Automation

On Jan 29 2025, the Ubuntu developer mailing list announced that the primary means of communication for Ubuntu developers will be the Ubuntu Community Matrix server. ... … I’d like to focus on enriching our build process with modern ideals and processes for automating the version bumps, testing, performance benchmarking and releasing of packages in the archive. High complexity tasks are error-prone and, without sufficient automation, risk becoming overly dependent on a few skilled individuals. We have the same challenge with Snaps, but they benefit from significantly more modern tooling as a consequence of the observations made about Debian packaging over many years. … ... We should look deeply at the tools we ship with Ubuntu by default - selecting for tools that have resilience, performance and maintainability at their core. There are countless examples in the open source community of tools being re-engineered, and re-imagined using tools and practices that have only relatively recently become available.