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[Chris Wilson <notgary@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Just realised that I didn't make any suggestions about what we're going to
work on in the coming cycle, so here are a few, but feel free to suggest
your own.

   - Rhythmbox, Nautilus, Shotwell, Firefox and Unity are all core to the
   user experience on the desktop to I think they should get a generous amount
   of attention. As we're working on them, we should make sure we're updating
   the Dojo with information on how to work with them, particularly around
   building them.
   - Once I figure out what I'm doing with the build systems, I might host
   a few developer hangouts where I'll show people how to do it themselves.
   - We should organise days throughout the development cycle where we sit
   down with a particular app and test it for new paper cuts, similar to the
   hug days the bug squad does. This can actually be done on their hug days,
   so we can work with the members of their team. We should decide in advance
   when we want to run these days, instead of deciding it throughout the cycle.

Those are just a few things I've been thinking about recently. Feel free to
suggest your own, and to disagree with mine.

Chris


On 9 May 2013 12:06, Chris Wilson <notgary@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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
>