On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Ovidiu-Florin BOGDAN <ovidiu....@gmail.com> wrote: > În ziua de Sunday 27 December 2015, la 22:46:59, Valorie Zimmerman a scris: > >> Hello folks, I know it's the holidays. Still, we need some forward >> movement. It seem that it is the duty of your Council to help out. > >> Recently I've noticed rather often in #kubuntu people asking why the >> only news on the website is Jon leaving. I've explained that he's not >> leaving, merely stepping back from his positiuon as release manager, >> but the questions continue. Clivejo recently point this out in >> #kubuntu-devel, and said: "I do think the KCC need to take the lead :P " > >> Continuing, "if someone shows an interest, net them quickly and get >> them communicating with the people who can help develop the skills >> <clivejo> people look at the website and see no activity since Jon >> "stood" down. New people just see that as a community falling apart :( " > >> I agree, and we all need to take the lead. As I see it, our first >> priority is to get those packaging docs in order. When new people >> volunteer, we need something to point them to, when there is no >> developer around to take their hand directly. And whenever they have >> time, they can use the docs for review, or learn about a different >> task, or even improve on what we have. I believe that a group is >> coalescing to begin this work. How can the KC help? > > Caydoh asked, "Is there a way to post an article announcement for the >> last plasma release we had, or announcing kubuntu podcast epsisodes? > >> Surely there is some things we can post on the site to show something > >> is going on without having to explain and/or apologize for delays." > I agree. We need to get some news on the site weekly, at least. Even >> just a few sentences pointing to a Dot story. Who does this now, and >> how can the KC help?
> Caydoh also asks "With the very short turnarounds in plasma version >> releases, let alone Frameworks and Applications, how should we manage >> those?" > > I would love to see us start off the new year in a positive way. What >> are some steps we can take to begin? > > Valorie > > > I just went through the documentation we have for packaging: > https://community.kde.org/Kubuntu#Packaging and I'm sad to say that (I > think) we don't have packaging documentation. We can barely call that an > outline. Barely! > > If there's some docs elsewhere, please let me know, so we may try to merge > them. > > I've talked with Philip, Clive, and Aaron to have a sprint in 28-30 Dec. > 2015 and clean this up. > > So far we've made this: > https://drive.google.com/open?id=1SoO83PepBkU_kkbLL2eIeVDYYDzv6OEA1npVoCp7wHo > > It's just a crude overview of how things interact with each other. Please > provide feedback. > > From here we plan to make other diagrams and texts that explain each section > in more detail. But... > > The biggest problem is... time and resources. I mean, it's the holidays, and > (from what I can understand) only Philip and Scarlett know what's actually > going on here. Me and Clive are desperatly trying to understand how things > are going and work on something but we need help. > > This situation is getting very frustating to all of us. I recommend that we > have a meeting as soon as possible with the KC and some devs/packagers and > talk about how we can sort this out best. > > I'd love to do this before the new year's eve, so we may progress with work, > so we have some good/great news on the podcast in the 6th of January. > -- > > Ovidiu-Florin Bogdan Thanks for getting the ball rolling, Ovidiu-Florin. I've heard reference to some older docs -- Debian and Ubuntu stuff I believe. Perhaps those can be useful. Valorie -- kubuntu-devel mailing list kubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-devel
