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Present

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

• Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

• Tony Epsy (awe)
• Bryce Harrington (bryce)
• Chris Cheney (calc)
• Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

• Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

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

Apologies

• ACTION: rickspencer3 to get definitive list of who has talks at all hands to double check that everyone who has one is prepared
  • Result: have pinged a couple of people, but haven't gotten such a list yet, will carry over
• Robert Ancell (robert_ancell) - Out of timezone

Agenda

• Outstanding actions from last meeting
• Welcome awe
• UDS
• GUADEC
• Triaging versus Bug Fixing/Closing in Karmic
• Review activity reports
• Any other business

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Welcome awe

Tony is joining the desktop team 80% of his time for the Karmic cycle. To start off he will be working with asac to identify some interesting NM related work, and to engage in the UDS process.

UDS

• Are blueprints all submitted?
• Timeline for sorting them out

GUADEC

Need a definitive list of who is going, and when. Also, do you have papers to present.

Triaging versus Bug Fixing/Closing in Karmic

Actions from this meeting

Activity reports

Alexander Sack (asac)

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Chris Cheney (calc)

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Just a four-day week, Friday was a national holiday.

Currently open stable/milestoned bugs:

• 334446 (Remove gnome-pilot from the default ubuntu install): simple to do, needs some discussion though

Done:

• Tons of SRU processing
• Various bug fixes in apport, f-spot, hal, hal-info
• Prepared two blueprints for UDS karmic

• Updated gnome-power-manager (mega-merge), now using DeviceKit-Powre

• Packaged devicekit-disks, gnome-disk-utility, libatasmart
• Packaged gvfs with devicekit support, in ubuntu-desktop PPA; some things don't work yet, but by and large looking good
• Heavy testing of U1, filed some bugs
• upgraded to Karmic and -intel 2.7.0 video driver, filed major bug upstream, update my other reported bugs against -intel

Merges:

• Done: grep, mcrypt, po-debconf, ttf-tmuni, asciidoc, backuppc, gconf, gnome-mount, gthumb, gzip, latex-beamer, libdv, nis, pbuilder, tzdata
• Outstanding: gthumb (merged, but f****ng autotools breakage), texlive-extra (no time yet)

Sponsoring:

• Uploaded: alacarte, ekiga, f-spot, gnome-themes, lintian
• Reviewed, needs fixing: libmtp, dbus-python, tomboy

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

• General triaging
• Accepted to do lightning speech at GUADEC: Practical Part-Time Refactoring (gcalctool)
• Preparing blueprint for UDS: Compiz bug management

• 352041 - Ekiga crash when no accounts configured/working - Jaunty SRU

• 181553 - Some Totem/Rhythmbox playlist newline formats not supported - My patch applied upstream, will SRU

• 368252 - Totem browser plugin not working with Apple HD trailers - fixed upstream, will SRU

• 343707 - Rhythmbox tries to find plugin for corrupt files - candidate patch, will SRU

• Updating packages for Karmic

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