Raring

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Roadmap for Raring Ringtail

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

15th of November

Approving blueprints

21th of November

Finalizing blueprints and specifications

30th of November

▶ (Further discussion and) implementing

Ubuntu freezes, see the release schedule for dates

Read more about the phases on our Strategy Document.

New features, major bugs, improvements to community

Note that any items with no driver most probably won't make it to the release.

Item

Driver(s)

Importance

Links

Community improvements

Pasi Lallinaho

High

Blueprint

Fix long-standing bugs

Developer team

High

Blueprint

Development items for 13.04

Developer team

High

Blueprint

Marketing initiatives

Elizabeth Krumbach

High

Blueprint

Appearance improvements

Simon Steinbeiß

High

Blueprint

Improve testing procedures

Elfy, Pasi Lallinaho

High

Blueprint

Enhance offline documentation

Pasi Lallinaho, Elizabeth Krumbach

High

Blueprint

Ideas carried on from Quantal

Ship apt-offline by default

-

-

Specification

Add optimum partitioning option to install options

-

-

-

Add DVD support to Xubuntu restricted extras

-

-

-

New Panel Plug in: Disk access monitor

-

-

-

New ideas

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

Relative Importance

Links

Package manager

Lubuntu Software Center? (USC, Synaptic)

-

High

-

Media player

Listen, DeadBeef? (gmusicbrowser)

-

Medium

-

Backup App

Deja Dup, ? (-)

-

Medium

-

Webcam Application

Cheese?

-

Low

-

Menu manager

MenuLibre, LXMenueditor, (Alacarte)

Sean Davis

Medium

-

Terminal

Sakura

-

Low

-

Image editor

? (GIMP)

-

Low

-

Instant messaging

? (Pidgin (has IRC))

-

Low

-

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