'''Xubuntu team report for December 2008'''

==== Artwork ====

 * Pasi (knome) has been working on drafting [[Xubuntu/Artwork/Guidelines|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 "[[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Jaunty/GrowXubuntuCommunity|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 ====

 * [[http://xubuntu.org/|New website]] parallel to Intrepid release.
 * Substantial amount of work has been done on drafting the Jaunty "[[Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Jaunty/GrowXubuntuCommunity|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).