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Ubuntu Developer Summit Proceedings

Ubuntu The Project

The Upstream Contacts project will perform six-monthly surveys to get a finer impression of upstream perspectives on Ubuntu. There will be a continued focus on every project having an Upstream Contact assigned.
There was a discussion about the components needed to allow community developers to quickly build new web applications for Ubuntu projects. These come from the common aspects of loco-directory, summit, harvest and awstrial. A project has been formed to build a Django based solution using Bazaar and Launchpad to help community teams provide these resources.
Developer advocacy will continue to be a focus in Natty with work going into creating a demo script for explaining how development works, creating screencasts and reviewing our existing documentation.
Accessibility was a key focus at this UDS and in support of the plan to build accessibility support into Unity for 11.04, the community Accessibility Team reviewed and improved their on-boarding documentation, and will be providing bug triage and testing resources throughout the Natty cycle. In addition to this, accessibility tests will be appended to the regular release tests and ISO testing.
The sponsorship queue in this cycle will get some significant support with a new "Patch Pilot" scheme. The scheme will work by providing Canonical engineering staff throughout the month who will focus on reviewing new contributions made by developers who are working towards being approved Ubuntu developers. This should provide a faster review time and on-ramping of Ubuntu developers.
Work will continue in the Translations community and as part of this work an introductory video will be produced to explain how people can get involved in the community, a language packs schedule has been defined, there will be a series of translations training sessions throughout the cycle, and a first iteration of translations.ubuntu.com will be produced.
The community made plans to produce a Global Directory, inspired by the LoCo directory, which shows all teams in the Ubuntu community. As part of this work a meeting tracker which integrates with fridge.ubuntu.com has been planned.
The Release Team met and agreed to update Process pages to include explicit post mortem discussion in future, clarify roles in the release pages, merge release schedules into a master table, and review the Natty cycle and make changes where appropriate.
The Leadership Code Of Conduct was agreed to play a formal role in leadership in Ubuntu, and the translations community will be porting it to DocBook so it can be translated by the community.

Application Developers

The Ubuntu One team will be delivering an application developer API that application authors can use to build Ubuntu One support into their apps. Core focus for this API will be desktop + web + mobile.
Natty will see significant work in the area of gestures. A high-level gesture language will continue to be developed, with support in GTK/Qt apps. The GEIS 2.0 gesture language resulted from experience with GEIS 1.0, and it addresses awkward aspects of usage so far.
Quickly will see further development, including better Glade integration, support for installing to /opt, and the Launchpad team are providing support so PPAs can be created by Quickly.

Read further notes from this track at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDSProceedings/N/ApplicationDevelopers

Package Selection and System Defaults

Unity will provide the default desktop experience for Ubuntu Desktop
Gnome 3.0, including Gnome Shell, will be included in this release.
Software Center will have two major feature updates. These updates will allow Ubuntu users to:
1. donate money directly to providers of free software in the Ubuntu Software Center
2. access and provide ratings, plus reviews, for all software in the Ubuntu Software Center
In accordance with the Ubuntu Promise, Unity will be made accessible with a focus on the launcher, the panel, and the indicators that go with it.
We will target Banshee as the default music player.
For years now, the Ubuntu Server has tried to perform a balancing act, aiming to provide a feature-full, useful server while being as trim as possible. In doing so, we landed somewhere in the middle ground where few people are happy with the default package set, thus failing to meet the needs of our users. To solve this problem, we will look into creating a two-stage Ubuntu Server installer experience.
- The 1st step will be focused on getting a minimal server up and running as fast as possible, for the system administrator who knows what he/she wants.
- The 2nd step will be made optionally available immediately after first login. If utilized, system administrators will be able to easily customize their server based on the workloads they intend to use it for.
In our on-going effort to support community-driven open source server related projects, the Ubuntu Server team will ensure the integration of Drizzle, a "Lightweight SQL Database for Cloud and Web".
In Ubuntu 11.04, we will re-assess our networking stack from the kernel up to the user interface layer, with a singular goal of giving the best network experience to Ubuntu users to date.
Natty development will open with gcc-4.5 as the default toolchain, with an aggressive goal of shipping gcc-4.6 by release.
Linaro will create a new ARM-targeted "developer" image. This image will be a strict superset of the currently produced headless image, to reduce maintenance, and will include developer tools and other useful packages generally interesting/useful to ARM developers.