Community team weeks 49+50 update

[Nicholas Skaggs]

Stop the presses! As an addendum, this stuff also happened and is 
noteworthy :-)

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    Quality

      o

        Next version of Pilot testing will be highlighting new bluetooth
        stack. Will be ready in time for OTA-9.

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    Core Apps

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        Music - work started on streaming support at the platform level
        - precursor to adding various streaming services to Music app

      o

        Weather - meeting with new owners of Weather.com (one of our
        data providers) to hand over documentation and API keys for
        migration to new platform in place since IBM purchase

      o

        Docviewer - a few minor fixes landing shortly, and some planning
        for the next release, and an early play with new features in
        LibreOffice 5.1

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    General community

      o

        Google Code In

          +

            Great opening week

          +

            More than 200 active students working on tasks for the
            ubuntu community

          + Over 100 tasks already completed



On 12/11/2015 12:18 PM, David Planella wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Here are some highlights of what the Ubuntu Community Team at 
> Canonical together with some other community members have been working 
> on in the last two weeks:
>
> As a bonus, as I got reminded the previous update wasn't send, you get 
> the full month update ;)
>
> ## Week 49+50
>
> Snappy
> - Review of Snappy App Developer Manual, put together a plan to 
> integrate it into official docs, discussed it with the team. Started 
> work on integrating the docs into snappy and snapcraft upstream and 
> into the developer site.
> - Finalised Snappy+Snapcraft training materials. Being reviewed now. 
> Q&A with the team happening on 21st Dec.
> - Snappy Clinic about snapcraft releases 0.5 and 0.6. 
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSshkKswQLg
> - Fixed a number of issues in click-reviewers-tools.
>
> General community
> - UbuCon Summit preparations:
>   - Preliminary schedule 
> http://ubucon.org/en/events/ubucon-summit-us/schedule
>   - Registrations are open 
> http://ubucon.org/events/ubucon-summit-us/register
>   - Speakers http://ubucon.org/en/events/ubucon-summit-us/speakers
>   - Promotion plan
>
> Developer Site
> - Deployment to staging and testing of and improvements for the Django 
> and Django CMS update of the site.
> - Work on various fixes for the site.
> - Rework of the markdown importer for snappy documentation is almost 
> complete.
>
> ## Week 47+48
>
> General Community
> - Recruited mentors for Google CodeIn (more needed)
> - Crowd-sourced some additional tasks for CodeIn (more needed)
> - Organise contact for UnixStickers to enable them to sell Ubuntu 
> branded stickers
> - Scopes Showdown preparation
> - Community Council election.
> - David Callé attended Ubucon Paris as staff
>
> Developer site
> - Landed new oem snaps plugins
> - Working on Django upgrade, now deployed on staging and working. 
> Needs a database import and further testing now.
> - New version of the thumbnailer tutorial (QML)
> - Work on breaking up, improving and generalising the markdown importer.
> - Work with Django CMS upstream on fixing the importer issues.
>
> Core Apps
> - Pushed new Music app with UI Toolkit 1.3 support to QA for testing 
> which was approved and uploaded to the store
> - Identified bug in Toolkit affecting headerless apps (Clock / 
> Calculator / Weather), worked around for now, but needs fixing 
> properly in the toolkit.
> - Further testing UI Toolkit 1.3 and many other updates to the 
> DocViewer. Almost ready for release. Targetting middle of Week 49 for 
> store upload.
> - Resolved issues with Jenkins being incorrectly configured for 
> autolanding for some core apps
> - Resolve a few minor bugs in Notes, identified by QA team
> - Minor clock update submitted to QA which changes alarm preview audio 
> playback to line up with coming Qt 5.5 platform update
> - Updated Calendar in the store which improves performance and adds 
> optional week view
>
> Snappy
> - Creation of Training materials for Snappy + Snapcraft.
> - Planning of next Snappy Clinic.
> - Various docs fixes.
> - Review of App Developer Manual, planning of reintegrating it into 
> the official docs, work is underway.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
>
>
>