2009-06-30
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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 mozjz linkage and ABI/API policy
- ACTION: kenvandine to work with asac regarding white listing of U1
- 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
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)
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)
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)
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Tony Espy (awe)
Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)
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