There is a new “We Love Our Lamb on Australia Day” commercial by Sam Kekovich. It is definitely worth watching. It probably won’t piss off as many people as last year’s did though
Last year’s ad seems to still be available here.
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There is a new “We Love Our Lamb on Australia Day” commercial by Sam Kekovich. It is definitely worth watching. It probably won’t piss off as many people as last year’s did though
Last year’s ad seems to still be available here.
The Bugzilla migration on Friday went quite well, so we’ve now got all the old Ubuntu bug reports in Launchpad. Before the migration, we were up to bug #6760. Now that the migration is complete, there are more than 28000 bugs in the system. Here are some quick points to help with the transition:
http://launchpad.net/malone/bugtrackers/ubuntu-bugzilla/$BUGZILLA_ID
This will redirect to the Launchpad bug watching that bugzilla bug. This URL can easily be used to make a Firefox keyword bookmark.
apt-cache show $packagename | grep ^Source:
We’ll make it easier to enter bugs when you only know the binary package name in the future.
There are still a few issues that need to be ironed out. The mailing lists subscribed to most Ubuntu bugs are not yet properly configured to accept mail from Launchpad, so result in “held for moderation” messages. These issues should get fixed shortly.
The gnome-gpg utility makes PGP a bit nicer to use on Gnome with the following features:
Unfortunately there are a few usability issues:
I put together a patch to fix these issues by using gpg‘s --status-fd/--command-fd interface. Since this provides status information to gnome-gpg, it means it knows when to prompt for and send the passphrase, and when it gave the wrong passphrase.
I also swiped the zenity_util_show_dialog() function from Zenity to make the password dialog a transient of the terminal that ran it, so the passphrase dialog stays on the same desktop and can’t be obscured by that terminal.
The changes can be found here:
http://www.gnome.org/~jamesh/arch/james@jamesh.id.au/gnome-gpg–devel–0
(a Bazaar 1.x branch, since Colin was using Arch).
There are still a few issues with handling non-password prompts from gpg, but it works quite well for the basics.
The migration is finally going to happen, after much testing of migration code and improvements to Malone.
If all goes well, Ubuntu will be using a single bug tracker again on Friday (as opposed to the current system where bugs in main go in Bugzilla and bugs in universe go in Malone).