== 2011-06-13 Meeting Minutes ==
=== Old Business ===
* Charlie to dig for the xscreensaver updates, and put in an SRU
=== Team updates ===
==== Packaging & Development ====
* LightDM replaced GDM as the login manager
* xarchiver replaced file-roller due to nautilus dependency with file-roller
* leafpad replaced mousepad; mousepad needs a maintainer in Xfce. This will also allow Xubuntu to drop xfprint4, which is used only by mousepad.
* mr_pouit created https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Oneiric/DeltaReviewAndCleanup to track the current diffs with Debian.
* we also added back the places plugin since it no longer uses hal
* pavucontrol and pastebinit need to be added to the defaults
* look at the possibility of adding midori as a second browser
==== Bug Triage & Testing ====
* having a couple of people willing to test daily images (install, restart, update, restart, shutdown), we now have chart of daily testing to use.
* https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AucFSttyWCevdGZSenZqRS04eE9LYnBwSWtUM0NJRXc&hl=en_US&authkey=CP282scF#gid=0
* Testing wiki - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Testing
==== Website & Marketing ====
* emailed cody to see if he could update the current drupal site with knomes latest drupal revision which puts the new logo in
* There is a current discussion on the xubuntu-devel mailing list
* We will start a "promote Xubuntu" page on the website
* It will be started by just putting the logos up
* We welcome the addition of plantoschka to the team
* plantoschka has been kind enough to offer to write news releases and blogs for Xubuntu
* We also have a wiki page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Marketing with general ideas
* bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/xubuntu-website and we're down to just 1, but please add more if you find them
* "marketing" definition:
* news releases, blogs, release parties, !OpenWeek, !DeveloperWeek, !UserDays
* http://www.jonobacon.org/2011/06/01/six-months-of-rocking-ubuntu-events/
* Anything we can do to promote Xubuntu
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Marketing
==== Artwork ====
* Our theme will be re-worked to fine tune it for Oneiric. Those with real sharp eyes running Oneiric will see the changes, or at least it did change.
* Our artwork team [[ http://wiki.knome.fi/shimmer:greybird | goals]]
* Ubuntu now has a theme engine so that one theme can work for both gtk3 and gtk2
==== Documentation ====
* We need someone that can go through the wiki documentation and update it.
=== Announcements ===
* There is a really neat review of Xfce, which includes a few comments on Xubuntu
* http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/456623-weekend-project-find-hidden-treasures-in-xfce-48
* We do have a support channel for spanish support, that is not included in the !es factoid. It is #xubuntu-es .
* Alpha2 is due on July 7, testing will start on July 5
=== Any Other Business ===
* Next meeting is in one week, June 19, #xubuntu-devel, at 22:00 UTC.
* [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings/Archive/Minutes/2011-06-13 | Meeting log]]
=== Action items for the 2011-06-13 meeting ===
* No action items
==== Xubuntu Governance ====
* The governancy part of the current Strategy Document can be found at [[Xubuntu/StrategyDocument#Xubuntu Governance & Team Structure]]
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== 2011-06-13 Meeting Log ==
* People Present:
* charlie-tca
* micahg
* pleia2
* plantoschka
The full logs can found in original form at
http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/06/13/%23xubuntu-devel.txt
Started logging meeting in #xubuntu-devel
[20:01] #STARTMEETING
[20:01] o/
[20:01] * micahg passes charlie-tca a chair
[20:01] yes, I know we have no meeting bot, but at least using start and end lets a person seach the logs easily
[20:01] Thanks, micahg
[20:02] Welcome to the Xubuntu Community Meeting. The full agenda is always available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings
[20:02] * Old business - all
[20:02] knome is to set up a tele-conference of some type to discuss marketing - email discussion started on xubuntu-devel ML - DONE
[20:02] Charlie to dig for the xscreensaver updates, and put in an SRU
[20:02] * Team updates - Team Leads
[20:02] * Packaging & Development
[20:02] Changes to the default applications
[20:02] * Bug Triage & Testing
[20:02] Daily testing versus milestone testing
[20:02] * Website & Marketing
[20:02] There is a current discussion on the xubuntu-devel mailing list
[20:02] * Artwork
[20:03] * Documentation
[20:03] * Announcements - Project Lead
[20:03] TeamReports need to be updated
[20:03] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/TeamReports
[20:03] * Governance structure - all
[20:03] The governancy part of the current Strategy Document can be found at Xubuntu/StrategyDocument#Xubuntu Governance & Team Structure
[20:03] * Any Other Business - all/anyone
[20:03] Anyone involved with Xubuntu can update TeamReports, please do not wait for the Project Lead to do the updates.
[20:03] whoa! that looks big
[20:03] :)
[20:03] Old business - all
[20:03] knome is to set up a tele-conference of some type to discuss marketing
[20:04] We closed this because we did start the discussion on the Mailing List. It is not as active as I would like, however, it is a start!
[20:04] Charlie to dig for the xscreensaver updates, and put in an SRU
[20:04] I'm behind and getting farther behind.
[20:05] Team updates - Team Leads
[20:05] * Packaging & Development
[20:05] mr_pouit: You make it, or micahg
[20:06] The updates I have already are :
[20:06] LightDM replaced GDM as the login manager
[20:06] xarchiver replaced file-roller due to nautilus dependency with file-roller
[20:06] leafpad replaced mousepad; mousepad needs a maintainer in Xfce. This will also allow Xubuntu to drop xfprint4, which is used only by mousepad.
[20:06] micahg: your turn
[20:06] mr_pouit created https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Oneiric/DeltaReviewAndCleanup to track the current diffs with Debian
[20:07] Great idea!
[20:07] we have a few syncs waiting for the next sync run, it looks like we'll only have a handful of packages with a diff in ubuntu when we're done, some of the diff will be kept in Debian
[20:08] Did we get pavucontrol and pastebinit added to the defaults?
[20:08] not yet
[20:08] and, what about the possibility of shipping with two browsers?
[20:08] we also added back the places plugin since it no longer uses hal
[20:08] Yay!
[20:08] That's a nice gain
[20:09] we're still horribly oversized, we should work on that first before adding more IMHO
[20:09] I agree. Ubuntu seems to be under now, we should be able to work our images down too
[20:09] yeah, well, we're inheriting some bloat still from Ubuntu (GTK3)
[20:10] Thanks for the updates, micahg
[20:10] so, we'll see what happens after the next CD run
[20:10] Any questions/comments for development?
[20:10] Next topic then...
[20:10] Bug Triage & Testing
[20:10] Daily testing versus milestone testing
[20:11] We have not gotten an image since the 10th of June. It is under investigation
[20:12] However, having a couple of people willing to test daily images (install, restart, update, restart, shutdown), we now have chart of daily testing to use.
[20:12] https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AucFSttyWCevdGZSenZqRS04eE9LYnBwSWtUM0NJRXc&hl=en_US&authkey=CP282scF#gid=0
[20:12] If we are updating it, we will move it to the wiki
[20:13] Otherwise, it becomes a nice flowchart for the testing people to try to use.
[20:13] There are still a ton of issues with oneiric, too many to report all the bugs this early.
[20:13] any questions for testing?
[20:14] Next topic...
[20:14] Website & Marketing
[20:14] There is a current discussion on the xubuntu-devel mailing list
[20:14] Anyone is welcome to add to the discussion. We really need someone to grab this and carry it on.
[20:15] if someone has some ideas for content we can start creating the "promote xubuntu" page on the site
[20:15] I can start by just putting the logos up if you want
[20:15] And, in Marketing terms, we welcome the addition of plantoschka to the team.
[20:15] pleia2: that would be great!
[20:15] ok cool, I'll work on that then :)
[20:16] ;-)
[20:16] We also have a wiki page at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Marketing with general ideas
[20:16] plantoschka has been kind enough to offer to write news releases and blogs for Xubuntu.
[20:16] great
[20:17] for website stuff, I've been tackling bugs at https://bugs.launchpad.net/xubuntu-website and we're down to just 1, but please add more if you find them
[20:17] and we now have a test wordpress install up at xubuntu.princessleia.com (please don't spread this URL too far, the server has limited power :)) where knome is developing our wordpress theme
[20:17] wOw! That's great. Let's stay on top, if you haven't visited http://xubuntu.org lately, it is time to visit it
[20:18] all bugs against the website can be reported directly to launchpad or using ubuntu-bug xubuntu-website
[20:18] I also emailed cody to see if he could update the current drupal site with knomes latest drupal revision which puts the new logo in, but I haven't heard back
[20:19] and he isn't here today, either.
[20:19] Shall we let plantoschka introduce himself?
[20:19] yeah, I'm done :)
[20:19] plantoschka: go ahead and tell us a little about you
[20:20] oh okay ;)
[20:21] I know you said you have written a blog in german?
[20:21] i'm anton from germany 23 years old and atm studying computer science. i use and work with linux system since a couple of years and now using (and loving) xubuntu since a few months
[20:21] yes. http://www.plantoschka.com/
[20:22] some posts are dedicated to xubuntu
[20:22] I forgot to tell you I was going to have you introduce yourself today?
[20:23] yeah ;)
[20:23] Welcome to Xubuntu! We are happy to have help
[20:23] Any questions on website and marketing?
[20:23] not right now
[20:24] next topic...
[20:24] Artwork
[20:24] Our theme will be re-worked to fine tune it for Oneiric. Those with real sharp eyes running Oneiric will see the changes, or at least it did change.
[20:26] Next topic...
[20:26] Announcements
[20:26] There is a really neat review of Xfce, which Xubuntu is based on
[20:26] http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/456623-weekend-project-find-hidden-treasures-in-xfce-48
[20:26] is greybird going to support gtk3 apps? or does it already?
[20:27] ochosi is planning to support gtk3, yes
[20:27] ok think itÄ
[20:27] There are no themes yet for it, though
[20:27] it's important for oneiric
[20:27] or all the gtk3 apps look bad
[20:27] Xubuntu will stay in gtk2 for oneiric, since Xfce requires it
[20:28] but, yeah, with the mix of them, we will have the theme updated for gtk3
[20:28] yeah, but still some people are using nautilus or similar..
[20:28] heh, oh well... ;-)
[20:28] software center will also be gtk3, and it is included by default
[20:29] xubuntu will be staying on gtk2 for oneiric+1 as well :)
[20:29] software center might not be ported to gtk3
[20:29] ubuntu now has a theme engine so that one theme can work for both gtk3 and gtk2
[20:29] please never remove the software center from xubuntu :-D
[20:30] I never use it, myself.
[20:30] however, let's press on here
[20:30] next topic...
[20:30] Announcements
[20:30] TeamReports need to be updated
[20:30] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/TeamReports
[20:31] If we keep the team reports updated as we go through the month, it is much easier than trying to remember everything we did at the end of the month
[20:31] Anyone involved with Xubuntu can update TeamReports, please do not wait for the Project Lead to do the updates.
[20:32] Questions?
[20:32] micahg, mr_pouit : the sooner we can say yes or no to gtk3 the better it will be.
[20:32] Any other business?
[20:33] The governancy part of the current Strategy Document can be found at Xubuntu/StrategyDocument#Xubuntu Governance & Team Structure
[20:33] charlie-tca: well, IMHO, if we need it (for shared components we can't replace), we take it, if not, not
[20:34] charlie-tca: do we need yelp?
[20:34] yes
[20:34] ok, that's GTK3, issue solved :)
[20:34] apparently, much of the xfce documentation is now read through yelp
[20:34] or at least the answer is "yes, we need yelp"
[20:35] so, we will have both, huh?
[20:35] yep
[20:35] anything else??? Anyone???
[20:35] testing!
[20:35] better to take this hit this cycle than scrambling next cycle, we'll definitely need it next cycle
[20:35] at least for the shared stuff :)
[20:36] I have a couple of people signed up for daily and milestone testing. But I am losing them faster than I can sign them up
[20:36] Alpha2 is due on July 7. On July 5, we start milestone testing the candidate for Alpha2. THat is the involved tests.
[20:37] Even as volunteers, once you tell us you will do something, we expect it to happen, please.
[20:37] going....
[20:38] going 2 .....
[20:38] charlie-tca: a reminder to the -devel list on the 4th or 5th would be super helpful
[20:38] Can do
[20:38] thanks :)
[20:38] no problem
[20:38] Thanks for bringing that up
[20:38] Next meeting will be Sunday June 19 at 22:00 UTC
[20:39] and I will try to be here for it
[20:39] Thanks to everyone for participating in the meeting.
[20:39] #ENDMEETING