Patch Pilot report: 2011-07-30 (approximate)

Reviewed and uploaded to Oneiric:
wmii 3.9.2+debian-3ubuntu1
psycopg2 2.2.1-1ubuntu3
libmatthew-java 0.7.3-1ubuntu1
daemontools 0.76-3ubuntu3
scanbuttond 0.2.3.cvs20090713-5ubuntu1
mtr 0.80-1ubuntu1
fail2ban 0.8.4+svn20110323-1ubuntu1
java2html 0.9.2-4ubuntu1
gogoc 1.2-4ubuntu1
coherence 0.6.6.2-5ubuntu1
uw-imap 2007e~dfsg-3.1ubuntu3
tcc 0.9.25-9ubuntu1
nethogs 0.7.0-3ubuntu1
multicd 1.7.3-1ubuntu1
eyed3 0.6.17-1ubuntu1

Triaged and marked not relevant for Oneiric:
libwibble
gdal
lua-xmlrpc
prototypejs
mt-daapd
kdiff3

Patch Pilot report: 2011-07-26 (approximate)

Reviewed and uploaded to Oneiric:
base-files 6.4ubuntu3
bibus 1.5.1-3ubuntu1
cricket 1.0.5-13ubuntu1
icecc 0.9.6-1ubuntu1
lashwrap 1.0.2-0ubuntu7
lomoco 1.0beta1+1.0-5ubuntu4
rp-pppoe 3.8-3ubuntu1
tig 0.17-1ubuntu1

Reviewed and marked not relevant for Oneiric:
tclxml
soci

Patch Pilot report: 2011-07-20

Reviewed and uploaded to Oneiric:
tictactoe 0.8.1-5ubuntu1
pct-scanner-scripts 0.0.4-3ubuntu1
gpredict 1.3-1ubuntu1
coolkey 1.1.0-8.1ubuntu1
sbackup 0.11.4-0ubuntu4
bcfg2 1.1.1-3ubuntu3

Reviewed, updated SRU information and uploaded to -proposed:
w-scan 20091230-1ubuntu0.1, 20100316-3ubuntu0.1 and 20101001-1ubuntu0.1
wackamole 2.1.1-3.1ubuntu0.10.04.0, 2.1.1-3.1ubuntu0.10.10.0 and 2.1.1-3.1ubuntu0.11.04.0
lash 0.6.0~rc2-5ubuntu0.1

Reviewed and closed as not-applicable in Oneiric:
fusion-icon
tigr-glimmer

Patch Pilot report: 2011-07-19 (approximate)

Reviewed and uploaded to Oneiric:
pm-utils 1.4.1-8ubuntu1
base-files 6.4ubuntu2
acoustid-fingerprinter 0.3~20110715-0ubuntu1
distcc 3.1-4ubuntu2
tesseract 2.04-2.1ubuntu1
vim-addon-manager 0.4.3ubuntu1
fusecompress 2.6.git913897f4-1ubuntu1
sweep 0.9.3-4ubuntu1

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Low-hanging fruit? We have plenty!

Martin asks whether we've exhausted the low-hanging fruit. From my myopic lens, emphatically no. Despite dwindling available resources for Ubuntu (and FOSS, generally) development, I've continued to contribute a spattering of fixes. Doing so is pretty simple, and I'm happy to walk people through the process.

But don't take my word for it.

Fixing a Linux regression defect

This bug is an excellent example of the continual (aka "seemingly endless") process of verifying that hardware works correctly with Ubuntu (and more broadly, current versions of Linux). Briefly, in mid-May 2007, a patch was committed to upstream ALSA adding support for a particular machine. At the time that the patch was merged, support for certain BIOSes was quite suboptimal. Fast forward to late-November 2010, and a user's "sound no longer works," i.e., playback is inaudible through both speakers and headphones jack when using Ubuntu Maverick. In the realm of kernel code, particularly drivers, certain high-profile subsystems move relatively quickly, and given the vast amount of PC hardware, it's nearly impossible to verify that every released version of Ubuntu (much less upstream Linux) doesn't regress some hardware support. It's a difficult and thankless job, but someone has to do it.