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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)
- Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
- Ted Gould (tedg)
- Celeste Lyn Paul (seele)
- Pedro Villavicencio Garrido (pedro_)
Apologies
Agenda
- Outstanding actions from last meeting
- Review activity reports
- Any other business
Outstanding actions from last meeting
Activity reports
Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
done, bugfixing and preparation for beta:
- kubuntu-default-settings updates for kde4
- libwibble and libept synced and testing Adept 2 alpha 4
- Fix konqueror flash installer
- Discuss guidance fixes with ScottK
Fix knetworkmanager & adept autostart for KDE 4
- Hunt down why firefox, thunderbird are on the KDE 4. mvo changed apt for this but that has caused other problems which need to be fixed before beta
- Test and make fixes for desktop-effects-kde
- kate patch for cursor position
- Work out why common strings were not being translated, discuss fix with Tonio
- Test dist upgrader, now much more reliable thanks to mvo
- Some fixes for system-config-printer-kde and update package
- Some fixes to ubiquity
- Review sponsorship patches list and apply as sensible
next week:
- Beta testing
No milestoned beasties
Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)
- Icons for compiz menu entries
- OOo splash and about screen
- Finished up gtkrf files, packaged
- Worked on wallpaper, packaged
- Worked quite a bit on getting gdm in line with the desktop, packaged
- art team meeting saturday evening
- talked to Kat quite a bit about colors, the heron wallpaper and using it on a t-shirt. created eps and pdf files for creative agency
- started to document the color palette, creating installable palette, etc.
- put together ideas for improving example content package
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Hardy spec assignments:
- no progress this week; my specs are by and large done (oh, yeah, for reducing-duplication: tk8.3 is gone)
Unfixed milestoned bugs:
- 174128 (dhcp3 debconf question during upgrade, beta): still needsinfo/unreproducible, no progress since last week
- 172853, 172837 (conffile prompt on initramfs-tools and hal upgrade): just grabbed from the milestone list, will do next week
Other:
- spent some hours on apport retracer shepherding (I need to find some time to fix this properly: bugs in fakechroot and robustness of the retracer bot)
- spent most of the week on bug triage and bug fixing
Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
Michael Vogt (mvo)
Did:
i18n
- run language-selector as non-root by default
- fix input method checkbox in l-s and make it a user setting
- review/merge various patches from Arne
- sponsoring for arne
upgrades
test/propose fix for python-central dapper->hardy
- don't use the konsole kpart in the release upgrader anymore, it caused too much problems in the past, instead use a dumb terminal
- fix terminal log file writing with the kde frontend
compiz
- compiz and compiz-fusion 0.7.2 got released right in time for beta, all packages got updated the same day
- use "compiz-decorator" as default decorator that then decides what decorator to start
- debug problem in decoration plugin - it doesn't start the default decorator (fixed in git now)
- review/merged patch from Erkin that resolves a UI conflict between fade and animation
misc
- work on command-not-found (hardy-qa+regular buglist)
- go over the unattended-upgrades buglist and fix a lot of issues
- go over the apturl buglist and fix a lot of issues
- SRU verification for tzdata (#198128)
- bug triage (hardy qa-list, dholbachs really-fix-it list)
- sponsoring
- upgrade testing
change the DoInstallTask() code in apt again to fix a problem with riddels kde4 live images - breaks other things unfortunately and needs to be reverted :/
- envyng review (uff)
- new gnome-commander
- add support to nautilus-share to install samba if it is not there already (just like gnome-system-tools)
Next week:
- beta testing
- upgrade testing
- command-not-found/app-install-data updates
- bug fixing
Mirco Müller (MacSlow)
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
- GNOME 2.22 packaging, almost everything has been updated before wednesday and the official GNOME announce
- desktop bug fixing
- lot of bug triage too
Ted Gould (tedg)
GNOME Power
- Updated to 2.22
- Continued to work on fixing and triaging bugs. 6 patches so far.
- Working to get patches upstream.
- Tested battery out condition, update HAL fixes.
GNOME Screensaver
- Updated for 2.22
Misc
- Tested to ensure you can login on boot of a full drive
- Vacation March 24-27
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