About Daniel Holbach

Daniel has been involved with the Ubuntu community since the warty release. His interest always the developer community and getting people involved. Daniel lives in Berlin, has a dog named Murphy, is a hobbyist DJ and loves good things.

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development update

Last Development Update of 12.04 Today we saw the release of Ubuntu 12.04. It is the fourth release with long-term support and the 16th Ubuntu release. Lots of hard work went into this release, so if you see Ubuntu contributors around, give them a hug! Kate Stewart, the Release Manager sent out an email with [...]

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development update

We are almost there. Tomorrow language packs will be test-built. Next Tuesday we will hit the deadline for translations for language packs and from next week on Ubuntu 12.04 images of the release candidate will be built and extensively tested. Make sure you give the candidates a spin and report issues as you find them. [...]

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update

Martin Pitt

Development Update We are only five weeks away from the release of Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. Next week we expect the Beta 2 release to go out and afterwards only important fixes will go in. 26th April will be the day when we all can celebrate our hard work and enjoy this fine piece of work [...]

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update

Development Update Only seven weeks until release. If you are excited, you’re not the only one. We still have two weeks until Beta 2 Freeze and three weeks until Beta 2 Release and if you have a look at the release list of the Beta 2 milestone, you can see that a huge number of [...]

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update

Benjamin Kerensa

Development Update Today marks the transition of Ubuntu 12.04 from Alpha Testing into the first phase of Beta Testing as Ubuntu 12.04 Beta 1 is released. Nicholas Skaggs has a number of items you can help out with by simply doing a bit of testing. We still have eight weeks until release, so let’s take [...]

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update

Ubuntu Kernel Team at UDS-M in Brussels

Development Update Nine weeks until release and one thing is clear already: 12.04 will be a kick-arse release. Thanks everyone for your hard work on it! Still there’s a few things which still need to get done. Today User Interface Freeze and Beta Freeze will kick in, next week we will do a test rebuild [...]

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update

Robert Roth

Development Update And again we are in the most interesting time of the release cycle. Today we will hit Feature Freeze at around 21:00 UTC. The time where we stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release. Today marks the end of a couple of very busy [...]

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 13

Kubuntu Team at last UDS

Development Update Ubuntu 12.04 is shaping up nicely. Last week Alpha 2 got released, which means you should be testing by now. Next week we will hit Feature Freeze, by which time we “stop introducing new features, packages, and APIs, and concentrate on fixing bugs in the development release”. This also means that new upstream [...]

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Developer Week: Summary Day 3

It’s sad news, yes – Ubuntu Developer Week for the 12.04 cycle is over. It’s been three fantastic days full of action-packed sessions. If you couldn’t attend, check out the logs of the sessions, all of them are posted on the UDW page. Here’s what happened on day 3, yesterday: Fixing Desktop bugs — seb128Sébastien [...]

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 12

Simon Steinbeiß

(Brought to you by the Ubuntu Development News team and first posted here.) Development Update It is the week of Ubuntu 12.04 Alpha 2 which is to be released in just a few hours. Everybody has been getting their good work into Ubuntu, so it is a great opportunity for everyone to go check it [...]

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Developer Week: Summary Day 2, Outlook Day 3

Day 2 of Ubuntu Developer Week is over and it was awesome! Logs up are up at the UDW page, so go and check them out if you couldn’t make it yesterday. Let’s take a look at what happened yesterday: Bringing your app to Ubuntu — dpm David Planella kicked of day 2 and gave [...]

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Developer Week: Summary Day 1, Outlook Day 2

Ubuntu Developer Week 2012

Day 1 of Ubuntu Developer Week is over and what a fantastic day it was. Logs up are up at the UDW page, so go and check them out if you couldn’t make it yesterday. Let’s take a look at what happened yesterday: Introduction to Ubuntu development — dholbach Around 340 people showed up for [...]

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Ubuntu Developer Week – Outlook Day 1

Ubuntu Developer Week 2012

Today is day 1 of this cycle’s Ubuntu Developer Week.

Let’s have a quick look at today’s schedule to whet your appetite…

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Ubuntu Developer Week: 31st January-2nd February

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It’s everybody’s second-most favourite time of the release again. No, not the actual release, but it’s Ubuntu Developer Week!

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Ubuntu 12.04 Development Update 10

14 weeks to Ubuntu 12.04

Welcome back everyone after the holiday break. Since we spoke the last time, there has lots been happening. By now we only have 14 weeks left until Ubuntu 12.04 a.k.a. Precise Pangolin, another LTS release gets out the door.

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