2013-01-10

Meeting information

Meeting summary

Items carried on

  • Open action items from previous meeting (knome, 15:00:07)

    • ACTION: knome to draft flyer looks (knome, 15:00:21)

Team updates

  • Development (knome, 15:01:44)
    • parole 0.4.0 released, looking for testers (not enough bugs logged on it) (bluesabre_, 15:03:31)
    • mr_pouit has gotten newer versions of various components into raring (micahg, 15:03:53)
    • i386 ISO is CD size again (minus fr langpacks) (micahg, 15:04:08)
    • micahg working on rebuild FTBFS failures, mostly related to multiarch python headers (micahg, 15:04:46)

    • ACTION: micahg to attempt to make amd64 ISO CD size by alpha2 (useful for its timing, but we're not shipping it) (micahg, 15:05:14)

    • just for general information, the alpha2 is most probably going to be postponed by a few days (read ubuntu-release archives for more info) (knome, 15:06:05)

    • ACTION: micahg to create a list of things that needs porting from python2 to python3 (knome, 15:11:29)

    • ACTION: micahg to get list of packages in Xubuntu using python2 (micahg, 15:11:30)

    • ACTION: micahg to finish fixing FTBFS failures found in the rebuilds (micahg, 15:11:55)

    • we'll see how the python-port list looks like, then reconsider if we should consider dropping langpacks (knome, 15:12:47)
  • Quality Assurance (knome, 15:14:29)

    • ACTION: micahg to see if anything else than xchat is keeping tcl in (recommends for xchat), team investigates possibility to drop tcl (knome, 15:18:01)

    • ACTION: knome gathers a list of things we want to test before alpha2 (knome, 15:18:41)

    • ACTION: bluesabre_ lists things he wants tested in his projects (knome, 15:18:53)

    • parole 0.4 is out and available in raring, lots of new features and fixes, testers needed (bluesabre_, 15:19:09)
    • we will do some specific cadence testing before a2 (knome, 15:19:20)
    • when a2 is out, we will do more of more general cadence testing (knome, 15:19:53)

    • ACTION: knome will send more information on the ML, team shouts out in social media etc. for anybody to help with testing (knome, 15:20:35)

  • Marketing, Promotion and Artwork (knome, 15:21:43)

    • ACTION: pleia2 drafts a new blog article on testing after knome has sent information on testing to ML (knome, 15:22:08)

    • we contacted the identi.ca xubuntu group and will be co-admins of that soon (knome, 15:22:35)
    • knome is seriously considering of ordering one more xubuntu t-shirt for testing quality etc (knome, 15:26:12)
    • we have someone working on updated screenshots for the website for 12.10 (better late than never!) (pleia2, 15:28:14)

    • as always, we could use more team members contributing blog posts, you know where to find me Smile :) (pleia2, 15:28:45)

    • ACTION: team should work more on listing low-hanging fruit for new contributors to grow the community (knome, 15:29:08)

    • if you write about xubuntu (development) on your blog, it's possible to tweet about that @Xubuntu (knome, 15:30:21)
    • or, if you're on twitter yourself, we can retweet too.. (knome, 15:31:17)
    • knome has been retweeting some nice comments for @Xubuntu anyway (knome, 15:31:41)
  • Documentation, Website (knome, 15:31:56)
  • General updates (knome, 15:35:44)

    • ACTION: team to schedule some time to look at the seed and consider dropping unneded things (knome, 15:40:02)

    • ACTION: team to consider switching leafpad to mousepad (knome, 15:42:57)

Announcements

  • Changes of positions on the Xubuntu team (knome, 15:43:20)
    • elfy dropped a line that he can't help in the R cycle; knome will take over the QA-related stuff (again) (knome, 15:43:40)
    • The term for XPL ends at the end of this cycle (knome, 15:44:00)
    • Since we changed the Strategy Document, the next term will only be 2 (two) releases, since the term is designed to end with an LTS release. (knome, 15:44:32)
    • We will be voting on extending the current XPL's term at the end of the cycle; if not extended, a new XPL will serve for two cycles (knome, 15:45:18)

    • the Community Council has been meeting with teams this cycle, next Thursday (17th) it's Xubuntu's turn: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CommunityCouncilAgenda (pleia2, 15:50:38)

New ang emerging items

  • Serbian translation for Xfce 4.10 (knome, 15:51:06)
  • Discuss changing Xfce translations to a langpack system similar to KDE (makes it easier to update translations post release) (knome, 15:52:14)

    • ACTION: micahg to research converting to a Kubuntu style per-language source langpack (micahg, 16:09:05)

  • Schedule next meeting (knome, 16:10:48)
    • Next Xubuntu community meeting: Jan 24, 15 UTC @#xubuntu-devel (knome, 16:15:06)

Action items, by person

  • bluesabre_
    • bluesabre_ lists things he wants tested in his projects
    • bluesabre_ to investigate moving to yelp with docs to enable translations and stuff
  • knome
    • knome to draft flyer looks
    • knome gathers a list of things we want to test before alpha2
    • knome will send more information on the ML, team shouts out in social media etc. for anybody to help with testing
  • micahg
    • micahg to attempt to make amd64 ISO CD size by alpha2 (useful for its timing, but we're not shipping it)
    • micahg to create a list of things that needs porting from python2 to python3
    • micahg to get list of packages in Xubuntu using python2
    • micahg to finish fixing FTBFS failures found in the rebuilds
    • micahg to see if anything else than xchat is keeping tcl in (recommends for xchat), team investigates possibility to drop tcl
    • micahg to research converting to a Kubuntu style per-language source langpack
  • pleia2
    • pleia2 drafts a new blog article on testing after knome has sent information on testing to ML
  • team
    • micahg to see if anything else than xchat is keeping tcl in (recommends for xchat), team investigates possibility to drop tcl
    • knome will send more information on the ML, team shouts out in social media etc. for anybody to help with testing
    • team should work more on listing low-hanging fruit for new contributors to grow the community
    • team to schedule some time to look at the seed and consider dropping unneded things
    • team to consider switching leafpad to mousepad

People present (lines said)

  • knome (195)
  • micahg (70)
  • pleia2 (29)
  • bluesabre_ (21)
  • meetingology (19)
  • mr_pouit (15)
  • maddernick (1)
  • jjfrv8 (1)
  • team (0)

Xubuntu/Meetings/Archive/Minutes/2013-01-10 (last edited 2013-01-23 21:44:48 by nblzone-227-162)