Roadmap for 12.04, call for comments, suggestions etc

[James Gifford]

Hm, didn't know that part, and I'm not sure how the system would work
with merge requests and such, but it sounds promising.

Cheers,
James Gifford



On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Roth Robert <evfool at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Regarding the contribution ideas, I don't know whether this has been already
> mentioned or not, but GNOME projects are imported by the launchpad
> VCSimporter automatically from GNOME GIT into Launchpad (e.g. GTK+ [1]), and
> I think something similar could be set up for ubuntu-tweak (GITHUB to
> launchpad import)
> I have just checked and anyone should be able to request importing branches,
> see the requesting new imports page at [2].
> This way only reviewing proposed merges, committing to git, and submitting a
> github pull request would be left to do manually.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Robert
>
> [1] https://code.launchpad.net/~vcs-imports/gtk/trunk
> [2] https://code.launchpad.net/+code-imports/+new
>
> On Thu, Nov 3, 2011 at 1:28 PM, James Gifford <james at jamesrgifford.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Ok, despite the "formal title" (I cringed writing that), this is more
>> or less a series of suggestions, asking for some people to agree to be
>> the "drivers" for stuff.
>>
>> A new wikipage (Jorge Castro is groaning right now! ;).
>>
>> - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerUsers/12.04RoadMap
>>
>> More or less, this is where/what we need to be doing this cycle. This
>> is just in the order I thought of it in, didn't really prioritize
>> anything.
>>
>> If you have edits, this entire thing is on the wikipage, so go and edit
>> away!
>>
>> - Documentation. I suggest we use Ask Ubuntu, because that way anyone
>> can edit it - the forums/mailing list isn't a good idea, because we
>> can't edit it, and then in 12.10 we'll run into problems when things
>> change again.
>>
>> - Testing. The power users community is probably the only group
>> outside of the developers that has the skills to properly report bugs
>> and provide information that will help track them down - so the power
>> users community as a whole should get a jump on 12.04 testing. To help
>> with testing, take a look at the ZsynCDImage instructions over here.
>>
>> - Instructions for testing Ubuntu Tweak "safely" need to be written
>> up, this can be done now.
>>
>> - Ubuntu Tweak. Right now, Tweak needs testing so it will be ready for
>> 12.04 - this needs to happen, if it doesn't then Ubuntu for power
>> users will most likely fail. Instructions for testing Tweak "safely"
>> need to be written up, I'm thinking Arkose sandboxing should work.
>>
>> - Get in touch with Ubuntu Tweak developer before any of the Ubuntu
>> tweak related stuff happens.
>>
>> - Figure out how to get make it possible to contribute code via
>> launchpad. Perhaps have someone have a bzr launchpad mirror/sync
>> setup?
>>
>> Workflow for that idea: commit gets made on Tweak's github repository.
>> Person A ("launchpad code maintainer") pulls it down, commits it into
>> bzr and pushes up to launchpad. Person B ("Tweak contributor") makes a
>> bzr branch, makes a change and submits for review on launchpad. Person
>> A looks over it and approves it, then pulls it into the bzr repo,
>> pulls it down, commits in git and then submits a github pull request.
>> Process repeats as needed? Ideas for this are welcome, just add them
>> below!
>>
>>
>> - Growing the power users community. Ideas for this are welcome. As
>> toros said on IRC, "... the main problem was with the power user
>> community last time that there wasn't too many people involved... this
>> (IRC) channel (#ubuntu-power-users) was rather quiet most of the day"
>>
>> Cheers,
>> James Gifford
>>
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