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Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope
As we approach the launch of Ubuntu 8.10, it's time to create space for future plans, and so I'm writing to introduce you to The Jaunty Jackalope. Jaunty, the code name for what will most likely become Ubuntu 9.04, will be the focus of our efforts from November through to April next year. We will be gathering forces in Mountain View on 8th - 12th December to survey the upstream landscape and finalize Jaunty plans, enjoying the excellent hospitality of Google and Silicon Valley's abundance of talent and innovation. The Ubuntu Developer Summit is the social and strategic highlight of each release cycle and it would be a great pleasure to welcome you there. Jono Bacon has written up a http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1278 guide to sponsorship for those who would have a substantial amount to offer at the Summit. The Warrior Rabbit is our talisman as we move into a year where we can reasonably expect Ubuntu to ship on several million devices, to consumers who can reasonably expect the software experience to be comparable to those of the traditional big OSV's - Microsoft and Apple. The bar is set very high, and we have been given the opportunity to leap over it. It's a once-in-a-lifetime chance to shine, and we want to make sure that the very best thinking across the whole open source ecosystem is reflected in Ubuntu, because many people will judge free software as a whole by what we do. There are some specific goals that we need to meet in Jaunty. One of them is boot time. We want Ubuntu to boot as fast as possible - both in the standard case, and especially when it is being tailored to a specific device. The Jackalope is known for being so fast that it's extremely hard to catch, and breeds only when lightning flashes. Let's see if we can make booting or resuming Ubuntu blindingly quick. Another goal is the the blurring of web services and desktop applications. "Is it a deer? Is it a bunny? Or is it a weblication - a desktop application that seamlessly integrates the web!" This hare has legs - and horns - and we'll be exploring it in much more detail for Jaunty. We have already laid some foundations for weblications in the online services discussions that took place in Prague, but since we fully expect those services to ship in 9.04 the discussion will be that much more intense in Mountain View. Those bizarre-but-fearsome antlers might well remind one of the intricate pattern of collaboration between developers in a distributed version control system. So it's fitting that Jaunty will see us move all of Ubuntu into Bazaar. For the first time, any developer will be able to branch any Ubuntu package with a single bzr command, publish their changes, and perhaps even publish builds of that package in their own Package Archive. We will also make the developer community structure of Ubuntu much richer - in addition to MOTU and core-dev, we are introducing ways for developers to participate in specific applications, either at the package-upload level or at the version-control level. Whatever your level and specialisation of interest, we'll make sure that you can participate accordingly. December's UDS is likely to be packed full of interesting people and ideas. I very much look forward to seeing everyone there. "There he goes! That way!" Mark -- ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list ubuntu-devel-announce@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-an... (Log in to post comments)
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 9, 2008 0:22 UTC (Tue) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Well, I'm pleasantly surprised with Ubuntu's creativity. I'm already looking forward to the 'K' release just to see what they'll think of next. :-)
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 9, 2008 0:43 UTC (Tue) by salimma (subscriber, #34460) [Link]
Killer Kangaroo!
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 9, 2008 9:18 UTC (Tue) by jospoortvliet (subscriber, #33164) [Link]
Maybe they'll switch to KDE4 ;-)
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 9, 2008 15:57 UTC (Tue) by horen (subscriber, #2514) [Link]
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 10, 2008 17:58 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] Yes, but a clown isn't an animal. Oh, wait--neither is a jackalope. ;-)
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 9, 2008 0:50 UTC (Tue) by qg6te2 (guest, #52587) [Link] There are some specific goals that we need to meet in Jaunty.Notwithstanding LWN's recent editorial on Ubuntu, how about "more effort in contributing patches/bug fixes to upstream" as a worthy goal?
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 9, 2008 3:00 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]
Maybe. But if we could somehow harness the effort currently devoted to ragging on Ubuntu in public forums and turn it to constructive use, Linux would be a Star Trek caliber OS in no time.
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 9, 2008 3:18 UTC (Tue) by jengelh (subscriber, #33263) [Link]
You are confusing Linux with a Star Trek UI. I'll never give up my commandline!
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 9, 2008 7:08 UTC (Tue) by Cato (subscriber, #7643) [Link]
For all you command line lovers, try the Ubiquity extension to Firefox - basically it adds a pop-up command line to switch tabs ("tab <string>" to find that string in a tab name), do dynamic mashups and much more. You write the commands as JavaScript. Really very nice to have a mix of CLI and GUI as needed. See http://labs.mozilla.com/2008/08/introducing-ubiquity/
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 10, 2008 21:59 UTC (Wed) by pr1268 (subscriber, #24648) [Link] You are confusing Linux with a Star Trek UI. I'll never give up my commandline! Well, a voice-command interface might be nice. Of course, there'd be the occasional program crash and an "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" do deal with...
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 9, 2008 3:03 UTC (Tue) by SEJeff (subscriber, #51588) [Link]
Don't feed the trolls people.
A good example of them wanting to work with upstream is discussing on
No one is perfect, but they are working on it.
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 9, 2008 3:23 UTC (Tue) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
That would be a good move. Fedora 9 already includes it by default and the feedback have been positive overall. One improvement would be the ability to view what is being send before doing so which was the only concern expressed with it.
Introducing the Jaunty Jackalope Posted Sep 9, 2008 5:01 UTC (Tue) by arjan (subscriber, #36785) [Link]
the -git version has this feature, but the GUI code has one little bug that prevent me from cutting a new release (the preview window doesn't close on clicking submit).... if some GUI expert can help it'd be much appreciated.
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