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Present

• Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair
• Alexander Sack (asac)

• Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

• Bryce Harrington (bryce)
• Chris Cheney (calc)
• Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
• Martin Pitt (pitti)
• Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
• Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Apologies

Agenda

• Outstanding actions from last meeting
• NS/MI Status
• Feature Freeze Readiness
• Google Protocol Buffers/Main Inclusion

• Staffing: Ken VanDine

• Release Bugs

• Sponsoring Overview update

• Release Status
• Review activity reports
• Any other business

Outstanding actions from last meeting

• ACTION: Martin to start discussion with Steve George, Colin Watson, and Rick Clark about requirements for graphical installer

• ACTION: Bryce to triage https://launchpad.net/bugs/309482

• ACTION: Rick to clarify work items list (how to keep it up to date, and which things should be in in it)
  • Result: Rick sent a mail with some details, but hasn't been in the office to follow up

Actions from this meeting

NS/MI Status

Feature Freeze Readiness

Google Protocol Buffers/Main Inclusion

Staffing: Ken VanDine

Release Bugs

Edit conflict - other version:

Edit conflict - your version:

End of edit conflict

Activity reports

Alexander Sack (asac)

• ppp
  • new upstream release (2.4.5~git)
  • forward rebase work to debian
  • some bug triage
• firefox
  • newtabpage discussion, proof of concept and first implementation iteration
  • looking into langpack generator code to evaluate how easy it is to inject strings/translations from outside
  • support security team in firefox rollout using the new native ~ubuntu-mozilla-security PPA.
  • some upstream discussion about performance difference of ffox+wine and ffox native
• thunderbird
  • look into thunderbird-3.0 daily packaging breakage after addition of multiple third party modules in upstream tree; couldn't fix due to lack of time; deferred until after FF.
• mozilla security
  • no backport work this week due to overload - falling behind, sigh.
• network-manager
  • redo all packaging branches after upstream reorganization of their branches; setup branches for vpn plugins
  • 0.7-0ubuntu2 upload to jaunty; get feedback on 0.7.1 almost-rc1
  • discuss upstream release dates for 0.7.1; decided to prepare and upload bits for jaunty
  • tracking down kernel bug that makes some wired interfaces pretend to have carrier even though they don't; found fix available in 2.6.29 git; next: open bug and send cherry-pick request to kernel-team
  • network-manager bug triage (about half a day)
• modemmanager
  • decided to not use modemmanager in 0.7.1 NM; upstream maintainer said it wasn't ready for primetime. Will put that stack in network-manager PPA for #oem's or other interested parties.
• connman
  • cleanup copyright; prepare final bits; try to get more info where

    this will be maintained in future -> upstream is still uncertain; next: upload to jaunty for FF

• Sponsoring
  • sponsored lightning and sunbird locales
  • flashgot
• Spec

  • apturl mail and discussion on ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com and on IRC channels

• dxteam
  • various discussion on dx team procedures, patches and bugs
  • review network-manager patches submitted; fixed and upstreamed GTK_DEPRECATED patch
  • fix LP: #327427 - network manager applet should pop up wizard when 3g device is plugged in and no configuration exists
  • fix LP: #327411 - network-manager: configure button(s) to create gsm connections only works on first attempt
• Misc
  • a bit of MIR processing
  • sudden mercurial queues breakage disabled my patchstack; turned
    • out that debian decided to disable all hg plugins by default.
  • upgrading another laptop to jaunty
• remaining FF work:
  • network-manager 0.7.1 upload
  • flashplugin-installer binary package rename
  • ubufox upstream version bump
  • connman upload

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Chris Cheney (calc)

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

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