DesktopTeam/Meeting/2008-04-03

2008-04-03

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For minutes of previous meetings, please see DesktopTeam/Meeting.

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_)

Apologies

Agenda

Outstanding actions from last meeting
(pitti) libgphoto gvfs: keep and fix, or ditch?
(pitti) Coordination of fixing /etc diff for upgrades (Michael started to provide diffs now, thanks a lot!)
(pitti) next week I'll be at the LinuxFoundation collaboration summit in Austin; anything I should do/ask/tell/promote there?

[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting Sponsoring Overview update]
[http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogasawara/qa-hardy-list-archive/sort-by-package/desktop-buglist.html Desktop bug list]
Review activity reports
Any other business

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Activity reports

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Done:

KDE 4.0.3 packaged and uploaded
Testing upgrades
Discussing Konversation artwork theme and poking for a new one that everyone agrees on
Archive Admin 1/2 day (Cleared New Queue, ubuntu-archive requests)
Tidy up system-config-printer-kde for release and fix share printer funtion in kdeprint
Set nicer qtcurve settings
Fill up seeds with language packs for CDs
Add a couple of missing packages to kde 4 seeds
Briefly review the KDE chapter for the Ubuntu book

Next week:

Lots of bugfixes. Ubiquity seems to have stopped launching on the live CDs. restricted-manager needs some testing.

1 milestoned bug 209220, which isn't going to get fixed for hardy, not yet sure how to remove the milestone.

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

final (hope!) gdm changes
packaging: human-icon-theme, ubuntu-artwork, ubuntulooks, ubuntu-gdm-theme, human-theme; (adding icons, tweaking artwork, moving back to ubuntulooks with new gtkrc w/ GUI editable colors, fixing bugs in h-i-t, u-gdm-theme, and ubuntulooks, etc.)
helped ubuntustudio make the same changes to icon theme
dealing with 600+ spam emails to ubuntu-art within a couple of hours
planning and announcing next art team meeting

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Unfixed milestoned bugs (only on hardy final):

207151 (Reenable PolicyKit ptrace protection before Hardy's release): needs to happen close to release
210348 (apport-cli test with no package): new from this week, will do soon; no technical problem at all, more a question of whether we want it
209416 (fsck not repairing corruption on boot): got aware of it on Tuesday after discussion with Ted Ts'o. Tricky, but I can and want to take the time to debug and fix it properly.

Done:

Continued to kill bugs by the dozens, not unhappy with the progress.
Killed all of my milestoned bugs, and assigned me some new ones
caught up with MIR review, only one or two left
Discussed Mozilla langpack integration with Alexander

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

Done: Retested photos and music experiences with Hardy beta, found lots of bugs.

Todo: Post results on wiki <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Experiences>, and report/link bugs.

Michael Vogt (mvo)

I was on vacation last week so my report is slightly shorter.

Did:

Upgrades:

upgrade testing (dapper->hardy, gutsy->hardy)
added VirtualRam option to kvm based upgrade tester, gutsy->hardy with a large install makes dpkg eat ~400mb memory and added more ram to my upgrade test machine
build "all" gutsy testupgrade profile that contains ~20.000 installed packages
fix update-manager crash for non-writable gconf database
Debug/fix python-support upgrade issue that is triggered by transitional packages (e.g. sepolgen -> python-sepolgen)
do not upgrade with debsig-verify installed
work on install_all.py script (for populating upgrade or install test images), add better blacklist config with regexp support and better error reporting/recovery
fix FTBFS in release-upgrader-apt
update update-manager rosetta translations
debug slocate upgrade issue and upload new fileutils with a fix for the removal of /etc/cron.daily/find
do diff generation of packagelist and /etc on a fresh install versus a upgraded system and put them to: http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/automatic-upgrade-testing/kvm/profile/

Misc:

mail catchup after a week of vac
bug catchup/triage/fixing
fix synaptic endless loop error in confirmation dialog (thanks to seb128)
artwork stuff sponsoring for kwwii
add update-notifier support for the new apt-get update stamp file writing
misc sponsoring

Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

lot of desktop bug triage
discussions with random GNOME upstreams about bugs and things that would be nice to fix for GNOME 2.22.1
changed gnome-media to no distribute gnome-cd and cddb-slave2-properties in hardy since they are not used in the default installation and discussed not building them by default too
splited totem to have a new totem-plugins-extra variant, win some meagabytes on the cds
changed gnome-system-tools to not install shares-admin since it doesn't reply to user expectation and hardy will use nautilus-shares
did bluez-libs and bluez-gnome updates
backported libgnomeui svn change to get thumbnailing using gio
gvfs stack updates
fixed nautilus-shares issues
backported an upstream tsclient change to fix a crash
uploaded gtk change to no change the input method when using the vi locale as request by users
patched gnome-mount to allow to eject empty cd drives
dropped libwnck workspace switcher tooltip changes, the patch is buggy and makes the gnome-panel crash and those informations would be better in the context menu, will be reworked correctly next cycle
changed gnome-panel to use time-admin again in hardy, the new upstream dialog has some issues and doesn't allow to run ntpdate for example
random bug fixing
some sponsoring too

Ted Gould (tedg)

Packaging:

Upstream updates for GPM and GSS
Backport patch for CVE to earlier GSSes, Kees to test
Debugging various GPM problems
Merging in Debian package updates
Got both the GPM and GSS packaging into Bazaar, broke Bazaar (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/210092)