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jimbohertzhi01:54
jimbohertzi still received no answer01:54
jimbohertzabout01:54
jimbohertzthe website...01:54
jimbohertzand01:54
jimbohertzum...01:54
holsteinjimbohertz: ?01:55
holsteinjimbohertz: what do you need to know, friend? 01:55
jimbohertzi asked zequence01:55
holsteinjimbohertz: ok.. he's in the channel..01:56
jimbohertzinformation on what goes on here and01:56
holsteinjimbohertz: what do you need to kno?01:56
jimbohertzwell i dont know man i just asked if i could like redesign the website/work on it01:56
jimbohertzbut i got ignored01:56
jimbohertzover and over01:56
holsteinjimbohertz: sure.. we dont need that01:56
jimbohertzso should i just give up ?01:56
jimbohertzah ok01:56
holsteinjimbohertz: we dont need it "Redesigned"01:56
holsteinbut, we need help01:56
jimbohertzalright01:56
jimbohertzhlep for testing isos01:56
jimbohertzha01:56
jimbohertzyeah sure01:57
holsteinjimbohertz: sure. thats actually quite helpful01:57
jimbohertzk01:57
jimbohertzlets sing01:57
jimbohertzholstein: sing01:57
holsteinand documentation. and there were some test cases on the mailing list about kernels. did you do that? i havent had a chance01:57
holsteinand about work flows...01:57
jimbohertzyeah...01:58
jimbohertzi just dont see how i can help01:58
jimbohertznot that I have nothing to give01:58
jimbohertzand01:58
holsteinjimbohertz: ?01:58
holsteinjimbohertz: did you test the kernel?01:58
jimbohertzbut i dont know01:58
jimbohertzwhat kernel?01:58
holsteinjimbohertz: you want to help with the newsletter?01:58
jimbohertzwhat01:58
holsteinthat team *always* needs help01:59
jimbohertzi dont follow01:59
holsteinjimbohertz: have you tested the kernel?02:00
holsteinif not.. you can do that02:00
jimbohertzwhat kernel02:00
jimbohertzbeMORESPECIFIC02:01
holsteinif you are still saying "i dont know how to help" then, would you like information on the ubuntu newsletter team?02:01
holsteinjimbohertz: the realtime kernel that we discussed, here. in person.. via PPA.. from the mailing list02:01
jimbohertzwhat02:01
jimbohertzi can test it ?02:01
jimbohertzwait02:01
jimbohertzwe did ?02:01
holsteinthere were other test cases in the mailling list as well.. did you do any of them?02:01
jimbohertzyou said it was useless !02:02
holsteinjimbohertz: are you on the mailling list?02:02
jimbohertzyes i am02:02
holsteinjimbohertz: i never said "useless".. i implied it was likely not that necessary for the future, and that im not personally interested in it02:02
holsteinjimbohertz: im literally only suggesting things for testing purposes02:02
holsteinjimbohertz: how about the newsletter? thats a great team that needs help02:03
jimbohertzi just find the process really awkward02:04
holsteinjimbohertz: what process?02:05
jimbohertzworking with the newsletter02:05
holsteinits just a small team, friend02:05
holsteinjimbohertz: so, you are not interested in helping? with the newsletter?02:05
jimbohertzwell02:06
jimbohertzits just not02:06
holsteinjimbohertz: not what?02:06
jimbohertzit doesnt feel right02:06
jimbohertzi dont even know how the newsletter work and02:06
jimbohertzeh..02:06
holsteinjimbohertz: its a place to help. it works like this.. you read a story, and write a summary.. and it gets published..02:07
jimbohertzmeh02:11
jimbohertzfeels old02:11
holsteinjimbohertz: ?02:13
holsteinjimbohertz: just let me know if you want to contribute,. the site needs not be redesigned02:13
OvenWerksholstein: pressing and persistant?05:55
holsteinOvenWerks: just making friends05:55
holstein:)05:55
OvenWerks:)05:55
OvenWerksIt sounds like gime the kar keys..... NOW!05:56
holsteinright?!05:57
holsteini thought i was going to get the newletter team a helper, though.. 05:58
zequence[6~[6~[6~[6~joji07:37
xequenceholstein: That jimbo guy just needs to get on the mail list and present himself. I'm usually asleep in the middle of night (which was the case when Jimbo was on just before)07:42
xequenceCan't answer someone who's not logged in either07:42
xequenceThe new CD should be building within one or two weeks07:45
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holsteinxequence: im not sure what the story is there.. seems like, if we dont want the website redesigned, he's not interested in helping15:07
xequenceholstein: :)15:07
xequenceA lot of people have passed by and have ideas. We also have an art lead, who has some ideas on that. But, if someone wants to do anything, they're always free to come with suggestions, examples of work, etc.15:12
elfypeople are awesome at passing by with ideas15:12
holsteinwe just revamped the site not too long ago15:13
* elfy just meant generally by the way15:13
elfyxequence: do you have any ideas about what to do with this testcase stuff?15:35
elfys/do you have any ideas about what you want to do with this testcase stuff?15:36
holsteinelfy: what are your thoughts?15:38
elfymy thoughts are that no-one appears to be interested in helping15:39
elfyI'm just here to try and corral it :)15:39
elfythat's not strictly true - one person has done one15:39
holsteinelfy: i was thinking, back when the cases got added, it may be a little "overkill" for the team15:39
elfyholstein: yea - I'm having the same conversation with stgraber re Edubuntu15:40
holsteinelfy:  i mean, no doubt we should be doing some JACK and audio production specific testing, but, does it need to be an official test case?15:40
elfyI didn't have anything to do with adding the testcases I add :)15:40
elfyholstein: depends how studio wants to do it I guess15:40
holsteinelfy: i was thinking, just do the bare minimum.. like basically whatever xubuntu has, and we can deal with other specific cases on our own15:40
elfyit is a *small* team  - even smaller than the xubuntu one 15:41
holsteinyup15:41
holsteinbut, i think if the cases were the same, the xubuntu team would help out, and typically does... and has been *quite* helpful15:41
elfyspeaking completely frankly I think that the best thing to do would be 15:41
elfyinvalid all the bugs15:42
holsteinelfy: personally, when i see the test case list, i find it daunting..15:42
elfythen pick them one by one15:42
elfyholstein: exactly15:42
elfyI look at it and don't even know what the things are lol15:42
holsteinelfy: well, you have my vote.. not sure who added the cases.. it would be nice to get an OK from that person.. was it zequence ?15:42
holsteinelfy: *not* having them officially listed there doesnt mean we cant test them..15:43
elfyI'd guess that what would be nice would be to try and get some stuff ready for the next LTS - little by little15:43
elfyI'm happy to hang about helping with it 15:43
holsteinelfy: and cheers for helping ! :)15:43
elfyholstein: of course not, it just means you can't do 'official' testing and 'tracking' 15:44
holsteinand, i suppose the tracking may be a deal breaker.. but, i think now, its just overkill, and, we can track them as bugs... 15:44
elfyholstein: I can 'manage' things to the best of my ability and do this manual stuff15:44
elfyso I do it where I can for who wants it :)15:45
elfyholstein: no it wasn't anyone from any team who added all the bugs - chilcuil did it for *everyone* at some point15:45
elfyI look at it as a testcase admin working with manual stuff and see ~150 bugs just sitting there :)15:46
holsteinlol15:46
holsteinyeah, we should address that..15:46
elfynot just studio obviously - edubuntu aren't too bothered either - they've got a smaller team than studio :)15:47
elfyI could write simple tests - but if no-one is actually going to run them - it's pointless15:48
holsteinyeah.. its got to be able to be managed15:48
elfyand what *your* stuff needs is NOT simple tests :)15:48
holsteinright.. and we shoud be testing.. we have a different custom kernel and all that.. and JACK is not trivial15:49
holsteini dont think we should expect that of a casual iso tester, though15:49
elfyindeed15:49
holsteinthe iso test should be more that.. iso test.. not help with debugging15:49
elfyI did at least make you some image tests that included your menu15:50
elfynot sure if they're actually being used tbh15:50
elfyI've been trying not to get too disheartened with the test response for our stuff mostly - everyone *buntu wide is a bit pheeeeeeew atm :)15:51
elfyI wonder if studio would actually be better served with say15:52
elfyan audio image test and a general audio testcase "Use what you use- report bugs"15:53
elfya photo one - the same - just really quite basic - but at least you'll get some feedback15:53
elfyyou could run audio apps for ~3 months - start a test result - leave it as pending and just add bugs15:54
holsteinyeah.. even listed on a wiki, less formal.. something anyone can edit15:54
elfyjust an idea15:54
holsteinelfy: i like it15:54
elfyholstein: yep - which is why I did that wiki for studio15:54
elfyas long as there are some *rules* on it - if you do a testcase - don't waste peoples time - let them know for instance15:55
holsteini get overwhellmed on wikis.. and TBH, i wanted to just claim a "bankruptcy" or sorts a while back (probably 12.10) and just delete some that are old... 15:55
holsteinbut, the wiki system is great.. its strengths are its weaknesses, so to speak15:56
elfyyea15:56
elfyI think what I'll do is write a mail to the list re all this - the standard system isn't going to work for a while 15:57
elfyput my thoughts down and let you all mull it over15:57
holsteinelfy: i like it.. its a great idea to thin that out, for sure15:57
holsteinelfy: you'll send to studio devel?15:58
elfyI'm talking to balloons later re this hackfest coming up - I'll try and have a chat with him about studio too 15:58
elfyholstein: yep15:58
holsteinoccasionally i try and get "Fact time" with jono RE: studio15:59
holsteini would like for him to just do *anything* with the technology related to his music.. and post about it15:59
elfyit could be if we make then a kind of meta-testcase we could have a tracker set up for studio in a month or so 15:59
elfywhich would be good for all concerned16:00
holsteinelfy: agreed.. simpler, and cleaner16:00
elfyhard to pin jono down with anything other than 6"nails and a big hammer at the moment I'd guess :p16:00
holsteini would love to have a larger overall "goals" kind of talk about studio16:01
holsteinsee if we can get a clear idea, that is attainable for the next LTS16:01
holsteinfor now til the next LTS..16:01
elfyI'd try and make myself available for something like that from *my* pov16:01
holsteinsee if we cant get some interest going, and momentum, or, quite frankly, just let it go16:01
elfyas I said - I'm happy to hang about and do what I can16:02
holsteini dont think its constructive to just have it flailing along and half meeting needs..16:02
elfypossibly not - but I don't actually use studio so can't comment on that16:02
holsteini also dont think it would be out of the scope of the current team size to *really* have a nice product16:02
holsteinthe current is quite nice..16:02
elfyI used to play about with a few software synths a few years back - but that's all gone now16:03
elfywell edubuntu ONLY do LTS - so it's not new16:03
elfypretty sure myth do similar16:03
elfymore emphasis on SRU's and backporting perhaps - I don't know for sure16:04
elfymaybe that would work for studio - I don't know 16:05
holsteinelfy: i would be interested in entertaining that..16:05
holsteinelfy: the older team lead came in and had, actualy, a great suggestion about not having an official iso release. but, just maintaining the meta packages16:06
elfysometimes it takes someone outside looking in to point out the obvious - though having not been about I don't know if you've discussed that beforehand 16:06
holsteinproblem for me was, that was like 2 weeks before 12.04 was to release.. and we had been hustling to get it out, so i was against canning all that work at that time.. then, he went MIA again16:06
elfymmm16:07
elfytrouble with doing it in spare time I guess16:07
holsteinthere is also talk of having more of a generic installer that integrates with any desktop, which i actually think is a great idea as well, but maybe too ambitious for us16:07
elfytbh from where I stand 16:07
elfyI see you, cub, OvenWerks and zequence talking - no-one else 16:08
holsteinand who is really using studio? who is the target audience? do they need ultimate choice like that? or whatever..16:08
holsteinelfy: its a small team..16:08
elfyif that is the case then perhaps not doing a 6 month release would do everyone a world of good16:08
holsteinim not a code contributor, so i get in over my head quickly..16:08
elfyholstein: I am exactly the same :)16:08
elfyall voodoo to me ... 16:09
holsteini cant do any of the hands on heavy lifting..16:09
elfyyep - understoof16:09
elfyd16:09
elfythat's why I do what I do for xubuntu - I want to help - and this way I can :)16:09
holsteinelfy: :)16:10
elfywhich is why I offered my help to you :)16:10
holsteinand, i feel like us sticking with a solid xfce release allows for the team to be helped more16:10
holsteinit doesnt hurt the xubuntu team...16:10
elfyI'll have a chat later with balloons  re testcases then I'll make some suggestions on the list 16:11
holsteinyup.. and i like just getting some text in the channel here about the future..16:11
elfyyea - having an extra team using xfce helps us too 16:11
holsteinmomentum!16:11
elfyyea - always good that :)16:11
elfyor mostly :p16:11
xequenceelfy: We are short of people for sure. I will take some time to write one or two, and that way get a feeling for what is required. In the end, I believe only a few things are really critical to test.17:37
xequence..so, we should be alright. If we can get more people involved the next couple of years, that would be good too.17:37
xequenceI think it'll be easier for me to fish for people, when I'm more clear on exactly what we need to have done.17:38
holsteinxequence: do you agree that there is no need to have those test cases up at iso testing?17:38
holsteincan we do more of a simple iso test that would mirror xubuntu?17:39
xequenceholstein: We only need to do the application testing once, after Debian freeze17:39
xequence..at any time, more or less17:39
xequenceor, when anything was updated for those applications. A dependency..17:40
holsteinsure, but do you agree that application testing can be done elsewhere? other than iso testing?17:40
xequenceYes17:40
holsteincool.. i think that was the idea.. just thinning out the iso tests..17:41
xequenceAs quickly we can, after Beta 1 release (Debian import freeze), so we have time to do something about bugs before Beta 217:41
cubHi ttoine, I made the same footer for the web site as on the spreashirt site. It's not live on the site yet though21:43
cubmockup site at http://bandforum.info/ubuntustudio/21:45

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