Development team status report + plan

[Bruce Pieterse]

On 07/08/2015 01:31, Tim wrote:
> 
> 
> 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
> 

Thanks Tim,

I have very little knowledge of C (hello world hehe) and since feature
freeze is just around the corner, I think it would be wise for someone
who has experience with C to rather do gedit patches.

Regarding the seeds, I'm not sure what needs to be done, but we can chat
about the process on IRC.

I don't mind doing the split for gnome-getting-stared-docs, and I think
splitting them into more than two packages will be a lot better.

For git/live-build I'll check in with you about this when the time is
right. I assume, you are looking to do this at the end of the wily
cycle, beginning of XX cycle?

Thanks

>>
>> - 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
> 
> 

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All the best,

Bruce