Call for Participants for Xenial Alpha 1

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 11:15:29AM -0800, Walter Lapchynski wrote:
> I've added Lubuntu to the [Alpha1][1] page, but as it stands, I really
> don't have any images to release. If we can fix the [ubiquity bug][2],
> perhaps we can release desktop, but we also have a [debian-installer
> bug][3] that makes it so that we won't have an alternate, either. I admit
> both of these bugs have workarounds but I don't love having workarounds
> with release images, even if they are alpha/beta.
> 
> Is there any hope that either one of these bugs will be fixed any time
> soon? My guess is no one is going to have the time to either work on these
> changes in a timely manner to get this released, especially considering the
> timing with the holidays and the fact that we're discussing this a little
> bit later than need be.
> 
> That being said, I'm fine to let it go, but I think we should focus what
> effort we do have on crushing these bugs in the interim.
> 
> [1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XenialXerus/Alpha1
> [2]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1527353
> [3]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/debian-installer/+bug/1529297

I've uploaded what I believe to be fixes for both these bugs.  Hopefully
I haven't fouled up anything else in the process.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]