JoseeAntonioR
January 25th, 2013, 09:21 AM
The times for Ubuntu have never been more exciting. Cloud, server, desktop, laptop, TV, tablet, phone – everything runs Ubuntu or is soon going to. This makes developing Ubuntu very special, because fixes which go into Ubuntu in one place will benefit all form factors and all circumstances where it’s used. By improving Ubuntu you make millions of people around the globe happy.
During every 6 month release cycle we run Ubuntu Developer Week (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek). It’s back and we’re going to have it from 29th January to 31st January. During the event we will have online sessions where seasoned Ubuntu developers introduce you to their respective area of expertise or to Ubuntu Development in general.
We will have many great sessions, from hands-on introduction to packaging and Ubuntu development to talks about how to quickly get involved in certain teams and interact with other projects. We will talk about tools and infrastructure, fixing bugs, finding memleaks, working with apps, create Ubuntu images and much much much more. This is the best opportunity to get a feel for how Ubuntu development works, get to know people and ask all the questions you might have
Here’s a few quotes from session leaders:
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Benjamin Drung
Benjamin Drung and Michael Bienia (of whom the internet does not seem to have any pictures whatsoever) are going to lead the Developers Roundtable and have this to say:
“Do you have questions about Ubuntu development? Here you have the best opportunity to ask everything you want to know, because we will have a number of developers there who can answer your questions for you.”
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David Planella
David Planella, who will talk about “Writing apps for Ubuntu”, says:
“Learn how to use the best open source tools and technologies to write your apps on Ubuntu, both on the desktop and on the phone. You’ll be able to get your first app running in a matter of minutes!”
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/mhall.jpg
Michael Hall
Michael Hall never gets enough, so he’s giving two sessions at UDW this time around. Here’s what he has to say about Ubuntu App Developer tools: “Ubuntu provides a variety of tools to help you write and manage your applications. This session will cover everything from bootstrapping a new project, to making the final packages installable through the Software Center and everything in between.”
He will also talk about Unity integration: “The Unity desktop provides many opportunities for your application to integrate with the full user experience. Learn how to add your Application to the Unity messaging or sound indicators, add your own indicator, extend the Unity Launcher and much more.”
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/ogra.jpg
Oliver Grawert
We’re excited to have Oliver Grawert here, who will talk about Creating Ubuntu images and the Nexus7 images in particular. He will talk about “[t]he Ubuntu image build infrastructure at a glance, what tools do we use, how do they interact and how is the hardware set up for building the official Ubuntu images” and “[h]ow are the nexus7 images different from “normal” Ubuntu images, what can be hacked to make small modifications, how can they be re-packed or supplied with a different root file system“.
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/achiang.jpg
Alex Chiang
Alex Chiang will introduce us to the world of memory leaks and says:
“As we polish and prep Ubuntu for mobile devices, a key activity will be hunting down and squashing memory leaks. This session will discuss the basic theory of leaks, introduce valgrind and our brand new apport-valgrind wrapper, and how to analyze a valgrind log file. A C/C++ background will be helpful to get the most out of this session, but is not strictly required.”
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/balloons.jpg
Nicholas Skaggs
QA mastermind Nicholas “balloons” Skaggs will talk us through “Automated Testing with autopilot” and says:
“Learn about how autopilot is utilized by the unity team and quality team to test the ubuntu desktop. We’ll also provide an overview of what autopilot can do, show and run some example testcases, and give you the knowledge needed to get started writing your own autopilot testcases.”
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/martinpitt-hackergotchi192.png
Martin Pitt
Martin Pitt, who will talk about Automated Testing, says: “We have been, and are changing the Ubuntu development process to employ automated testing and avoid introducing regressions, and to improve confidence, focus, and development speed. In the first talk I will give an overview about the various kinds of tests that we do, so that you know where to watch out for failures and get debugging information. The second talk focuses on how to write tests, i.e. which technologies are available for e.g. hardware and GUI related behaviour or system-wide integration checks.”
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/DSCN3807.JPG_resized.jpg
Stefano Rivera
Stefano Rivera, who will talk about Upstreams and Debian in particular, said: “So, working effectively in Ubuntu means also working with the teams and people upstream who wrote the software we distribute. I’ll talk about why this is important, when it’s necessary, and how to go about it. In particular, our most important upstream is Debian. Debian has a rather unusual (though powerful) bug-tracker. We’ll cover finding, submitting, and modifying bugs on it.”
Chris Wilson
Chris Wilson, project leader of the Hundred Papercuts Team, says: “Unity may be the shiny new thing that everyone loves, but style without substance is only so much fluff, and the substance of Ubuntu is still its GTK-based apps. Once Hundred Paper Cuts focuses it’s attention on that substance, rubbing out the little annoyances that get under our skin every day we’re using Ubuntu. This session will introduce you to the project, how it works, and how to get involved. If you want to contribute to Ubuntu in a way that has the biggest impact on the quality of experience for the end user, then don’t miss this.”
Bhavani Shankar
Bhavani Shankar, said about his talk about patch systems: “Many a time we wonder how to integrate a particular fix a particular part of the code in a program and upload into repositories without having to change code each time by hand and making it clumsy. In this session I’m going to show how to use different patch management systems that are in practice now.”
About his talk about the app review process in Ubuntu he says: “In this session I’m going to explain the present workflow of reviewing apps and give an introduction into the new app dev upload process to automate reviews.”
The forum we use for this is IRC, as it makes it easy to interact for many people without losing track, you can easily copy/paste and we can save the logs as searchable docs afterwards. You join in by simply connecting to #ubuntu-classroom (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/JoiningIn) on irc.freenode.net.
Check out the schedule (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek) and find more info on the Ubuntu wiki. We hope to see you all there, please let you friends know too.
Originally posted here (http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/01/ubuntu-developer-week-is-back-2/) and here (http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/01/next-week-ubuntu-developer-week-3) by Daniel Holbach
During every 6 month release cycle we run Ubuntu Developer Week (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek). It’s back and we’re going to have it from 29th January to 31st January. During the event we will have online sessions where seasoned Ubuntu developers introduce you to their respective area of expertise or to Ubuntu Development in general.
We will have many great sessions, from hands-on introduction to packaging and Ubuntu development to talks about how to quickly get involved in certain teams and interact with other projects. We will talk about tools and infrastructure, fixing bugs, finding memleaks, working with apps, create Ubuntu images and much much much more. This is the best opportunity to get a feel for how Ubuntu development works, get to know people and ask all the questions you might have
Here’s a few quotes from session leaders:
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/bdrung.jpg
Benjamin Drung
Benjamin Drung and Michael Bienia (of whom the internet does not seem to have any pictures whatsoever) are going to lead the Developers Roundtable and have this to say:
“Do you have questions about Ubuntu development? Here you have the best opportunity to ask everything you want to know, because we will have a number of developers there who can answer your questions for you.”
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/dpm.jpg
David Planella
David Planella, who will talk about “Writing apps for Ubuntu”, says:
“Learn how to use the best open source tools and technologies to write your apps on Ubuntu, both on the desktop and on the phone. You’ll be able to get your first app running in a matter of minutes!”
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/mhall.jpg
Michael Hall
Michael Hall never gets enough, so he’s giving two sessions at UDW this time around. Here’s what he has to say about Ubuntu App Developer tools: “Ubuntu provides a variety of tools to help you write and manage your applications. This session will cover everything from bootstrapping a new project, to making the final packages installable through the Software Center and everything in between.”
He will also talk about Unity integration: “The Unity desktop provides many opportunities for your application to integrate with the full user experience. Learn how to add your Application to the Unity messaging or sound indicators, add your own indicator, extend the Unity Launcher and much more.”
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/ogra.jpg
Oliver Grawert
We’re excited to have Oliver Grawert here, who will talk about Creating Ubuntu images and the Nexus7 images in particular. He will talk about “[t]he Ubuntu image build infrastructure at a glance, what tools do we use, how do they interact and how is the hardware set up for building the official Ubuntu images” and “[h]ow are the nexus7 images different from “normal” Ubuntu images, what can be hacked to make small modifications, how can they be re-packed or supplied with a different root file system“.
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/achiang.jpg
Alex Chiang
Alex Chiang will introduce us to the world of memory leaks and says:
“As we polish and prep Ubuntu for mobile devices, a key activity will be hunting down and squashing memory leaks. This session will discuss the basic theory of leaks, introduce valgrind and our brand new apport-valgrind wrapper, and how to analyze a valgrind log file. A C/C++ background will be helpful to get the most out of this session, but is not strictly required.”
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/balloons.jpg
Nicholas Skaggs
QA mastermind Nicholas “balloons” Skaggs will talk us through “Automated Testing with autopilot” and says:
“Learn about how autopilot is utilized by the unity team and quality team to test the ubuntu desktop. We’ll also provide an overview of what autopilot can do, show and run some example testcases, and give you the knowledge needed to get started writing your own autopilot testcases.”
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/martinpitt-hackergotchi192.png
Martin Pitt
Martin Pitt, who will talk about Automated Testing, says: “We have been, and are changing the Ubuntu development process to employ automated testing and avoid introducing regressions, and to improve confidence, focus, and development speed. In the first talk I will give an overview about the various kinds of tests that we do, so that you know where to watch out for failures and get debugging information. The second talk focuses on how to write tests, i.e. which technologies are available for e.g. hardware and GUI related behaviour or system-wide integration checks.”
http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/wp-content/plugins/2013/01/DSCN3807.JPG_resized.jpg
Stefano Rivera
Stefano Rivera, who will talk about Upstreams and Debian in particular, said: “So, working effectively in Ubuntu means also working with the teams and people upstream who wrote the software we distribute. I’ll talk about why this is important, when it’s necessary, and how to go about it. In particular, our most important upstream is Debian. Debian has a rather unusual (though powerful) bug-tracker. We’ll cover finding, submitting, and modifying bugs on it.”
Chris Wilson
Chris Wilson, project leader of the Hundred Papercuts Team, says: “Unity may be the shiny new thing that everyone loves, but style without substance is only so much fluff, and the substance of Ubuntu is still its GTK-based apps. Once Hundred Paper Cuts focuses it’s attention on that substance, rubbing out the little annoyances that get under our skin every day we’re using Ubuntu. This session will introduce you to the project, how it works, and how to get involved. If you want to contribute to Ubuntu in a way that has the biggest impact on the quality of experience for the end user, then don’t miss this.”
Bhavani Shankar
Bhavani Shankar, said about his talk about patch systems: “Many a time we wonder how to integrate a particular fix a particular part of the code in a program and upload into repositories without having to change code each time by hand and making it clumsy. In this session I’m going to show how to use different patch management systems that are in practice now.”
About his talk about the app review process in Ubuntu he says: “In this session I’m going to explain the present workflow of reviewing apps and give an introduction into the new app dev upload process to automate reviews.”
The forum we use for this is IRC, as it makes it easy to interact for many people without losing track, you can easily copy/paste and we can save the logs as searchable docs afterwards. You join in by simply connecting to #ubuntu-classroom (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek/JoiningIn) on irc.freenode.net.
Check out the schedule (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDeveloperWeek) and find more info on the Ubuntu wiki. We hope to see you all there, please let you friends know too.
Originally posted here (http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/01/ubuntu-developer-week-is-back-2/) and here (http://daniel.holba.ch/blog/2013/01/next-week-ubuntu-developer-week-3) by Daniel Holbach