Ubuntu 12.10 has a code name. It's:

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Quality has a new name

This quirky scheme of adjectives and animals presents a pretty puzzle every six months. What mix of characteristics do we want to celebrate in the next release? Here we are, busily finalizing the precise pangolin (which was a rather perfect product placement for a scaly anteater, all things considered) and before one realises it?s time to talk turkey, so to speak, about Q! Our code names may raise a quizzical eyebrow here and there, but they capture the zeitgeist of a cycle and shape our discussions in surprising ways. The quest for a name has no quick answer unless, of course, you jump to the last paragraph ;)

12.04 being an LTS we?ve been minding our P?s and Q?s, but many of our quality-oriented practices from 12.04 LTS will continue into Q territory. We?ll keep the platform usable throughout the cycle, because that helped hugely to encourage daily use of the release, which in turn gives us much better feedback on questions of quality. And we?ll ratchet up the continuous integration, smoke testing and automated benchmarking of the release, since we can do it all in the cloud. We have, so to speak, stacks and stacks of cloud to use. So quality is quotidian rather than quarterly. And it is both qualitative and quantitative, with user research and testing continuing to shape our design decisions. The effort we put into polishing Unity and the rest of the platform in 12.04 seem to have paid off handsomely, with many quondam quarrelsome suddenly quiescent in the face of a surge in support for the work.

But the finest quality is that without a name, so support for ?quality? as a codename would at best be qualified. Every release has quality first these days ? they all get used, on the server, on devices, and while the term of maintenance might vary, our commitment to interim releases is just as important as that to an LTS.

Our focus on quality permeates from the platform up to the code we write upstream, and our choices of upstream components too. We require tests and gated trunks for all Canonical codebases, and prefer upstreams that share the same values. Quality starts at the source, it?s not something that can be patched in after the fact. And I?m delighted that we have many upstreams using our tools to improve their quality too! We have awesome tools for daily builds from branches, continuous integration support in Launchpad, the ability to provide a gated trunk with tests run in the cloud for projects that really care about quality. Rumours and allegations of a move from Upstart to SystemD are unfounded: Upstart has a huge battery of tests, the competition has virtually none. Upstart knows everything it wants to be, the competition wants to be everything. Quality comes from focus and clarity of purpose, it comes from careful design and rigorous practices. After a review by the Ubuntu Foundations team our course is clear: we?re committed to Upstart, it?s the better choice for a modern init, innit. For our future on cloud and client, Upstart is crisp, clean and correct. It will be a pleasure to share all the Upstart-enablement patches we carry with other family friends as soon as their release is ready and they can take a breath, so to speak.

From a styling point of view, we think in terms of quadruples: this next release starts a cycle of four, which will culminate in 14.04 LTS. So there?s an opportunity to refresh the look. That will kick off with a project on typography to make sure we are expressing ourselves with crystal clarity ? making the most of Ubuntu?s Light and Medium font weights for a start. And a project on iconography, with the University of Reading, to refine the look of apps and interfaces throughout the platform. It?s amazing how quaint the early releases of Ubuntu look compared to the current style. And we?re only just getting started! In our artistic explorations we want to embrace tessellation as an expression of the part-digital, part-organic nature of Ubuntu. We love the way tessellated art expresses both the precision and reliability of our foundations, and the freedom and collaboration of a project driven by people making stuff for people. There?s nothing quixotic in our desire to make Ubuntu the easiest, steadiest, and most beautiful way to live digitally.

On the fauna front, the quotable campaign for the Queer Quokka is quorate but, it must sometimes be said, this is not a democracy. One man?s favourite furball is another?s mangy marsupial. No, the quintessential stories of Q will be all about style on the client, with a refresh of our theme and typography, a start on new iconography and perhaps even a new form factor taking flight. So brown is out and something colourful and light is called for. On the cloud front, the new virtualized network madness called Quantum will make its appearance. Being a first cut, it?s more likely to be Folsom than wholesome, but it?s going to be worth calling out, and the name is reminiscent of our package-oriented practices, where goodness is delivered one piece at a time. And so the stage is set for a decision: I give you the Quantal Quetzal, soon to be dressed in tessellated technicolour, now open for toolchains, kernels and other pressing preparatory packages.

Source: Mark Shuttleworth's blog

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From a styling point of view, we think in terms of quadruples: this next release starts a cycle of four, which will culminate in 14.04 LTS. So there?s an opportunity to refresh the look. That will kick off with a project on typography to make sure we are expressing ourselves with crystal clarity ? making the most of Ubuntu?s Light and Medium font weights for a start. And a project on iconography, with the University of Reading, to refine the look of apps and interfaces throughout the platform.

Nice to see him take this seriously. The work they've done on the Ubuntu font is amazing, if the icons and *crosses fingers* new and proper interface guidelines are half as good, we've got a winner!

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Yeah because Microsoft and Apple would never do anything silly like that.

It's only a code name, get over it. This get brought up every time Ubuntu do a release, it's kinda getting old now.

Why people frequently feel the need to involve other parties as an excuse is beyond me. What Apple and Microsoft are doing is irrelevant, this thread is about Ubuntu.

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Seems Unity it's here to stay... and I dont like that one bit.

I had heard of Unity before trying Xubuntu 11.10 but never really checked into it much. Then I got to messing around with it on an older machine, which most of mine are, and that was horrid!!

Ubuntu has definitely came a long ways since the first time I tried it back on 5.04, but it's not something I can keep on my machines even in dual boot mode (thank goodness for Wubi there) It just seems to get old fast and there always seems to be some kind of issue with something by the time you've used it and updated it for a while.

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