DesktopTeam
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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"]
Development Team minutes: ["DesktopTeam/DevelopmentMeeting"]
Contributing
Does this sound cool? ["DesktopTeam/GettingStarted"]
- Our short-term todo list: ["DesktopTeam/TODO"]
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: ["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
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:
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
[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/WeeklyTODO?action=edit edit weekly TODO] Include(DesktopTeam/WeeklyTODO) [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/WeeklyTODO?action=edit edit weekly TODO]