Xubuntu team report for December 2008

Artwork

• Pasi (knome) has been working on drafting Xubuntu artwork guidelines.

Bug Triage

• Bug triage proceeding at a steady pace. Many bugs were triaged this month.
• A high number of bugs were reported upstream.

Community

• Cody, Jannis, Michael, and Pasi all attended the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Mountain View, California
• Cody and Pasi attended FOSSCamp in Mountain View, California.

• Substantial amount of work has been done on drafting the Jaunty "Growing the Xubuntu Community" specification.

Documentation

• Jim, Pasi, and Jannis are brainstorming an idea to work closely with upstream and other distributions to rewrite the upstream documentation.
• Jim has run some scripts to start converting Ubuntu docs to Xubuntu docs. Docs require some cleanup, but it is a good start.

Marketing

• New website parallel to Intrepid release.

• Substantial amount of work has been done on drafting the Jaunty "Growing the Xubuntu Community" specification.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

• Alpha 2 released.

• Updated xubuntu-meta package to fix armel build failure (Thanks to Sarah Hobbs).

• Add libxine1-ffmpeg to recommends for xfmedia.

• Michael (NCommander) has begun backport of Xfce 4.4.3 to Intrepid.

• Corrected an internationalization issue in en_IN local for Orage where the start/end buttons show the date number, but not the day of the week properly.

• Charlie Kravetz (charlie-tca) appointed to Xubuntu QA lead.
• Charlie (charlie-tca) has been working on improving the testing wiki pages including the Xubuntu test cases.

• Cody Somerville (cody-somerville) packaged Sion, a gio/vfs mount manager, from the Xfce4 goodies.

• Lionel (mr_pouit) packaged a new upstream release of xfce4-dict (0.5.2) and xfburn (0.4.0).