[ubuntu-art] Launchpad updates

[Niel Drummond]

As you probably know by the bomb sitting in your mailbox, I have been
slaving away at putting suggested features into Launchpad. I do
apologise. Honest! It's not all finished though, so best to configure
your spam box .-)

The IRC meeting covered a great deal of things (see the logs), from
Launchpad point of view, we'll be voting on some of the
specifications. We'll then get rid of the rest, and start assigning
tasks.

Some comments on what is being implemented:  

a) Launchpad names are of the form "ubuntu-art-mydescription"

Launchpad specs can be made dependent on other specs. Their
descriptions are marked as follows:  

* "TARGET" will be a generalised target 

* All normal specifications should be a dependent on a particular
TARGET.

* "UNIFIED" will be a parent of many "TARGET" specs.

Some of the mailing list suggestions want to unify various ideas into
one. So, there is a need for unifying specifications. 


b) I've assigned people to their suggestions. This is simply to
see at a glance who suggested what, and will be changed as soon as we
sort things out 


c) we should mention somewhere on the wiki (in 2 weeks) about
the various URLs relevant to the art team:

 - where the relevant specs are to the art team 
https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-art/+specs
 - how to add a spec (this wasn't very obvious to me until someone on
#ubuntu-devel pointed it out to me)
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+addspec
 - Instructions on how to register yourself as a team member:

Go here https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-art/+login
Follow instructions to register
Now go here https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-art/+join

(The wiki has been frozen for restructuring, so I don't recommend we add
this information yet.)


I hope this isn't too complicated. When we get over the rush, Launchpad
will become a lot more useful than it currently is...

Kind Regards

- Niel Drummond