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Introduction

Welcome to the Xubuntu Team reporting page. Every month this page should be filled with bullet points indicating the summary of some of the work you have been working on. As you work on something, try to summarise it here. A few guidelines for how to write good points here:

  • Keep it simple and short - single sentences are best;
  • Try to summarise your work and not be over-detailed; and
  • Where possible, include relevant links.

You should get all your reporting included here by the 22nd of every month.

Last Month's Xubuntu Team Report

Xubuntu team report for February 2009

Artwork

  • Preliminary ideas for Jaunty artwork.

Bug Triage

  • Fixed the pages on the Xubuntu wiki for Bugs-Triage; made sure they agree with QA bugsquad pages.
  • Triaged a good number of bugs, some of the Xubuntu bugsquad participated in the Global Bug Jam, which was a big success.
  • Got many bugs fixed thanks to the successful upload of AbiWord 2.6.6 and Xfce 4.6 RC1.

Community

Documentation

  • Jim and Pasi are working to make Yelp look more Xubuntuish on Xubuntu.
  • Jim has been integrating updates from Ubuntu documentation into Xubuntu docs, and is finding the merge process helpful in fixing bugs and incorporating info about new features.
  • Much of the Xubuntu-specific documentation still needs to be written, but some of it can be adapted from previous versions of Xubuntu docs.
  • Jim will be filing bugs against problem areas to help direct people to areas where they can pitch-in during a Xubuntu-doc hug day.

Marketing

  • Committed a patch to website which fixes layout problems on Internet Explorer. (This patch is pending an RT ticket.)
  • Following the Grow the Xubuntu Community -specification.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

  • Released Alpha 4
  • Uploaded all of Xfce 4.6 RC1 (Big Thanks to Lionel, Michael, Jeromeg, and the Debian Xfce Team).
  • Moved all our packages into bazaar branches and setup a number of imports for Xfce components.
  • Jeromeg uploaded xfce-switch-plugin (a user session switcher applet).
  • Lionel uploaded a new version of gigolo (formerly known as Sion).
  • Mario patched xfce4-session to not show the tips screen on first log in.
  • Jeromeg uploaded xfce4-power-manager.
  • Nathan Handler (nhandler) has been working with the samba browser patch for Thunar.

This Month's WIP Team Report

Xubuntu team report for March 2009

Artwork

  • Lots of general discussion on the mailing list.
  • Pasi prepared stuff for Jaunty artwork cycle
    • Wallpaper
    • Countdown banners
    • GDM theme (needs polishing)
  • Pasi worked on potential Jaunty+1 artwork:
    • First version for new GTK theme
      • Charlie did excessive testing on the performance issues.
  • Pasi and Michael started planning/working on new Usplash theme

Bug Triage

  • Many bugs fixed with the upgrade to Xfce 4.6.

Community

Documentation

  • Jim Campbell cleaned up the documentation in advance of String Freeze on Thursday. He removed all ghelp links from the Xubuntu documentation, converting them to links that will work when the docs are converted to html.
  • Charlie and Pasi updated hardware requirements on the wiki. Charlie did excessive testing whether these apply to Jaunty.
  • Cody cleaned up the documentation by removing cruft and rewrote the Makefiles so that the documentation builds properly.

Marketing

  • Following the Grow the Xubuntu Community -specification.

  • Discussion about the target audience for Xubuntu
  • Work is made to get everything consistent.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

  • Released Alpha 5
  • Uploaded all of Xfce 4.6 (Big Thanks to Lionel, Michael, Jeromeg, and the Debian Xfce Team).
  • Released Alpha 6
  • Upgrade testing in progress for Jaunty. Upgrades using normal procedures and using aufs based upgrades are working.
  • Lionel applied a cherry-pick to xfwm4 from upstream svn to fix a focus issue with update-manager (LP: #335928)
  • Lionel applied a patch to Thunar so that Thunar will correctly honour user's umask.
  • Lionel updated the Xubuntu seeds to include rarian instead of scrollkeeper.
  • Cody de-seeded xfmedia from ship seed (due to inability to include recommended package on cd) and regenerated xubuntu-meta.
  • Cody updated gigolo desktop file to be more useful (and potentially avoided offending folks).
  • Lionel uploaded artwork and default settings changes.
  • Cody and Nathan assisted Jim in documentation packaging efforts.
  • Cody uploaded updated documentation translation templates to launchpad and sent out an e-mail to encourage folks to help translate Xubuntu documentation for jaunty.
  • Cody patched gnome-terminal to not show up in the menu as our terminal menu item uses the preferred terminal.
  • Cody patched xfprint4 to not install its desktop files so that we don't have 4-5 menu items related to printing.
  • Michael updated the xubuntu-artwork package to use png files instead of svg as svg does not have acceleration under arm and was causing the login process to take a whole extra minute to complete.

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