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And to follow up about technology etc...<br>
<br>
In my opinion the current activity reports are more about proving<br>
you've done a weeks worth of work, than providing a good summary
of<br>
what's happened in a week. I'd like to see the summary more like
this:<br>
<br>
* x new bugs were opened, y were closed<br>
* We completed x items in the work tracker. We are ahead of the
trend<br>
line.<br>
* x packages were updated in natty.<br>
* The CD size grew by xMB to yMB.<br>
* The FooBar app is now 10x more awesome! Thanks to the x for
making<br>
this change.<br>
* Remmina has replaced tsclient on the CD, please try it an let us<br>
know if it is an improvement.<br>
* We are behind in updating GNOME, please have a look at<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://people.canonical.com/~platform/desktop/versions.html">http://people.canonical.com/~platform/desktop/versions.html</a> and
help<br>
out if you can<br>
* Compiz is delayed due to issues with the packaging, please have
a<br>
look at the lp:~ubuntu-desktop/compiz/new_version branch for the<br>
current progress<br>
* Intel users may have some issues with the updated video driver,<br>
please report bugs to z.<br>
<br>
Note that some of this information can be automatically pulled
from<br>
Launchpad etc.<br>
<br>
We discussed how to produce the manual information. The options
seem<br>
to be:<br>
- - The Wiki<br>
- - Etherpad<br>
- - status.net<br>
<br>
If people are interested in producing the high-detail reports we
need<br>
to consider where/how to produce those, and then boil them down to
a<br>
good summary.<br>
<br>
- --Robert<br>
<br>
<span style="white-space: pre;">> Today in the Eastern Edition
of the Desktop meeting we discussed<br>
> the structure and purpose of the weekly Desktop meetings.
I'll try<br>
> and summarise some of the points raised and propose some
ideas.<br>
> <br>
> While the current meetings are working well, some of the<br>
> challenges raised were: * Participants being split across<br>
> timezones * Most participants work in different domains so<br>
> traditional meeting structure may not be appropriate * The
team is<br>
> growing * How useful is the meeting summary? [1]<br>
> <br>
> I propose we more tightly define what the meeting purpose
is, such<br>
> as: * The meeting scope is the Ubuntu Desktop product * The
purpose<br>
> of the meeting is to share information about
progress/issues * The<br>
> meetings are open to everyone in the community * The
meetings<br>
> should not take significant time * There will be more than
one<br>
> meeting so participants from around the world can join in *
The<br>
> output of the meetings will be a wiki page summarising the
weekly<br>
> progress: * Actions to be taken * New work completed *
Issues<br>
> raised<br>
> <br>
> The summary should be useful to the following people: *
Ubuntu<br>
> Desktop team members * Potential Desktop team members who
want to<br>
> know what is going on / look for areas where they can
contribute *<br>
> Media (e.g. OMG Ubuntu) who want an official record of what
is <br>
> going on in the Desktop product<br>
> <br>
> We also discussed some technology, but I'll leave that to
follow<br>
> up emails to keep this email short.<br>
> <br>
> --Robert<br>
> <br>
> [1] <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-11-16">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-11-16</a><br>
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