Edubuntu/Ubuntu Education roadmaps for Gutsy

[Jordan Mantha]

Will van der Leij wrote:
>> For Edubuntu I think putting up a wiki page with sections for technical,
>> documentation, artwork, and community (like our weekly meetings) with
>> links to specs/wiki pages for each item. Sound like and ok idea?
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>> Would it be
>> possible to get a "roadmap" for Gutsy with concrete items? Perhaps this
>> is already somewhere on the wiki but I didn't find it.
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> Organising info on the wiki was the bane of my life a while back but I
> like the idea of a "Roadmap" page. Front and center, with subs for each
> release is a great idea. For then not only can we use the
> XXXReleaseSchedule for timings but we can have our own custom milestones
> too, etc. It doesn't have to contain much meaty info, just links perhaps?
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Well, I thought I'd give it a go at getting something started, since
it's the bane of your life. Check out
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JordanMantha/EdubuntuGutsyRoadmap . It obviously
needs filling out but it's a draft at least. Once people are happy with
it we should go ahead and move it into the /Edubuntu space.

> For the moment I made https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Edubuntu have grouped
> categories. I hope it is effective? The "Devel" list is still a bit
> empty and we can put alot of stuff in there still. Have a look at
> https://wiki.edubuntu.org/Edubuntu/Wiki/SiteMap for a general overview.
> The idea of this was to avoid the situation of before where we had
> "hanging links" with no parent pages and no way to find them.
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We have entirely too many wiki pages (a title search for Edubuntu on
wiki.ubuntu.com give 400+ results which is about 3 times as many as
MOTU). Getting things pruned and cleaned up is a big task but certainly
one that is worthwhile. I like your /Edubuntu page very much.  I
personally find a nice way to clean up wikis is to take the main page,
clean it up, then go to each of the links and clean them up, and so on.
Once you're happy with that, you can prune off the remaining stuff. We
could keep track of the ones we like by putting an Edubuntu header (see
wiki.ubuntu.com/MOTU for instance) or CategoryEdubuntu at the bottom, or
both actually, to delineate what's "clean" and what's not.

I think a good addition to the "Devel"  section would be a page on
getting involved with development (links to MOTU, packaging guide,
seeds, edubuntu-bugsquad) and a page with bite-size (Jono's favorite)
tasks for people to do like testing, bug triage, cool little coding
projects for specs, getting help with MIRs, etc.

-Jordan