Hi all, Those of you familiar with the release schedule [0] or the documentation that was put together for the community-themes package at the beginning of this cycle [1] know that Feature Freeze [2] will be upon us Thursday, August 27th. This coincides with scheduled first drop of the official art work. [3] In previous discussions about the community-themes package, it seems that it was decided to follow the official artwork schedule for our package as well.
In other words we need to start making some decisions about which themes to include in the community-themes Karmic package. (In fact, looking at our schedule now it seems very back loaded in retrospect. We probably should have started the decision making process earlier.) Those interested should take a look at Incoming/Karmic [4] and perhaps officially propose something for inclusion? As our earlier discussions of creating a Community Art Council that could make final decisions seem to have fizzled, I suppose we will have to come to a general level of consensus. So let's start discussing! Currently the package includes only Kin and Impression, with Dust and New Wave having been promoted to main in the gnome-themes-ubuntu package. To get the ball rolling, my personal proposal for Karmic would be to update to the new version of Impression, drop Kin, and include two new themes. That would give us a total of three in the package. I think having much more than that would make the package a bit over-whelming. We want the best that the community has to offer, not a huge mess of themes. Also, if we have too many, it will make adding new themes in future releases harder as it always seems harder to cut old stuff out as people become attached. I know several themes have been posted to this list that don't seem to be on the wiki yet. I strongly encourage their authors to create wiki pages for them soon. It will make it much easier to refer to your theme in discussion rather than having to find a link to a post in the mailing-list archive. Any themes stand out to you? Should we retain Impression and Kin? Any other things we should be considering? Thanks! - Andrew Starr-Bochicchio P.S. Ken, if you're reading this, any chance you could add me to the ubuntu-art-pkg team in Launchpad? It owns the official community-themes branch, and as I imagine that I'm going to be the one packaging/uploading this (anyone else?) it would make my life easier to be able to commit directly. I applied months back with out any response. [0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Documentation/CommunityThemes [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FeatureFreeze [3] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArtworkFirstDrop [4] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
