Out 3 Dec - ~10 Dec

[Erich Eickmeyer]

Hi all,

I'm just letting you all know that I'll be out tomorrow, 3 December, 
until roughly 10 December as I'm undergoing a rather invasive surgery 
which will be requiring me some time to recover. Right now, as of this 
writing, the following issues are being worked on:

* https://launchpad.net/bugs/2090864 : Jeremy Bicha tells me that a new 
synfig might be able to fix this issue, but I will be unable to take 
care of this prior to my surgery.

* Ubuntu Studio noble builds are still failing, latest looks like a 
transient issue with a snap download. Still trying to get everything 
aligned after I updated Freeshow to use core24, which needed 
gnome-46-2404 and mesa-2404 which didn't appear to have 
stable/ubuntu-24.04 branches and were causing the noble builds to fail. 
This was all an effort to get Freeshow to gain access to the alsa/MIDI 
interfaces, which it now has. We just need the proper branches.

* Audacity in oracular/proposed is validated and ready for release to 
updates.

I think that's everything for now. If there's anything absolutely 
urgent, I'll keep Element open after 5 December and can still be pinged, 
but not sure I'll have the capacity over the next few days to do much. 
Amy can still be reached on Matrix for Edubuntu-related matters, but if 
they're of a technical nature she'll still be deferring to me. She can 
also relay Ubuntu Studio items if needed. Bear in mind she's not going 
to be available before about 01:00 UTC most days due to her work schedule.

Also, one can drop into #ubuntustudio-devel:ubuntu.com on Matrix if you 
need to get ahold of the rest of the Ubuntu Studio team. However, I'm 
pretty confident that anything going on now can wait for about a week.

Thanks!
Erich

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Erich Eickmeyer
Project Leader - Ubuntu Studio
Technical Lead - Edubuntu