Xubuntu team report for February 2009

Artwork

• Preliminary ideas for Jaunty artwork.

Bug Triage

• Fixed the pages on the Xubuntu wiki for Bugs-Triage; made sure they agree with QA bugsquad pages.
• Triaged a good number of bugs, some of the Xubuntu bugsquad participated in the Global Bug Jam, which was a big success.

• Got many bugs fixed thanks to the successful upload of AbiWord 2.6.6 and Xfce 4.6 RC1.

Community

• Following the Grow the Xubuntu Community -specification.

Documentation

• Jim and Pasi are working to make Yelp look more Xubuntuish on Xubuntu.
• Jim has been integrating updates from Ubuntu documentation into Xubuntu docs, and is finding the merge process helpful in fixing bugs and incorporating info about new features.
• Much of the Xubuntu-specific documentation still needs to be written, but some of it can be adapted from previous versions of Xubuntu docs.
• Jim will be filing bugs against problem areas to help direct people to areas where they can pitch-in during a Xubuntu-doc hug day.

Marketing

• Committed a patch to website which fixes layout problems on Internet Explorer. (This patch is pending an RT ticket.)

• Following the Grow the Xubuntu Community -specification.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

• Released Alpha 4
• Uploaded all of Xfce 4.6 RC1 (Big Thanks to Lionel, Michael, Jeromeg, and the Debian Xfce Team).
• Moved all our packages into bazaar branches and setup a number of imports for Xfce components.
• Jeromeg uploaded xfce-switch-plugin (a user session switcher applet).
• Lionel uploaded a new version of gigolo (formerly known as Sion).
• Mario patched xfce4-session to not show the tips screen on first log in.
• Jeromeg uploaded xfce4-power-manager.
• Nathan Handler (nhandler) has been working with the samba browser patch for Thunar.