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Present

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

• Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

• Bryce Harrington (bryce)
• Chris Cheney (calc)
• Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

• Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

• Martin Pitt (pitti)
• Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
• Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Apologies

Agenda

• Outstanding actions from last meeting
• Release Status
• Review activity reports
• Any other business

Outstanding actions from last meeting

• ACTION: seb128 and bryce to investigate https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xkeyboard-config/+bug/67188 - problems with setting certain keyboard layouts

  • Result: unassigned this bug as it is really a collection of other bugs which should be tracked seperately

• ACTION: calc and pitti to discuss https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/305790 - getting certain java based build depends for OO to build in the build daemons.

• ACTION: everyone hasn't already to submit a topic by eow (mandated by rickspencer3 )

Actions from this meeting

Release Status

Bugs

Everyone should be focused on beta mile-stoned bugs for the remaindered of the week.

High

Medium

Work Items

Except for Kubuntu, the work items are by and large complete. The following non-Kubuntu work items remain:

• asac:Adobe Flash in partner repository with apturl:started
• pitti:Advice Dx Team Regarding where to store assets such as icon:not started
• pitti:Advice Dx Team Regarding “Do not disturb systems”:not started

Kubuntu work is being tracked here: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Todo

Activity reports

Alexander Sack (asac)

fonts

• fontconfig love based on ACTIONs agreed with Arne
  • cleanup obsolete and not used fonts.d files (LP: #332992)
  • "anymetrics goodbye" - drop not used patch introduced for firefox (isolated individual patch; next: drop)
  • debconf: reset to defaults - drop debconf alltogether to prevent futuer problems (LP: #305394)
  • move everything from diff.gz to proper patches
• uploaded patched gtk/gtk-settings daemon with "auto" mode to ~asac PPA
• unblock seb's gnome 2.26 effort due to fontconfig postinst problem

network-manager

• network-manager modem debugging - discussing udev prober approach with upstream
• online/offline status discussion with mozilla/network-manager; seems this is not going to happen; developed netlink part
  • an eventual network status daemon; seems feasible.
• patch review, discussion and code for dxteam's offline/disconnect notifications; came up with a patch that stacks event and combines them if appropriate; next: cleanup using spec
• provide input on #networkmanager, #modemmanager f3507g upstreaming efforts

mozilla

• nss security testing
• thoughts about 32 bit packages for firefox/xulrunner, nss and others
• jaunty website call
• jaunty newtab page
• started to prepare thunderbird security update
• work a bit on firefox security backports

misc

• fighting nfs problems, and dealing with mail backlog due to this.
• sponsoring human-icon-theme, liferea
• new songbird discussions
• chromium on amd64 discussions

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Chris Cheney (calc)

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

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