Ubuntu Server update for Lucid Alpha3

[Etienne Goyer]

If I may ...

Although I have not been contributing a lot, I have been following the
server team progress quite closely in the past three and a half years. I
have to say that lucid have been the most productive and vibrant
development cycle so far.  Lots of stuff I care about are progressing
nicely, and the community member involvement have really been picking up
and showing.

Go server team!


Jos Boumans wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> this week the Lucid Alpha3 development phase has started. So in
> following our Alpha2 announcement, below is what's on the horizon
> for Alpha3; some of these are new blueprints for Alpha3, some are
> continued work from Alpha2.
> 
> You can find the full release schedule for Lucid here:
> 
>     https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule
> 
> == Alpha3 Projects ==
> 
> Since the upcoming release is an LTS, a lot of this cycles work is
> centered around stability. Currently, we're broadly targeting the
> following 3 areas:
> 
>    * Software integration:
>      * Eucalyptus 1.6.2 [1]
>      * Moving from MySQL 5.0 to 5.1 [2]
>      * Provide libraries in PHP/Python/Perl for AWS services[5]
> 
>    * Improving our UEC & EC2 experience
>      * Integrating Puppet & Etckeeper[3][4]
>      * Provide boothooks & user based configuration [6][7]
> 
>    * QA & testing:
>      * UEC tests [9]
>      * Automated server tests [10]
>      * Bug squashing [11]
>      * Apport hooks [12]
>      * Daily builds for server packages [19]
>      * The Server Papercuts project [20][21]
> 
> There are also a few community driven specs which are targeted
> for the Lucid release:
> 
>    * Asterisk Integration [15]
>    * Ubuntu Cluster Stack [16]
>    * Ubuntu Server Containers (LXC, OpenVZ) [17]
>    * Integration of Amavisd-new, Spamassassin, and Clamav [18]
> 
> The full list of blueprints related to these targets and our progress
> can be found on the server team wiki here:
> 
>    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/ReleaseStatus
> 
> or on our work item tracker here:
> 
>    http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/canonical-server- 
> lucid-alpha-3.html
> 
> == Feedback & Involvement ==
> 
>    * If you have any suggestions for AWS libraries in PHP/Perl/Python
>      or are interested in packaging/contributing a library in another
>      language, please let us know in the RFC thread[23]
> 
>    * To make the most of our Server Papercuts project[20], please
>      participate in the email discussion[21] and nominate papercuts
>      and/or volunteer to fix them!
> 
>    * To help us track down bugs and crashes better, we're adding apport
>      hooks to several key pieces of software. If you'd like to implement
>      any of those hooks or contribute your own, please let us know in
>      the blueprint[12]
> 
>    * The annual Ubuntu Server Survey[13] has been published and we would
>      love your feedback. It should be available until the end of  
> January.
> 
>    * The Ubuntu Cluster Stack spec[16] has issued a call for testing[22]
>      and would love to hear about your experiences.
> 
> As always, you can find the team on #ubuntu-server on irc.freenode.net
> if you'd like to ask a question or contribute and/or attend our weekly
> public meetings[14].
> 
> On behalf of the Ubuntu Server team,
> 
> --Jos
> 
> [1] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-
> eucalyptus-merging-and-packaging
> [2] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-mysql-5.0
> [3] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-puppet- 
> uec-ec2-integration
> [4] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-puppet- 
> etckeeper-integration
> [5] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-aws- 
> client-libraries
> [6] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- 
> ec2-boothook
> [7] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- 
> ec2-config
> [9] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- 
> uec-testing
> [10] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/qa-lucid- 
> automated-server-testing
> [11] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/ReleaseStatus#Bugs
> [12] https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- 
> apport-hooks
> [13] http://survey.ubuntu.com/index.php?sid=92259
> [14] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Meeting
> [15] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- 
> asterisk-integration
> [16] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- 
> cluster-stack
> [17] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- 
> contextualization
> [18] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-more- 
> mail-integration
> [19] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid-daily- 
> vcs
> [20] https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/server-lucid- 
> papercuts
> [21] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2010-January/ 
> 003613.html
> [22] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2010-January/ 
> 003615.html
> [23] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ec2/2010-January/ 
> 001254.html
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Etienne Goyer
Technical Account Manager - Canonical Ltd
Ubuntu Certified Instructor