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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) - Linux Foundations
• Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Apologies

• Robert Ancell (robert_ancell) - out of TZ

• Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) - On travel to the OpenPrinting Summit 2009 in San Francisco

Agenda

• Outstanding actions from last meeting
• Meeting times
• Release Bugs/Release Status
• Review activity reports
• Any other business

Outstanding actions from last meeting

• ACTION: All - If you've got a blog, blog about X Hug day
• ACTION: Contact pitti if there are people at Linux Foundations that you want him to meet on your behalf

via email

• Desktop Summit: Deadline to submit is this Friday
• Karmic sprint dates: 3rd August to the 7th August

• Meeting time: Everyone has updated MeetingTime wiki

Actions from this meeting

• ACTION: rickspencer3 to send email to kick of meeting time discussion
• ACTION: rickspencer3 to get list of critical bugs from bryce, follow up with release team to get correct bugs tracked.

Meeting Time

• Need to have a time or times so that certain people are not forced to disrupt their sleep to attend
• rickspencer3 proposes that we discuss via email

Release Bugs/Release Status

On Release Team Radar

Some discussion about whether the X bugs are truly Release Critical, and whether there are other bugs that aren't labeled as such, but should be. For example bug 356264 is widely reported, but not targeted. ACTION: rickspencer3 to get list of critical bugs from bryce, follow up with release team to get correct bugs tracked.

Milestoned, but not Release Targeted, Importance=High

Other Business

• Turns out that

Activity reports

Alexander Sack (asac)

• Networkmanager:
  • investigate top crash and land potential fix upstream (LP: #319918)
  • work with upstream on network manager 0.7.1 rc4 release; discussing bugs;
    • trying to fix udev prober for nozomi driver (LP: #351803)
  • fix LP: #348612 - Wired disconnect icon is wrong; we fix a typo in icon name
  • fix LP: #354420 - offline notification should have NOTIFY_URGENCY_CRITICAL;
  • eliminate most string changes from a few notification patches to ease translation task for dxteam
  • make 0.7.1 release fit: ensure that it also builds on hardy; backporting
    • policykit function from 0.8; ensure that this happens upstream too.
• Firefox/Mozilla:
  • discuss with community and investigate regression LP: #353924; thinking
    • about solutions better than "just" backing out the fix that triggered this.
  • review work to do for next security update round
• Modemmanager:
  • review and fix modemmanager mbm plugin
  • make mbm modules work with cdc_ether driver
  • rebase modemmanager network manager patches to 0.7.1 and fix a few issues
  • provide test packages in PPA
• Misc:
  • fix openoffice font issue in gnome-settings-daemon (LP: 271283); thoughts on race issue discovered by Chris (LP: #356620)
  • setup jaunty UNR and install development environment for modemmanager mbm work
  • bug triage for post-beta bugs

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

• moving and renaming translation templates in Rosetta
• meeting with Kevin Huang and Zheng-Peng Hou to discuss Chinese font development for Karmic.
• uploading new Mozilla translations (3.0.8) into Rosetta for Hardy, Intrepid and Jaunty
• debugging and fixing Albanian (sq) and Galician (gl) translations for Mozilla, reporting bugs upstream and uploaded the fixes into Rosetta for Hardy, Intrepid and Jaunty. Before those languages where not importable into Rosetta, due to format bugs in the translations and tarballs.
• testing Jaunty installation media on my laptop

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Distro

• Sponsoring - xserver-xorg-input-aiptek(#352083), xorg-server(#353074),
  • xserver-xorg-video-ati(#351245), libdrm(#350925), nvidia-graphics-drivers-180(#348852), screen-resolution-extra(#282283), xfree86-driver-synaptics(#320632), xorg-server(#356254)

Xorg Work

• General X bug triage
• Investigate spate of -intel 8xx bugs. Fix #322646 for i855 and
  • #317457 for i865, and so now #304871 (for i845) can finally be closed. Workaround #279835 by disabling DRI on i810.
• Attempting to contact Intel regarding stability issues with current
  • -intel driver
• Created a glossary of cryptic terms that show up commonly in X error
  • messages.
• X Hug Day April 2nd netted some triaging
• Helped cwillu get up to speed; he's volunteered to help focus on
  • -intel bug triage on an ongoing basis.
• Sponsored several contributed X patches (#348052, #328205, #134906,
  • #337926, #356254)
• Heavy focus on -intel bugs.
  • - Fix user switching freeze, caused by an earlier patch (#348428) - Workaround X freeze on i865 (#317457) - Fix BO backbuffer bug on i855 (#322646) - Fix lid close freeze on Thinkpad X30 (#304614) - Fix 4 crasher bugs with Xv video playback (#354688, #352760,
    • #354889, #347527)

• Analyzed 356264. VirtualBox shipped a non-1.6.0-compliant video

  • driver that causes xserver to crash, resulting in dozens of dupe bugs. Cleaned it up, identified workaround/solution.
• Browsed through other SIGSEGV crasher bugs in xorg-server and cleaned.

Chris Cheney (calc)

• Uploaded hunspell 1.2.6-1ubuntu2 to jaunty
• Uploaded openoffice.org 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu1 to jaunty
• Uploaded openoffice.org-l10n 1:3.0.1-9ubuntu1 to jaunty
• Filed g-s-d bug 578182 which causes OOo to display fonts wrong in some cases
• Upstream now has a patch for me to test wrt gvfs bug 574968
• Meeting with Rick
• Weekly OOo Release Status Meeting - OOo rc2 this week
• Weekly desktop team meeting

• Lots of OOo bug triage - Still at 0 new bugs!

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

done:

• testing and upload of KDE 4.2.2
• update kpackagekit translations from SVN
• review multiple translation .po files and their state in launchpad
• fix default search engine as Google
• package taglib-extras
• package KOffice 2 RC
• update lcms package for new version and discuss security patch with upstream KOffice
• review and upload lots of bugfix packages for people
• add langpacks to CDs and review current live CDs

todo:

• someone decided to remove translations from .desktop files. now I need to fix .desktop langpack translations
• other critical bug fixes

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

Done

• Reviewed all notifications used by system-config-printer, all of them should be fixed now
• Assisted the DX team with bugs and packaging needs in preparation for the RC freeze
• Use case testing
• More work done on indicate-python, only builds for python 2.6 though
• Packages that I need to get sponsored
  • #337352 gnome-user-share notification changes
  • #337219 bluez-gnome notification changes
  • #354298 Buddy list should raise when trying to launch pidgin a second time

Working on

• indicate-python, convert it to use setuptools
• Assist DX team as needed

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Assigned blueprints: all implemented

Currently open stable/milestoned bugs:

• 264336 (pgsql fails to start due to shared buffer setting greater than kernel allows): hard to reproduce, started discussion upstream; looks like wontfix for jaunty

• 344688 (New PostgreSQL bug fix microreleases: 8.3.7, 8.1.17): in -proposed

Non-chores stuff done:

• finishing touches on the apport launchpadlib branch, and sorted out remaining ronne firewall issues with IS; switched ronne's appor retracers to launchpadlib after p-lp-bugs broke once again with the new Launchpad rollout
• above has uncovered a few bugs in launchpadlib; filed, and sufficiently worked around in apport
• fixed langpack-o-matic to support extra Recommends: packages on language-pack-*; quick hack for #352036 until we get a good long-term solution in Soyuz
• lots of debugging and bug fixing, primarily on my assigned RC bugs
• Spent a couple of hours debugging X.org -intel bugs with upstream and testing a few patches; unfortunately this did not yield something truly working yet

Sponsoring:

• gnome-system-tools, system-config-printer

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

• First week working from home. General triaging and reading of existing bug reports in packages.
• Fixed Rhythmbox not being able to copy long similar filename tracks to iPods (bug #312902)
• Fixed low resolution rendering of small SVG images set to fill background (bug #9722)
• Fixed GDM configuration applet 24 hour option (bug #256283)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

• nautilus bug fixing: don't set the autorestart key to workaround

issue with gnome-session restarting in it loop when no background is displayed for example, set no action for autorun since those are mostly not working under linux

• backported some rhythmbox svn changes
• new poppler bug fix version
• triaged gvfs and nautilus issue, did some svn snapshot to give some

testing to all the bug fixes that landed there recently, updated to 2.26.1 tarballs rolled later

• new totem version
• updated gnome-settings-daemon to not use notifications when

multimedia keys are used, the player track changes are enough and those were displayed when no player is running which is confusing

• looked to gnome-panel bugs reported about the recent multi-screen

changes, decided to drop the change for jaunty since it creates some issues, we will investigate on that next cycle

• lot of desktop bugs triage
• sponsoring: notify-osd gnome-panel tsclient brasero notify-osd pidgin

totem-pl-parser tracker gnome-nettool gtk2-engines-murrine gdm gnome-keyring rhythmbox evolution-indicator tracker glade3

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

• Fixed Plug'n'Print in hal-cups-utils. It generated broken USB CUPS URIs (bug #348316)

• Fixed OpenOffice.org printing always only one copy when more than one without collate are requested. I succeeded to make the Ghostscript upstream developers solving the problem in the last minute (bug #320391)

• Fixed foomatic-rip to prioritize command line option settings against default option settings inserted into the filter command line by CUPS (bug #338999)
• Let system-config-printer not use setlocale() only to do locale-independent case-insensitive comparing (bug #340932)
• Made PPD updater of Gutenprint fail gracefully (bug #353220, bug #353242)

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