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Meeting information

• #xubuntu-devel: Xubuntu Community Meeting, 29 Jul at 10:30 — 12:13 UTC

• Full logs at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/xubuntu-devel/2014/xubuntu-devel.2014-07-29-10.30.log.html

Meeting summary

Open action items

The discussion about "Open action items" started at 10:33.

• xubuntu packageset has been updated with the packages we ship, so uploads should be simpler now
• gstreamer1.0-clutter is the only additional package if we ship parole with a clutter backend
• The "split theme package" bug may subside after the recent QA upload for shimmer-themes but catching duplicates has to be done manually.

• ACTION: bluesabre to put list of xubuntu packageset packages on wiki

• slickymaster wrote a draft for "things to do after a 12.04 to 14.04 upgrade"

Team updates

The discussion about "Team updates" started at 10:46.

• new packages in utopic: xfce4-power-manager, xfwm4
• From overwatch on bugs, there has been a small effort to try to treat design decisions as bugs and patch them away
• Such bugs that have attempted to re-open design decision have been flagged as opinion for now
• xfwm4 tabwin needs small theme updates/tweaks, ochosi has local patches for that already

Announcements

The discussion about "Announcements" started at 10:56.

• Xubuntu 14.04.1 released last week, good job everyone!
• Xfce has made some progress towards new development releases that we will most likely want to pick for 14.10

Discussion

The discussion about "Discussion" started at 11:01.

• Default IRC client (11:01)

  • Vote: Drop xchat for Xubuntu 14.10 (Carried)

  • ACTION: ochosi to send mail to ML to vote for dropping xchat for 14.10

• Gksu/do (11:10)

  • ACTION: knome to check docs side of including pkexec policy files in favor of gksu

• Xfce bug bounty program (11:20)

  • ochosi has helped to set up a bug bounty programme on bountysource.com for Xfce

  • ACTION: marketing team to support xfce's bug bounty programme by informing people on website and social media

• Trello and Blueprints (11:23)

  • LINK: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-t/group/topic-t-flavor-xubuntu.html

  • ACTION: team to continue discussion using Trello, Blueprints

• Merged Settings menu in Whisker and classic menu (11:53)

  • LINK: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xubuntu-default-settings/+bug/1310264

  • LINK: https://i.imgur.com/52N8SmP.png

  • LINK: https://i.imgur.com/VAbLGmt.png

  • LINK: https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/xubuntu-default-settings/trunk/view/head:/debian/changelog

  • ACTION: bluesabre to upload new xubuntu-default-settings

• Parole's clutter backend (12:02)

  • Abiword already pulls clutter, so parole only adds gstreamer1.0-clutter (111 kb)
  • With the clutter backend, parole works correctly even in virtualbox
  • performance for clutter is less than xv, but better than just X

  • ACTION: bluesabre to enable clutter in parole, set as default in xubuntu-default-settings

• Schedule next meeting (12:11)

  • ACTION: pleia2 to schedule next meeting

Vote results

• http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/xubuntu-devel/2014/xubuntu-devel.2014-07-29-10.30.log.html#112 Drop xchat for Xubuntu 14.10

  • Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 5/0/0)
    • Voters knome, skellat, bluesabre, doubleplusgood, ochosi
• Voting to resume over Mailing List

Action items, by person

• bluesabre
  • bluesabre to put list of xubuntu packageset packages on wiki
  • bluesabre to upload new xubuntu-default-settings
  • bluesabre to enable clutter in parole, set as default in xubuntu-default-settings
• knome
  • knome to check docs side of including pkexec policy files in favor of gksu
• marketing
  • marketing team to support xfce's bug bounty programme by informing people on website and social media
• ochosi
  • ochosi to send mail to ML to vote for dropping xchat for 14.10
• team
  • marketing team to support xfce's bug bounty programme by informing people on website and social media
  • team to continue discussion using Trello, Blueprints

Done items

• (none)

People present (lines said)

• bluesabre (128)
• ochosi (124)
• knome (111)
• skellat (27)
• meetingology (21)
• ubottu (3)
• Noskcaj (2)
• doubleplusgood (2)
• makreting (0)
• marketing (0)
• team (0)
• slickymaster (0)