Hello, Apologies for not getting around to this sooner.
On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 7:03 AM, Cody A.W. Somerville < [email protected]> wrote: 1. Develop 2-3 specifications that are concrete enough to implement within > the next cycle. > Although we didn't draft 2-3 specifications to the point where they're ready to be implemented, I do feel that we actually have tangible ideas that can be speced and implemented; a definite win from cycles prior. For karmic, I'll personally be working on the following: * Performance improvements to the Xubuntu "session" (ie. faster login, less memory) * Review of the Xubuntu Seeds (ie. Get rid of cruft, examine default applications, etc.) * Xubuntu documentation & translations packaging (ie. Improvements to debian packaging) * Nightly Xubuntu debian package builds of Xfce trunk (ie. Lets spot problems early on) * Improve tracking of upstream (ie. reports to help us work better with Debian + Xfce project) I'm going to create specs in launchpad for these and will followup with links once complete. 2. Discuss and spec out improvements to notifications. > We discussed notifications but no specification or direction was determined besides the need to evaluate notify-osd for Karmic. SiDi has agreed to look into improving notifications. 3. Identify and possibly fix the login delay issue. > We looked at this issue several times throughout the week. Although we didn't find the exact cause let alone fix, we did determine or remark the following: * The issue is not specific to Xubuntu. Stephan (sarts) runs Xubuntu 8.10 but his Xfce packages are stock Xfce compiled by himself, Jannis (JPohlmann) runs Lunar Linux, and I was running Xubuntu 9.04. We all were able to reproduce this issue on our individual laptops. * The extent of the delay is proportional to the number of different applications autostarting. * After the delay, almost everything appears at once - almost as if everything had gotten ready "behind the scenes". * Disabling the autostart of xfce4-settings-helper by the session manager in particular significantly reduced the delay but didn't appear to fix the problem. * One theory was the issue had to do with the calculated delays xfce4-session was thought to do between starting different session levels/priorities. * A bug in the session management helper functions used by numerous Xfce4 applications was found that made it impossible to set your own priority level for said Xfce4 apps. 4. Examine memory usage of default Xubuntu desktop. Compare w/ Debian to see > where we can reduce our footprint. We looked at this but didn't find any quick fixes to reduce our memory consumption. Once idea that was tossed around was to disable the autostart of the system-config-printer (responsible for autolaunching printer setup, for the panel icon when something is printing, etc.) as it is a python application and uses quite a bit of memory. The idea was to instead have thunar-volman perform the autostart since you can access the print jobs dialogue from Applications > Accessories. No decision was made but I'm going to investigate this possability further as a part of 'Performance improvements to the Xubuntu "session"'. I'm hoping that instead of just loosing the system tray notification icon thingy functionality (*grins), we can have something equivalent provided by something that isn't so memory heavy. 5. Assist Xfce in developing release policy, procedures; release management; > finer project definition; etc. Come up with draft to send to xfce-dev > mailing list for further discussion and development. As Jannis already mentioned, a lot of work got done in this area. I'm very proud of the Xfce team who I believe for the most part have decided to adopt the proposal developed. I think this will have a very positive impact on the Xfce team and as result help make Xubuntu rock even more. 6. Improvements to documentation, artwork, and community. The general consensus was that there were a number of good ideas on these topics from last UDS but they have not yet been actioned on. Cheers, > Big thanks to everyone who participated at UDS either locally or remotely. I'm already running Karmic and can say that things are coming along very nicely. I must admit that I have a really good vibe about this release. I think the next several months are going to be very exciting times for the Xubuntu project; I hope everyone is able to get in on the fun. Cheers, -- Cody A.W. Somerville Software Systems Release Engineer Foundations Team Custom Engineering Solutions Group Canonical OEM Services Phone: +1-781-850-2087 Cell: +1-506-471-8402 Email: [email protected]
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