Development team status report + plan

[Tim]

On 07/08/15 06:05, Bruce Pieterse wrote:
>
> 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.
The priority right now is getting ready for feature freeze. Of the things on your list that is mostly gedit (but not this is C/Gtk not python),
and trying to clean up seeds and reduce ISO size. Another task that you might be able to do is splitting the gnome-gettings-started-docs
package, either into 2 packages (one for english, one for the rest) or splitting it into proper language packs, that latter would be nice,
because I think they might get picked up at install time, so long as download updates is ticked.

The Artwork packaging needs to be done between feature freeze and UI freeze.

git/live-build etc can wait atleast until after freeze when things quieten down a litte.

Tim

>
> - 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