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12.04 Life of a bug

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On Wednesday 18th Jan 2012 I was having problems with my updated test image of 12.04. It installed well and the bug that was affecting the selection of the language appeared to have been squashed (That bug lived a short life, it's history can be found at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+3.0/+bug/911905 ) But, more worryingly, when I started the new install my Virtual Machine went 'crazy'... Screen kept resizing and eventually it just fizzled out and hung. As there was the weekly QA (Quality Assurance / Testing) meeting scheduled for 5pm (UTC) [1] I asked about it on there when we got to the agenda item for Lubuntu. Fairly quickly one of the other QA team had verified the problem and more importantly had gotten a error message. Things move on quite quickly when we…
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Lubuntu state before Alpha 2 release

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Hi, This is quick summary of the state of Lubuntu, 3 mouths before the target release date.=== Alpha 2 ===- May be released at the end of this week.=== New packages ===- lxdm was committed, waiting for archive approval. It's mostly working, but need some improvements. Currently, there is no plymouth support and Default language not working well. - libfm and pcmanfm2 are available for testing on the Lubuntu PPA [1].=== Default applications ===- Current discussion on the video player, music player and email client - Future discussion on the browser. It will begin when chromium will enter the archive, or sooner if nothing arrive before 1st February. - Some changes may happen in the futur, if the manpower is still the same (see below). We need to share the…
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