Ubuntu Desktop weekly meetings

[Rick Spencer]

Removing the categories sounds like it optimizes writing, but categories
are useful for the reader. Also, having categories triggers some
progress to be reported (or lack of progress) in important areas. As a
reader I would want to keep the categories.

Cheers, Rick

On Thu, 2010-11-25 at 10:50 +1100, Robert Ancell wrote:
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> Hi all,
> 
> There was a discussion about this email in the western edition and
> this continued into the eastern edition.  The decision was to trial a
> new weekly summary format, which we will use for the next meeting (30
> November).
> 
> The instructions:
>  * The summary is here:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-11-30
>  * Any Ubuntu desktop team member can update this list.
>  * You can add any item to the list that you consider useful to
> another team member or someone interested in what the desktop team is
> doing.
>  * Insert new items where you think the importance is, the list is
> sorted highest to lowest.
>  * You can update this list at any time during the week (and you are
> encouraged to).
>  * At the end of the week, before the meeting, this list will be
> "cleaned up" by Jason and I and emailed to this mailing list.
> 
> Notes:
>  * This should not take any more time than the current system.  Note
> if it does.
>  * There are no categories (e.g. USC, U1, X).  This is to keep the
> experiment simple and it will hopefully be clear if we need them.
>  * There are no per-person lists, add an attribution after the item if
> you want.
>  * Feedback, feedback, feedback!
> 
> - --Robert
> 
> On 18/11/10 11:11, Robert Ancell wrote:
> > 
> > And to follow up about technology etc...
> > 
> > In my opinion the current activity reports are more about proving 
> > you've done a weeks worth of work, than providing a good summary
> > of what's happened in a week. I'd like to see the summary more
> > like this:
> > 
> > * x new bugs were opened, y were closed * We completed x items in
> > the work tracker. We are ahead of the trend line. * x packages
> > were updated in natty. * The CD size grew by xMB to yMB. * The
> > FooBar app is now 10x more awesome! Thanks to the x for making 
> > this change. * Remmina has replaced tsclient on the CD, please try
> > it an let us know if it is an improvement. * We are behind in
> > updating GNOME, please have a look at 
> > http://people.canonical.com/~platform/desktop/versions.html and
> > help out if you can * Compiz is delayed due to issues with the
> > packaging, please have a look at the
> > lp:~ubuntu-desktop/compiz/new_version branch for the current
> > progress * Intel users may have some issues with the updated video
> > driver, please report bugs to z.
> > 
> > Note that some of this information can be automatically pulled
> > from Launchpad etc.
> > 
> > We discussed how to produce the manual information. The options
> > seem to be: - The Wiki - Etherpad - status.net
> > 
> > If people are interested in producing the high-detail reports we
> > need to consider where/how to produce those, and then boil them
> > down to a good summary.
> > 
> > --Robert
> > 
> >> Today in the Eastern Edition
> > of the Desktop meeting we discussed
> > 
> >> the structure and purpose of the weekly Desktop meetings.
> > I'll try
> > 
> >> and summarise some of the points raised and propose some
> > ideas.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> While the current meetings are working well, some of the
> > 
> >> challenges raised were: * Participants being split across
> > 
> >> timezones * Most participants work in different domains so
> > 
> >> traditional meeting structure may not be appropriate * The
> > team is
> > 
> >> growing * How useful is the meeting summary? [1]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> I propose we more tightly define what the meeting purpose
> > is, such
> > 
> >> as: * The meeting scope is the Ubuntu Desktop product * The
> > purpose
> > 
> >> of the meeting is to share information about
> > progress/issues * The
> > 
> >> meetings are open to everyone in the community * The
> > meetings
> > 
> >> should not take significant time * There will be more than
> > one
> > 
> >> meeting so participants from around the world can join in *
> > The
> > 
> >> output of the meetings will be a wiki page summarising the
> > weekly
> > 
> >> progress: * Actions to be taken * New work completed *
> > Issues
> > 
> >> raised
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> The summary should be useful to the following people: *
> > Ubuntu
> > 
> >> Desktop team members * Potential Desktop team members who
> > want to
> > 
> >> know what is going on / look for areas where they can
> > contribute *
> > 
> >> Media (e.g. OMG Ubuntu) who want an official record of what
> > is
> > 
> >> going on in the Desktop product
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> We also discussed some technology, but I'll leave that to
> > follow
> > 
> >> up emails to keep this email short.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> --Robert
> > 
> > 
> > 
> >> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-11-16
> > 
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