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[Alex Lourie <djay.il@xxxxxxxxx>]

Add me there now!


On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Craig <weberc2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> " So I'd probably start off by getting rid of all the technical debt we
> might have accumulated in the race to release and getting some tools to
> manage the increased complexity we're facing, e.g. unifying the way CMake
> works, providing better code documentation, adding some automated testing,
> etc."
>
> I'm so proud I could cry. *tear*. I support this message.
> On Aug 25, 2013 6:49 AM, "Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff" <
> sergey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Yay, bike shedding! Wait for me!
>>
>> AFAIR the original plan was to use gods from the same pantheon for any
>> given series, Roman for the 0.x series specifically, hence the name of the
>> DE - Pantheon. So I looked for suitable Roman deities and I think I've
>> found a great one.
>>
>> Continuing the trend, she's a Roman deity and has a celestial body in the
>> Solar system named after her. What's more, according to a myth that was
>> very widespread in late antiquity, she eventually moved to Egypt and became
>> Isis!
>>
>> Behold Io! The Roman Isis that comes with a celestial body and a domain
>> name hack!
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_%28mythology%29
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Io_%28moon%29
>>
>> By the way, turns out http://elementary.io is already registered by
>> Cassidy and currently redirects to elementaryos.org, so I feel like this
>> was the plan all along.
>>
>> As for development, we have ~8 months till release, so this is going to
>> be an iterative cycle. We're obviously not going for Wayland or Mir or
>> anything equally new and fancy because that technology is not yet baked and
>> will not be on par with the time-proven base by 14.04. It does look like
>> we'll have another huge migration on our hands after that, though.
>>
>> So I'd probably start off by getting rid of all the technical debt we
>> might have accumulated in the race to release and getting some tools to
>> manage the increased complexity we're facing, e.g. unifying the way CMake
>> works, providing better code documentation, adding some automated testing,
>> etc.
>>
>> Next, since we're making an iterative cycle, I'd stop acting and start
>> reacting. Like, make a list of things that people have trouble with in Luna
>> and fix them. I have compiled an [incomplete] list of gripes people seem to
>> have with Luna. Maybe we should run some user testing and see what causes
>> issues?
>>
>> We can't afford organized user testing, but we could reach out to the
>> community - say, provide people with testing methodology and ask people who
>> spread elementary OS to carry out the testing and send in the results. Like
>> run a user testing sprint to identify the issues the target audience has,
>> and fix them. Sounds like a plan!
>>
>> Long live Io!
>>
>> --
>> Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff
>> OS architect @ elementary
>>
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Alex Lourie