-1 (CAN-2004-1019, CAN-2004-1065)
Affected Release: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
Affected Packages are:
Fix: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 4:4.3.8-3ubuntu7.1. After performing a standard system upgrade you need to reload the PHP module in the webserver by executing sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload to effect the necessary changes.
More Information: http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2004-December/000042.html
Ubuntu Security Notice USN-41-1 (CAN-2004-1154)
Affected Release: Ubuntu 4.10 (Warty Warthog)
Affected Packages are: samba
Fix: The problem can be corrected by upgrading the affected package to version 3.0.7-1ubuntu6.3. In general, a standard system upgrade is sufficient to effect the necessary changes.
More Information: http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2004-December/000043.html
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