Call for nominations: Ubuntu Community Council

2024-08-27 Thread Merlijn Sebrechts
We’re looking for motivated people that want to *join the Ubuntu Community Council*! If you or anyone you know wants to help improve the Ubuntu Community, please consider nominating yourself! The Ubuntu project turned 20 this year, but is still in constant flux. The advent of new communication pla

SRU Documentation Reboot

2024-08-27 Thread Robie Basak
We've long acknowledged that the SRU documentation has outgrown its (mostly) single wiki page, and that one of the reasons uploads are mismatching SRU team expectations more frequently than they should is that the documentation is lacking. I've been driving a significant evolution into more detail

Reminder of temporary noble-updates freeze for 24.04.1

2024-08-27 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, Just a quick reminder that for the duration of the point release preparation (that is till the end of this week) the noble-updates pocket will stay frozen and will only release SRUs whenever they're necessary for the .1 milestone. Thank you! On behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team,

Re: [Technical Board] Feedback requested: draft policy on third party software sources included by Ubuntu

2024-08-27 Thread Robie Basak
On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 11:06:34AM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > When this was raised to the Technical Board, we formed a view that we > should have some written policy that defines what users can expect from > snaps that are installed in this way, together with a process for > granting exceptions. S

Call for testing: first set of 24.04.1 RCs ready!

2024-08-27 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, The first set of initial release candidate images for the point release are just now finishing building. Many of them are already available on the usual ISO tracker here: https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/460/builds We will be re-spinning Ubuntu Studio for a flavor-sp