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 > > -- Pasi Lallinaho Xubuntu Marketing Lead Web-designer, graphic artist IRC: knome @ freenode
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