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Roadmap for Quantal Quetzal
This page is to serve as a development roadmap for the next version of Xubuntu. Click here to see the current status of development.
Phases of development
Phase |
Deadline |
Brainstorming and finding assignees |
End of Week 19, UDS Q |
Approving blueprints |
End of Week 20 |
Finalizing blueprints and specifications |
May 31, FeatureDefinitionFreeze |
▶ (Further discussion and) implementing |
Ubuntu freezes, Aug 23 and later |
Read more about the phases on our Strategy Document. |
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New features, major bugs, improvements to community
Note that any items with no assignee will not be driven, and most probably won't make it to the release.
Item |
Assignee |
Importance |
Links |
Review the Strategy Document |
Pasi Lallinaho, community |
Essential |
Blueprint |
Review the QA procedures |
Janne Jokitalo, Pasi Lallinaho |
Essential |
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Include Xfce 4.10 |
Lionel Le Folgoc, Micah Gersten |
Essential |
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Refresh the offline documentation |
Pasi Lallinaho, community |
High |
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New Plymouth theme |
madnick |
High |
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New LightDM theme |
madnick |
High |
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Analyze and optimize boot times |
Janne Jokitalo, Pasi Lallinaho, testers |
High |
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Website improvements |
Pasi Lallinaho, Elizabeth Krumbach |
Medium |
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Review terminal theme |
Simon Steinbeiß, Pasi Lallinaho |
Medium |
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Albatross theme facelift |
Simon Steinbeiß, Pasi Lallinaho |
Medium |
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Improve Bluebird theme |
Simon Steinbeiß, Markus Klinga |
Medium |
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Rethink elementary-xfce icons concept |
Simon Steinbeiß |
Medium |
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Explore possibilities of desktop search |
Sean Davis, Simon Steinbeiß |
Medium |
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Add more launchers to Settings manager |
Unit193, community |
Medium |
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Xubuntu marketing initiatives |
Elizabeth Krumbach, community |
Medium |
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Implement Keyboard-Shortcuts overlay/window |
Sean Davis, Simon Steinbeiß |
Low |
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Ubiquity application sets |
Janne Jokitalo |
Low |
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Umbrella blueprint for appearance blueprints |
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Ideas that are postponed for now |
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Ship apt-offline by default |
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Add optimum partitioning option to install options |
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Add DVD support to Xubuntu restricted extras |
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New Panel Plug in: Disk access monitor |
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Changes on default applications
Items in this group (usually) need comprehensive application comparisons. An assignee for each "group"/type of application should take up the task, ideally more than one to make it less subjective/one-sided.
Application group |
Proposed (Current) |
Assignee |
Importance |
Links |
Package manager |
Lubuntu Software Center? (USC, Synaptic) |
Pasi Lallinaho, Simon Steinbeiß |
High |
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Monitor management |
Improve xfce4-display-dialog |
Medium |
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Media player |
Listen, DeadBeef? (gmusicbrowser) |
Medium |
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Backup App |
Deja Dup, ? (-) |
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Medium |
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Video player |
Improve Parole |
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Low |
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Webcam Application |
Cheese? |
Low |
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Menu manager |
MenuLibre, LXMenueditor, (Alacarte) |
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Low |
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Terminal |
Sakura |
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Low |
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Image editor |
? (GIMP) |
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Low |
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Xubuntu/Roadmap/Goals/Quantal (last edited 2012-08-26 23:10:20 by nblzone-227-162)