Meeting information

• #xubuntu-devel: Xubuntu community meeting, 14 Nov at 15:55 — 17:06 UTC

• Full logs at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/xubuntu-devel/2013/xubuntu-devel.2013-11-14-15.55.log.html

Meeting summary

Items carried on

The discussion about "Items carried on" started at 15:56.

• Open action items from previous meeting (15:56)

  • ACTION: knome to prepare the website for the desktop of the week

  • ACTION: micahg to talk to barry about python2.7/3 situation

  • ACTION: micahg to upload whiskermenu to xfce PPAs

• Approve or decline specifications on the Roadmap (15:57)

  • LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap

  • ACTION: knome will create the blueprints today and contact assignees on filling in work items

  • development (read: new feature drop-in) items have been approved already

  • Vote: approve knome's voting mechanism? (Carried)

  • Vote: Increase the amount of developers/uploaders (Carried)

  • Vote: Create a new installable "xubuntu-core" metapackage (Carried)

  • Vote: *INCLUDE* xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin? (Carried)

  • since the voting wasn't all-clear, the team should follow on the progress and proposal by ochosi, but basically approved if it's a sane proposal

  • LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Trusty/Whiskermenu

  • LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Trusty/Whiskermenu

  • Vote: Community wallpapers package (Carried)

  • Vote: Improve reporting (weekly reports) (voting +1 means you're committed to work gathering the reports as well!) (Carried)

  • Vote: Investigate xfce4-power-manager-plugins for inclusion (Denied)

  • Vote: Investigate qpaeq a system wide pulseaudio equalizer (Denied)

  • Vote: (Do we want to:) See/ask if we can apply GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Xubuntu ? (Carried)

  • ACTION: knome to tweak the roadmap after the meeting

• Strategy Document reviewing (16:26)

  • postpone

Announcements

The discussion about "Announcements" started at 16:26.

• Ubuntu Developer Summit will run November 19-21, agenda at http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-1311/

• ACTION: team to see the uds schedule and see if they want to participate in sessions

• Community: Elizabeth and Elfy are elected as members of the Community Council

• Development: screen-locking update for 14.04 (16:29)

  • version 1.1.0 of light-locker features time-based locking
  • ochosi also patched lightdm-gtk-greeter to blank the screen when light-locker locks the session
  • for people who want to test this: use the daily PPAs of light-locker and lightdm-gtk-greeter

  • LINK: https://launchpad.net/~light-locker/+archive/daily

  • everyone - please give enough time to plan testing

  • LINK: https://launchpad.net/~lightdm-gtk-greeter-team/+archive/daily

  • after upgrading these two components, the screen will automatically be locked after the timeout set in X11 (can be controlled via "xset s $timeout")
  • if you need help or run into problems, feel free to ping ochosi
  • uninstall xscreensaver in case you want to test this

Team updates

The discussion about "Team updates" started at 16:34.

• Noskcaj has been helping to whip catfish into shape, cleaning up the packaging, the code, and even adding a manpage
• knome and Unit193 have been looking at translating the docs
• File a bug against xubuntu-docs to suggest documentation enhancements for the Trusty Tahr cycle
• QA is mostly planned for the cycle - should be plenty of room for manoeuvre for new things

• ochosi and bluesabre have been working on upgrading parole, new plugin coming soon for mpris

• QA mailings have started

• and hopefully fixed packaging for parole's plugins

• QA blogs waiting for the website

• ACTION: xubuntu-website and knome to look at the QA articles drafted in xubuntu.org

New and emerging items

The discussion about "New and emerging items" started at 16:38.

• QA mailings (16:38)

  • ACTION: team to be more responsive on mails on -devel

• Review minimum system requirements (16:46)

  • LINK: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GridCube/rationales/new_ram

  • ACTION: team to set "recommended system resources" in stone

  • ACTION: xubuntu-website to update website with "recommended system resources"

  • Unit193 is hiding

  • ACTION: Unit193 to stop hiding

• xubuntu-core discussion (16:54)

  • ACTION: team to work with Unit193 to progress with the -core meta

  • ACTION: knome to look into the docs SRU problem

Vote results

• Investigate qpaeq a system wide pulseaudio equalizer
  • Motion denied (For/Against/Abstained 1/4/3)
• Create a new installable "xubuntu-core" metapackage
  • Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 8/0/0)
• Investigate xfce4-power-manager-plugins for inclusion
  • Motion denied (For/Against/Abstained 0/1/7)
• Improve reporting (weekly reports) (voting +1 means you're committed to work gathering the reports as well!)
  • Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 6/0/2)
• *INCLUDE* xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin?
  • Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 5/1/2)
• (Do we want to:) See/ask if we can apply GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR=Xubuntu ?
  • Deadlock (For/Against/Abstained 4/0/4)
• Community wallpapers package
  • Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 8/0/0)
• Increase the amount of developers/uploaders
  • Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 8/0/0)
• approve knome's voting mechanism?
  • Motion carried (For/Against/Abstained 6/0/0)

Action items, by person

• knome
  • knome to prepare the website for the desktop of the week
  • knome will create the blueprints today and contact assignees on filling in work items
  • knome to tweak the roadmap after the meeting
  • xubuntu-website and knome to look at the QA articles drafted in xubuntu.org
  • knome to look into the docs SRU problem
• micahg
  • micahg to talk to barry about python2.7/3 situation
  • micahg to upload whiskermenu to xfce PPAs
• team
  • team to see the uds schedule and see if they want to participate in sessions
  • team to be more responsive on mails on -devel
  • team to set "recommended system resources" in stone
  • team to work with Unit193 to progress with the -core meta
• Unit193
  • Unit193 to stop hiding
  • team to work with Unit193 to progress with the -core meta
• xubuntu-website
  • xubuntu-website and knome to look at the QA articles drafted in xubuntu.org
  • xubuntu-website to update website with "recommended system resources"

People present (lines said)

• knome (219)
• meetingology (140)
• ochosi (73)
• elfy (49)

• GridCube (41)

• bluesabre (34)
• skellat (30)
• pleia2 (17)
• Unit193 (12)
• jjfrv8 (12)
• ali1234 (2)

• ted (2)

• ubottu (2)
• slickymaster (2)
• team (0)
• mr_pouit (0)
• micahg (0)
• xubuntu-website (0)