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Roadmap for Precise Pangolin
This page is to serve as a development roadmap for the next version of Xubuntu. In its initial stage it will contain items in a wishlist-manner and basically all users will be allowed to add items here. Caveat: adding an item here does not in any way mean that it will get implemented. The first step towards implementation is for an item to get an assignee, i.e. someone who will try to implement the item. After this initial period the unassigned items will be moved to an "Unassigned"-page for later use (Precise+1) or just for reference. Ideally there will be some indicator of how the progress is going on the individual items. Furthermore it would be nice to get some feedback on the items in Xubuntu team meetings on a kind of regular basis.
Brainstorming week
The brainstorming week should be a period of determining where we want to go with the next version of Xubuntu, or what we want to do, meaning people (i.e. devs and users) can add items to the wishlist. After that period, there won't be any more items added to the list, so we can get a good overview of our todo-list for Precise. (What we really can do in terms of manpower etc. will be determined in the next step, "finding assignees"). People need deadlines, even for adding stuff to a wishlist. To get better planning it's good to settle on the items we want to work on in advance, not throughout the cycle (as has been the case quite often), mainly because it makes planning and focusing easier.
Adding an item to the wishlist does not mean you have to be the one implementing it, but in your personal interest you should be motivated to at least help finding someone who will.
Launchpad blueprints and detailed specifications
We will add any items in the roadmap as Launchpad blueprints under the topic-precise-flavor-xubuntu blueprint. All blueprints can have work items which are tracked at status.ubuntu.com.
All blueprints should follow the naming convention other-p-xubuntu-BLUEPRINT-NAME (use already added blueprints as examples, if in doubt). Approver should be knome, drafter and assignee xubuntu-team (or if you are not in the Xubuntu team in LP, yourself). If you need to write a more detailed specification for the blueprint, please add it as a subpage for Xubuntu/Specifications/Precise and link it to the Launchpad blueprint.
Phases of development
Phase |
Deadline |
▶ Brainstorming Week |
Week 47 |
Finding Assignees / Closing the itemlist |
End of November |
Launchpad blueprints and detailed specifications |
TBA |
Implementation |
Ubuntu freezes, see Precise Release Schedule |
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. All proposed applications can be found in Xubuntu/Roadmap/ProposedApplications; please add one here only if that group/application has an assignee.
Application group |
Proposed (Current) |
Assignee |
Status |
Image viewer |
Ristretto (gThumb) |
Pasi Lallinaho |
No blocking bugs, is seeded already. |
New features
Note that any features with no assignee will not be driven, and most probably won't make it to the Precise Pangolin release.
Item |
Assignee |
Importance |
Status |
Port Albatross to GTK3 |
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Port Bluebird to GTK3 |
Simon Steinbeiß |
Low |
Started |
New Icon theme |
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New Plymouth theme |
madnick |
High |
Started |
New generic greeter engine for lightdm |
madnick |
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Started |
New lightdm theme |
madnick |
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Started |
Add kbdleds to the repositories |
Lionel Le Folgoc |
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Ubiquity "Application sets" on installation |
Pasi Lallinaho, Ubuntu Studio developers |
Low |
Started |
Create a new wallpaper |
Pasi Lallinaho |
Medium |
Started |
Create an Xfce menu editor |
Lauri Paatelainen |
Low-Medium |
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Release the new website |
Pasi Lallinaho, Elizabeth Krumbach |
High |
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Create and enable a conky setup |
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Bugs and other standing issues
Item |
Assignee |
Importance |
Status |
Fix Greybird GTK3 issues |
Simon Steinbeiß |
High |
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Clean wallpapers list |
Pasi Lallinaho |
Low |
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Clean themes (GTK, xfwm) list |
Pasi Lallinaho |
Low |
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Settings GUI for lightdm (under Settings Manager) |
madnick |
Medium |
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Rethink the default Application menu |
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Use maybe-ubiquity |
Lionel Le Folgoc, CD-image team |
High |
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Rethink shortcut keys |
Sysi, community |
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Fix Thunderbird theming issues (white buttons) |
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Medium-High |