2010-11-18 Meeting Minutes

Minutes

Team Reports

Technical -

• inclusion of Xfce 4.7.x is in progress
• almost all 4.8 core libs are already there
• most applications will remain the same as they were in Xubuntu 10.10
• Xubuntu will not be moving to GTK3 for Natty

  • http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2010-November/028400.html

  • what happens will also affect QIMO project

Website

• moving the website to wordpress is not going to happen unless someone wants to pick it up.

Documentation

• Try to update the documentation to Natty. We are behind a couple of releases already.

Bugs and Testing

• Bugs and Testing: We are working to triage bugs as they come in. We are getting hit pretty hard on abiword right now
• Need to send the Abiword bugs upstream
• Testing will be ongoing, with the changes in Natty for Ubuntu, we need to try and test every day or two.
• Charlie is running Natty, upgraded from Maverick

Artwork

• we are looking at replacing the elementary icon theme with faenza

  • http://shimmerproject.org/hg/faenza-xfce

• Thorsten Wilms from the Community Artwork Team attended.
  • Thorsten will work with us and Saleel to develop a good set of specifications for Xubuntu Artwork.

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/Request-7 is not a valid spec at this time.

New Business

Charlie would like a new display manager for Xubuntu. LightDM was discussed and will need to be investigated.

Meeting Schedule

A vote was taken on when to hold meetings; the Xubuntu Community Meetings will be held weekly on Thursday at 19:00 UTC.

Xubuntu Governance

• We need to decide on a permanent Project Lead. Charlie is an interim Xubuntu Project Lead.
• charlie-tca will send an email to the mailing lists for submissions for Project Lead. We need to work this so we can then work towards a council-based approach.

Old Business

Xubuntu Governance

• The governancy part of the current Strategy Document can be found at Xubuntu/StrategyDocument#Xubuntu Governance & Team Structure

• The Xubuntu project will advance towards a Council-based governance approach.

The Xubuntu Council

• The Council size should be 5 members, with one of them being the PL.
• PL will have a vote in every voting in the Council, not just as a tie-breaker.
• The 4 members in the Council in addition to the PL should be selected by the existing Xubuntu Contributors.
• The appropriate Team Lead can be the tiebreaker in a vote, but only if PL is absent.
• The council should *aim* to have balanced membership across the different aspects/teams of Xubuntu.
• The council should be named/selected after every LTS release. Thus, every season lasts for 2 years.

Action items for the next meeting

• charlie-tca to get with thorwil and Saleel about artwork specs by email
• Find out more information about LightDM
• follow up with xfce devs on display managers

  • http://foo-projects.org/pipermail/xfce4-dev/2010-August/028200.html

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