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Present

• Scott James Remnant (Keybuk) - chair
• Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
• Martin Pitt (pitti)
• Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)
• Michael Vogt (mvo)

• Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

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

• Pedro Villavicencio Garrido (pedro_)

Apologies

• Kenneth Wimer (kwwii) - on Leave

Agenda

• Welcome mpt
• Outstanding actions from last meeting
• libzip MIR (Riddell)
• Team structure, member shuffling (pitti)
• Activity report length (mvo)
• Roadmap update:

• Sponsoring Overview update

• Review activity reports
• Any other business

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Actions from this meeting

Activity reports

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

done:

• enabled compositing in KDE 4, using same blacklist as compiz
• enabled apport in KDE 4
• implement laptop keys for KDE 4 in kmix and guidance-power-manager
• Package Qt 4.4.1
• discuss qbzr packaging with the guy who had package in PPA, suggest some fixes and upload to ubuntu
• testing new Adept
• archive administration 1/2 day
• couple of days working on system-config-printer-kde, got it into a state where it should be useful, plenty more to do

blocked:

• compiz patch to split out wrapper script needs review
• plasmoid-quickaccess MIR
• openbabel MIR
• libzip MIR (coming on for two months this one, what do I have to do?)

todo:

• at Akademy next week

no milestoned bugs

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

On leave.

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Assigned Intrepid specs:

• intrepid-device-permissions: Fixed libpam-ck-connector to work by default in PAM common-session; now it needs to be auto-added to PAM config on installation; slangasek says I should use pam-config-framework for that, which isn't ready yet; thus BLOCKED
• gdm-guest-account: More or less implemented now, spec has release note and test case sections now; just needs some bug fixing now

• jockey-printer-driver-support: backend is fully capable of searching for drivers on openprinting.org; needs some remaining frontend work now; didn't get to much work on this spec this week; big problem is that upstream probably won't add the system-config-printer changes in time for intrepid, so the really really nice integration might slip to the next release (it's still useful to search/install drivers from the jockey UI)

Currently open milestoned bugs:

• got them all fixed this week

Other non-chores work done:

• got the apport retracers back into working order again
• apport enabled by default again now
• apport now catches kernel crash dumps and turns them into reports
• did a few updated merges

Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt)

• Ubuntu team induction stuff.
• Tried to install Intrepid alpha 3. Reported related bugs.
• Discussions with involved parties about package maintainedness presentation.

• Nearly completed design for package maintainedness presentation. <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageMaintainednessPresentation>

Michael Vogt (mvo)

update-manager:

• work on the kvm auto-upgrade tester, trying to figure out why intrepid kvm is *slow* (~30kb) in the network speed (that used to be ~600kb or more), qemu is fine on the same image. no success, filed bug
• trap ctrl-c in the terminal and ask if the user really wants to perform this action (windows users think that ctrl-c is copy, #90866)

synaptic:

• demoting apt-xapian-index to a suggests because we don't have CD space and a policy that all recommends must be on the CD. No search-as-you-type anymore
• trap ctrl-c in the terminal
• debug/fix long standing unref error in gtkpkglist.cc that is mostly harmless bug gives a gtk-critical message (#38397)

• implement https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackageSupportednessUIHardy and push that into http://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/synaptic/hardy

• work on improvements for the archive-reorganization (mostly by working on better debtags support, lp:~mvo/synaptic/ept)

python-apt:

• Add "key in apt.Cache" (LP: #251587)

• Fix bug in python-apt "SetCandidateVer/GetCandidateVer" (#237372)

• Fix cwd problem in apt_inst.debExtractArchive() (#184093)
• new version uploaded

apt:

• fix broken apport report writing (under some circumstances, thanks to mdz for the report)
• make -Wall a bit more happy
• merge apt devel branch into ubuntu and upload new version
• Implement build-deps as automatic dependencies (#248268)

compiz:

• discuss compiz hang (#961) with upstream (problem with xunion/xdamage in the compiz damage handler)

SRU:

• Add sru instructions for #249220 (anacron)
• Add sru verification instracutions for #55172 (gksu)
• new libgksu2.0-0 for hardy proposed (#55172)

sandbox-upgrader:

• making good progress, fixed various bugs
• Debug sandbox-upgrader failure of dholbach, turned out to be a regression in hardy-prposed, reported and uploaded fix, see #254966
• add code to generate simple test environment to improve testing turnaround

packagekit:

• looked into packagekit git
• implemented missing doUpdatePackages
• improved the behavior for conffile (send a backend.Message() up about them and default to "keep")
• add terminal timeout, ie kill (ctrl-c) maintainer scripts that do nothing for more than 10 minutes (not in git yet, need to figure out how to upload my branch *sigh*)

misc:

• bug triage
• sponsoring queue
• work on improvements on the translated package description import scripts (with Sianis)
• report "glade-3 eats my glade-2 .glade files" problem upstream (#545843), no reply so far
• merge/review the kde4 gdebi port (thanks riddell!), fix some smallish pty releated issues
• app-install-data-update and review
• a bit of work on the conflictschecker (trying to figure out why it is choking on some packages)
• Discuss spec for better display of the support status with mpt
• add terminal timeout detection into gdebi (#252632) and upload new version with kde4
• Look into the new launchpad API
• kick the popcon server to generate data again, looks like it needs harder kicking, still not generating, needs more poking

Mirco Müller (MacSlow)

login-experience/gdm-face-browser:

• started working on GdmGreeterClient and GdmGreeterSession class to get a working base for the graphical-greeter, but it's more work than anticipated and therefore not done yet

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

• GNOME 2.23.6 updates
• lot of desktop bugs triage
• archive admin tasks
• some mentoring and desktop updates sponsoring
• GNOME maintainer applications reviews and one interview

Ted Gould (tedg)

Report not received.

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