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Present

• Scott James Remnant (Keybuk) - chair
• Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
• Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)
• Martin Pitt (pitti)
• Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
• Michael Vogt (mvo)

• Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

• Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
• Ted Gould (tedg)
• Pedro Villavicencio Garrido (pedro_)

Agenda

• Review activity reports
• Any other business

Other Business

seb128 raised a concern that Hardy feels slow to boot, login and run - we should investigate this and compare bootcharts and experiences on ubuntu-devel.

Activity reports

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

done:

• Package Qt 3.4.3
• FOSDEM trip, held successful packaging jam
• Spent most of the week working on the Kubuntu-KDE4 CD and did an alpha release on Wednesday
• a couple hours of archive admin

todo:

• bug fixing!

No milestoned bugs

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

• touched up two gtkrc files and put them in the human theme package (thanks mvo!). We are now using a theme based on the murrine engine - please test it out and let me know what you think.

• package training and bizdev meeting in London. Due to another meeting my meeting with bizdev didn't happen

• tweaked next wallpaper alternative, including that today

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Hardy spec assignments:

• no progress this week; my specs are by and large done

Unfixed milestoned bugs:

• 174128 (dhcp3 debconf question during upgrade, beta): tried to reproduce, but works for me; set to needsinfo and asked Michael

Other:

• lots of bug fixing and bug triage across the board
• spent some hours on apport-retracer shepherding and firefighting; p-lp-bugs and ever-changing LP HTML is a constant source of work
• Documented hal debugging procedures in the wiki for a hug day
• Gave developer week session about patching packages
• New langpacks for stables

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

• Gave feedback to Bryce Harrington on multi-display screen resolution tool.

• Compiled <https://wiki.canonical.com/Ubuntu/UserExperience> based on the brainstorming session at the Ubuntu team sprint.

Michael Vogt (mvo)

Did:

upgrades

• upgrade testing
• reading the forum feedback for upgrade/trying to reproduce issues

• debug/fix pre-requists fetching failure when APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated is set

• SRU for update-manager

apt

• fix task install code for colin
• merge latest debian upload into ubuntu bzr
• fix bug in ddtp translations files generation
• debug problem in lzma debExtract() for cprov
• backport hardy python-apt to gutsy (for launchpad)
• add random sleep time before apts cron job starts to download (in bzr)

misc

• Fosdem
• Bug triage
• ddtp translations update
• fix i18n issues in gnome-app-install
• debug python-central issue and test new version
• packageKit apt help for glatzor
• sponsor font uploads
• work on language-selector UI for fine control what support levels to select (with Arne)

traveling

• FOSDEM (weekend)
• packaging training in london (mon-thurs)

Next week:

• catchup on bugs from london

Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

spec-related work (hardy-desktop-effects-profiles)

• figure out how to only save plugins settings-values, but not its keybindings

==== spec-related work (gdm-face-browser) ====

• figure out how to do real implicit animations with clutter-0.6 for face-browser

misc

• trip to FOSDEM, Bruxelles
• trip to London (millbank-office) for package-training

• created gutsy- and hardy-ppa for latest cairo-clock-0.3.4 (https://edge.launchpad.net/~macslow/+archive)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

• desktop bugs fixing

 * lot of bug triage

 * GNOME 2.21.92 updates

Ted Gould (tedg)

• Traveled to Server/Kernel team sprint in Boston for packaging training
• Further about-this-computer cleanups
• Some additional cleanup of GPM bugs and debugging pages

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