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===== Done: ===== * python-desktopcouch-records packaged into ppa * Used DistUtilsExtra.auto, very cool pitti * planning with u1 and dx teams, still need a better view into dx iteration planning * empathy patch review * prepared gst-plugins-good patch to move farsight2 required plugins to -good * Desktop Summit prep ===== Todo: ===== * get the gst-plugins-good patch sponsored * telepathy-butterfly hug day * follow up with MIRs for packages needed for ubuntuone-client (after u1 makes it into universe at least) * Desktop Summit prep |
For minutes of previous meetings, please see DesktopTeam/Meeting.
Meeting Minutes
Present
Main Meeting
- Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair
- Alexander Sack (asac)
Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)
- Bryce Harrington (bryce)
- Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
Ken VanDine (kenvandine)
- Martin Pitt (pitti)
- Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
- Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)
- Tony Espy
Eastern Edition
Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)
- Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)
Apologies
- Chris Cheney (calc)
Agenda
- Outstanding actions from last meeting
Announcements
- Everyone should have travel booked for Sprint
- Desktop Summit starts eow, this week, who's going?
Status Updates
- Partner Update
- Kubuntu Update
- Release Bugs/Release Status
- Review activity reports
Discussion
Actions from this meeting
- ACTION: kenvandine to investigate mozjs linkage and ABI/API policy
- DONE: no resolution yet, but mozjs is required, db uses it for managing views, etc
- ACTION: kenvandine to work with asac regarding white listing of U1
- DONE, need to file third part repo form
- ACTION: All - look out for paper cuts mail each week, and fix on if possible.
- ACTION: rickspencer3 to review how paper cut effort is working for the team in two weeks.
- ACTION: awe to review Audio spec and to comment on volume scaling
Outstanding actions from last meeting
Partner Update
- Ubuntu One karmic integration blueprint is approved
- Ubuntu One client packaging for Karmic is coming along, hopefully be uploaded to REVU again today
- DX team, FUSA changes should land end of the week, at least basic functionality.
- Once basic functionality is there, should we get it into karmic for testing along with new GDM?
Kubuntu Update
Xorg Update
- Merge Status:
- Mostly waiting on upstream releases at this point.
- 12 packages need merge/sync, out of 92 updates since Jaunty
- 7 packages have upstream releases but not yet in Debian
- -fglrx and -nvidia completed PPA testing. Now in Ubuntu.
- mesa, xorg merges are done and in git; will be uploaded Tuesday-ish.
- A new xserver RC is available. Will be merged soonish.
git snapshots of xserver, -ati/KMS, & -nouveau/KMS are in PPAs
- X.org in Karmic is working well
- 2069 total open X bugs, down 38 since last week
- KMS on -intel is now on by default; relatively few bugs being reported
- Blueprints: All Karmic blueprints complete
Release Bugs/Release Status
burndown chart isn't showing much movement this week, http://piware.de/tmp/desktopteam-burndown-karmic.png
Any other business
Activity reports
Alexander Sack (asac)
- mozilla - firefox 3.5 transition
setup PPA https://edge.launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ffox35
- prepare upload new xulrunner 1.9.1 which ships the xulrunner-dev meta package
- upload all r-build-depends to ppa and port some initial packages
fix ubufox to work with firefox 1.5 -> 3.6 (LP: #347972)
- mozilla
- thunderbird security update final testing/rollout
- armel crashes - reviewed patches and upstream commits and found the missing ones. Now tbird works. Upload coming.
- getting mbm code merged into upstream modemmanager
- verify mbm merge with hardware
- debug modemmanager crash when using manual registration; suggest fix upsream
- investigating build failures; found broken libtool library shipped by
- libgudev; fixed.
- backport libgudev to jaunty for NM ppa
create trunk packaging branch for NetworkManager, and rebase/port/drop 0.7.1 patches
- work on NM daily build using fta ppa-scripts (not yet finished)
- investigating build failures; found broken libtool library shipped by
- Misc
- fighting with identi.ca being broken - which felt like a firefox regression.
- some code review for MIRs
Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Distro
- 100papercuts: 2hr work. submitted a couple patches, closed several
- non-papercuts as invalid, noted on several needing design decisions.
- PDX get-together downtown Portland, Friday
X.org
- Uploaded fixes for several -nv bugs
- Fleshed out script to generate -intel upstreamed bugs report
- Blogged about xorg-edgers and bug improvement
- Merged latest versions of -nvidia and -fglrx.
- Bulk mailed -nvidia, -fglrx, and -intel bug reporters to re-test;
- closed a bunch of bugs, followed up on others.
- Proposed renaming -nvidia to simplify future package maintenance
General
- Flight arrangements for Dublin
Chris Cheney (calc)
Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
Ken VanDine (kenvandine)
Done:
- python-desktopcouch-records packaged into ppa
Used DistUtilsExtra.auto, very cool pitti
- planning with u1 and dx teams, still need a better view into dx iteration planning
- empathy patch review
- prepared gst-plugins-good patch to move farsight2 required plugins to -good
- Desktop Summit prep
Todo:
- get the gst-plugins-good patch sponsored
- telepathy-butterfly hug day
- follow up with MIRs for packages needed for ubuntuone-client (after u1 makes it into universe at least)
- Desktop Summit prep
Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)
Martin Pitt (pitti)
Karmic spec drafting: all approved
Karmic feature work:
- desktop-karmic-automagic-python-build-system:
- completed upstream build system for all interesting file types, fixed lots of bugs
- version 2.2 with current feature set uploaded to sid and karmic
- completed test suite for existing features
converted Apport and Jockey to DistUtilsExtra.auto, both as proof of concept, and to simplify their build system ("diffstat: 144 removals, 12 additions" )
- desktop-karmic-symptom-based-bug-reporting: no progress this week
hal deprecation: No progress this week
- gnome-panel speedup:
discussed with Vincent Untz at LinuxTag; we have the same goal and approach
- no development progress this week; this will be attacked after above three, since this does not have rever
se dependencies
Other work done:
- Bug fixing: apport, udev, devicekit-power, hal-info, jockey, pkgbinarymangler
- Defined my goals for 9.10 cycle
- Discussed gnome help stripping with Julian; seems this is now a realistic target for Karmic \o/
Figured out how to build a single kernel module (i915) with a patch; documented at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelCustomBuild
- Reviewed ubuntuone packages on revu
- Spec reviews/approvals
- Tested new gdm; uncovers major bug in g-power-manager, but works fine otherwise
Merges: mine are all done
Sponsoring:
- hdparm, pm-utils, pycairo, xen-3.3, xscreensaver
- Reviewed, not uploaded: compiz-fusion-plugins-main
Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)
- Prepared for application for Ubuntu membership
- Package updates/merges:
- fast-user-switch-applet
- gnome-nettool
- xscreensaver
- gucharmap (x2)
- glade
- yelp
- libwnck
- xsane
- Fixed bugs:
- Set "open" animation to Glide 2 (compiz, papercut, LP: #195737)
- Cannot resize window taller than screen (inconsistent with metacity) (compiz, LP: #221698)
- Compiz bug triaging
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)
- foo2zjs: New upstream version, merged Debian's changes, added cups and cups-client dependencies for automatic update of existing print queues.
- gutenprint: Merged Debian's changes
- splix: Merged Debian's changes
- pnm2ppa: Apport hook added (The TB finally set up my upload permission for it)
- foomatic-filters, foomatic-db-engine: Packaged the new 4.0.2 release, removed the upstream fix patches, added cups and cups-client dependencies for automatic update of existing print queues.
- Merges from Debian completed with above uploads.
- Updated an Intrepid box to Jaunty (Printing from digikam got finally fast)
Tested setup of HP Color LaserJet CM3530fs MFP, no issues, but PC-controlled scanning and faxing seems not to be supported by hardware (real network device)
- Printing bug triaging
Tony Espy (awe)
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