#xubuntu-devel: Xubuntu community meeting

Meeting started by knome at 15:00:21 UTC (full logs).

Meeting summary

  1. Items carried on (knome, 15:00:41)
    1. SUBTOPIC: Open action items from previous meeting (knome, 15:01:03)
    2. ACTION: pleia2 and knome to work on marketing products (knome, 15:01:26)
    3. ACTION: pleai2 to raise publicity on triaging, testing and docs (knome, 15:01:40)

  2. Team updates (knome, 15:02:22)
    1. SUBTOPIC: Development (knome, 15:02:27)
    2. Some work done to get Xfce 4.10 in Quantal (knome, 15:02:55)
    3. SUBTOPIC: Quality Assurance (knome, 15:03:05)
    4. Some work was done recently to enhance the testing docs, I will dig up the link to those in a minute. The testcases were sanitized, and should now be easier to follow was non-regulars as well. (astraljava, 15:04:21)
    5. Since Xubuntu did not do an Alpha-1, we haven't used the new tracker much, yet. We should pick up on that now, though. (astraljava, 15:05:08)
    6. https://launchpad.net/~xubuntu-testers is now an *open* team, no need to add your information on the wiki anymore. (knome, 15:06:04)
    7. There's an upcoming QA meeting this Sunday, I will post info about it on the mailing lists after this meeting. (astraljava, 15:06:04)
    8. ACTION: astraljava to send information on the Xubuntu QA meeting (knome, 15:06:23)
    9. The testers should try to make the QA meeting on Sunday to organize (knome, 15:07:12)
    10. SUBTOPIC: Marketing, Promotion and Artwork (knome, 15:07:21)
    11. Some improvements done for Greybird, more information later (knome, 15:07:50)
    12. ACTION: ochosi to send more information on Greybird and a request for feedback to ML (knome, 15:08:18)
    13. SUBTOPIC: General updates (knome, 15:09:55)
    14. knome has been working on the Strategy Document review, more info soon (knome, 15:10:15)
    15. ACTION: knome to send information about the revised Strategy Document to ML soon (knome, 15:10:36)
    16. All blueprints are now in place, start your engines! (knome, 15:10:58)

  3. Announcements (knome, 15:11:36)
    1. SUBTOPIC: Changes in chairing the meetings (knome, 15:11:50)
    2. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2012-June/008239.html (knome, 15:11:53)
    3. The change described in the mail will take place now (knome, 15:12:12)
    4. Basically, any team lead can chair a meeting; if the project lead or any team lead is not available, an informal meeting should take place, and the main points sent to the ML (knome, 15:13:06)
    5. SUBTOPIC: Changes to the Testing lead position (knome, 15:13:26)
    6. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2012-June/008242.html (knome, 15:13:34)
    7. Since there has been no objections against the mail, the change takes place now (knome, 15:14:05)
    8. Janne Jokitali (astraljava) is the new Xubuntu QA lead (knome, 15:14:23)
    9. SUBTOPIC: Other announcements (knome, 15:15:27)
    10. The updated (short) testcase sits now at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Testing/Short (astraljava, 15:16:15)

  4. New and emerging items (knome, 15:17:28)
    1. SUBTOPIC: Feedback on Precise development cycle (knome, 15:17:36)
    2. SUBTOPIC: Blueprints; feedback, questions and answers (knome, 15:27:08)
    3. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/ (knome, 15:27:22)
    4. I've been working on the comparison of music players against gmb, can not continue until i have some input about which are the ones that could be considered to compare, because if media libary integration is not obligatory we already have parole (GridCube, 15:27:38)
    5. ACTION: knome to follow up about the default media player -blueprint on the ML, scheduling some time to go through the spec next week (knome, 15:32:41)
    6. Generally, all blueprints have no or slow progress, but things are expected to change relatively soon as infrastructure on a few things has been set up (knome, 15:35:42)
    7. grandr is no more, keep an eye on the xfce monitor management dialog (knome, 15:41:23)
    8. SUBTOPIC: Enable or disable compositor by default? (knome, 15:43:22)
    9. ochosi told he's +1 for enabling by default (knome, 15:43:34)
    10. drop compositor on ubiquity? performance issues with low-end machines at installation time if compositor enabled? (knome, 15:49:12)
    11. ACTION: astraljava to look at enabling/disabling compositor (knome, 15:50:07)
    12. SUBTOPIC: Meeting schedule; how often should we have meetings? (knome, 15:50:23)
    13. Next Xubuntu community meeting at 21st of June, at 15UTC (knome, 15:55:04)


Meeting ended at 15:55:50 UTC (full logs).

Action items

  1. pleia2 and knome to work on marketing products
  2. pleai2 to raise publicity on triaging, testing and docs
  3. astraljava to send information on the Xubuntu QA meeting
  4. ochosi to send more information on Greybird and a request for feedback to ML
  5. knome to send information about the revised Strategy Document to ML soon
  6. knome to follow up about the default media player -blueprint on the ML, scheduling some time to go through the spec next week
  7. astraljava to look at enabling/disabling compositor


Action items, by person

  1. astraljava
    1. astraljava to send information on the Xubuntu QA meeting
    2. astraljava to look at enabling/disabling compositor
  2. knome
    1. pleia2 and knome to work on marketing products
    2. knome to send information about the revised Strategy Document to ML soon
    3. knome to follow up about the default media player -blueprint on the ML, scheduling some time to go through the spec next week
  3. UNASSIGNED
    1. pleai2 to raise publicity on triaging, testing and docs
    2. ochosi to send more information on Greybird and a request for feedback to ML


People present (lines said)

  1. knome (149)
  2. GridCube (56)
  3. astraljava (22)
  4. meetingology (21)
  5. bluesabre_ (11)
  6. micahg (6)
  7. hobgoblin (6)
  8. xacobe (1)
  9. ubottu (1)


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