The FOSSCamp and UDS week has been nice and a good occasion to talk to upstream and people from other distributions. We had desktop discussions about the new technologies landing in GNOME this cycle (the next Ubuntu will be a LTS so we need a balance between new features and stability), the desktop changes we want to do, and how Ubuntu contributes to GNOME.
Some random notes about the Ubuntu upstream contributions:
- Vincent asked again for an easy way to browse the Ubuntu patches and Scott picked up the task, the result is available there
- The new Canonical Desktop Team will focus on making the user experience better, most of the changes will likely be upstream material and discussed there, etc
- Canonical has open Ubuntu Desktop Infrastructure Developer and Ubuntu Conceptual Interface Designer positions, if you want to do desktop work for a cool open source company you might be interested by those 😉
GNOME updates in gutsy and hardy
- Selected GNOME 2.20.1 changes have been uploaded to gutsy-updates
- The GNOME 2.21.2 packaging has started in hardy, some updates and lot of Debian merges are still on the TODO though
- We have decided to use tags in patches to indicate the corresponding Ubuntu and upstream bugs so it’s easier to get the context of the change, technical details still need to be discussed though
Update: Scott pointed that you can use http://patches.ubuntu.com/n/nautilus/extracted to access to the current nautilus version