Ubuntu Unity Experience Project Wiki

[dale-f-beaudoin]

Our community logo (not yet decided)

• Introduction

  The Ubuntu Unity Experience Project is a team of people from both Canonical and the Ubuntu Community at large who will work together and co-ordinate an effort to maintain the Ubuntu Unity Experience namely the Unity7 DE along with a concurrent effort for unity to achieve official flavor status of the Ubuntus.

• How to Help
  If you want to volunteer time in any of the categories just send a msg to @dale-f-beaudoin and I’ll insert your name/handle it the proper section.

• Current Project Lead
  Khurshid-Alam
  Dale Beaudoin

• Current Guidance Leads
  Will Cooke
  Martin Wimpress
  FossFreedom
  …others to be inserted

• MOTU

• Compiz Consultant
  @smspillaz

• Committed C++ Programmers
  Hannibal Lecter
  michel-renon

• Current Development and Consultant Leads
  Omer Akram
  Simon Quigley
  …others to be announced…

• Wiki Moderation
  Ian Weisser

• Troubleshooting and Bugs
  Chanath
  Emanuele Antonio Farone

• Community Hub Consultant
  Alan Pope

• Current Active Members
  The list of members who are currently active in all aspects of this project can be found in the members list at this launchpad link

• List of Unity Components

  Here is the list of current packages that the team is responsible for.
  1.ubuntu-unity-desktop
  2.unity-settings

• Current Unity Merge Requests

  Unity-Greeter Version Changemerged

  Unity Control Center Version Changemerged

• U+1 Testers Wiki
  test

• nomenclature-link-test

• U+1 Blog My U+1 Captains Blog

  How to Edit Wiki

• ToDo List

  Pending

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A Test

[jerky-foobar]

It’d be nice to have some:

• tutorial on how to build and test Unity (there is a wiki page, I am not sure);
• an overview of the code (e.g. where is the code responsible for panel/dash/…?; what the hell is nux? etc).

[khurshid-alam]

tutorial on how to build and test Unity (there is a wiki page, I am not sure);
an overview of the code (e.g. where is the code responsible for panel/dash/…?; what the hell is nux? etc).

These can’t be here. May be link to somewhere else.

[dale-f-beaudoin]

Here is one place to start: Testers Wiki

and another: My Sticky

I’ll put something up in the iso testing section but not here.

Thanks.

[michel-renon]

Hi,

I just joined the Unity team in launchpad, waiting for approval.

Please let me introduce myself:
I’m 48 yo, I’ve been doing some C++ software between 1992-2000. Then I used some web technologies (html, php, js…). Then Python with OpenERP/Odoo until today.
In 2013-14, I participated in Ubuntu Touch in the Community Design Team, invited by Alan Pope, and I made some suggestions for Calendar app.

I’m interested by this project because some customers will be disturbed by the switch to gnome shell. And I feel that the general design of Unity7/8 is a good balance between power and simplicity.

I can participate from 1h to 4 h per week. In the beginning, I can do some tests. Then I hope I’ll be able to do some code.

Cheers,
Michel

[dale-f-beaudoin]

Hi Michel,

I’m interested by this project because some customers will be disturbed by the switch to gnome shell. And I feel that the general design of Unity7/8 is a good balance between power and simplicity.

We have had some general discussion about this very thing and would like to have something prepared for that transition. I have inserted your name in the wiki . Please , take your time. Good to have you on board.

Regards…

[khurshid-alam]

I would like to move the wiki to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuUnityExperience (Not Complete yet) for better discoverability. We would also need a place to track all bug fixed by us and bugs and issues to be fixed in this cycle. For that we could

1. use above mentioned wiki
2. Or we could use trello board like ubuntu does.

Thoughts?

[dale-f-beaudoin]

@khurshid-alam

It’s fine by me. I thought we were to use community hub because it is more secure.? The wiki you have created looks very professional and is the traditional way most devs and contributors use. +1

2. Trello has become more mainstream so there is a lot of exposure there.

Regards…

[khurshid-alam]

The main reason I want to create moinmoin wiki because of style capability and it can expand to sub pages so a single page doesn’t become too long. It is perfect for listing all unity components along with all current maintainers (that’s what they asked in the previous technical board meeting). Though for bugs and issues trello is more suitable as the no of bugs and issues will keep increasing.

[dale-f-beaudoin]

I agree . You have my support. I think we can maintain both existing pages without too much resource.

Regards…

[gunnarhj]

I would like to move the wiki to https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuUnityExperience (Not Complete yet) for better discoverability. We would also need a place to track all bug fixed by us and bugs and issues to be fixed in this cycle.

If you choose to keep it as a wiki, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuUnityExperience would probably be a more proper location. https://help.ubuntu.com is intended for user documentation and tutorials.

[khurshid-alam]

If you choose to keep it as a wiki, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuUnityExperience would probably be a more proper location. https://help.ubuntu.com is intended for user documentation and tutorials.

Right. I am moving it to wiki.ubuntu.com. Thanks.

[khurshid-alam]

@gunnarhj

Is there any difference between wiki.ubuntu.com and help.ubuntu.com? They appear different for the exactly same code.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuUnityExperience

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuUnityExperience

[gunnarhj]

They are two separate instances of MoinMoin with slightly different configuration. But AFAIK the differences are small.

[dale-f-beaudoin]

@smspillaz

Welcome @smspillaz compiz p/t consultant.

[gamunu]

I’m really excited about this Unity projects.
I have created unity-desktop .org in my spare time (this is just a template). My idea to have it as the central location to get Unity DE images, documentation etc as in mate-desktop .org. I would like to get the community feedback on this since I did it without Canonical and Community approval.
And if the community is interested in this, I can add members to GitHub organization (admins etc.). https://github.com/unity-desktop/ cc: @dale-f-beaudoin

[ads20000]

Sounds good, obviously it needs work from the template (removing various bits of Ubuntu branding and links to legacy stuff (e.g. the ‘improve this site’ link at the bottom)) but a website for Unity is a great idea A separate website for the Ubuntu Unity flavor (not yet official, but the ISOs, at least) would be good too.

[chanath]

@gamunu
This is something, I was looking for for a long time, a separate website related to Unity DE and isos to be downloaded through such a website. There are lot of people, who would like Unity to stay alive. Good luck!