Pasi Lallinaho wrote: > 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 > What language and/or CMS is xubuntu.com?
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