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Mission

The Ubuntu Desktop Team aims to produce a desktop environment that is:

• stable,
• usable,
• accessible,
• attractive,
• consistent,
• discoverable, and
• immediately useful.

DesktopTeam/Mission

Maintenance

The first and most important task of the DesktopTeam is maintaining our GNOME packages.

We do this by:

• keeping up to date with the latest new releases

• triaging and fixing bugs on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu

• finding shiny new components we should have
• stress-testing our favourite desktop environment
• discuss and fix issues; and bring bring some good hackers into the team who know how different parts of the desktop work and are able to reply to some specific questions
• create a technical place with people having good knowledge about specific desktop parts

News

• Monthly reporting: DesktopTeam/ReportingPage

Contributing

• Does this sound cool? DesktopTeam/GettingStarted

• Our short-term todo list: DesktopTeam/TODO

• Triage Desktop opportunities on Harvest

Development

The second task is developing the desktop to improve the user experience, both by improving the usability of our existing desktop and developing innovating new interface concepts.

We do this by:

• identifying key user experiences that define the desktop: DesktopTeam/Experiences

• design user stories for those experiences

• write specifications for development projects to improve them: DesktopTeam/Specs

Contributing

• Collect visions and ideas: DesktopTeam/Visions

• Identify usability issues: DesktopTeam/UsabilityWishlist

• attend our weekly meeting: DesktopTeam/DevelopmentMeeting

Links

Our Organisation

• Our Mailing list: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop

• We live here: #ubuntu-desktop on irc.freenode.net

Bug Squashing

• Bug squashing: DesktopTeam/Bugs, DesktopTeam/Bugs/Status

• Bugs we are a contact for: https://bugs.launchpad.net/~desktop-bugs/+packagebugs

  • https://launchpad.net/ubuntu

    • Our bugs have the assignee desktop-bugs

    • sign up to the bug list: http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs (high traffic)

    • Launchpad team site: https://launchpad.net/people/desktop-bugs

  • Upstream bugtrackers:

    • http://bugs.gnome.org

      • http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/TriageGuide/ProductSpecificGuidelines is a most interesting read

    • http://bugs.debian.org

    • http://bugs.freedesktop.org

Other

• GNOMEExperts will contain links to upstream mailing lists, irc channels if you have specific questions to specific Desktop modules

  • maybe we should agree on adding a tag so we know, where we are responsible

Sub-pages

Weekly TODO

edit weekly TODO edit weekly TODO

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