Great work Kaj!
On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Kaj Ailomaa <[email protected]> wrote: > Contents: > > 1. About development planning for this cycle > 1.2. About the "ubuntu" project > 2. Create your own blueprints (who, me? - Yes you!), or add your > workitems to existing blueprints > 2.1. Core Topic > 2.2. Applications Topic > 2.3. Testing Topic > 2.4. Art Topic > 2.5. Website and Social Topic > 2.6. Documentation Topic > 3. Next Step - Attracting Contributors > > -------- > > # 1. About development planning for this cycle # > > I finally got around to preparing planning for this cycle of > development. There are a few changes since laste couple of cycles. > Preparing for this, I've done some reorganization on our Launchpad > projects previously, making sure there is a project for every package > and a team for every purpose, and so on. > > Documentation about Ubuntu Studio planning is somewhat updated, and can > be found here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/CoreTeamDocumentation > > Blueprints structure is reorganized. How it works now is: > > * Each launchpad project will have its own blueprints > * the launchpad project called "ubuntustudio" has topic blueprints that > depend on other Ubuntu Studio projects > * Any number of bluieprints can be dependencies of one topic blueprint. > The topics make it easier to separate the different types of blueprints > (most people will only be dealing with 1-3 topics at most) > > As stated here http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/Blueprints, the > topics for this cycle are: > > ubuntustudio-t (main topic) > - core-t (core packages) > - applications-t (our own applications) > - testing-t (testing, and development of testing tools) > - art-t > - website-social-t (our website and social channels) > - documentation-t (user and developer docs, on DVD, wikis, video and > our website) > > ## 1.2. About the "ubuntu" project > > I think Ubuntu folks would rather we do some of our blueprints within > the "ubuntu" launchpad project, as that makes it possible to keep an eye > on what we are up to, and enables the usage of the > http://status.ubuntu.com page, but I think we should just make sure to > get feedback from ubuntu devs when that might be required (as we > recently learned from our GRUB customizations). > Also, I'm looking into the possibility of creating our own status page > from the tools that are used for the Ubuntu one. > > -------- > > # 2. Create your own blueprints (who, me? Yes, you!), or add your > workitems to existing blueprints # > > We're drafting blueprints now, so please look through any blueprints > that might interest you, and suggest new ones, or edit the ones that > exist. > Before you do any editing, make sure that you are apart the relevant > Ubuntu Studio launchpad team, and that our team is aware of your > efforts. Just answer this mail if you're interested in helping out. > > ## 2.1. Core Topic ## > > These two topics are fairly well figured out so far. What is missing is > a clear specification for how to solve the problem of having multiple > DEs. > Some of the things I'm looking forward to us getting done is doing some > jack plumbing (either starting jack, if not running, when opening any > jack app, or informing the user that they need to start jack first), as > well as making realtime privilege a normality on any Debian derived > distro. Not all can be done from our core packages though. > > ## 2.2. Applications Topic ## > > The major goal for this cycle is developing ubuntustudio-controls from > scratch, which is long overdue, and there are a massive amount of things > we could use if for, so if you are into any kind of scripting or coding, > and would like to help with this, please join us in doing that. > We also have our custom menu (ubuntustudio-menu), which is strictly not > an applications, but it's installable without Ubuntu Studio and sort of > works as a standalone application. > Then there's ubuntustudio-installer, which is fairly basic now, but if > someone would like to, it could be enhanced so as to simplify finding > and installing studio applications on any Ubuntu derived distribution > (and why not making it generic, and upload it into Debian?) > > ## 2.3. Testing Topic ## > > This is a topic that no one has really done anything significant with > yet, so if someone is interested, please consider contributing to this > area of our development. > We need to: > * Figure out what tools to use, and perhaps develope some small tools > of our own (could result in a package that we upload to Ubuntu repos) > * Organize our testing and make sure everything that needs testing gets > tested > > ## 2.4. Art Topic ## > > I've prepared blueprints for existing launchpad projects, that deal with > art. The ambition is probably to revamp art completely for 14.04. I've > also prepared a blueprint for how to organize user contribution of > wallpapers. > > Art plays a very significant role in communicating with users, so I'm > putting a special significance to what we decide on this for 14.04. > > ## 2.5. Website and Social Topic ## > > We should think about redoing our Website theme, and doing some updates > to art and documentation. > > ## 2.6. Documentation Topic ## > > As always, user documentation is lacking. If we can find someone willing > to work on this, that would be great. > > -------- > > # Next step - Attracting Contributors # > > There is a structure for how we do things, all though the work continues > on that. We need to set some rules on how we work with our sources among > other things. > But, for non coding work, we should really try getting people involved > as quickly as possible. > I started a blueprint about that as well, within the Ubuntu Studio > project (which suits well for any kind of miscellaneous planning that > does not fit a specific topic) > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntustudio/+spec/get-contributors. > > /Kaj Ailomaa - Ubuntu Studio project lead > > -- > ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel >
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