Development team status report + plan

[Bruce Pieterse]

On 04/08/2015 15:29, Tim wrote:
> Hi Eveyone,
>   Here is the report for the development (including packaging team). Sorry if this reads more like a blueprint.
> 
> *GNOME 3.16*
>   - A large part of this has already been uploaded to Wily
>   - Some of the core (gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-control-center and a few others), however most of the work for these is done and should
> almost certainly be uploaded before B1
>   - nautilus, is WIP by ubuntu-desktop team
>   - gedit, still needs UI patches for unity, not aware that anyone is currently working on this
>   - Bluez5 transition should also start soon, finally!
>   - Feature Freeze is August 20th so most of the above needs to happen by then.
>   - None of the new to 3.16 GNOME apps have been packaged yet afaik, not really a priority at this stage though.
> 
> *General Packaging work*
>   - Package up the new artwork assets for artwork team, preferably before UI Freeze September 10th
>   - Finalise details of default apps for wily and update seeds.
>   - Try and include gnome-getting-started guides on the Live Images (this would split packaging and only english installed only so as to not
> completely blow out the size of the ISO's
>   -  Try and reduce the ISO images back under 1GB or increase our size limits.
>   - None of the above tasks have been started, however they are mostly pretty simple, and it would be nice to see some extra help on these.
> 
> *automated image testing*
>   - A community based effort has been started to get the ubiquity autopilot tests running again on the daily images
>   - Hopefully we won't have to do much here apart from fix Ubuntu-GNOME specific issues in the tests
>   - However there is extra work in generally fixing autopilot needed if people are interested in contributing to this.
> 
> *gnome-software preview*
>   - It would be good to have a preview of this in 15.10 with a possible view to switching in 16.04
>   - Requires DEP-11 metadata, the Kubuntu team are working on this. Which should be available this cycle
>   - Requires Packagekit 1.0, bug 1470655, may not happen this cycle
>   - Requires switching to PackageKit aptcc backend instead of aptdaemon. That may affect ubuntu-software-center
>   -   None of the above tasks have been started, however again they mostly pretty simple, apart from the PackageKit transition. It would be nice
> to see some extra help on these.
>   - Could potentially be staged on a ppa, later in the cycle.
> 
> *GNOME 3.18*
>   - As usual this will be available on gnome3-staging PPA later in the cycle
>   - So far a bunch of the core bits are available now. Most of the apps etc, will follow well after we pass feature freeze
> 
> *Packaging infrastructure work*
>   - These are all wishlist items, most of the them have been on the cards for quite a while, but for the most part no existing members have had
> time to work on them. Would mostly require python and very little packaging knowledge.
>   - Autopkgtests for uploads to the gnome3-team PPA's (This could potentially be integrated with the community image testing project for all
> flavours to take advantage off)
>   - git packaging branches for gnome3-team PPA, There are a bunch of scripts already done for this, but requires some tweaks and the actual
> migration to happen.
>   - Jenkins CI testing for the above git branches
>   - Using live-build to generate daily images based from wily/gnome3-staging PPA
>   - autopilot smoketest to make sure gnome-shell started successfully (this would be hosted on ubuntu jenkins instance)
> 
> *Finally the Plan*
>   T1: All of GNOME 3.16 should be included, but higher priority will be given to seeded (installed by default packages)
>   T2: General Package work as detailed above
>   T3: Automated image testing as detailed above
> 
>   Those are the critical bits that need to be done for Wily, any other items needing to be done above can be   considered wishlist status, but
> it would be great to see them all tackled in the next 6 months (some aren't even strictly tied to the release cycle!), even better if it came
> from new contributors!
> 
> Tim
> 
>  
> 

Hi Tim,

I would like to help out on some of the tasks above. If you could
prioritise the ones I feel comfortable with below, I'll get started as
soon as possible.

- git packaging branches for gnome3-team PPA, There are a bunch of
scripts already done for this, but requires some tweaks and the actual
migration to happen.
- gedit, still needs UI patches for unity, not aware that anyone is
currently working on this
- Package up the new artwork assets for artwork team, preferably before
UI Freeze September 10th
- Try and reduce the ISO images back under 1GB or increase our size limits.
- Using live-build to generate daily images based from
wily/gnome3-staging PPA

I'm very comfortable with git and I've been dying to do some python work :)

Thanks
-- 
All the best,

Bruce