January

Xubuntu team report for January 2009

Artwork

  • No activity.

Bug Triage

  • Bug triage proceeding at a steady pace. Many bugs were triaged this month.
  • A high number of bugs were reported upstream.
  • New pages for reporting bugs to Xfce-Bugzilla, AbiWord, and Listen were added to "Bugs/Upstream".

Community

Documentation

  • Jim, Pasi, and Jannis are brainstorming an idea to work closely with upstream and other distributions to rewrite the upstream documentation.

Marketing

  • Following the Grow the Xubuntu Community -specification.

  • Especially tried to get new contributors to the Marketing Team with varying results - though still no new members.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

  • Alpha 3 released on January 15th.
  • Charlie (charlie-tca) has re-written the wiki test pages and they are now usable for testing.
  • Lionel (mr_pouit) synced a new version of Sion from Debian.

  • Mario Limonciello (superm1) diagnosed and fixed an issue with gnome-keyring-daemon resulting in the desktop startup not completing. Instead of xfce4-session starting gnome-keyring-daemon (when "Launch gnome services on startup" are enabled), leave it to the pam module.
  • A new version of Catfish was synced from Debian.

  • Lionel (mr_pouit) uploaded a new version of Ristretto (0.0.21)

  • Lionel (mr_pouit) sponsored Bhavani Shankar in uploading a new upstream version of xfce4-smartpm-plugin (0.4.0).

  • Lionel (mr_pouit) fixed broken translations in xfce4-session, closing LP: #313688

  • Lionel (mr_pouit) uploaded a new version of xfce4-clipman-plugin, 0.9.0

Xubuntu/TeamReports/09/January (last edited 2009-02-15 20:24:59 by MCCLXXIII)