Introduction

The Ubuntu Wine Team is here to make it easy to run Windows applications under Ubuntu. We can make it even easier than Windows itself.

Community tasks:

• Answering questions about Wine usage, and directing users to the appropriate resources

Development tasks:

• During open development, help direct upstream Wine development towards the features we need.
• Near release time, figure out the best version of Wine to ship for the stable release.

Our goal is seamless Wine integration into the Ubuntu desktop. Users won't even realize they're running Wine - they're running the applications they want. For Hardy, this means implementing the [:BetterIntegratedWineSpec: BetterIntegratedWine] blueprint. For longer-term goals, we have BestIntegratedWine.

Contact

Our IRC channel is #ubuntu-wine on Freenode. It still needs to be properly registered.

We will have a mailing list, however it also needs to be created.

We do not have a forum, however there is a general Wine forum at http://wine-forum.org/ - note that this is not an Ubuntu specific forum. There are very frequent user threads on specific Wine applications in the ubuntu forums as well, especially in the games forum. Please try and direct development discussion to the mailing list; day to day usage can be done wherever you're comfortable.

How to Contribute

During open development

• Fill in the documentation gaps. Wine currently needs some man pages: see http://wiki.winehq.org/ListofCommands

• Help implement upstream Wine features

(others todo)

Near release time

todo

Projects

• The Wine package is maintained by ScottRitchie

• Our main upstream here is the [http://winehq.org Wine project], however we will also need help from other upstreams for different integration tasks.

• Stuff we need from other projects will be outlined here. For now, check BetterIntegratedWineSpec

Launchpad Membership Policy

There is an Ubuntu Wine Team in launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine

So far, membership has been simply accepted and the team hasn't been used much. This will change after our first meeting.

Meetings

Our first IRC meeting will be scheduled later.

Agenda:

• Figure out the specific role of the Ubuntu Wine Team in launchpad (Launchpad bug contact?)
• Find volunteers for the different development tasks
• Make sure we know who to contact from other teams when we need something (eg, a Windows version of the Hardy theme)
• Decide how often to hold meetings (monthly, bi-weekly)

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