Moment of Truth

[Tim]

On 29/02/16 19:01, Kristian Rink wrote:
> Hi there;
>
> and first off, thanks for the message and for doing a great job on
> Ubuntu GNOME so far. IMHO this is right now the best way of having a
> modestly up-to-date GNOME on top of a *deb based package management,
> and that's quite a good thing...
>
>
>> That said, I am giving this community a chance until releasing 16.04
>> in April to prove it's a real community. If this community won't
>> start working as one team and one family, I am afraid I can't be part
>> of this any more.
> Well, where to get started and get involved quickly? Though I am by
> profession into software development, my experience in working with
> FOSS projects is very limited, and so is my spare time but I gladly
> would contribute wherever / however possible...
Assuming you want to work on the technical side of things:

The focus for xenial is now fixing bugs, given we are past feature freeze, and most all of GNOME 3.18 is in the archives. Some of these fixes
can just be backported from 3.20, but finding them is the challenge! Others we fix and then forward upstream. Most of the code is C, with a
little JS and Vala (more or less C# like).

The focus on the PPA's is getting 3.20 packaged up, this is mostly just debian packaging work, with the odd build patch or what not. This work
forms the basis of what will land in 16.10 around May, its also useful for people that want to test if a bug exists in latest upstream, or just
want the bleeding edge.

There is still some work to refine our scripts/process for the git packaging branches (so far these are only for the ppa):
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-gnome/ubuntu/
That would mostly be bash/python scripting and a some documentation on the wiki

On the semi-technical side: there is bug triaging, i.e. finding relevant bugs and making sure they have enough information to be able to fix
(stacktraces, reproducers etc)

Other infrastructure work, such as setting up CI testing, autopkgtests etc, but no one ever seems to do this and its not really the best time in
the cycle to be doing it.

Tracking of RC bugs, and tagging those (requires special permissions, but we can organise those).

Coming up with a solution to our communication problems, if web-ish stuff is your thing!

There is plenty of other non-technical stuff that goes on, but Ali would be best to fill you in on those!

Thanks
  Tim


>
> Cheers,
> Kristian
>