[ubuntu-studio-devel] Development for 14.04 - Planning

Mon Nov 4 09:01:47 UTC 2013

Great work Kaj!

On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Kaj Ailomaa <zequence at mousike.me> wrote:

> Contents:
>
> 1. About development planning for this cycle
>   1.2. About the "ubuntu" project
> 2. Create your own blueprints (who, me? - Yes you!),  or add your
> workitems to existing blueprints
>   2.1. Core Topic
>   2.2. Applications Topic
>   2.3. Testing Topic
>   2.4. Art Topic
>   2.5. Website and Social Topic
>   2.6. Documentation Topic
> 3. Next Step - Attracting Contributors
>
> --------
>
> # 1. About development planning for this cycle #
>
> I finally got around to preparing planning for this cycle of
> development. There are a few changes since laste couple of cycles.
> Preparing for this, I've done some reorganization on our Launchpad
> projects previously, making sure there is a project for every package
> and a team for every purpose, and so on.
>
> Documentation about Ubuntu Studio planning is somewhat updated, and can
> be found here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/CoreTeamDocumentation
>
> Blueprints structure is reorganized. How it works now is:
>
>  * Each launchpad project will have its own blueprints
>  * the launchpad project called "ubuntustudio" has topic blueprints that
>  depend on other Ubuntu Studio projects
>  * Any number of bluieprints can be dependencies of one topic blueprint.
>  The topics make it easier to separate the different types of blueprints
>  (most people will only be dealing with 1-3 topics at most)
>
> As stated here http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Blueprints, the
> topics for this cycle are:
>
> ubuntustudio-t (main topic)
>  - core-t (core packages)
>  - applications-t (our own applications)
>  - testing-t (testing, and development of testing tools)
>  - art-t
>  - website-social-t (our website and social channels)
>  - documentation-t (user and developer docs, on DVD, wikis, video and
>  our website)
>
> ## 1.2. About the "ubuntu" project
>
> I think Ubuntu folks would rather we do some of our blueprints within
> the "ubuntu" launchpad project, as that makes it possible to keep an eye
> on what we are up to, and enables the usage of the
> http://status.ubuntu.com page, but I think we should just make sure to
> get feedback from ubuntu devs when that might be required (as we
> recently learned from our GRUB customizations).
> Also, I'm looking into the possibility of creating our own status page
> from the tools that are used for the Ubuntu one.
>
> --------
>
> # 2. Create your own blueprints (who, me? Yes, you!), or add your
> workitems to existing blueprints #
>
> We're drafting blueprints now, so please look through any blueprints
> that might interest you, and suggest new ones, or edit the ones that
> exist.
> Before you do any editing, make sure that you are apart the relevant
> Ubuntu Studio launchpad team, and that our team is aware of your
> efforts. Just answer this mail if you're interested in helping out.
>
> ## 2.1. Core Topic ##
>
> These two topics are fairly well figured out so far. What is missing is
> a clear specification for how to solve the problem of having multiple
> DEs.
> Some of the things I'm looking forward to us getting done is doing some
> jack plumbing (either starting jack, if not running, when opening any
> jack app, or informing the user that they need to start jack first), as
> well as making realtime privilege a normality on any Debian derived
> distro. Not all can be done from our core packages though.
>
> ## 2.2. Applications Topic ##
>
> The major goal for this cycle is developing ubuntustudio-controls from
> scratch, which is long overdue, and there are a massive amount of things
> we could use if for, so if you are into any kind of scripting or coding,
> and would like to help with this, please join us in doing that.
> We also have our custom menu (ubuntustudio-menu), which is strictly not
> an applications, but it's installable without Ubuntu Studio and sort of
> works as a standalone application.
> Then there's ubuntustudio-installer, which is fairly basic now, but if
> someone would like to, it could be enhanced so as to simplify finding
> and installing studio applications on any Ubuntu derived distribution
> (and why not making it generic, and upload it into Debian?)
>
> ## 2.3. Testing Topic ##
>
> This is a topic that no one has really done anything significant with
> yet, so if someone is interested, please consider contributing to this
> area of our development.
> We need to:
>  * Figure out what tools to use, and perhaps develope some small tools
>  of our own (could result in a package that we upload to Ubuntu repos)
>  * Organize our testing and make sure everything that needs testing gets
>  tested
>
> ## 2.4. Art Topic ##
>
> I've prepared blueprints for existing launchpad projects, that deal with
> art. The ambition is probably to revamp art completely for 14.04. I've
> also prepared a blueprint for how to organize user contribution of
> wallpapers.
>
> Art plays a very significant role in communicating with users, so I'm
> putting a special significance to what we decide on this for 14.04.
>
> ## 2.5. Website and Social Topic ##
>
> We should think about redoing our Website theme, and doing some updates
> to art and documentation.
>
> ## 2.6. Documentation Topic ##
>
> As always, user documentation is lacking. If we can find someone willing
> to work on this, that would be great.
>
> --------
>
> # Next step - Attracting Contributors #
>
> There is a structure for how we do things, all though the work continues
> on that. We need to set some rules on how we work with our sources among
> other things.
> But, for non coding work, we should really try getting people involved
> as quickly as possible.
> I started a blueprint about that as well, within the Ubuntu Studio
> project (which suits well for any kind of miscellaneous planning that
> does not fit a specific topic)
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntustudio/+spec/get-contributors.
>
> /Kaj Ailomaa - Ubuntu Studio project lead
>
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