Developers

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Testing Lubuntu

If you'd like to help with testing of Lubuntu, please look at Testing that area has all the latest news of where the team is up to in terms of development releases.

ppa-purge

During the testing phase you may be asked via the mailing list to help test things by adding a test ppa. Sometimes it does not go too well and you need to reverse the changes. A great tool for this is ppa-purge. I'd advise that you install this before you need it. 

sudo apt-get install ppa-purge

Usage is quite simple, 

sudo ppa-purge ppa:Name_of_ppa

e.g., if the ppa is test/ppa the command would be 

sudo ppa-purge ppa:test/ppa

Maintenance Overview

Maintaining LXDE packages

LXDE packages are maintained directly on Debian when it's possible. There are maintained on http://git.debian.org/

git-buildpackage is used for maintaining thoses packages :

Maintaining Lubuntu specific packages

This package documented the specific packages of Lubuntu. Current list :

How to manage thoses packages :

  • Install bzr-builddeb and devscripts
  • When you do a modification, add an entry in debian/changelog and run "debcommit" to commit change.
  • To test the package, use bzr-buildpackage. It will generate the deb in ../build-area/
  • To generate the source for upload, use bzr-buildpackage -S
  • When you want to release, use "dch -r" and "debcommit -r"

Pre and Post release TODO

A list of things to do before, and after a release on this page.

Roadmap

Schedule

  • TODO

It supposed that the final release is build on Ubuntu architecture. Otherwise, it will be a Beta 2 instead of RC, and a final beta for the final release.

Ical schedule : http://www.google.com/calendar/ical/8u4b7o4ifsp2711jatjf3kb4dg%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics

Oneiric tasks

Old tasks and schedule

See Lubuntu/Developers/OldTasksAndSchedules old tasks and schedule from previous releases.

Meetings

Project Day : general chat, discussion and decision (if needed), work done since the last Project Day, work items, and planning for the next weeks.

Bug Day : Report, triage, fix bugs. Documentation : Create and fix documentation.

Organisation of those days are still not finished, but I think it's important to add them in the schedule.

Team and Coordination

On the following pages you will find more info of the subteams, current tasks, completed tasks and more resources. Please join and add your name at Lubuntus SubTeams page.

Overview of team's activities

Please use the specific team pages to coordinate the work among members.

Lubuntu derivated distributions

Lxde development on others distributions

Documentation for developers

  • A discussion on various forum links from the the main forum area.