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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

• MacSlow: problems with merging goffice (needed by gnumeric)

• [http://people.ubuntu.com/~dholbach/sponsoring/ 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

• MacSlow to update clutter to appropriate version, not worrying about parallel install

• seele to follow up with Jono about usability testing swag.

• MacSlow to merge gimp, and other GTK+ applications and libraries.

Actions from this meeting

Activity reports

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Done:

• mostly packaging KDE 4.1 beta 2
• advising/helping community with their backport of 4.1 beta 2 to hardy
• final merges
• a couple hours of archive admin
• playing with seeds, still some bits to work out for an installable kubuntu-desktop

Blocked:

• 1 main inclusion report still needing review
• Kubuntu website

Next week:

• hardy .1?

No milestoned bugs

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

* finished stage 2 of the murrine theme. The input box bg is quite dark in order to work around bugs in firefox preferences and other wierd widgets.

• finished first stage of a new metacity theme. The buttons are not really ready and I'd liek to somehow show the "clickable" area better (to make moving the windows easier).
• Packaged all of this for intrepid (ubuntu-artwork as well to set the defaults). Removed the dependency on ubuntulooks and included a legacy light-colored theme based on murrine as well. Also made a PPA out of the above for hardy...screenshot of theme attached

PPA available at https://launchpad.net/~kwwii/+archive

attachment:murrine-theme.jpg

• wallpaper ideas until now attached...nothing far enough along to really present, but some ideas nontheless

attachment:energy.jpg attachment:hardy-style.jpg attachment:ibex-mod.jpg

• looked into two ideas for usplash refresh

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Holiday reminder: I will be on vacation from Friday to next Tuesday.

Intrepid specs I am drafting:

• intrepid-device-permissions, consolidate-spell-checkers, kernel-abi-package-handling, jockey-printer-driver-support: to be reviewed by Scott
• drafting: guest account (still waiting for upstream feedback)

Currently open milestoned bugs (8.04.1): None

Merges:

• Done: libnjb
• All done, except for belocs-locales-bin, which is a poinless merge (tiny FTBFS NMU, but it builds fine on intrepid); I'm going to ignore this one, unless someone wants me to do it for the purpose of cleaning the MoM list

Other non-chores work this week:

• Played with PackageKit, updated to latest version, made it work on Intrepid, uploaded; I also sent the patches upstream and got upstream git commit access (4 h)

• Fought with PolicyKit to use it from Python programs (which is not obvious due to not having Python bindings for libpolkit{,-auth}.). I understand it now. (4 h)

• Split Jockey into a system D-BUS backend (PolicyKit controlled) and an unprivileged UI. This gets rid of some nasty hacks in the code, makes it much more portable, and paves the way for the killall-gksudo and jockey-printer-driver-support specs. (25 h)

• jockey-printer-driver-support: Discussed shared implementation of local printer detection and openprinting.org driver query with Tim Waugh, in a split-out library from system-config-printer. Found out that he already implemented most of it. Had an initial look, stuff looks mostly good. Will work further with him to get it perfect for our purposes. I plan to package it, and integrate it into Jockey in the next two weeks. (1 h)
• Scrutinized Dustin's ecryptfs mount suid program (1 h)

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

Michael Vogt (mvo)

merges/syncs

• kino, xaos, valgrind, wdiff, pan, tiff, mutt, hdparm, ppp, dash,lzma,taglib,swig1.3,bzip2,acpi,gettext,anacron,opensp,recode, radvd,rarian,powernowd

• help/mentor MacSlow with his merges/packaging

• cleaned my sponsoring queue (tomboy, apt-build,packagekit, packagekit-gnome,gnome-apt,pbuilder)
• update python-support (after mail from josslin)

apt

• review apt https patches
• look how the Pkg-Series implementation could be done, did some prototyping for simple cases, no good solution yet. tricky

update-manager

• fix crash when the admin group can not be added

• Test/sru/upload fix for sparc dapper->hardy upgrades (#239458)

• upload sru for hardy
• implemented auto-detection of desktop/server mode based on the installed stuff (server mode in update-manager behaves slightly differently as it is more relaxed with metapackages, i.e. it does not enforce them to be installed, desktop mode will add missing metapackages)
• review debian update-manager branch and merge some changes
• work on process seperation branch, still in the early stages

• add hardy->intrepid autoupgrade tester profile (and update the docu on how to build base-images with the latest jeos-builder)

misc

• mail/bug triage
• mentoring/sponsoring
• merge glade-2 and make it work with latest gtk+ again
• fix missing libc6 dependency on findutils so that upgrades go smooth from hardy to intrepid (with the help of cjwatson, #234234)
• review available desktop backup solutions
• switched my mail provider

Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

login-experience/gdm-face-browser

• setup PPA for upstream clutter, clutter-cairo, clutter-gtk for intrepid and hardy https://edge.launchpad.net/~macslow/+archive

• getting latest upstream of gdm checked out, compiled and installed

merges

• got to setup and learn pbuilder tool for merge work (setup environments for distro-series hardy and intrepid)

• gtkglext: worked on merge only to find out that seb128 was faster

• planner: merged from debian unstable to intrepid, got some help from mvo, needed patch also sent to debian-maintainer and planner upstream (gnome-bugzilla)
• gnome-pilot-conduits: worked on merge, but somebody from the community was faster
• goffice/gnumeric: trying to merge, newest goffice is needed for gnumeric under intrepid, several issues with goffice (debian/rules) not finished yet, need some help
• gnome-netstatus: merged from debian unstable to intrepid

misc

• put cairo-clock 0.3.4 into PPA for intrepid https://edge.launchpad.net/~macslow/+archive

• preformance-review phone-call
• desktop-experience phone-call
• some travel preparations for GUADEC'08, distro-sprint
• helped kwwii setting up and using PPAs so he can provide theme/engine-previews from intrepid also under hardy

todo

• continue with sparkle implementation (as time permits)
• assigned bugs: 130441, 141432, 147966, 151395 (milestoned), 152844, 164670, 200146, 206809, 144472, 152271 (milestoned)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

• lot of desktop bugs triage
• GTK 2.13 update
• other GNOME updates
• archive admin tasks
• merges
• some 8.04.1 updates

Ted Gould (tedg)

Specs

• network-account-profiles-*
• power-management-settings

Misc

• Most time spent moving (vacation), for most people that means that my timezone is now -5 instead of previously being -7.
• Travel for London sprint.
• 401K meeting
• Desktop experience meeting

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