[13:33] <knome> i've written a wordpress-plugin to manage countdown banner settings (we can turn the "release switch" on/off ourself) and rewritten the countdown banner script to accommodate to that
[13:34] <knome> i'm going to ask IS to create us a subdomain countdown.xubuntu.org, which will simply output you the latest countdown image
[13:34]  * smartboyhw likes a countdown:P
[13:35] <knome> now, the question is: do we need a feature to overwrite this image randomly; eg. if beta2 is released, we could temporarily point to another image file
[13:36] <knome> (i was thinking that we could try to keep the url online and "alive" all the time, even in the beginning of the cycle. these temporarily images could then be anything; telling people to follow our twitter feed or so
[13:37] <knome> anyway, bbl
[13:38] <knome> pleia2, ^ comments plz
[15:44] <pleia2> knome: seems like a lot of work maintaining so many banners, not sure it's worth it long term
[15:48] <knome> pleia2, i'm not sure if you understood...
[15:48] <knome> pleia2, currently, if you use the banner at xubuntu.org/countdown, it says 12.04 is out
[15:48] <knome> pleia2, and of course, it should soon start counting down to 12.10 - which we have done previously
[15:48] <knome> pleia2, and that will be done, and in the future, we only need IS to upload our image files, like before
[15:48] <knome> pleia2, but in addition, the WP plugin could allow us to use temporary images with no IS
[15:49] <knome> pleia2, eg. a month after 12.10 release, we can create a single banner that says "give us feedback", and from the web UI make xubuntu.org/countdown serve that instead of "12.10 is out!"
[15:53] <knome> pleia2, and when we want, simply remove the link, and it'll say "12.10 is out!" again, as scheduled byt the normal countdown stuff
[15:53] <knome> pleia2, we don't NEED to have these "special" banners if we don't want, but i can make it possible to use those if we want to
[15:53] <knome> pleia2, otherwise we can only ever have normal countdown banners (which is fine too if you think that's enough)
[15:55] <pleia2> ah, well if we don't need to use them then it's ok :) I was just worried we'd end up with having alpha1 banners sitting around if you got busy and couldn't make another
[15:56] <pleia2> (some weeks it's hard enough to even write our release notes, let alone make new pretty banner)
[15:56] <knome> lol, no
[15:57] <knome> the thing is
[15:57] <knome> we only have the special banner if we set one up
[15:57] <knome> and for the normal countdown, we will have had to upload things via IS
[15:57] <pleia2> yeah
[15:57] <knome> but i'm not even sure myself if we need this
[15:57] <knome> sounds like advertising
[15:58] <knome> especially if people use the banner on their website, some self-advertising can be a bit intimidating
[15:58] <pleia2> I've been happy enough with the existing ones
[15:58] <knome> ok, good then
[16:00] <knome> i'll push what i have now, and we should be flying soon
[16:00] <pleia2> yay :)
[17:57] <pleia2> http://dc.ubuntu-us.org/node/39 :)
[17:57] <knome> :)
[17:59] <pleia2> it's actually not very xubuntu after sweets is installed, but still
[18:01] <knome> lol
[18:01] <knome> more xubuntu than windows
[18:01] <knome> again, bbl
[18:04] <pleia2> good enough for me!
[19:14] <pleia2> knome: I vote we do tourist stuff on Friday, and while doing tourist stuff we'll talk about xubuntu too ;)
[19:17] <knome> worksforme
[19:17] <pleia2> yay
[19:18] <pleia2> "look, a mermaid! ...yes, I agree that we should continue not to have birds on our background image"
[19:18] <knome> :D
[19:59] <astraljava> Well, how about mermaids for 13.04?
[20:02] <knome> astraljava, only if you'll model
[20:03] <astraljava> I'll have to learn how to grow fish scales, first.
[20:03] <Sysi> how will that fit "rampant rabbit"
[20:04] <knome> i suppose badly without lube
[20:04]  * knome hides
[20:05] <Sysi> 10.10 should've been "merry mermaid"
[20:18] <SkippersBoss> i do know we re in the 21th century now but i do not think xu needs to be xxx rated
[20:19] <SkippersBoss> bad enough that ubuntu is moving into amazon 
[20:19] <SkippersBoss> dont get me wrong /me loves amazon but uts something i choose myself not have forced upon me