If you haven't heard, today at 1700 UTC, Firefox 3 will be released. The Mozilla foundation are celebrating this with a cute marketing campaign, to try and break the Guinness world record for the most downloads of a piece of software in 24 hours. If they've got the bandwidth to burn, and it helps get some coverage of FOSS, why not? I'll certainly be getting it.
I'm going to start a series of posts where I walk through various things that I do as part of my Ubuntu development work with the MOTU team. I'm currently trying to get myself up to a level where I can apply to the Ubuntu Universe Contributors team, and then at some point in the future for MOTUship.
This article describes the process for merging a package from Debian to the development version of Ubuntu, currently the Intrepid Ibex. If you want to see how I generally go about doing this, follow the jump.
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