Brain Storm List

• Application Development Layer Cake
• App Store
  • Software management System
  • Integrating PPAs/Keys
  • automagic Python build system (distutils extensions)
• Parental Controls
• GNOME Control Center
• Default Media Player Choice
• Contacts Store
• Messaging Menu

• OpenOffice.org - Q&A Session

• xorg
  • Choosing xorg version for Karmic
  • enabling uxa?
  • Robustness and community, especially for slightly older hardware
• Usability Testing
• Usability Analysis
• Sound
• Shipping GNOME Help in Language Packs

  • See jaunty-gnome-help-langpacks and bug 123020. Approach is clear, does not need discussion, just getting implemented by Soyuz.

• First Use Experience/Usabaility
• Video Conferencing/IM/Etc...
• GNOME 3 =
• ubuntu-bug/apport enhancements
  • symptom based bug reporting
  • client-side debug symbols with a webdav fs from ddebs.u.c.
• Integrated Active Directory Logon
• Bluetooth Stack
  • What alternatives are available upstream?
• NM vs Conman
  • what is the current state of conman, what does it support
  • under what circumstance would we decide to cut over?
• Start up Look and Feel
• Desktop Artwork
• Troubleshooting X freezes and crashes
• KMS
• Switching -intel to use UXA
• Troubleshooting -ati driver bugs
• Driver Selection for nvidia hardware
• Roundtable session about translations in Ubuntu: what we can do in the Karmic cycle to improve what we currently have
• Desktop startup speed:
  • X
  • Move gconf backend from XML to sqlite (or what's dconf doing?)

  • provide cached compose maps by default (bug 221065)

  • stop this xrdgb/sh/cpp/cc1 madness at the beginning of startup
  • don't start seahorse by default, but on demand
  • discuss nautilus and gnome-panel startup improvements (which seem to be the two worst offenders)

• Video editing, specifically capturing from a DV camera

• Fonts (asac)
  • auto detect rgba monitors
  • design apps font appearence dialog to properly represent "auto" detection
    • for rgba values
  • change default fonts for some names (droid fonts for arial, etc.)
  • empirical fontconfig tweaks for non-latin fonts
  • review desktop stack for font issues
  • evaluate pixel sized fonts with minimum point size boundaries
  • font settings/sizing based on device types

• NetworkManagement (asac)

  • empirical tests for Modemmanager on top of 0.7.1 NM; decide early in cycle
  • add supported products to cdc_ether kernel module
  • review notifications
  • improve mobile broadband wizard (firstrun + post-configure)
  • network connection wizard (first run experience)
  • bluetooth networking experience

• NetworkStatus and Pervasive Networking (asac)

  • preview for karmic
  • networkmonitor based on rtnetlink for online/offline status tracking
  • integrate networkmonitor into main network apps
    • firefox
    • thunderbird
    • evolution
    • pidgin
    • epiphany/webkit
• Mozilla+Ubufox (asac)
  • firefox 3.5
    • review geolocation provider implementation and suggest improvements
      • using wpasupplicant
    • evaluate and package new embedding API
  • xulrunner/toolkit trunk
    • libindicate/libnotify support in toolkit trunk
  • thunderbird 3
    • backport libindicate/libnotify support and adapt for tbird 3
  • monthly security updates
  • (ubufox) upstream plugin alternative infrastructure and standardize
    • plugin switcher
• XPI Translations in Rosetta (asac)
  • push mozilla translations from rosetta forward
  • use asturian locale to learn about being-upstream-in-launchpad
  • choose another language to learn about being-contributor-through-launchpad

Blue print list

Just dump whatever in the list above. The table here is just a slightly filtered version of the list above. Each row should more or less correspond to a blueprint that needs to be linked or created.