J. Anthony Limon wrote:
Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
Lionel Le Folgoc wrote:
Hi there,
On Mon, Dec 07, 2009 at 01:20:07PM -0600, Jim Campbell wrote:
It seems like most people are open to a council-type approach in terms of
governance (if that's the right word). It also seems like we would still
need someone who can manage the seeds alongside Lionel, and perhaps do
some
development, too. I'm not sure what all is involved in what Cody has
done,
to be honest, but we will need to find a person or (perhaps more likely) a
couple people who can contribute in a technical manner similar to how has
been able to contribute. I wouldn't expect anyone to perform those kind of
duties right away, but . . . eventually . . . they could grow into those
kind of responsibilities.
I know what I'm proposing above isn't terribly formal, but I'm on visiting
the neighbouring city of Milwaukee this weekend, and wanted to provide
some
input on this matter for now. :)
I'm all in favor of a council-type approach, thanks for thinking about
this. ;)
No problem about the people proposed either (although Micheal hasn't
contributed at all to Xubuntu for more than six months, nor spoken on
our ml or irc chan, so I'm not sure he's still interested).
I understand Michael has a lot to do, so I'm not blaming him for this.
Maybe someone should contact him if he doesn't reply soonish. I can do
that.
Cody and Lionel, what do you think about the technical team leader(s)?
Also Cody, do you think several leaders per team would make sense?
Cody and Lionel, what areas do you think you could use the most support?
Is
it in bug triage? Is it in development, packaging and patching? Is it in
managing the seeds? There may be Xubuntu users or MOTU folks who we could
recruit based on a specific need.
I know that recruiting new contributors is difficult (particularly skilled
ones) but identifying particular areas where we need the most development
help would at least give us a chance.
The biggest issue isn't packaging imho. Now, most of our packages are
synced as-is from Debian, and for the remaining ones, the delta with
Debian is well identified (xubuntu-specific changes such as notify-osd
support, etc.). Yet, some help would be appreciated on the
StableReleaseUpdates (SRU) front, as currently we fix ~0 bug after a
release, and users have to live with some annoying bugs during six
months.
An important problem for karmic was testing (especially gnome components
- xfce interactions) and reporting bugs about that. It's rather
difficult to have the desktop team change something in their packages,
and when we detect that a few days before/after the release, it's
impossible. =]
Charlie might probably need some help on bug triaging also…
(I only focused on 'technical' stuff, but people may need help on
documentation and artwork too ;)
At least for Lucid, no big help with artwork is needed as we'll mostly
polish the Albatross theme with the Shimmer team. I could use some
help on renewing the website though, if somebody is interested.
Documentation absolutely needs lots of help and love.
Cheers,
Lionel
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