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Today we launched the beta of our Ubuntu Upstream Report. Jorge has more details on how upstreams and Ubuntu contributors can make use of the report, but I wanted to spend a few moments telling the story behind the report. Quite some time ago, we set ourselves up with the job of improving how we [...]

My Dad has had something of an interesting life. When he was very young, he was part of a large family that didn’t have a lot. He struggled at school and suffered some health problems as a kid, but his determination and enterprising nature lead him through a maze of interesting little adventures. When he [...]

With all the fun going on encouraging people to get involved with Ubuntu packaging, I was really psyched to see this blog post in which Efrain is writing a short diary of his progress going through MOTU. This is excellent, and will help us to continually improve and refine how people can get involved in [...]

I think its time to jam some Jokosher love into your collective pipes. Ready for an update on the worlds funkiest multi-track editor that all the cool kids are talking about? OK, here goes. Recently the development team have been hammering on bugs, ploughing in new features and working on all of the services and [...]

…is proving difficult right now as Recreant View is having DNS problems. Jokosher.org is also having the same DNS quirks. I have copied the new blastbeat-double-bass-drum-metal-tastic tune to jonobacon.org so you can grab it. So, to hear Take The Test, go and download the Ogg or download the MP3. Normal service should be resumed shortly. [...]

Well, after two weeks of joyful rest, Sooz and I will kiss goodbye to the Florida sun tomorrow and fly back to rainy old England. We have had an excellent time, and thanks to those of you holding fire on some issues until I get back. I am quite worried about what my Inbox is [...]

You know, I find relaxing difficult. I know it sounds crazy, but I do. My mind is always racing at 1000mph, and I am always buzzing to do something, so it makes lying around on a deckchair difficult at times. This is not a recent thing – I have always been like it, and my [...]

This blog gets syndicated round the houses these days, and I am sure some of you were touched personally by 9/11. My sympathies, and thoughts are with you all.

jono@forge:~/temp/Jokosher$ svn copy trunk tags/0.1 A tags/0.1 jono@forge:~/temp/Jokosher$ svn commit Adding tags/0.1 Committed revision 465. jono@forge:~/temp/Jokosher$ Its coming…

The majestic Michael ‘Elleo’ Sheldon has been hacking on some interesting Jokosher stuff recently. Firstly, he has been hacking on GStreamer to make high end sound cards such as the Delta 44 and Delta 1010 work properly in GStreamer. This involved a bug report and then a patch that fixed the alsasrc to make it [...]