Bug statuses in Launchpad.

I have been following the discussions on ubuntu-devel, -devel-discuss and -launchpad-users mailing lists regarding the status of Ubuntu bugs. There are many different discussion threads, some of them cross-posted, so it is a little difficult to give all the links (and I may forget one, which I do not want to do).

One particular bug I followed was marked “expired” and I realized I did not understand the different statuses in Launchpad.

Matthew Revell has posted a summary of what happened to all the incomplete bugs earlier last month, and most important, an updated documentation will be available and easier to find for basic contributors such as me.

For now, you can check the Launchpad blog post, which I had not been talking about so far, I was waiting for more infos on the mailing-lists.

Many thanks for all this work!

The Frigde: 10 Gutsy Gibbon features in 10 days.

Part of the fever spreading out for Gutsy release in 8 days now, The Fridge has started another countdown.
For the next few days until October 18th, new features will be highlighted. I knew of tracker, the first to get attention, but had never actually tested it. The very well written Fridge article was the one deciding me for a test, and now I am using it with deskbar. Bullet Proof X is the one for today, nice addition too. So I’ be collecting the links to post them here, all in one place, just for me. May be you’ll find this collection handy too ;)

• Deskbar and Tracker
• Bulletproof X and Graphical X configuration
• Sharing your computer with Fast User Switching
• Desktop Effects with Compiz
• Better Firefox plugins and Gnash
• Better Hardware Support
• AppArmor
• NTFS partition writing
• The killer feature – the Ubuntu community