Meeting information
- Xubuntu community meeting, 2013-01-10
Full logs at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/xubuntu-devel/2013/xubuntu-devel.2013-01-10-14.59.moin.txt
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
(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)
LINK: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-r-xubuntu-docs (pleia2, 15:32:38)
ACTION: bluesabre_ to investigate moving to yelp with docs to enable translations and stuff (knome, 15:34:31)
- 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)