Xubuntu team report for December, 2010

MERRY CHRISTMAS / HAPPY HANUKKA

Bug Triage

• Still squashing bugs. This will be an on-going process.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

• Added new versions of xfce4-notifyd, xfce4-appfinder, xfwm4, ristretto, xfce4-dev-tools and xfce4-volumed.
• Tested and released the Natty Wharhal Alpha1 images.
  • There are no alpha1 images for Powerpc and PS3 users.

Website & Marketing

• Xubuntu needs a Marketing Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com

Artwork

• We still need a good plymouth theme.
• We have drawn up artwork specs for Xubuntu wallpaper, and any input is welcomed.

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Specs/0007_Xubuntu_Natty_Wallpaper

• ochosi is working on updating the faenza icon theme to include all icons.
• ochosi is updating the bluebird theme to create greybird for possible inclusion in Natty Narwhal.

  • Feel free to check it out @ http://shimmerproject.org/hg/bluebird-colors > greybird.

• Xubuntu needs an Artwork Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com

Community

• We are striving to get more users to blog about Xubuntu. We would like to get word out of the changes being made, as well as new releases.
• The Xubuntu Community holds a regular meeting on Thursday at 19:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

• Minutes and Logs from the meetings are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings.

• A community meeting was held on 2010-12-02.

• Xubuntu needs to nominate and vote for a permanent Project Lead. Nominations are explained in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2010-November/007614.html.

Documentation

• Xubuntu needs a Documentation Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com