Hey,
Same as usual - some good progress, as we now have formal deadlines to
work against ;)
Glynn
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OpenSolaris JDS Weekly Status Report :: 19th-26th August, 2005
Members
Glynn, Matt, Shane, Laca, Dermot, Brian, Damien, Wipro
Accomplishments
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Technical
o Laca and Damien continued to work on porting JDS to GNOME 2.12
packages
o Damien and Laca working on the build environment for JDS
o Shane working on a story board for the JDS bug process on
opensolaris.org, continuing discussion of proposed subcategories.
o Brian and Glynn involved in ARC discussions and GNOME's Project Ridley
Project Management
o Glynn and Dee continuing working on consolidation checklist. Glynn
finished a first draft of the export control form for GNOME 2.10, and
will meet to discuss with with Steven Schulman next week. Jay is
working
on getting Firefox and Thunderbird into shape.
o Glynn, Matt and Dee met to discuss the status of OpenSolaris wrt JDS
and
came up with a concrete list of tasks to be done before the launch,
with
due dates for the Tonic pteam as outlined in project plan draft.
Social
o All continue to monitor and contribute to threads on desktop-discuss,
opensolaris-discuss, and others.
Goals for next week
===================
Higher Priority
o Continue porting components to GNOME 2.12.
o Meet with Steven to talk about export control issues and providing
binaries on opensolaris.org
o Write up HOWTO documents for building JDS on opensolaris.org.
o Discuss current bug subcategories with Acessibility team, and work
on a proposed migration and bug metrics for opensolaris.org
o Write up bug lifecycle doc and publish to opensolaris.org
o Decide whether opensolaris.org based JDS should have current
branding or not
Lower Priority
o Report and fix major issues on GNOME 2.10 branch.
o Triage existing bugs and mark a few with 'easyfix' keyword
Issues
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o GNOME 2.12 now requires a newer version of Xft. Laca talked to Alan who
said that there was no plans scheduled to update this, but hopefully Jay
would get to it soon. Laca will provide temporary packages until a newer
one is available.
