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[Chris Wilson <notgary@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Ninjas,

In the meeting we had last week, we decided it would be a good idea to move
our focus away from a handful of individual apps and onto the UI
foundation technologies found in Ubuntu. This came up after a number of our
Rhythmbox and Nautilus paper cuts turned out to be GTK+ bugs, so we decided
that GTK and Compiz would be our primary target for this (and potentially
all future) development cycles.

*So I'm proposing the following*
1) We allocate half a development cycle to GTK+, that is 50 paper cuts.
2) We allocate a quarter of a development cycle to Compiz, that is 25 paper
cuts.
3) We allocate the remaining quarter of the cycle to the biggest, juiciest
paper cuts we can find in Ubuntu's frontline apps.
4) I've also kept around the Rhythmbox and Nautilus milestones, since we
had already started work on them.

I'd like to blog about this change in a couple of days, and before that I'd
like to got some feedback from you lot. How does the new layout look?

*What now*
I've targeted a lot of bugs while reorganising the milestones, mostly to
Nautilus, and it's probably that a lot of them are actually GTK+ bugs. We
should take a look at the currently targeted ones and make sure they're
where they're supposed to be.

As for the Compiz paper cuts, MRC1, if that is your real name, you
mentioned the existence of a lot of simple Compiz paper cuts. Can you
please target as many of these bugs that are also manifesting as paper cuts
in Unity to the Compiz milestone?

Also, could our GTK+ ninjas please fill up the GTK+ milestone with as many
paper cuts as possible? We've only got a few and I'm sure there's tons of
them out there.

So, thoughts anyone?

Chris