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Releasing a precise Unity 5.0 to Ubuntu 12.04

The Canonical ubuntu platform and product strategy teams are gathering in Budapest this week to tackle as much work as possible on precise pangolin. Despite the promise of snow and cheap beers, we are working hard on getting Unity 5.0 out of the door. One of the goal of this release is to increase quality, precision, no regression on the work we push to the unstable version of ubuntu. The desktop experience team made automated and manual tests for that and we can already see the first benefits from it.

OneConf in Oneiric and the way forward…

A little bit of retrospective OneConf is a pet project I'm trying to push since UDS Barcelona. The full idea is originally described on this wiki page: OneConf is a mechanism for recording software information in Ubuntu One, and synchronizing with other computers as needed. In Maverick, the list of installed software is stored. This may eventually expand to include some application settings and application state. Other tools like Stipple can provide more advanced settings/control.

Message from GNOME release team well received!

Being sad reading the GNOME reschedule announcement in this 1st April 2011, I think most of people missed a very important point. That part is: We are particularly encouraging module proposals from alternate desktop shells, which will be given careful consideration. After, talking to the GNOME release team, I'm really happy to see that they are considering now alternative desktop shells and I'm particularly excited to see a new area of cooperation with GNOME.

Quickly 0.4.1 is out!

0.4.1 is a bug fixing release and will be the one in lucid final. It contains of course all the goodness of 0.4 version plus some bug fixes that early users encountered: remove ~/.selected_editor detection. Introduced confusion for users who doesn't understand why (nano, most of the time), was triggered instead of gedit (LP: #565586). It's still possible to override the choosen editor with EDITOR or SELECTED_EDITOR environment variables. fix gpg key creation with no email address.

Quickly 0.4 available in lucid!

I'm proud to announce the availability of Quickly 0.4 in lucid. This new release brings shiny new features (more than 6 months of heavy development), lowering again the barrier for opportunistic developers. Development should just be easy and fun! Thanks to all awesome contributors making this release happened: Philip Peitsch, Petar Vasić, Jens Persson, Łukasz Jernaś Brian, Jonathan Lange and Shane Fagan. Special kudos to Rick Spencer for his continue devotion to opportunistic development and making quickly-widgets.