[ubuntu-studio-devel] ubuntu-studio-devel Digest, Vol 79, Issue 1
Alex Noakes
alex.noakes at gmail.com
Tue Nov 5 00:59:00 UTC 2013
One of the best updates I have seen. I wish I had more time to assist. Go
Ubu Stu..
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> 1. Development for 14.04 - Planning (Kaj Ailomaa)
> 2. Re: Development for 14.04 - Planning (Jimmy Sj?lund)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2013 22:00:00 +0100
> From: Kaj Ailomaa <zequence at mousike.me>
> To: ubuntu studio <Ubuntu-Studio-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Development for 14.04 - Planning
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> 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
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 10:01:47 +0100
> From: Jimmy Sj?lund <jimmy at sjolund.se>
> To: "Ubuntu Studio Development & Technical Discussion"
> <ubuntu-studio-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] Development for 14.04 - Planning
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> 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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