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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_)

Apologies

Agenda

• Outstanding actions from last meeting

• Sponsoring Overview update

• Desktop bug list

• Review activity reports
• Any other business

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Actions from this meeting

Activity reports

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Done:

• Spent the week testing RC candidates and fixing bugs found
• Add resize widget to ubiquity kde_ui, various other ubiquity fixes
• Fixes to system-config-printer-kde
• Adding ppds to seeds
• Change cdimage to create DVDs from dvd seeds

Next week:

• RC testing and release
• 8.04 testing and release

Milestoned bugs:

• 210443 "file overwrite error in hardy" fix in queue
• 218393 "[kde4] /sbin not included in ubuntu user's PATH environmental" to be investigated

• 209220 "HP DeskJet 5550 not supported in Hardy" fix in queue

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

• worked on gdm some more
• fixed screensaver bug, human-theme bug
• updated one laptop and installed another fresh
• worked on folder icon ideas, mimetype base, 2d panel icons
• OOo splash and about screen variants with Sun logo finished

Martin Pitt (pitti)

(I did not send a report last Wednesday due to conference leave)

Unfixed milestoned bugs:

• 207151 (PolicyKit ptrace protection), 209416 (fsck failure handling), 216151 (apport-cli total breakage): Fixed packages waiting in unapproved

• 208026 (gnome-appearance-properties asks for reboot if you cancel driver install): no time yet, on my plan next week; we need to agree on defined jockey exit codes and g-a-p's interpretation; no technical difficulties

Done:

• Bug triage, bug fixing, CD testing
• Helped out with release management
• Integrated Alex' po2xpi scripts into langpack-o-matic, so that from now on, automatic langpacks will have Firefox translations \o/
• Bought train tickets for Prague
• Continued jockey development (in my free time), growing an XML-RPC database client now
• Attended LF collaboration summit, see separate trip report

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

No Ubuntu work this week, busy with Launchpad.

Michael Vogt (mvo)

Did:

Compiz

• broken shift-alt-tab keybinding (#150702)
• freeze exception requested for simple-ccsm/ccsm
• uploaded the 0.7.4 compiz stack into hardy
• Merged/review/upload compizconfig-settings-manager i18n fix

Upgrades

• Debug/fix upgrader bug for dapper->hardy cdrom upgrades where it updates itself to edgy instead of hardy

• debug why language-support-$foo dapper->hardy get held back and add quirks handler for this

• ugrade testing (manual, automatic)

• debug why the qt debconf frontend crashes on gutsy->hardy upgrades and add workaround into the upgrader (libnvidia tls/non-tls problem) (#205079)

• Fix bad gksu prompt on hardy->$foo update

• debug/fix upgrade problem with mail-notification (libgmime transition)

• Work on pam/debconf/perl gutsy->hardy upgrade problem and add fix by relaxing liblocale-gettext-perl dependencies (#217435)

• update x11-common to not fail if /usr/X11R6/bin is not empty and sent debdiff to tjaalton

• work on acpid restart patch (#63450) - not added yet, because it hangs for me on test upgrade (gutsy->hardy)

• debug/fix upgrade failure in the data center with bzr backport
• fix broken _() and unfuzzy string in fi.po
• Fix bug in ports.ubuntu.com sources.list handling
• brought up "--force-overwrite" by default in the server team meeting and added it to dist-uprader in server mode too

misc

• bug triage
• Install libpam-smbpass in nautilus-share (#208419)
• command-not-found-data updated
• fixes in app-install-data
• new friendly-recovery
• fix gnome-app-install icon scaling bug
• fixes in apturl
• Reviewed/merged/uploaded gnome-app-install-data change from asac for firefox
• Mered arne language-selector changes (update-notifier notes) and add support into the makefiles to make them translatable

Milestoned bugs: 63450 acpid install fails (because of hal running)

• - in progress, hal restart fails in my tests currently

162441 improve download cancel handling

• - mostly cosmetic

183209 doesn't let user examine installation process any more

• - user(s) how want to see the terminal, mostly cosmetic

211120 hardy upgrade breaks on tzdata

• - most likely a duplicate of #217435 (that got fixed last week)

154272 Visual indication when final release comes out

• - cosmetic

Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

Spec-related work (gdm-face-browser):

• trying to solve an "unsupported version 0 of Verneed record"-error from svn while updating gdm from subversion (probably from failing harddisk, see below)
• problems with enter/leave-events on actors to achieve "pulsating" on mouse-overs
• clutter_effect_*() turned out to be not flexible enough to allow looping timelines, had to move to full-blown setup of alpha/behaviour/timeline
• layout-algorithm not fully working yet, bounds of surrounding rectangle are sometimes exceeded
• drop-shadow rendering a bit too heavy, need to restrict it to using only two additional images

Misc:

• needed to replace failing harddisk in my desktop-machine, had to move much data between partitions, evolution- and browser-settings still not moved yet
• update of my laptop to linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16 caused it to be non-bootable, took some time to solve this

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

• did some extra GNOME updates
• desktop bugs triage
• lot of bugs fixing and patches backporting for hardy
• sponsored some uploads
• upgraded some boxes from gutsy to hardy
• daily cds testing

Ted Gould (tedg)

• Final GPM packages
• Bugs, bugs and more bugs. Nothing major so far.
• Continuing to work on Ubuntu.net whitepaper
• Off on Friday
• Helping with GNOME SoC, potential cool stuff for Intrepid
• Signed up for Ubuntu Open Week slot
• Started outlining Ubuntu Live talk

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