gmane.linux.ubuntu.devel.xubuntu

Re: Xubuntu community meetings

Pasi Lallinaho — 2012-05-25T10:30:33

Those who still haven't voted for the best times, please do it when you can.

Thanks,
Pasi

Blueprints approved - finish specifications and add work items

Pasi Lallinaho — 2012-05-25T10:00:27

The blueprints have now been voted on (all blueprints with assignee were
approved) and they have been added to Launchpad.

Now please finish the specifications and add work items to the
blueprints - if you don't do this, the work items status [1] will show a
misplaced baseline.

Cheers,
Pasi

[1] http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-quantal/

Everybody is welcome to submit ideas to the roadmap brainstorm untilthe end of week 19

publius — 2012-05-20T15:26:30

Make it looking good from the beginning!!! Why not?!


http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/xubuntu-pangolin.html

Re: Hosting an Xubuntu Mirror at the OSU Open Source Lab

Elizabeth Krumbach — 2012-05-21T16:45:42

And I just noticed that if you're using the ubumirror[0] scripts,
there is build in cdimage support.

https://code.launchpad.net/~ubumirror-devs/ubumirror/trunk

Re: Hosting an Xubuntu Mirror at the OSU Open Source Lab

Elizabeth Krumbach — 2012-05-21T16:40:48

Thanks so much for this offer! Sorry it's taken a couple weeks to get
back to you, first people were busy with UDS, then it took me a few
days to track down the answer.

Do you have access to the current scripts doing the sync for the
Ubuntu mirrors? The script you'll want to use to sync Xubuntu will be
similar but instead of pulling from releases.ubuntu.com you'll want to
pull from the cdimages.ubuntu.com address (probably
http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/ to just mirror xubuntu
and not the other flavors).

First post

Santiago Roland — 2012-05-19T01:18:09

Hi people and beloved developers of my unique and glorious operating
system. My name is Santiago Roland. I'm from Uruguay, South America and
I've been an Ubuntu/Xubuntu user since 2006. I also participate in many
Ubuntu LoCo activities in my local group and also do a lot of bug
reporting. I'm not a programmer or developer. I'm just an astronomer
finishing my grade studies and work at the Los Molinos Astronomical
Observatory here in Uruguay in which use Ubuntu as our main image
processing platform. I do a little programming maybe in python and
mostly science-oriented languages. I would be glad to here what you are
up to in this mailing list and maybe suggest things for improving XFCE
desktop and Xubuntu distro.

I kind test things with myself and my wife that knows absolutely nothing
about computers and just wants the PC to work and be easy to use. This
perspective is different from maybe a skilled programmer or user. I also
teach basic computer course in a NGO, to old people in the 50-70 age
range and we use Ubuntu Linux for this. So i get a lot of feedback from
very inexperienced users that developers maybe want to hear about.

I just and this mail by congratulate you for the great job you all do.

Best regards,

Xubuntu community meetings

Pasi Lallinaho — 2012-05-17T19:17:47

Hello people,

I've set up a Doodle poll [1] to find the best meeting times for the
Quantal cycle.

A few things to note before you go adding your info:
 * All times are in UTC
 * Xubuntu team members, please add your nick or name along with your
submission, because you being able to attend is most important
 * Please add any time slots that *usually* work for you (Doodle only
allows specific dates to be set, but we'll be using the same times for
the whole cycle)
 * Doodle starts the week with Sunday, so be careful with your submission!

And finally,
 * All times are in UTC

Cheers and GO!
Pasi

[1] http://www.doodle.com/6gifbcka8fzvrzz9

Brainstorming has ended, assignee anyone?

Pasi Lallinaho — 2012-05-14T10:12:09

Hello people.

The brainstorming for the Roadmap has ended.

By definiton, the team will need to approve, decline or postpone the
blueprints during this week. Schedule-wise it looks like it's going to
be the beginning of next week though.

Now we need assignees for the blueprints – both for the features and for
the default application changes.

Those people who sent emails to the list saying they could do a bit of
this and that – now is the perfect time to step in! Just edit the
"Assignee"-column on any of the items [1] in the Roadmap page [2]. Those
who are just lurking on the list, this is your time too to step up.
Remember that items with no assignee will most probably not be
implemented to the next release.

I'll get back to you all later this week.

Cheers,
Pasi

[1] Feature-blueprints have usually only one assignee, default
application blueprints can have several assignees
[2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Goals/Quantal

An explanation for a misunderstanding

Pasi Lallinaho — 2012-05-13T19:44:45

Since there seems to be passionate about "Charlie being locked out of
xubuntu-users" [1], let me try to correct the misunderstanding.

Nobody's been locked out of anything intentionally. Nobody wants to stop
other people accessing anything, especially if they are accessing
because they want to contribute to the project.

The reason why Charlie was seemingly locked out from the moderator panel
is that I had changed some settings for the list – most importantly,
updated the admin password, and while I was at that, moved people
(including Charlie) from the admin group to the moderators team (they
shouldn't get as much unnecessary post now, for starters).

I have now updated the moderator password too and sent email to Charlie
to both correct the misunderstanding and access the technical issue
behind it.

What comes to me "taking over" mentioned in Charlie's post [1], this is
something what I'm expected to do by the community, to make sure we can
keep up with the quality standards set by the previous project leaders,
if not improve them. Again, I'm not trying to stop anyone from
contributing, I'm just doing a regular maintenancy check for any tools
we are using.

While all of the things mentioned above might seem something they are
not, for example seemingly locking somebody out of somewhere, none of
these issues are intentional or hoped. In the future, I hope members of
the community would check any issues with me or any other concerning
members before throwing accusations out in the public.

I'm sorry that this misunderstanding has grown into absurd proportions.
I'm also sorry for any inconvenience it might have caused.

If you think there is still something wrong, please email this mailing
list or me personally, and I'll take actions where appropriate. If you
know there is any place where people still live in the misunderstanding,
please feel free to link to this email (in the xubuntu-devel archive,
for example).

Cheers,
Pasi

[1] https://plus.google.com/101985057333807748578/posts/W9xa3h9nMh8

Re: xubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 80, Issue 1

Elliot Gorokhovsky — 2012-05-09T01:21:29

I'm also new here, I'm a bit of a beginner too. I could do web development
stuff, and a bit of anything else really.

On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 1:02 AM, Pasi Lallinaho <pasi< at >shimmerproject.org>wrote:

Re: xubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 80, Issue 1

Pasi Lallinaho — 2012-05-08T06:02:09

Hey Michael,

I'm sure there will ve some "low-hanging fruit" in the Quantal (12.10)
cycle as well as some bigger tasks if you are up for them.

I'm not a very technical developer myself, but stick around on this
mailing list and join us at #xubuntu-devel and look around to see how
the community works. Once we start working for real (maybe in a week or
two), it's easier for the developers to ask for help too.

Anyway, thanks for the interest, and see you around!

Cheers,
Pasi

Re: xubuntu-devel Digest, Vol 80, Issue 1

mike — 2012-05-07T21:49:28



Hello I'm michael I know I'm knew on here. I hear of the brainstorming 
and initial work for 12.10
Now what I was is since I'm a beginner developper, is there any work to 
be done in c suitable for someone relatively new

Hosting an Xubuntu Mirror at the OSU Open Source Lab

Trevor Bramwell — 2012-05-07T16:24:00

The Oregon State University Open Source Lab is interested in hosting an
Xubuntu mirror. We currently already host a mirror for Ubuntu.

Could you please provide us with information on becoming an official
Xubuntu mirror? We would love to support the great work you all are
doing! Thank you!

Brainstorming the 12.10 release

Pasi Lallinaho — 2012-05-06T23:41:09

The brainstorming phase for the 12.10 roadmap has begun!

To learn more, navigate to
http://xubuntu.org/news/brainstorming-the-12-10-release/

Cheers,
Pasi Lallinaho
Xubuntu Project Lead

Re: website team - Xubuntu in the press

Elizabeth Krumbach — 2012-05-05T03:32:51

Thanks! This one looks very similar to (based upon?) the article here
on our Oneiric press page:

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/news/smooth-switch-open-source-mental-health-care-provider-rotterdam

So I'm not sure yet that we want to repeat it.


Great! Added both links to http://xubuntu.org/press/precise/


Always nice to hear! Thanks for sharing. :)

Re: Fwd: Ristretto 0.3.x for Xubuntu 11.10

Micah Gersten — 2012-05-04T20:00:14

This is a good candidate for backports.  I can't speak to the
buildability as I haven't tried it.  Please file a backport request
against the oneiric-backports project.  There is a requestbackport tool
in precise and later in ubuntu-dev-tools to assist with this.  You can
see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports for more information
regarding the backport process.  I'm happy to throw up a build for you
to test after the initial request is filed.

Thanks,
Micah

Fwd: Ristretto 0.3.x for Xubuntu 11.10

Pasi Lallinaho — 2012-05-04T19:33:16

Forwarding to xubuntu-devel

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Ristretto 0.3.x for Xubuntu 11.10
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 17:52:24 -0000
From: Micha? Olber <michal.olber< at >osworld.pl>
Reply-To: Micha? Olber <michal.olber< at >osworld.pl>
To: Pasi Lallinaho <pasi< at >shimmerproject.org>

Hello
Is there possible to be available packeges of ristretto 0.3.x and
eventually 0.6.x for Xubuntu 11.10. I compiled it sometimes but it
needed too much unnecessary packages.

Cheers

website team - Xubuntu in the press

Pjotr Kan — 2012-05-03T21:30:55

Hello,

I saw this news item:
http://www.nomachine.com/news-read.php?idnews=363

Key quote:
"They are now able to access an easy-to-use Xubuntu desktop and all
their critical business programs, including email and an open-source
equivalent to Microsoft Office."

Plus my own websites:

English:
http://sites.google.com/site/easylinuxtipsproject/xubuntu

Dutch:
http://sites.google.com/site/computertip/xubuntu

On the official Dutch Ubuntu forum, Xubuntu 12.04 is a hit: many
people are trying it and liking it:
http://forum.ubuntu-nl.org/

Regards, Pjotr.

Re: Excessive swapping with 1GB of memory - UBUNTU 12.04 daily build

Gustavo R Leal — 2012-04-25T21:06:04




You're right. I was playing with vfs_cache_pressure too and forgot to return it to default value of 100. That's what probably did the trick.
Anyway changing vfs_cache_pressure to 700 made 12.04 stop trashing with just a few large applications open (Ubuntu Software Center apears to be very resource intensive).

Re: AMD 64

Pasi Lallinaho — 2012-04-25T09:31:35

Hey Scott,

that's good to hear. However, with the milestone releases (alphas,
betas, RC), we need *actual* tests that are done according to the
testcases and reported to the ISO testing tracker [1].

The tests for 64-bit are done now too, but in the future, if you think
you can help, check that page out as well as the great article on
testing in our blog [2].

Thanks,
Pasi

[1] http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/
[2] http://xubuntu.org/news/help-test-xubuntu/

AMD 64

Scott Moore — 2012-04-25T03:02:18

Been using beta 2 for a week or so now with AMD 64. Works great, no problems yet. In fact, for a dual-monitor setup, the pre-installed open-source video driver works better than the proprietary AMD driver (using ATI 4350).

- Scott Moore
n0xmz.com