J. Anthony Limon wrote: > 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? > > - J > > Currently Drupal, but the with redesign we are migrating to WordPress.
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