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=== Community-themes-extra === | === Community-themes-extras === |
This page is reserved for information that is specific to themes to be made by community members.
Goal
Enhance the user experience of Ubuntu by creating high quality alternate themes which are available from the repositories.
Objectives
Encourage the Artwork community to create submissions by offering to showcase their best effort which targets the current development release of Ubuntu.
Achieve the highest possible quality by mentoring artists as needed.
Support the effort of the larger community by meeting published milestones and deadlines.
Goal
Advocate the use of Open Source Artistic Tools
Objectives
Encourage artists to use open source artistic tools available from the Ubuntu repositories.
Mentor artists in the use of desired tools.
Create wiki pages and how-to's as needed.
Engage the communities which support desired tools by submitting bug reports and offering suggestions for improvement.
Guidelines for Inclusion
Licensed to permit distribution and editing. Preferred licenses are the latest LGPL and CC-BY-SA.
- The desired result must be package-able
- The submission must be unique
- Author or delegate must agree to maintain and support the submission for the duration of the cycle (~6 months)
- Submissions must be developed by the Artwork team or have a significant Artwork team contribution. Upstream effort will need explicit collaboration/contact with the original author.
Packages
Community-themes
Showcase and package the two best submissions per category as 'community-themes'. Categories include but are not limited to:
Desktop GTK & Metacity Themes
- Desktop Background Images
- Desktop Sound Themes
- Desktop Icon Themes
- Usplash Boot Themes
Community-themes-extras
If desired, package additional submissions which meet the criteria for inclusion as 'community-themes-extras'.
Milestones and Deadlines
Karmic Koala Release Cycle: 135 Days - 10.29.2009
15 Days into Release - 05.14.2009
- Alpha 1
- Conceptual Design Phase
19 Days into Release - 05.28.2009
- UDS
- Conceptual Design Phase
35 Days into Release - 06.11.2009
- Alpha 2
- Iteration 1 of artwork submissions
65 Days into Release - 07.23.2009
- Alpha 3
- Iteration 2 of artwork submissions
80 Days into Release - 08.13.2009
- Alpha 4
- Iteration 3 of artwork submissions
90 Days into Release - 08.27.2009
- Feature Freeze
Community Themes 1st Review
95 Days into Release - 09.03.2009
- Alpha 5
- 100 Days into Release - 09.20.2009
- User Interface Freeze
Community Themes 2nd Review
- 105 Days into Release - 09.17.2009
- Alpha 6
Theme Submission Deadline
Submissions for Community-themes selected for packaging
Submissions for Community-themes-extras selected for packaging
- 110 Days into Release - 09.24.2009
- Beta Freeze
Theme Packages Due
Community-themes package available for testing
Community-themes-extras package available for testing
- 115 Days into Release - 10.01.2009
- Beta Release
Revisions to Community-themes package as required
Revisions to Community-themes-extras package as required
- 130 Days into Release - 10.22.2009
- Release Candidate
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