About Jorge Castro

I work on the Ubuntu Community Team for Canonical Ltd. When not involved in geekery, you can find me at a brewery, tacqueria, watching the Detroit Red Wings, or thrashing to Metallica.

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Unity Contributor Report: Ready for Beta 2, Lenses API ready to go

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This is a guest post from Ahmed Kamal and Jorge O. Castro, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks (Original Post) The roll up to Beta two begins as the archive starts to get more and more frozen with Beta 2 Freeze tomorrow. We have one major announcement for the week, Neil [...]

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Brave Compiz Pre-release Testers Wanted!

We’re looking for a few brave souls to break their computers…

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Unity Contributor Report: So Long Feature Freeze!

Ubuntu hit feature freeze last week, which means for most intents and purposes the features for 11.10 and are now in place, and the remainder of the cycle is left for bug fixing and polish, as you can see the contributor team has been quite busy!

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Unity Progress Report: More, more, more

This is a guest post from Ahmed Kamal and Jorge O. Castro, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks (Original Post) This week the Unity team has still been concentrating on feature work and backlog bugs. All the changes in this week’s desktop team report have landed for the Alpha 3 release [...]

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Unity Progress Report – Alt-Tab style

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Ubuntu’s Ahmed Kamal and Jorge O. Castro are here with their weekly round up of what’s been happening in Ubuntu 11.10 development land…

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Run Ocelot, Run! (Unity Report for 13 July)

This is a guest post from Ahmed Kamal and Jorge O. Castro, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks (Original Post) Welcome to another installment of the Unity progress report. Many Unity team members are recovering from the Dublin sprint, however the polish is still is still trickling in. Thanks for the [...]

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Unity Progress Report – Irish Edition

This is a guest post from Jorge O. Castro, External Developer Relations Liaison, who will be posting Unity updates over the coming weeks (Original Post) This is the Unity weekly report for 6 July. The last week the team spent some time hacking on Unity in Dublin, Ireland, which included a quick meet and greet with the [...]

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The Unity Report – Carving Away the Stone

This is the Unity weekly report for 22 June. We’re sliding into the week before the Ubuntu Platform Rally in Dublin, Ireland, and after that we’re in Alpha-2 mode, so the team is getting a bunch of house cleaning out the way. In many ways, this should be the last super-boring Unity report as things will get more exciting from here on out, as such we continue to chip away at the rock.

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What’s up with Unity – contributor report for 14 June

There’s been a lot happening in the Unity world as of late, with a tonne of new contributors fixing loads of bugs, and the list of major bugs and features is growing ever longer. Read on for more!

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Unity Community Contributor plans for 11.10

For Ubuntu 11.04 we made an effort to make Unity easy to contribute to, so that anyone who wanted to participate could help out and help drive the development of Unity forward.

During UDS in Budapest, Hungary, we had a session on how we’re going to improve this program. As luck would have it this was a video’ed session, and what you’ll read in this post is a result of that session and some other feedback from people.

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Look what we built together, a retrospective on Unity bitesize bugs.

This cycle we started off determined to make it easy for anyone who wanted to contribute to Ubuntu Unity to have no roadblocks in their way.

Read on for a breakdown and overview of how well the ‘Bitesize bugs’ initiative went…

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Unity Bitesize Bug Status for 29 March

While there is no exciting new bling to talk about this week, there are plenty of bugfixes to be had for this Unity release. This week the team welcomes Nico van der Walt as he makes his introduction fixing Bug #731212: “Applications” and “Files & Folders” keyboard shortcut overlays not drawn correctly with scalable launcher and Bug #741346: superkey shortcut labels does not scale properly.

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Unity Bitesize Bug Status for 22 March

From now until release it’s fix fix fix on the Unity team, all day every day.

Dylan McCall’s landed his first code contribution to Unity, though he is no stranger to contributing to Ubuntu, most people know him as the person who maintains the installer slideshow.

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Weekly testing of nVidia drivers begins

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement from the Ubuntu Quality Assurance team has announced the introduction of a weekly testing program for nVidia proprietary drivers.

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Unity Bitesize Bug report for 15 March

In this Unity Bitesize Bug Report, Jorge introduces new contributor Anrea Azzarone as well as covering a few new Unity updates and of course letting everyone know how you can get involved!

Hit up the link for the juicy details…

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