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knomewe need a few tests...10:46
knomepleia2, and we need a beta 1 announcement10:48
knomewe also need to update the slideshow in a week10:49
knomefixed the bugs filed in slideshow, it should be all fine now11:24
knomepleia2, sorry for bombing your inbox again :P11:28
knomeshould we add gnumeric and gimp launchers back to the popup panel?12:00
knomebluesabre, which iso did you download? i386 or amd64?12:02
bluesabrei38612:04
knomeok, i'll do amd64 then12:04
knomemeh, the "file type associations" test is boring, there's no files installed by default in your home12:05
knomescreensaver testing is boring too :)12:06
bluesabreknome, upgrade tests?  http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/261/builds/39547/testcases12:07
knomebluesabre, hideously, they are not in the "xubuntu" product12:07
knomehttp://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/261/builds/39522/testcases12:07
bluesabreoh12:07
bluesabrethats why nobody does them ;)12:07
knomeyes.12:07
knomei'll talk with balloons.12:08
bluesabrewon't be able to do the update-manager test12:08
bluesabreno network at the office12:08
knomeaha12:08
knomewhat kind of office is that?12:08
knomeeven one test is good though.12:09
knomesterhello!12:10
knomedesktop test passes!12:11
bluesabrecool12:11
knomenow meh, the upgrade tests12:12
bluesabregotta go12:12
bluesabrebbl12:12
knomehf12:12
knomegetting the i386 first, it seems12:14
knomei'll run the update-manager test for that 12:14
knomei have a cool idea.12:20
knomelet's create a small ISO with "sample content" that people can use to test stuff.12:20
knomeor let's add some to the xubuntu iso, alternatively12:20
knomehow can i run an upgrade test from Q to R if i can't get Q installing?12:40
* smartboyhw waves14:06
knomehello.14:06
GridCubehi14:16
smartboyhwGridCube, /me waves14:16
GridCubewusup14:23
GridCubeknome, for the wallpaper issue, we have the deviantART group we are not using at all16:03
knomeGridCube, i know. but that's not the scope of this wallpaper-gathering anyway17:50
GridCubeok :) just saying17:51
knomeyes, we should get the deviantart group fixed asap too17:52
knomei think one of the important things is to decide/see where it falls, eg. what's the purpose17:55
knomebecause it's clearly not a communication method, it's not something the team should use when working with new artwork17:55
knomewe also don't want to fix any submission to deviantart or flickr any more, they should be on the wiki or the mailing list for archiving purposes17:56
GridCubei see, but deviantART community is huge, and it would gather a rather nice amount of people if we offered them some incentive, like, make a nice wallpaper, it could be featured on an operative system release with your name in it, winkwink18:03
knomeyes, but we don't want to promise that18:03
knomeand what's the benefit of having a "nice amount of people" who only want their wallpaper included on the distro?18:04
knomethat's the easiest job/task, i'd rather get *one* new contributor that could help with the heavy lifting18:04
knomehaving to pick a wallpaper from many and again many submissions only make our workload bigger18:05
knomeand as other distros' "contests" have shown us, somebody from the team needs to make the pick unless you want to tell your community that you're not picking the wallpapers they voted the most18:06
GridCubeknome, thats just an example18:06
knomeplease point me to a better example, where our workload doesn't dramatically rise?18:07
GridCubeknome, yes i understand, it has its issues, but its just there18:07
knomebut being just there is not providing incentive.18:08
pleia2oh good, knome is back18:08
GridCubetrue, but we arent doing anything else tho, being just there is worthless18:08
knomei am.18:08
knomeGridCube, yes, i understand and agree.18:08
bluesabre_I think it has its purpose, maybe not for aggregating potential distro includes, but rather a place for people that want to make their work more easily available for other xubuntu lovers18:08
knomebluesabre_, this is again just an example, but when you say that, i think "xfce-look.org" and then i think "omg"18:09
GridCubemmhm yes, like showing your desktop, sharing modification, explaining how to get them18:09
bluesabre_lol18:09
bluesabre_xfce-look is a bit outrageous18:09
knomei don't think it's realistic that we would moderate everything on the group, but we can try to steer the direction18:10
knomei would definitely back up the idea of "share your xubuntu screenshots here"18:10
knomebut even that can create some "i must puke" -reactions, tbh...18:10
bluesabre_lol18:10
GridCubeits not that complex. we set rules as what is an acceptable submission, we say for example, when you upload a desktop screenshot you need to explain what you did, what theme you are using, wich icons, what font, details18:11
knomebluesabre_, can you elaborate what you meant with "work" to be shared/made available?18:11
GridCubeif its ugly people will just past it, if it nice it will stand out18:11
bluesabre_quality wps, themes, and screenshots of their desktop config18:11
GridCubeexactly18:12
bluesabre_it doesn't have to be crap18:12
GridCubedual monitor wallpapers18:12
knomethe point is that if there's going to be more ugly than nice, it's soon going to be a junkyard.18:12
knomebluesabre_, no, but we can't moderate everything18:12
bluesabre_true18:12
knomeor even if we technically could... we can't.18:12
bluesabre_but we don't have to, it would be a completely community resource18:13
knomethat's not realistic, and otoh i don't want to make any statements that people could interpret as "the xubuntu team thinks i'm/my setup is not worthy"18:13
bluesabre_we can have light moderation of course, but it can be steered in the right direction18:13
knomeyeah.18:13
knomei'm wondering how we can steer that18:14
bluesabre_its really no different than our facebook and google+ communities18:14
GridCubeknome, true, but you make rules, if people dont follow them then they are not showcased, if it turns into a junkyard then we are doing something wrong whit our time18:14
GridCubei dont think it will because i think xubuntu can be made beautiful.18:14
bluesabre_I think knome's concern is the "our time" part, we don't really need another resource sink18:15
GridCubeand people with time and interest in subminting will show that18:15
knomeGridCube, my point is that if it's start turning into a junkyard, people are just posting junk, and there's nothing we *should* do about that, because we shouldn't use our time in that18:15
GridCubeoh, right, but i think we do, because desktops are in fight right now, and we should show ours its a very good option18:15
knomeGridCube, i understand that xubuntu can be made beuatiful, but some people like "pink unicorn with hentai characters" wallpaper with "bubblybobbly-yellow-red" theme18:16
GridCubetrue18:16
GridCubeand some other people does too, so they will like that user submition18:16
knomeGridCube, for starters, i personally don't think there is any DE "war" (or at least i don't like to think it's a competition anyway)18:16
knomeGridCube, the other point is that since we can't moderate the feed, it might or might not turn into a good showcase for our product18:16
GridCubewe can moderate18:17
knomeyes, technically, but again the point is that we shouldn't waste our time in that18:17
knomerather than doing that, i'd close the dA group and let the artowork team create one awesome wallpaper per cycle and post that everywhere18:18
GridCubeand again, my point is that its not a waste of time. But we should leave this for other moment18:18
knome...which is kind of what we're doing now18:18
GridCubeknome, but we should integrate more of the users, make them care18:18
knomei understand your point of view completely, but from my point of view, i'd rather steer *your* time and other resources in something else than moderating any social network group18:19
knomesomething that we *know* will benefit xubuntu18:19
GridCubelike?18:19
knomelike anything on http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-raring/group/topic-raring-flavor-xubuntu.html18:20
knomelike doing team reports weekly.18:20
pleia2fwiw, we can't actually tie something that has "pink unicorn with hentai characters" to xubuntu, this would have to live very much outside the ubuntu-sphere18:21
GridCubeand how can any of those be made by non-xubuntu developers?18:21
knomes/hentai/anime/, that would make it guidelines-compliant :P18:21
GridCubenot saying that we shouldn't do that18:21
pleia2knome: perhaps, but there is some pretty offensive anime too18:21
GridCubeah, nevermind, you are right18:21
GridCubeif you and the rest are not willing to expend time on this there is no reason for me to do so18:22
pleia2I have to keep a pretty close eye on the facebook page to make sure people don't post awful screensots :(18:22
knomeGridCube, well, you *are* a member of xubuntu-team, and if you work on something that needs more permissions and prove to do it well, we'll *get* you the permissions18:22
knomepleia2, i thought that was all simply called hentai :P18:22
pleia2knome: plenty that can happen without crossing that line that I really don't want to be exposed to :)18:23
knomeGridCube, no, the point is we should make it clear to ourself what the purpose is18:23
knomepleia2, yeah, i agree. anime etc. falls to the same category than fantasy/scifi for me... and you know what that means :P18:23
pleia2hehe18:24
pleia2it's hard to moderate an image community18:24
knomeyes, and we don't want to waste the time in that18:24
bluesabre_knome definitely googled that to figure out the difference18:24
pleia2lol18:24
knomebluesabre_, hah. :)18:24
pleia2"what is that in your browser history?" "I was doing research for xubuntu!" "NO MORE XUBUNTU FOR YOU"18:24
knomewell there's the private browsing mode18:25
pleia2lol18:25
knomefor umm... present shopping18:25
* knome whistles18:25
bluesabre_:D18:25
knomeGridCube, i don't know dA technically... but theoretically, could we moderate the group in a way that *nothing* gets through unless we approve it?18:26
knomethat with some volunteers from the dA community (who have proved to be fine) might be a solution18:27
knomebecause i just kind of understood what pleia2 said too, there's something we definitely don't want to get published under any circumstances18:27
bluesabre_knome, I'm surprised I didn't get a blueprint assigned to me this cycle, with the exception of get mentored, which I have so far failed at :)18:28
knomebluesabre_, you probably should have been more active with it then18:28
knome;)=18:28
bluesabre_but everybody wants a pretty media player!18:28
knomethe point is, i can't force anybody take any blueprints/work items18:29
bluesabre_x.x18:29
knomethere are a lot which are assigned the to various xubuntu teams18:29
GridCubeknome, yes, you can even make so you need the vote of 2 or more people to let something reach the group gallery18:29
bluesabre_true18:29
knomeGridCube, i don't think even that goes. it would need to get through specific moderators18:29
knomethe problem is we don't know at all how much submissions we're going to get18:30
GridCubeyou can get suggestions or submisions, they are different18:30
GridCubesuggestions will make it so the group points to the user that created the content, submissions will showcase them inside the group18:30
GridCubeyou can have "favourites" too, that has its own gallery18:31
GridCubeas said, there is a lot of ways to moderate and to "detach" from the content18:31
knomecan you moderate suggestions as well?18:32
GridCubeyou can make that people can only suggest from certain sections, i think, like they submit a wallpaper to the wallpaper section and suggest it, but if they subbmit it to the photography/erotic/pinups then no18:33
knomethat would work too18:33
knomethough people can still post to "wrong" section18:34
GridCubeyes18:34
knomedon't know how quickly they'll be taken down18:34
GridCubebut thats handled by deviantART administration, it depends on the amount of reports18:34
knomeaha18:34
GridCubeyeah, well life ain't perfect18:35
knomethe problem is that the moderation in dA goes clearly in different order than in FOSS18:35
knomein FOSS, you prove yourself trusted first, then you'll get access18:36
knomein dA, you can push things right away, and then you *might* get the "untrusted" status18:36
knomeor, in other words, "lose your access"18:36
knomeanyway, i don't want to make anybody waste their time doing dA moderation, not because i don't think the dA group is worthy or can be useful but just because i think there are better things to do too18:38
Unit193Like moderate the -users list?18:39
knomewell tbh even that is a waste of time...18:40
pleia2that's why we don't moderate every post of the users list18:41
pleia2but you would have to in an image community18:41
knomebut at least the list has a purpose and is potentially helpful for a significant proportion of our users18:41
GridCubetrue18:41
GridCubeas said, if not enough energy and interest is put toward this then it makes no sense for me to do so18:42
GridCubei can't be doing this alone18:42
knomei'm not against it fundamentally. it18:42
GridCubei understand18:42
knomei just don't want us to use too much resources into it18:42
GridCubeim not blaming you or anything, i completely understand18:43
GridCubei think it would be nice, thats all18:43
knomesince i don't know dA technically or it's social circles, it's really hard for me to evaluate how big chances there are that the group fails18:44
knomei'd wait for input from ochosi to the discussion we just had, then see where we are at18:45
lderanquick query is the bug list for xubuntu here https://bugs.launchpad.net/~xubuntu-team or here https://bugs.launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev or is it both?19:45
mr_pouithttps://bugs.launchpad.net/~xubuntu-bugs/+packagebugs19:46
lderanah awesome thanks19:47
ochosihey mr_pouit 20:07
* astraljava got good news today at work; the head honcho was visiting, and we discussed the future strategies. As we're moving more towards appstore-installable products, I naturally asked whether they had plans for bringing it into USC. He was not really aware of Ubuntu's momentum. Cut the story short, I might get part-time promotion to core dev crew within the linux scope.20:48
ochosiawesome! congrats astraljava 20:49
astraljavaToo early for any of that, but thanks. Definitely made me contemplate the job in a little bit more positive light.20:50
astraljavaI'll try to dig up some numbers to show some estimates why it could be beneficial to put some effort in that area.20:51
pleia2http://xubuntu.org/news/raring-beta1/ \o/20:51
astraljavaUh oh, dang. Totally forgot about beta.20:51
astraljavaAnd I'm on mobile broadband for the weekend. :-/20:51
lderanhopefully congrats astraljava \o/20:54
* micahg hopes we get good feedback from beta 120:54
ochosihey micahg 20:54
ochosiis there still time for gtk-theme-config?20:55
micahgif it's needed, sure20:56
micahgochosi: please file the FFe paperwork per https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FreezeExceptionProcess20:57
micahgand feel free to subscribe me20:57
ochosiok20:57
ochosiwell, 'needed'20:57
micahgI say needed since any new source at this point requires release team approval20:58
ochosiit's a small script with UI that let's you change your gtk-theme's colors20:58
ochosithat's handy, but not critical20:58
ochosigood for accessability though20:58
micahgif it's something we're targeting for 13.04, go ahead and file the FFe20:58
ochosiyeah, will do20:58
ochosimicahg: see bug #115533521:21
ubottubug 1155335 in Ubuntu "FFe: Include gtk-theme-config in Raring" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/115533521:21
ochosi(hope this is fine)21:21
* micahg subscribed -release and himself21:26
micahgochosi: thanks21:26
ochosihm, i thoughht i subscribed you...21:27
ochosion the ipad this was not a very easy task :)21:27
ochosimicahg: well thank you!21:27
micahghrm ,maybe you did21:28
micahgyes, you did21:28
micahgI didn't notice21:29
ochosik :)21:29
knomeyay, release21:58
knomeheh, looks like somebody typoed the blog article title :D21:59
pleia2oops, many ns22:02
knomei'm sure it was me22:03
knomei just fixed it in x.org22:03
knomeprobably no reason to fix on twitter or other social media outlets22:03
pleia2yeah22:04
knomeastraljava, shiny!22:04
knomeochosi, you still around?22:05
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Unit193knome: He isn't.22:10
knomeah, so he said22:10

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