2008-05-08

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

Present

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

  • Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

  • Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
  • Ted Gould (tedg)

  • Sarah Hobbs (Hobbsee)

Apologies

  • Scott James Remnant (Keybuk) - busy in London

Agenda

  • Outstanding actions from last meeting: None
  • Mirco reported some difficulty with coordinating with Opened Hand, the "clutter" upstream; he reported his plans on the upstream mailing lists, blogs, etc.. He had worked on integrating OpenGL mipmapping into clutter for two weeks, but then just yesterday someone else committed something similar upstream. Mirco will mail upstream again and discuss how to avoid wasting time on duplicate implementations in the future.
  • Michael pointed out the usefulness of getting daily hardy CD builds for testing → Action item
  • We should invest some time fixing upgrade bugs at least for popular universe packages, too, since a single failed universe upgrade can ruin the entire upgrade. According to Michael we have a magnitude of 20 packages which were reported to cause trouble.

  • Review [https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-8.04.1 hardy.1] milestoned bugs: We went through the unassigned ones which belong to the Desktop team and assigned them to a particular team member.

  • Jonathan pointed out that Intrepid will by and large switch to KDE 4, and the KDE 3 packages will be demoted/removed. We agreed that KDE 4 packages which had a KDE 3 equivalent do not need MIRs, since they are 'just' a new upstream version, and creating MIRs for all would be busywork. New components which don't belong to KDE4, but are needed as new build dependencies still need to get MIR bugs.
  • Sebastien pointed out that the lack of the apport autoretracers becomes more and more painful. Martin explained that this is due to the somewhat unexpected and inexplicable breakage of fakechroot. Martin promised to try and find some isolated test cases this week and try to fix the retracers next week.
  • There was a short discussion about whether we should do a point release for the two Kubuntu variants. Jonathan is positive that we can get enough testing coverage, and it does not cost us much to build CDs, so we will do it.

Actions from this meeting

  • Martin to enable daily CD builds for hardy-proposed (Ubuntu, Kubuntu KDE 3/4, Server). This will be helpful to verify fixes to the installer, CD-ROM dist-upgrade scripts, etc.
  • Martin to look into the fakechroot problems which break the apport retracers.

  • Michael to produce an up to date dapper → hardy-proposed /etc/ upgrade diff.

Activity reports

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Done:

  • Merging Qt 3, Qt 4.4, helping with kdelibs, konversation, k3b and various others
  • Overseeing KDE 4.0.4 packages, discussion ways to make backports practical for KDE releases, managed to work out a way that uses PPA moving to backports
  • SRU for kdebase, kaffeine
  • move power-manager to kdereview for inclusion in KDE 4.1
  • archive admin 1/2 a day
  • bank holiday on Monday

Next week:

  • packaging/merging KDE 4.1 alpha

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

  • 1 May holiday in Germany
  • work on refresh for human icons (folder and mimetype page, specifially)
  • looking into different theme engines and possiblities
  • community active on theme teams, lots of discussion, a couple of interesting ideas
  • made video title graphic for Jorge
  • played with 3D glossy ubuntu logo (usplash and gdm versions)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Only a 3-day week due to national and personal holiday.

Milestoned bugs: (8.04.1):

  • Got them all fixed, I'll get more in today's meeting

Done:

  • About 10 hours of SRU management (reviewing, sponsoring,
  • processing, testing)
  • A few non-milestoned SRUs
  • Discussed envy-ng with Alberto and got it into a working state and into hardy-proposed
  • Went through my merges, synced a lot of packages, and merged 6

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

No report received.

Michael Vogt (mvo)

A short week because last Thursday was a public holiday (workers day) and I took Friday as vacation.

I took next week Tuesday, Wednesday off too (monday is a public holiday) and at Thursday I travel to Prag (via berlin).

Updates

  • lots of bug triage in update-manager and reassinging of failures to various failing packages
  • upload fix for chillispot upgrade failure (#225900)
  • Added repair/partial upgrade mode to update-manager-core in intrepid so that it can be used from friendly-recovery and uploaded both
  • Fix bug in cdrom upgrade code when no network is used with the "keep-sections" for translations (#227197)
  • Fix ko.po translation issue that prevents upgrades (#227197)

  • Fix mixed deb http://unknown-mirror\n deb-src http://known-mirror sources.list mirror detection (#221730)

  • got a lot further with debugging a hang in update-manager, it

    seems to be caused by the gtk.gdk.PixbufLoader for svgs (#186465) and I have a workaround that I can SRU

  • looked into the hildon port of the mobile team and added native fetch and install progress (with the help of loic and persia) this should be ready for wider testing now

Merges

  • findutils, liblocale-gettext-perl, mawk, zlib, cpio, popularity-contest (sposnored)

Misc

  • misc bugtriage and sponsoring
  • added intrepid to python-apt
  • merged apt with debian and uploaded to intrepid (with recommends by default)
  • created compiz PPA and moved the compiz stuff from my PPA to it
  • review/merged apt.cron.daily improvments by Osamu Aoki
  • created lpia kvm image to test update-manager hildon port (tested various methods, the best seems to be ubuntu-vm-builder and tweaking afterwards, ymmv)

Milestoned bugs

There are a lot of package failure bug that needs investigation where postinst scripts fail etc. I will go over the list again now and give them better titles.

Open:

  • 220986: friendly-recovery drops to a root shell even when a root pass...
  • 183209: doesn't let user examine installation process any more (cosmetic)
  • 162441: improve download cancel handling (cosmetic)
  • 220505: Ungrammatical "A upgrade" should be "An upgrade" (typo)
  • 221977: Cannot enable compiz with the fglrx driver (ATI X1600) (confirmed)

Fix commited:

  • 201462: nautilus-gksu stopped working in hardy (uploaded, waiting for approval)
  • 224308: deal with landscape repositories during upgrade
  • 224294: Crashing upgrade procedure
  • 69124: Ubuntu Edgy upgrade crashes when the "crux" theme is used
  • 221023: update manager crashes when there are no updates
  • 222895: failed to do /cdromupgrade on a 7.10 server

Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

  • gdm-face-browser:

    • talking with clutter-upstream about how to expose mipmap-support in the API
    • adding mipmapping to clutter 0.7/trunk still causes major problems,

      texture-coordinates for mipmap-levels > 0 are messed up, no idea yet where this happens... pure GL is so much simpler :/

    • events which worked with clutter 0.6 no longer work with 0.7/trunk, tried to debug, finally wrote an isolated test-case and sumitted bug to clutters bugzilla
    • bit of chit-chat with gdm-upstream about how to go about moving stuff upstream later on

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

(I didn't send my activity mail previous week so I'm including this one too now)

  • lot of desktop bugs reading and triage to figure what are the 8.04 issues and what to fix for 8.04.1
  • lot of hardy SRU uploads
    • gvfs #211205, fix fuse crasher
    • gtk+2.0 #201497, fix icons inconsistency in the gio fileselector
    • evolution-data-server #204775, fix evolution-data-server crashing easily for people having no evolution contacts leading to a gnome-panel freeze when opening the clock applet
    • gnome-system-monitor 2.22.1 stable update
    • evolution #219495, fix crash when copying text from a task description
    • nautilus #220564, don't list eject and umount action on ltsp configs
    • gnome-panel 2.22.1.3 stable update
    • evolution-data-server 2.22.1.1 stable update, the new version has passwords migration to the gnome-keyring which is nice but required extra testing, that's bug #178544
    • evolution 2.22.1.1 stable update fixing launchpad bugs 181387 192195 198167 220608 226925
    • gnome-settings-daemon #214347, fix wallpaper changes when not using nautilus
    • glade 3.4.5 stable update
    • gnome-system-monitor #187383, reduce ressources usage, still not perfect though but cairo performances on some drivers are to blame there
    • glib2.0 #210379, don't list mounts unaccessibles to the user, the change is not perfect though, upstream doesn't want to access() the mountpoint since that might hang on non replying nfs mounts for example
    • gnome-desktop #197357, correctly center the zoomed wallpapers
    • gtk+2.0 #227723, fix non working dbg variants
  • some phone interviews for the GNOME maintainer open position
  • started some intrepid syncs, not to much though since those failing to build due to intltool not being installable and not having an intrepid environment right now

Today and monday are national holidays and I'm taking a vac day tomorrow, I'll be around every now and then and join the desktop team meeting but also try to enjoy the nice weather, etc Wink ;-)

Ted Gould (tedg)

  • Working on GPM critical battery actions. Sent patch to Richard for some ideas.
  • Got the other GPM patches accepted.
  • Reworking libwnck patch to hopefully get it upstream.
  • Ubuntu Open Week presentation.
  • Made additional progress on Ubuntu Live talk

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