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Meeting information

• Xubuntu community meeting, 2012-06-13

• Full logs at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/xubuntu-devel/2012/xubuntu-devel.2012-06-13-15.00.moin.txt

Meeting summary

Items carried on

• Open action items from previous meeting (knome, 15:01:03)

  • ACTION: pleia2 and knome to work on marketing products (knome, 15:01:26)

  • ACTION: pleia2 to raise publicity on triaging, testing and docs (knome, 15:01:40)

Team updates

• Development (knome, 15:02:27)
  • Some work done to get Xfce 4.10 in Quantal (knome, 15:02:55)
• Quality Assurance (knome, 15:03:05)
  • Some work was done recently to enhance the testing docs, I will dig up the link to those in a minute. The testcases were sanitized, and should now be easier to follow was non-regulars as well. (astraljava, 15:04:21)
  • Since Xubuntu did not do an Alpha-1, we haven't used the new tracker much, yet. We should pick up on that now, though. (astraljava, 15:05:08)

  • https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-testers is now an *open* team, no need to add your information on the wiki anymore. (knome, 15:06:04)

  • There's an upcoming QA meeting this Sunday, I will post info about it on the mailing lists after this meeting. (astraljava, 15:06:04)

  • ACTION: astraljava to send information on the Xubuntu QA meeting (knome, 15:06:23)

  • The testers should try to make the QA meeting on Sunday to organize (knome, 15:07:12)
• Marketing, Promotion and Artwork (knome, 15:07:21)
  • Some improvements done for Greybird, more information later (knome, 15:07:50)

  • ACTION: ochosi to send more information on Greybird and a request for feedback to ML (knome, 15:08:18)

• General updates (knome, 15:09:55)
  • knome has been working on the Strategy Document review, more info soon (knome, 15:10:15)

  • ACTION: knome to send information about the revised Strategy Document to ML soon (knome, 15:10:36)

  • All blueprints are now in place, start your engines! (knome, 15:10:58)

Announcements

• Changes in chairing the meetings (knome, 15:11:50)

  • LINK: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2012-June/008239.html (knome, 15:11:53)

  • The change described in the mail will take place now (knome, 15:12:12)
  • Basically, any team lead can chair a meeting; if the project lead or any team lead is not available, an informal meeting should take place, and the main points sent to the ML (knome, 15:13:06)
• Changes to the Testing lead position (knome, 15:13:26)

  • LINK: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2012-June/008242.html (knome, 15:13:34)

  • Since there has been no objections against the mail, the change takes place now (knome, 15:14:05)
  • Janne Jokitalo (astraljava) is the new Xubuntu QA lead (knome, 15:14:23)
• Other announcements (knome, 15:15:27)

  • The updated (short) testcase sits now at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Testing/Short (astraljava, 15:16:15)

New ang emerging items

• Feedback on Precise development cycle (knome, 15:17:36)

  • AGREED: We need better communication this cycle; actions already taken are changes in the meetings and social media accounts

• Blueprints; feedback, questions and answers (knome, 15:27:08)

  • LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/ (knome, 15:27:22)

  • I've been working on the comparison of music players against gmb, can not continue until i have some input about which are the ones that could be considered to compare, because if media libary integration is not obligatory we already have parole (GridCube, 15:27:38)

  • ACTION: knome to follow up about the default media player -blueprint on the ML, scheduling some time to go through the spec next week (knome, 15:32:41)

  • Generally, all blueprints have no or slow progress, but things are expected to change relatively soon as infrastructure on a few things has been set up (knome, 15:35:42)
  • grandr is no more, keep an eye on the xfce monitor management dialog (knome, 15:41:23)
• Enable or disable compositor by default? (knome, 15:43:22)
  • ochosi told he's +1 for enabling by default (knome, 15:43:34)
  • drop compositor on ubiquity? performance issues with low-end machines at installation time if compositor enabled? (knome, 15:49:12)

  • ACTION: astraljava to look at enabling/disabling compositor (knome, 15:50:07)

• Meeting schedule; how often should we have meetings? (knome, 15:50:23)

  • VOTE: Meetings; +1 for bi-weekly, -1 for weekly

  • Next Xubuntu community meeting at 21st of June, at 15UTC (knome, 15:55:04)

Votes

• Meetings; +1 for bi-weekly, -1 for weekly
  • For: 4 Against: 1 Abstained: 1

Action items, by person

• astraljava
  • astraljava to send information on the Xubuntu QA meeting
  • astraljava to look at enabling/disabling compositor
• knome
  • pleia2 and knome to work on marketing products
  • knome to send information about the revised Strategy Document to ML soon
  • knome to follow up about the default media player -blueprint on the ML, scheduling some time to go through the spec next week
• ochosi
  • ochosi to send more information on Greybird and a request for feedback to ML
• pleia2
  • pleia2 and knome to work on marketing products
  • pleia2 to raise publicity on triaging, testing and docs

People present (lines said)

• knome (149)

• GridCube (56)

• astraljava (22)
• meetingology (21)
• bluesabre_ (11)
• micahg (6)
• hobgoblin (6)
• xacobe (1)
• ubottu (1)