2012-09-19

Meeting information

Meeting summary

Items carried on

  • Open action items from previous meeting (knome, 14:57:03)
  • Disable compositor in live CD (knome, 14:57:41)
    • Compositor is disabled in the "Install Xubuntu" mode in the live CD (knome, 14:57:53)
  • Do we want to run encryption -tests for milestones? (knome, 14:58:30)
    • Postponing until R (knome, 14:58:38)
  • Testcases feedback (knome, 14:58:47)
  • Xfce4 display dialog (knome, 14:59:45)
    • Postponed until R (knome, 14:59:50)
  • Strategy Document review (knome, 14:59:58)

Team updates

  • Development (knome, 15:00:38)
    • Re-introducing indicators, except indicator-messages (knome, 15:01:43)
  • QA (knome, 15:02:30)
    • New testcases up at the ISO tracker (knome, 15:02:38)
    • We need more tests for Beta 2, since we skipped Beta 1 (knome, 15:03:01)
  • Marketing, Promotion and Artwork (knome, 15:03:10)
    • Xfwm window borders fixed (2px for Q) (knome, 15:03:29)
    • Lots of other bugfixes in too (knome, 15:03:40)
    • sent off a request for quote on some casebadge stickers (pleia2, 15:03:42)

    • Countdown banners designed, see http://temp.knome.fi/xubuntu/branding_exports/countdown_quantal.png for a quick preview (knome, 15:04:19)

    • fleshed out our "marketing audience" on the wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Marketing so we can work on some flyers for events (pleia2, 15:05:03)

    • ACTION: pleia2 to draft text for flyers this week (pleia2, 15:05:17)

    • ACTION: knome to draft flyer looks hopefully before UDS (knome, 15:05:44)

    • ACTION: knome to get new countdown banners uploaded (knome, 15:06:08)

    • website, wiki and help.ubuntu.com/community docs are looking good! we'll probably revisit them as a review next cycle (pleia2, 15:06:22)

    • ACTION: mr_pouit to upload updates to xubuntu-artwork (theme bugfixes and elementary-xfce USC icon change) (knome, 15:06:50)

    • "Dotless" wallpaper uploaded for LightDM and Plymouth since they don't scale wallpapers well (knome, 15:08:09)
  • Documentation and Website (knome, 15:08:20)

    • The documentation is now written, reviewed and converted to DocBook (knome, 15:08:41)

    • The docs will most probably land into B2, they'll be reviewed today to granted an upload permission (knome, 15:09:09)

    • Thanks for everybody contributing to the docs; bluesabre, elfy, jjfrv8, myself :P, ochosi, pleia2, SkippersBoss, smartboyhw, and others that are not online and/or i've forgotten (knome, 15:10:21)

Announcements

  • Release notes need writers, for Beta 2 and Final release (knome, 15:12:33)
  • Beta 2 freeze is TOMORROW 21UTC (knome, 15:12:43)

New ang emerging items

  • ISO oversizedness (knome, 15:14:43)
    • We are currently at 708MB for amd64 and 693MB for i386 (knome, 15:15:05)
    • Languages that we'll keep for i386 but drop for amd64 to get more space: xh, fr, pt (knome, 15:18:30)

    • ACTION: micahg to drop 'pt' from amd64 and reintroduce 'de' for i386 (knome, 15:23:05)

    • ACTION: micahg to make sure i386 doesn't go oversized, and if it goes, drop gnome-sudoku tomorrow before freeze (knome, 15:23:29)

  • Schedule next meeting (knome, 15:24:49)
    • Next meeting: September 26th, 15UTC (knome, 15:28:13)

Action items, by person

  • knome
    • knome to draft flyer looks hopefully before UDS
    • knome to get new countdown banners uploaded
  • micahg
    • micahg to drop 'pt' from amd64 and reintroduce 'de' for i386
    • micahg to make sure i386 doesn't go oversized, and if it goes, drop gnome-sudoku tomorrow before freeze
  • pleia2
    • pleia2 to draft text for flyers this week

People present (lines said)

  • knome (99)
  • micahg (18)
  • pleia2 (17)
  • smartboyhw (12)
  • meetingology (10)

  • SkippersBoss (9)

  • bluesabre (7)
  • pnarciso (2)

Xubuntu/Meetings/Archive/Minutes/2012-09-19 (last edited 2012-09-19 20:38:28 by nblzone-227-162)