Greetings all. As tasked at the last Xubuntu meeting, I write to ask for folks
to consider what tasks would benefit Xubuntu to be undertaken during Ubuntu
Global Jam. Ubuntu Global Jam is a time for local user communities ("LoCo") to
actively participate in a major push to get to the end of the development
cycle. The timeframe this cycle is Friday, 12 September 2014 17:00 to Sunday,
14 September 2014 22:00 UTC. With respect to the Utopic Unicorn release
schedule, that is the weekend directly after User Interface Freeze hits on
Thursday, 11 September 2014. Documentation String Freeze will hit on Thursday,
18 September 2014.
What is needed at this point are the nomination of tasks that can be given as
suggestions to LoCo groups to engage in during the Global Jam. These need to
be things that can be accomplished by a group of varying levels of experience
with Xubuntu. They need to stay within the weekend preferably. They also
should abide by the release schedule to help move us forward. A reporting loop
needs to be built-in so that feedback from the event can be gathered and we
have data we can act upon.
Do we need specific packages tested? Any last documentation to write? Seeking
new places for pkexec profiles? Stress-testing the Core? Patching of things
needed?
Unless somebody comes up with a novel approach, I want to leave dealing with
bug management set aside. We have fairly aggressive bug reporting. We have
fairly aggressive bug response. That's possibly one area we *don't* need help
in.
If we shoot for taking about one week or less to pull some ideas together we
can contribute them up to Canonical Community Team for use as part of the
Global Jam effort. Right now we need to hash out some ideas and come up with
some mission taskings that would help us move forward while also bringing a
renewed sense of engagement by others in the overall community of software that
we weave together.
Stephen Michael Kellat
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