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[David Planella <david.planella@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

Here are some highlights of what the Ubuntu Community Team at Canonical
together with some other community members have been working on in the last
two weeks:

As a bonus, as I got reminded the previous update wasn't send, you get the
full month update ;)

## Week 49+50

Snappy
- Review of Snappy App Developer Manual, put together a plan to integrate
it into official docs, discussed it with the team. Started work on
integrating the docs into snappy and snapcraft upstream and into the
developer site.
- Finalised Snappy+Snapcraft training materials. Being reviewed now. Q&A
with the team happening on 21st Dec.
- Snappy Clinic about snapcraft releases 0.5 and 0.6.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSshkKswQLg
- Fixed a number of issues in click-reviewers-tools.

General community
- UbuCon Summit preparations:
  - Preliminary schedule
http://ubucon.org/en/events/ubucon-summit-us/schedule
  - Registrations are open
http://ubucon.org/events/ubucon-summit-us/register
  - Speakers http://ubucon.org/en/events/ubucon-summit-us/speakers
  - Promotion plan

Developer Site
- Deployment to staging and testing of and improvements for the Django and
Django CMS update of the site.
- Work on various fixes for the site.
- Rework of the markdown importer for snappy documentation is almost
complete.

## Week 47+48

General Community
- Recruited mentors for Google CodeIn (more needed)
- Crowd-sourced some additional tasks for CodeIn (more needed)
- Organise contact for UnixStickers to enable them to sell Ubuntu branded
stickers
- Scopes Showdown preparation
- Community Council election.
- David Callé attended Ubucon Paris as staff

Developer site
- Landed new oem snaps plugins
- Working on Django upgrade, now deployed on staging and working. Needs a
database import and further testing now.
- New version of the thumbnailer tutorial (QML)
- Work on breaking up, improving and generalising the markdown importer.
- Work with Django CMS upstream on fixing the importer issues.

Core Apps
- Pushed new Music app with UI Toolkit 1.3 support to QA for testing which
was approved and uploaded to the store
- Identified bug in Toolkit affecting headerless apps (Clock / Calculator /
Weather), worked around for now, but needs fixing properly in the toolkit.
- Further testing UI Toolkit 1.3 and many other updates to the DocViewer.
Almost ready for release. Targetting middle of Week 49 for store upload.
- Resolved issues with Jenkins being incorrectly configured for autolanding
for some core apps
- Resolve a few minor bugs in Notes, identified by QA team
- Minor clock update submitted to QA which changes alarm preview audio
playback to line up with coming Qt 5.5 platform update
- Updated Calendar in the store which improves performance and adds
optional week view

Snappy
- Creation of Training materials for Snappy + Snapcraft.
- Planning of next Snappy Clinic.
- Various docs fixes.
- Review of App Developer Manual, planning of reintegrating it into the
official docs, work is underway.

Cheers,
David.