Ubuntu Foundations and Maverick Meerkat 10.10
Posted on May 27, 2010 by oubiwann

Introduction
For those that don't know, The Ubuntu Foundations Team is responsible for delivering the core Ubuntu system, which is common to the whole Ubuntu family of products and services. For the past couple months, I had the pleasure and honour to work with the Foundations team, assisting in preparation for the Foundations Track at UDS and planning for the 10.10 cycle.
Below I will give a brief summary of the major topics covered at UDS which, in turn, generated scheduled work items. They are listed in alphabetical order.
Boot Work
Several boot-related areas were identified for work during Maverick. These include the following:
Related blueprints:
btrfs
In Maverick, we will be adding support for btrfs. Our tasks include such work as making ureadahead work with btrfs, adding btrfs support to grub2, integration work, and features support.
Related blueprint:
Cleanup
Just after an LTS release is a perfect time to clean house. We will be taking this opportunity to do so, with such work as dropping unused/unneeded packages from the base system, double-checking package dependencies, and investigating space-saving measures.
Related blueprints:
Installer Redesign
Related blueprint:
Software Center
We want to get new applications into the Software Center, ideally providing developers with a means of generating revenue with the applications. For the former, we need to define some good social and technical processes to ensure ongoing quality and excellent producer/consumer experience. In conjunction with that, we need to work on getting a billing system in place.
Related blueprint:
Upstart
Related blueprint:
Miscellaneous
There is lots of other work we'll be doing, some of which are highlighted in the following:
Author
oubiwann
Date
May 27,
2010
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18:39:08
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