2009-05-05
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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)
- Sponsored: -intel (LP: #371544), mesa (LP: #368049), -ati
- Karmic merges: fglrx-installer, -ati, -nv
- Wrote a getting started page for Ubuntu-X
- Started drafting a KMS howto:
- Focused most of week into solving X.org freeze bug.
- A suitable workaround was found and currently in testing.
- Addressing various concerns about -intel performance.
- (Needs backports of kernel patches by kernel team.)
- Triaging, upstreaming UXA bugs. Wrote LPL script to report on
- current status of UXA bugs in lp and fdo.
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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