<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-11-30">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2010-11-30</a>  * 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 > <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 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] <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> > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://enigmail.mozdev.org/">http://enigmail.mozdev.org/</a> iEYEARECAAYFAkztpLIACgkQGOqhiQ98iC40bgCgtWtO6nlCmw8ChGUSAz4yDmA1 mjUAnjozeYj4ufqHOjgI/ZfkDL6d1CV+ =xsJL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- </body> </html>