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* Unified keymap handling (console and X) | * [https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/sane-installer-keyboard Sane keymap handling (console vs. X)] |
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* -686 kernel on live CD? | * -686 kernel on live CD (AdamConrad will make this trivial change early in EdgyEft) |
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* Explicit milestone regression testing | * Explicit milestone regression testing (early and often) * Test plans * Laptop testing team |
These are my personal notes about possible projects for EdgyEft and beyond. It is not a place for suggestions from others. For that, see CommunityEdgyIdeas.
Infrastructure
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/fix-mom Fix MOM]
- Localized CD images
- Delta updates for CD images via bsdiff or similar
[done] Fix cdimage build to not overflow onto a second CD (ColinWatson/r1104)
- Soyuz build-from-accepted (don't wait for source to be published before building)
- Better facility for recording release validation test progress and results
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntu-meta-from-bzr Fix metapackages to pull seeds directly from bzr]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/seed-cleanup Clean up the seeds]
Features
- Bug reporting tools which talk to Malone
- Software installation via web browser
- Metafile allows for locating the appropriate package for the user's system, preferring an official package over an unofficial one
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/boot-message-logging Logging of startup/shutdown messages] (bootlogd?)
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/larger-livefs Larger livefs for DVD]
- All langpacks
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/live-cd-stacked-filesystems Stacked file systems] is probably part of the solution for this - TollefFogHeen
- Usability review of non-desktop stuff (e.g., CD boot text, boot messages, etc.)
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/quieten-grub Quieten grub]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/optimized-live-cd-layout-for-faster-boot Sort squashfs to optimize live CD performance]
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/common-customizations Review EasyUbuntu, automatix, ubuntuguide and see what can be incorporated]
- Enable universe,multiverse by default
- Suggest packages to support unknown file types
- Extend Firefox plugin locator to find official packages of plugins
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/automated-problem-reports Automated problem reports]
- CD/DVD-based upgrades
automount windows partitions on the live CD (http://launchpad.net/bugs/16356)
- GCC and kernel headers in default install
- Usplash
- Higher resolution, more colors
- Better font, smooth scrolling OR just disable the text entirely
- Deskbar applet by default
NetworkManager (again)
- Avahi/ZeroConf out of the box
Hibernation resume message: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/41137
- Firefox Human theme
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/xen-enabled-kernel Xen]
- Review results of NCC desktop study and see what can be improved
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/gcc-ssp GCC SSP stack protection]
- Hardware database
- Enhanced client
Data analysis (https://debconf6.debconf.org/comas/general/proposals/113)
- Include oo.o, firefoxe translations in langpacks
- Firefox session saving out of the box
- Enable totem firefox plugin by default
- Ubuntu counter - allow Ubuntu users to be voluntarily counted/surveyed
- Totally rad X configuration
- Enable a wide range of modes by default, allow the user to drive their display at any mode via XRANDR
- Use X driver modules to probe hardware
- Install binary drivers by default for easier enabling (fix diversion madness)
smart-notifier
- ubuntu-server metapackage
- powernowd, for reduced power consumption, heat
- Move evms, lvm, mdadm here
- GRUB v2
- SMART
- Tracking and auto-removal of packages installed only indirectly (to satisfy dependencies)
- Use in g-a-i to enable Add/Remove to clean up after itself, and allow for interesting metapackage bundles
- translated package descriptions
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/dpkg-7zip 7zip compression for dpkg]
- i686 optimization experiment
- Desktop search (beagle)
- Fix gnome-screensaver to exclude GL modes if hardware acceleration is unavailable
- NX
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/xgl-compiz X server eye candy (Xgl/AIGLX/Composite/etc.)]
- Install to LVM by default and allow new storage to be easily merged into the root filesystem
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/sane-installer-keyboard Sane keymap handling (console vs. X)]
- Consider new apps for desktop
- Tomboy
- F-spot
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/teardown Fast/minimal shutdown] (eliminate stop actions where they aren't needed)
[https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/replacement-init udev activation of lvm, evms, mdadm, bluez...]
- Merge -security and -updates?
- Display urgency information in update-manager
- Revisit polypaudio?
- kexec
- crash analysis
- swap new kernel onto live CD for updated hardware support?
- Review James' "fix my computer" launchers around the office and make them obsolete
-686 kernel on live CD (AdamConrad will make this trivial change early in EdgyEft)
[done] LAMP, server kernel on DVD (ColinWatson/r1105)
- Remove/rename server install mode on alternate CD
- Launchpad-assisted intelligent mirror selection
- Coalesce DVD images for derivatives (and/or architectures?) into one
- Language packs which aren't packages
- Delta updates
- Support for universe, multiverse
- Implement for only universe first, as a test?
- Automatic network service detection and configuration
- SMTP server
- Proxy server
- File server
- Backup server?
- Local bookmarks
Release Process
- Deadline for spec approvals
- Dapper release post-mortem
Testing
- Explicit milestone regression testing (early and often)
- Test plans
- Laptop testing team
- Incorporate multilingual testing
- Coalesce non-overlapping test cases (e.g., partitioner vs. OEM)
- Monitor testing progress regularly
- Adapt test case assignments for bandwidth as well as hardware
- Client-side application for guided and semi-automated testing
Community
- Forums
- Involve more in formal testing efforts
- QA of FAQ answers, etc.
- Formal process for gathering feature ideas from the community (currently random mixture of mailing lists, wiki pages, blueprint, etc.)
MattZimmerman/EdgyIdeas (last edited 2008-08-06 16:32:07 by localhost)