[Ubuntu Chicago] Ubuntu Chicago Packaging Jam - A Bust

[Jim Campbell]

Hi All,

On Dec 16, 2007 5:39 PM, Richard A. Johnson <nixternal at kubuntu.org> wrote:

> Thanks to Wally, Jim, and Aaron for showing up to learn some packaging.
>
> I was hoping for more people to show up, and was hoping to get started
> earlier
> than planned, but some technical difficulties with *buntu and projectors
> burnt a bit of time.
>
> When all was said and done, it was Aaron and I working on qalculator-kde
> for a
> merge from Debian.
>
> One thing I did learn from this event and past meeting is people really
> aren't
> interested in platform development as much as they are in having a
> platform
> that just works. My experience with *buntu and projectors thus far is
> absolute crap. If anyone remembers, Fedora smacked our asses at Flourish
> because Fedora just worked with the projector.
>
> Maybe I am just getting tired of the LoCo thing as everyone doesn't have
> the
> same interest as I, and honestly, *buntu is losing its ground in Chicago
> to
> other distributions. I don't know what I want to do at this point. In my
> mind
> I feel like jumping ship and concentrating more on upstream development
> work
> as well as helping Foresight get their KDE release off of the ground.
>
> Who knows, but as it stands, I think I will take a break from Ubuntu LoCo
> work
> for the time being. I will still be around here and on the IRC channel to
> help those who need it, but as for promoting Ubuntu in Chicago, unless
> something really changes I am done.
>

Sorry this wasn't the hottest meeting.  I think there's a couple of things
we can learn from today's session, though.

- Packaging is tough.  We tried to cover a lot of ground.  Maybe we would've
done better and felt better with a smaller focus.  Maybe just looking at
merges or going over set parts of the MOTU documentation - letting that lead
us.  It's just something to consider for next time.
- People's time is valuable.  I think Wally left before we even started
talking about packaging.  We kind of sat around from 10:00-12:00, and I
think the projector was working most all of that time.  We can do better, I
think.  Maybe we dawdled because we weren't sure how to approach the massive
subject of packaging.  Still, we coulda done better.
- Let's be more social about our meetings or something.  We didn't introduce
each other and find out what people wanted from the session.


I'm not sure if there's anything more for me to say.  Thanks for taking the
time to go through that stuff today, Richard.  It's complicated stuff.  I
just read your note and wanted to respond in some way.  I hope that my
comments are received constructively . . .  I don't mean them in a negative
manner.

Pax,

Jim
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