Xubuntu team report for June, 2011

Bug Triage

• Began smoke testing the images for Oneiric Ocelot.

• Set up a tentative daily testing schedule.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

• Many bugs have been fixed.
• Released Oneiric Ocelot Alpha1.
• LightDM replaced GDM as the login manager.

Website & Marketing

• Approval has been received for the website to be converted to Wordpress.

• Website team is currently working on a test site of Wordpress for http://xubuntu.org .

• Re-wrote several pages for the Xubuntu website.

• Xubuntu needs a Marketing Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com, if interested.

  • Marketing Lead will produce of news releases, blog articles, advertising Xubuntu, tracking reviews of Xubuntu.

Artwork

• Greybird gtk-theme improvements
  • Initial gtk3 support was added to Xubuntu's default theme "Greybird", has to be tweaked/improved during the cycle
  • Color tweaks in Greybird (darker panel)
  • Smaller/less obtrusive resize-grip
  • Gnumeric headers bug fixed in Greybird
• A compact xfwm4 theme for Greybird was created to save vertical pixels (almost finished)
• We still need a good plymouth theme.

• Xubuntu needs an Artwork Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com, if interested.

  • Artwork Lead will work with the current artists for Xubuntu, producing themes, plymouth theme, website graphics, and other art as needed.

Community

• We are striving to get more users to blog about Xubuntu. We would like to get word out of the changes being made, as well as new releases.

• The Xubuntu Community holds a regular meetings on Mondays at 19:00 UTC and Sundays at 22:00 UTC in #xubuntu-devel. Please see the schedule and agenda at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings.

• The community meeting was held on 2011-06-13.

Documentation

• Xubuntu needs a Documentation Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com, if interested.