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Improving Launchpad bug workflow for opportunistic programmers

by Canonical on 24 January 2010

I’m a talented software engineer. I have a good deal of application programming experience on Windows, Mac OS, Linux, iPhone, Android, and the Web. I’m crazy...

IBM Client for Smart Work with Ubuntu support released

by Canonical on 18 January 2010

At Lotusphere today we announced the availability of the IBM Client for Smart Work complete with support from Canonical. It is a significant milestone both...

Empathy Paper Jam

by Canonical on 11 January 2010

Last week marked our first “paper jam” for the Lucid cycle, during which the Ubuntu community identified ten potential paper cuts affecting Empathy to fix in...

One Hundred Paper Cuts: Karmic summary and Lucid plans

by Canonical on 24 November 2009

Karmic RetrospectiveLong story short: we fixed 76 paper cuts for Karmic. Hooray! Congratulations! For more details, see the Ubuntu wiki page.(I believe we...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 Progress Report

by Canonical on 28 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 8 came and went last week, and good progress was made:Login screen clock has AM/PM suffix despite 24-hour formatTed M Lin...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 7 Progress Report

by Canonical on 20 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 7 drew to a close last week. Here are the paper cuts that were (or were not) addressed:GNOME Panel icons (on right side) move...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 Progress Report

by Canonical on 11 August 2009

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 6 contained some of the easiest-to-fix paper cuts we’ve seen so far, but it made less progress than any previous milestone....

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 5 Progress Report

by Canonical on 10 August 2009

Without further ado, here’s an update on the fifth round of the One Hundred Paper Cuts project. The paper cuts addressed were:When nautilus cannot unmount a...

One Hundred Paper Cuts Round 4 Progress Report

by Canonical on 4 August 2009

The fourth milestone in the One Hundred Paper Cuts project came and went over a week ago. Here’s a summary of the issues addressed:F-Spot puts photos in...

Distributed user testing of archive behavior in Ubuntu

by Canonical on 28 July 2009

In response to two paper cuts, “Have the file-roller automatically extract an archive on double click” and “‘Archive Manager’ doesn’t mean anything if you...

Karmic desktop contest script

by Canonical on 24 July 2009

I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes....