Rick Spencer: 1 Week In

Back from UDS for a week now. Here's a progress update on some of the happenings in Ubuntu that I am tracking. There are, of course, myriad other aspects to the product that I care about, but that I am not following closely. You may notice a strong correspondence between these areas and The 5 Foci.

Of course I am doing almost none of this work personally. When it makes sense I'll credit the specific people and/or teams. Questions and comments welcome, of course. I have no idea if this kind of thing is useful to folks. But I wonder if I can keep up a weekly cadence of updates.

Unity
This week

• Dx team is working to get the Compiz based experience ready for testing
• Nothing new uploaded this week, so no update to the spider diagram :(
  

Next Week

• I hope to start testing new compiz-based experience and update the spider diagram

Testing
This Week

• ara has confirmed that mago will work with apps under unity so it's possible to start writing integration tests
• Unity integration testing is blocked this week on looking into the global menu because of a bug in the dumper tool, but it should be unblocked next week
  
• Server team outlined steps for packaging Hudson

Next Week

• Switch Unity Integration testing on Natty
• Start teseting the global menu on Unity (this is important because there are lots of bugs their in Maverick)
• Get more tests in place and running daily
• Progress on packaging and deploying Hudson

Contributors
This Week

• Created documentation for Path Pilots (a tweak to our system for responding to contributors)
• Straw man schedule for Ubuntu Engineering Engineers set up (these are engineers paid by Canonical to work on Ubuntu)

Next Week

• Share Patch Piloting schedule with Ubuntu Engineering Engineers, let them change it around to suit self
• Ensure documentation works for Patch Pilots
• Pick a date to start with the tweaked system

Software Center
This Week

• I followed up on UDS session regarding using /opt for installing new apps on a stable release, and drafted a proposal to the App Review Board that they ask the Tech Board to remove the /opt requirement for Maverick, since there are so few apps we can really review them carefully, and the technology is not there to support /opt properly in Maverick
• didrocks broke out work items to ensure that Python build system and Quickly will support installing to /opt in the future

Next Week

• Perhaps see some progress by didrocks on making the Python build system work with /opt
• First meeting regarding Donations with IS, I requested that the notes from the call be posted to a mailing list or such

Misc
This Week

• I confirmed with cjwatson that we can make good progress on "Text Free Boot" in Natty. It won't surprise anyone to know that I had trouble grocking the blueprint :)
• Open stack is all packaged up and ready for better integration with Ubuntu Server
• Set schedule to get to Feature Definition Freeze with the Ubuntu Engineering Managers (All Blueprints Accepted by 11/11, All Work Items Identified by 11/18)

Next Week

• Perhaps create a system for getting feedback on which platforms can boot Text Fee so we can start to assemble the white or blacklist
• Some server team members to attend Open Stack Design Summit next week
• pitti to reset work item tracker to start burndowns for teams that are ready