New developer available

2014-03-21 Thread Danilo Almeida
Hello everyone, I'm a Linux user recently interested in Xubuntu, as this awesome distro really fills my necessities. I'm also a programmer and wish to contribute to the open source community. Xubuntu seems to be an excellent start point. So, here is a C programmer, Python newbie, among other

Re: New developer available

2014-03-21 Thread Simon Steinbeiß
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014 05:19:27 -0400 Danilo Almeida paio...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'm a Linux user recently interested in Xubuntu, as this awesome distro really fills my necessities. I'm also a programmer and wish to contribute to the open source community. Xubuntu seems to be an

Re: Feedback on the QA cycle

2014-03-21 Thread Pasi Lallinaho
On 21/03/14 03:48, Bruno Benitez wrote: 2014-03-20 21:52 GMT-03:00 Pasi Lallinaho p...@shimmerproject.org mailto:p...@shimmerproject.org: Social media is not the right place to communicate every single change. We have seen in the past how this can create a lot of negative and

Re: Feedback on the QA cycle

2014-03-21 Thread Elfy
On 20/03/14 23:38, Pasi Lallinaho wrote: Hello, this is a reply to the QA recap/feedback thread. As the original thread went off track, I decided to start a new one to discuss the original question at hand. PACKAGE TESTING First of all, I think it was a good move to run the package testing

Re: Feedback on the QA cycle

2014-03-21 Thread Elfy
On 21/03/14 00:10, Simon Steinbeiß wrote: On Thu, 20 Mar 2014 16:53:00 -0700 Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph l...@ubuntu.com wrote: Thanks, I do hope we can keep this one on track as it's an important discussion +1 I have a few doubtful thoughts on exploratory testing. How do we motivate people

Re: Feedback on the QA cycle

2014-03-21 Thread Elfy
On 21/03/14 00:34, Bruno Benitez wrote: I have to thanks Elfy for all the work he has been doing about QA, his work and attitude where excellent to provide a good feedback between finding errors and reporting them. The calls for test where visible and he was available to support any new

Re: Feedback on the QA cycle

2014-03-21 Thread Elfy
On 21/03/14 11:47, David Pires wrote: snip I've yet to decide if some of the testcases are a bit too thorough or if they are just about right. I guess we can agree and assume that the amount of bugs is somewhat correlating with how deep the tests are. As I see it though,

Re: New developer available

2014-03-21 Thread Jackson Doak
Welcome danilo. I suggest you come onto the team irc channel. #xubuntu-devel on freenode. We're usually around and it's a lot easier to talk to people there. On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Danilo Almeida paio...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I'm a Linux user recently interested in

Re: New developer available

2014-03-21 Thread Jackson Doak
It's fairly late in the release cycle at the moment, so we're focusing on bugfixing. The things at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/xubuntu-t-bugs are the main ones affecting xubuntu, but anything at bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ would be good to work on. If you'd like more to do to

Re: Default apps discussion - this was Re: Trusty QA quick recap and look forwardHi,

2014-03-21 Thread Eero Tamminen
Hi, On torstai 20 maaliskuu 2014, Lutz Andersohn wrote: html head meta content=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type /head body bgcolor=#FF text=#00 div class=moz-cite-prefixI am taking Elfy's advise replying to Pjotr:br br Your

Re: Default apps discussion - this was Re: Trusty QA quick recap and look forwardHi,

2014-03-21 Thread PK
Well, a very important step in the good direction has been the introduction of the Whisker menu and the single desktop bar in 14.04. But the default office applications are still underpowered and feel cheap. It's so cool to have LibreOffice by default. It's a selling point of great value: