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[Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:41:13 +0200
Julien Lavergne <gilir@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> With the release of the beta 1, and with the update made by PCMan for
> LXDE development, time to do the same for Lubuntu : 
> 
> 
> == Lubuntu not officialy a flavor of Ubuntu ==
> I have been quiet about the status of Lubuntu inside Ubuntu family, it's
> just because I have no news myself. With the beta release of Ubuntu,
> there are now few chances to have Lubuntu in the Ubuntu family for this
> cycle.
> This is not blocking the development, we will continue to improve
> Lubuntu as usual.
> And for the reasons, there is still a resource problem on Canonical /
> Ubuntu infrastructure, which was not resolved during this cycle. Also,
> they are writing a real process to integrate new member in the Ubuntu
> family, but it's still not finished.
> 
This was always going to be a slow process and we’ll just have to be patient.

> 
> == Development health ==
> Like LXDE, we're lacking people to code, make patches etc ... Otherwise,
> we have now a good documentation team and Rafael which do a great job
> with the artwork. The packaging is quite up-to-date, but we still need
> to improve the triage of bug reports. And, we always need more
> testers/bug reporters :) If you want to begin with Ubuntu/Lubuntu
> development, it's a good starting point. I also can make a
> meeting/classroom about this if several people are interesting.
> 
Good idea! Ufortunatly I wasn’t able to organise something for the Bug Jam do to family comittments but, it would be useful.

> 
> == Bug reports ==
> I'm slowly begin to deal with bug reports correctly, adding scripts
> (apport hooks) in all LXDE packages to be able to gathered more
> information from bug reporter. If you want to report bugs, please be
> sure to use ubuntu-bug to do this.
> 
> Also, I spend some time to work on 2 annoying bugs :
> -  Menu not correctly translated (see
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/menu-cache/+bug/551281)
> You should have notice that some items from the menu is not correctly
> translated. It's because menu-cache doesn't read correctly the
> translation of the desktop files of Ubuntu which are store
> in /usr/share/locale-langpack.
> 
> - Right click bug for pcmanfm
> Unfortunately, this bug is still here, so if you have this problem,
> please downgrade libfm0 and libfm-gtk0 to 0.1.12 version. There si still
> a strange and random behavior that I can't identify.
> See the detail on
> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=801864&aid=3050478&group_id=156956
> 
> Any help on them will be appreciated :) I'm still not sure if it's a
> LXDE problem on a Ubuntu + LXDE problem.
> 
Hopefully with work and family now sorted I can be of assistance.> 
> == Regular Meeting ==
> I think it could be nice to have regular IRC meetings to discuss various
> topics about Lubuntu and its development. I would like to plan them, and
> I think 1 meeting every 2 weeks will be good, but we need to find the
> "when". For people which would be interesting, what do you think about
> this ? Which day/hour (UTC) will be good for you ?
> 
20:00 UTC is generally a good time for me but, I’m flexible.

> That's all for me, if you want discuss another topic, feel free to
> answer this mail :)
> 
> Regards,
> Julien Lavergne
> 



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