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Present

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

• Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

• Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
• Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
• Pedro Villavicencio Garrido (pedro_)

Apologies

• Scott James Remnant (Keybuk) - sick leave
• Ted Gould (tedg) - holiday

Agenda

• Outstanding actions from last meeting

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

• update]: desktop team is doing well, all but one patch is uploaded; Scott still has a few open bugs, though, but he isn't available today for further details
• Review activity reports
• Mirko's work is a bit stuck on his gdm work on face browser, since the new gdm is far from ready for Intrepid so far; he will continue to work with upstream and have a talk with Mark for our requirements in Intrepid.
• Martin asked about how everyone is doing with their spec implementations; no problems or drags were reported, aside from Mirko's above.

Outstanding actions from last meeting

• Matthew to follow up with upstream about UI improvements in new user admin tool: no response so far, he will mail again

Actions from this meeting

• Mirko to clarify gdm goals for face browser for Intrepid/Intrepid+1.

Activity reports

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

done:

• KDE 4.1 packaged and uploaded
• update-manager ported to Qt 4
• gdebi ported to Qt 4
• Fix avahi to compile in main
• Kubuntu meeting (one new member)

todo:

• system-config-printer-kde
• finish KDE 4 Rosetta support not cdbs compiles

no milestoned bugs

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

No report received.

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Assigned Intrepid specs:

• intrepid-device-permissions: No change since last week.
• jockey-printer-driver-support: No change since last week.
• gdm-guest-account:
  • After working on the guest setup scripts for about a week, I discovered many bugs in graphics drivers and kernel oopses, so that I doubt that I'll ever get this stable enough with the "do everything from scratch" approach. Sad to say that this was wasted

    work

  • So I went ahead and hacked guest support into our current gdm, with externalizing as much as possible into the new gdm-guest-session package. Both are in intrepid now, feedback

    appreciated. AppArmor profile landed today. UI integration still missing.

Currently open milestoned bugs:

• Intrepid: #224697 (Disable hibernation if swap is on file), #232428

  (guile 1.6 -> 1.8 transition), #246550 (upgrade conffile prompt): will do later, specs go first

Other non-chores work done:

• got the apport retracers back into working order, including intrepid

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

No report received, busy with Launchpad.

Michael Vogt (mvo)

update-manager/release-upgrades

• reproduce/fix install-doc failure (#243830 and some duplicates)
• merge "better-nvidia-support" branch into update-manager that should now be able to automatically select the right nvidia driver on upgrade (and fix some issues like missing depends)
• improvements in the progress reporting for the non-interactive mode (needed for the sandbox-upgrade-tester) - not perfect yet, but a improvement
• merge the kde4 branch and do testing/fixing on it (some smallish issues with the terminal widget and other small bits), improve the test-code for the terminal widget along the way
• fix crashes

sandbox-upgrader

• add automatic test script that works on top of the cloned system
• create sandbox-upgrader package and put it into my PPA
• testing (work ok on my system now)
• feedback very welcome (needs a kvm capable machine and diskspace/bandwidth for the test), available in my PPA as sandbox-upgrader and then "sudo sandbox-test-upgrade"

systemwide-preferences

• sent mail to gnomecc list (stuck in the moderation queue?)
• add reader/writer for /etc/environment to the dbus backend

compiz

• analyze compiz hang for certain screensaver hacks (LP: #101943, compiz bug 961) that is caused by compiz not catching up fast enough with the xdamage events and and sent patch upstream (based on patch by Michel D�nzer)
• updated plugins-main to latest git
• looked into updating compiz core too, but little changes and the current kde3/kde4 code is difficult to split appart, needs more work (i.e. even with just kde4 enabled in configure it wants to build kde3 bits)

mobile

• make virtual-mobile-builder behave a bit more like moblin-image-creator and produce mccaslin-lpia-ume kvm images for the mobile team (this was complicated by the fact that with hardy-updates and hardy-security in sources.list midbrowser would not start because of some incompatibilty in the GRE version)

apt

• review/merge apt https branch by Arnaud Ebalard
• translated package descriptions update for intrepid
• fix incorrect reporting ofr "breaks" in at-cache unmet

SRU

• debug/fix problem with security.ubuntu.com display in software-properties (#244093)
• make anacron wakeup on resume in pm-utils too (#249220) and upload hardy version into my PPA, will do a SRU for it
• fix update-notifier shows incorrect number of updates problem (LP #251494)
• merge compiz animation fix for hardy (#LP 198370, opencompositing: #949)
• debug/fix crash in python-apt when a package has no priority set, upload fixes to gutsy and hardy (#253255)
• add workaround for the crash in python-apt to the release-upgrader and upload fixes to intrepid and hardy-proposed

misc

• bug triage/mail
• some sponsoring (sponsoring list)
• review/merge potmodify.py script into apt-ddtp-tools to improve the translated package descriptions pot
• fixed HW issues in my desktop (replaced main power supply unit, fortunately that was all needed)
• fix gnome-session regression when update-notifier sents it the save-clients message before rebooting and sent patch upstream (#545123)
• upload new libgksu to fix hang problem (#55172) - SRU too?
• new friendly-recover with some fixes

Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

login-experience/gdm-face-browser:

• using relative sizes in .json file for works now, will be able to make theme and layout adapt to screens aspect-ratio
• reading lots and lots of code of upstream simple-greeter, to get a better understanding which parts are needed for the graphical-greeter
• getting used to bzr's svn-plugin for importing upstream gdm-repository from GNOME's svn, but considering bzr-mirror.gnome.org because it's faster
• did small screencast of some early code...

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBa6me9Avi8, http://people.ubuntu.com/~mmueller/graphical-greeter-1.ogg

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

• lot of bugs triage
• looked a the sponsoring queue and subscribed people
• backported some fixes to hardy
• intrepid GNOME updates
• got a new mentoree, gave him some tasks and replied to his questions, sponsored his first desktop updates
• archive admin tasks

Ted Gould (tedg)

On holiday, no report received.

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