[Desktop 13.04-Topic] Discussing PS-related product processes

[Omer Akram]

In case anyone does not know what PS stands for (which I am sure many
don't). Its Product Strategy previously called DX-team.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Didier Roche <didrocks at ubuntu.com> wrote:

>  Hey everyone,
>
> as you probably know already, PS is our upstream for a lot of desktop
> components nowadays (Unity, compiz, webapps, indicators, multi touch
> stack…).
> The past cycle has been a real ride in term of features, which spawn the
> release team, translation team and documentation team with FFe/UIFe. We
> need to discuss a way to ease the process in both ways with all involved
> parts.
>
> Seeing the importance of those components on our stack today, I think for
> instance that having a standing FF/UIF exception as we have for GNOME
> components in ubuntu will make sense. However, the counter-part will be
> that PS will work on getting things landing only when they are ready, to
> avoid further and further refinements (and additional documentation
> changes) as we had in the past just to "match the date gate". So this one
> can clearly be a win-win situation.
>
> Also, I want to discuss about what can land in a SRU. Little (few pixel
> move) change, not really impacting the documentation may want to be
> considered. We currently have 2 examples we can discuss in the session:
>
> - https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/1043808 (Dash: Preview activation
> doesn't have instant feedback). Design worked on a spinner to partially
> address this one. This is a behavior change in some way, for a transient
> state, however it can be completely acceptable in a SRU as it will make the
> quantal experience better and don't change doc/add new strings, and so on.
>
> - Another one is the ribbon on the application lens for software-center
> content. This one is giving (due to pixelized images with the magazines) a
> lot of headaches to design and they would want to remove it. This specific
> case is an UI change, but doesn't seem it would impact the understanding of
> the lens.
>
> We can base the UDS discussion on those examples to see how we can get the
> process smoother and more reliable for everyone in the next cycle and going
> on. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Didier
>
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