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[Chris Wilson <notgary@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey all,

13.04 has just wrapped up and it's time to start thinking about what we're
going to do in the next cycle. I don't think anyone would dispute the fact
that we never came close to fixing 100 bugs over the over six months, and I
think we should take some time to figure out why that happened, and what we
could do better in this cycle.

If anyone has anything they'd like to say about how we've been working,
then please come out and say it, no matter how critical it is. The only way
we're going to get better at this is by facing up to the truth, no matter
how hard it is.

A few points I'd like to make:

   -  I dropped off the radar for the past few months as real life has
   gotten in the way. I fucked that one up and I'll look at managing my time
   better. One thing I'm thinking of doing is setting aside one evening each
   week for Ubuntu stuff, so no matter what else happens, I've always got the
   slot of time to give to the project.
   - We didn't target all 100 bugs at the very start, which made it harder
   for people to know what there was to do.
   - I went a little mad shortly after the start of the 13.04 cycle, and
   changed up a bunch of the milestones around the second month. That won't be
   happening again because we're going to talk together about what we want to
   do for the coming cycle and stick with it. I hope that by the end of next
   week (Sunday 19th) we can have our milestones and bug targets sorted out.
   - It's been mentioned before that it's not clear from our wiki pages how
   a new user should get involved with the project. I agree with that and we
   should have a look at our 'getting started' documentation to figure out how
   we can improve it.

Those are my thoughts on what happened last cycle and what we can improve
next cycle. what do other people have to say?

Chris