Xubuntu team direction

[Pasi Lallinaho]

J. Anthony Limon wrote:
> Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
>   
>> Lionel Le Folgoc wrote:
>>     
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:20:07PM -0600, Jim Campbell wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>>> It seems like most people are open to a council-type approach in terms of
>>>>> governance (if that's the right word).  It also seems like we would still
>>>>> need someone who can manage the seeds alongside Lionel, and perhaps do some
>>>>> development, too.  I'm not sure what all is involved in what Cody has done,
>>>>> to be honest, but we will need to find a person or (perhaps more likely) a
>>>>> couple people who can contribute in a technical manner similar to how has
>>>>> been able to contribute. I wouldn't expect anyone to perform those kind of
>>>>> duties right away, but . . .  eventually . . .  they could grow into those
>>>>> kind of responsibilities.
>>>>>
>>>>> I know what I'm proposing above isn't terribly formal, but I'm on visiting
>>>>> the neighbouring city of Milwaukee this weekend, and wanted to provide some
>>>>> input on this matter for now.  :)
>>>>>
>>>>>       
>>>>>           
>>> I'm all in favor of a council-type approach, thanks for thinking about
>>> this. ;)
>>>
>>> No problem about the people proposed either (although Micheal hasn't
>>> contributed at all to Xubuntu for more than six months, nor spoken on
>>> our ml or irc chan, so I'm not sure he's still interested).
>>>   
>>>       
>> I understand Michael has a lot to do, so I'm not blaming him for this. 
>> Maybe someone should contact him if he doesn't reply soonish. I can do 
>> that.
>>
>> Cody and Lionel, what do you think about the technical team leader(s)? 
>> Also Cody, do you think several leaders per team would make sense?
>>     
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> Cody and Lionel, what areas do you think you could use the most support?  Is
>>>> it in bug triage?  Is it in development, packaging and patching?  Is it in
>>>> managing the seeds?  There may be Xubuntu users or MOTU folks who we could
>>>> recruit based on a specific need.
>>>>
>>>> I know that recruiting new contributors is difficult (particularly skilled
>>>> ones) but identifying particular areas where we need the most development
>>>> help would at least give us a chance.
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> The biggest issue isn't packaging imho. Now, most of our packages are
>>> synced as-is from Debian, and for the remaining ones, the delta with
>>> Debian is well identified (xubuntu-specific changes such as notify-osd
>>> support, etc.). Yet, some help would be appreciated on the
>>> StableReleaseUpdates (SRU) front, as currently we fix ~0 bug after a
>>> release, and users have to live with some annoying bugs during six
>>> months.
>>>
>>> An important problem for karmic was testing (especially gnome components
>>> <-> xfce interactions) and reporting bugs about that.  It's rather
>>> difficult to have the desktop team change something in their packages,
>>> and when we detect that a few days before/after the release, it's
>>> impossible. =]
>>>
>>> Charlie might probably need some help on bug triaging also…
>>>
>>> (I only focused on 'technical' stuff, but people may need help on
>>> documentation and artwork too ;)
>>>   
>>>       
>> At least for Lucid, no big help with artwork is needed as we'll mostly 
>> polish the Albatross theme with the Shimmer team. I could use some 
>> help on renewing the website though, if somebody is interested.
>>
>> Documentation absolutely needs lots of help and love.
>>     
>>> Cheers,
>>> Lionel
>>>
>>>   
>>>       
>> -- 
>> Pasi Lallinaho
>> Xubuntu Marketing Lead
>> Web-designer, graphic artist
>> IRC: knome @ freenode
>>   
>>     
> What language and/or CMS is xubuntu.com?
>
> - J
>
>   
Currently Drupal, but the with redesign we are migrating to WordPress.

-- 
Pasi Lallinaho
Xubuntu Marketing Lead
Web-designer, graphic artist
IRC: knome @ freenode

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