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Meeting information

• #xubuntu-devel: Xubuntu community meeting, 31 Oct at 15:14 — 16:18 UTC

• Full logs at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/xubuntu-devel/2013/xubuntu-devel.2013-10-31-15.14.log.html

Meeting summary

Items carried on

The discussion about "Items carried on" started at 15:14.

• ACTION: knome to prepare the website for the desktop of the week

• ACTION: knome will send the updated SD to lists later this week

Team updates

The discussion about "Team updates" started at 15:16.

• xfdesktop 4.11 has some nice features; builtin support for wallpapers based on the time, support for selecting a specific directory where xfdesktop looks for wallpapers instead of the fixed system directory
• Discussion about cherry-picking Xfce 4.11 components (and related issues) on Sunday, 3 November at 22UTC on #xubuntu-devel

• ACTION: ochosi and knome will try to invite some Xfce devs to the meeting

Announcements

The discussion about "Announcements" started at 15:44.

• Today is set as the last day of brainstorming for the Roadmap; the team shall approve blueprints next week
• After approving, people have two weeks to finalize their specifications (where applicable)
• - When I ask people on the -dev list for what's likely to come up that needs testing during the cycle - can they please answer. Because I will be doing so.
• A meeting may be scheduled if circumstances warrant outside the regular team meeting schedule on creating the core seed
• During the next week I will be mailing -dev list re planning testing (cadence)

• ACTION: lderan to go through the gtk list to see which apps now work with autopilot

New ang emerging items

The discussion about "New and emerging items" started at 15:50.

• Xubuntu Core: Do we offer it only as a metapackage or shall we make downloadable media avaiable as well? (15:50)

  • ACTION: Unit193 to send a proposed list of packages for -core to ML

• Documentation (16:08)

  • ochosi thinks one way we can help both xfce and xubuntu is by improving the xfce docs
  • e.g. for parole-docs we set up a staging site for the docs, we can do the same for other xfce components
  • xfdesktop could use some updates, looking ahead at the changes of the 4.12 release
  • so feel free to get in touch with ochosi if you wanna help out with xfce docs

• Schedule next meeting (16:16)

  • There is a non-regular meeting on Sunday, 3 November at 22UTC on #xubuntu-devel about picking Xfce 4.11 components (and related issues)
  • The next regular Xubuntu community meeting is on Thursday, 7 November at 15UTC on #xubuntu-devel

Action items, by person

• knome
  • knome to prepare the website for the desktop of the week
  • knome will send the updated SD to lists later this week
  • ochosi and knome will try to invite some Xfce devs to the meeting
• lderan
  • lderan to go through the gtk list to see which apps now work with autopilot
• ochosi
  • ochosi and knome will try to invite some Xfce devs to the meeting

People present (lines said)

• knome (137)
• ochosi (63)
• skellat (29)
• elfy (23)
• micahg-work (22)

• GridCube (14)

• meetingology (12)
• lderan (7)

• PhilDick (6)

• xnox (5)
• jjfrv8 (3)
• slickymaster (1)
• jono_ (1)
• ubottu (1)