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Mission

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

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

To comply with our Mission Statement, the Desktop Team tasks are mainly to maintain and develop our Desktop Packages.

Maintenance

The first and most important task of the Desktop Team is maintaining our Desktop Packages.

We do this by:

• keeping up to date with the latest releases

• triaging and fixing bugs on Launchpad

• finding shiny new components we should have
• stress-testing our favourite desktop environment
• discussing and fixing issues
• bringing some good hackers into the team who know how the different parts of the desktop work and integrate and are able to answer to desktop specific questions
• creating a technical pool of experts about specific desktop elements

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

• designing user cases for these experiences

• write new project specifications to improve them

Contributing

• Does this sound cool? Check out how to get started!

• Our automatically generated todo list: http://piware.de/workitems/desktop/lucid/versions.html

• Work items from our blueprints: http://piware.de/workitems/desktop/lucid/report.html

• Triage Desktop opportunities on Harvest

• Collect visions and ideas: DesktopTeam/Visions

• Identify usability issues: DesktopTeam/UsabilityWishlist

• Attend our weekly meeting: DesktopTeam/DevelopmentMeeting

• Read our monthly reports: DesktopTeam/ReportingPage

Links

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

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

• This page contains links to upstream mailing lists and/or irc channels for questions relative to specific Desktop modules

• Ubuntu-X pages: X

• ubuntu-desktop team policy for uploading and committing

Sub-pages

CategoryDesktopTeam
CategoryUbuntuTeams