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Re: Community team weeks 49+50 update

 

Stop the presses! As an addendum, this stuff also happened and is noteworthy :-)

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   Quality

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       Next version of Pilot testing will be highlighting new bluetooth
       stack. Will be ready in time for OTA-9.

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   Core Apps

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       Music - work started on streaming support at the platform level
       - precursor to adding various streaming services to Music app

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       Weather - meeting with new owners of Weather.com (one of our
       data providers) to hand over documentation and API keys for
       migration to new platform in place since IBM purchase

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       Docviewer - a few minor fixes landing shortly, and some planning
       for the next release, and an early play with new features in
       LibreOffice 5.1

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   General community

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       Google Code In

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           Great opening week

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           More than 200 active students working on tasks for the
           ubuntu community

         + Over 100 tasks already completed



On 12/11/2015 12:18 PM, David Planella wrote:
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.






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