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Meeting Minutes

Present

Main Meeting

• Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair

• Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

• Bryce Harrington (bryce)
• Chris Cheney (calc)
• Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

• Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

• Martin Pitt (pitti)
• Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)
• Tony Espy
• David Siegel

Eastern Edition

• Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

• Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Apologies

• Alexander Sack (asac)
• Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Agenda

• Feature Freeze Readiness
• Work Items

Feature Freeze Readiness

X

• intel:
• amd:
• nvidia:

Audio

Open Office

• 3.1.1 (final) release will be Thu Aug 27.
• Still need new OOo images from kwwii

Kubuntu

• Generally in good shape for feature freeze

• Plasma netbook needs FFe https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/plasma-netbook/+bug/412101

• Knetworkmanager is in reasonable shape but we'll need to keep updating it from upstream
• DX still have a patch due for Quassel for message indicator and patches to tidy up other notifications
• MIR still pending for gpsd and MIRs due for plasma-widget-{facebook,kubuntu-qa-feedback,kimpanel,googlecalendar}
• packagekit 0.5 due but waiting on policykit-kde 1.0 support from upstream

OLS

• U1:
  • U1 client release due tomorrow which includes bandwidth throttling, resumable upload and usage quotas
• Couch:
  • CouchDB 0.10 snapshot uploaded, there will be one more patch needed fixing an oauth bug
  • desktopcouch release today or tomorrow with replication
  • evolution-couchdb release today or tomorrow, then ready for CD
    • This will bring desktopcouch and couchdb to the install CD

DX

• xsplash:
  • release due today with the last of the features for karmic
• indicator updates and session applet (fusa replacement) was uploaded this morning.

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• notify-osd:
  • release due tomorrow morning, including the placement changes

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Networking

Python Distutils Extra

Symptom Based Reporting

Gnome Speach Replacement

Gnome 3

Gwibber

• Merging new features back into trunk today, and branching 2.0 immediately after. Hope to have a feature complete snapshot ready by tomorrow.

Network UI

Mozilla/Browsers

Quickly

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• New Window command is nyi, but may not rise to level of a "feature".
• Version 0.2 is ready. Waiting for desktopcouch for testing before uploading to universe.

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Work Items

Any other business

Actions from this meeting

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Partner Update

UbuntuOne

Status

Kubuntu Update

Activity reports

Alexander Sack (asac)

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

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• langpack-o-matic:
  • tweak the scripts for zh langpack split (lots of trial and error)
  • build new language packs for Karmic
• language-selector:
  • fixed and tested code to pull related translation packages when language-packs are installed (testing version available in my ppa)
  • hacking on new UI
• translations:
  • moved firefox-3.0/xulrunner-1.9 translations over to firefox-3.5/xulrunner-1.9.1, not an easy task, needed some debugging with asac.
• misc:
  • investigate available flights for the launchpad-translations sprint in Belgrade

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Bryce Harrington (bryce)

• Weekly triage catchup of -intel bugs.
• Forwarded several more -intel bugs upstreamed
• Fixed a couple bugs in lp greasemonkey scripts
• Fixed a couple bugs in upstream cgi script
• Blogged about improvements to my upstream process
• Triaging of -ati bugs
• Sponsored several nvidia-related uploads for alberto
• Investigated some karmic-targeted X bugs
• Set up some arsenal scripts as cronjobs to run fully automatically
  • now.
• Confcall on lp tool automation + followup
• Merged libdrm and mesa git snapshots
• Complete triaging on all mesa bugs. Cut total mesa bugs by over
  • half.
• Troubleshoot boot issue after upgrading to latest karmic
• Fix several bugs relating to X and virtualization

Chris Cheney (calc)

• OEM work
• Uploaded openoffice.org 1:3.1.1~rc1-1ubuntu1
• Uploaded openoffice.org-l10n 1:3.1.1~rc1-1ubuntu1
• OOo bug triage

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

done:

• xsplash-for-kubuntu meeting and spec writing

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuKarmicXsplash

• Get Eina through its main inclusion requirements
• Test and add patch for fish kioslave
• Test fix for pykde .ui files failing
• Port our .pot generation to debhelper 7 as packages have started

needing this

• Patch boost for PySide (new Python Qt bindings) and investigate bug

when run on karmic, discuss with upstream

• Build policykit-kde from kdebase-workspace rather than standalone
• Fix kgraphviewer compile
• Simplify kpackagekit notification
• Fix seeds to get CDs building
• Update konversation libindicate patches from aurelien
• Fix akonadi packages and build with mysql 5.1
• Get KOffice compiling again and build with mysql 5.1
• Patch kdelibs for data loss bug in kfileitem
• Add plasma netbook patches to kdebase and kdeplasma-addons
• Package zanshin as requested by upstream
• Discuss webkit security updates in kdelibs with security team

blocked:

• MIR on gpsd, any chance this could get done before FF?

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

Done:

• desktopcouch work
• created snapshot of the 0.10 branch of couchdb
• xsplash fixes
• indicator related packaging work and testing
• evolution-couchdb debugging

ToDo:

• desktopcouch release
• xsplash release
• couchdb oauth patch
• u1 client update
• gwibber merge, snapshot packaging

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Accessibility

• Further work on the gnome-speech replacement specification. Cleaned up speech-dispatcher packaging a lot, to the point where its actually easy to update the contents of a package now. Will send a patch to debian post FF since I have more pressing matters to think about at this time.

• Just about done the speech-dispatcher MIR< just need to review it and ensure I am correct about my comments re the code.

• Uploaded gnome-orca, gok, and mousetweaks version 2.27.91 to karmic.
• Uploaded accerciser version 1.7.91 to karmic.
• Uploaded a new version of espeak version 1.41 to karmic.

Audio

• Audio bug triaging, bugs in question are against pulseaudio, alsa userspace, and the kernel for hardware enablement.
• Sent kernel patches relating to rtkit to the kernel team.
• Further bug fix uploads for pulseaudio, including 0.9.16~test6, released overnight.
• Uploaded a git snapshot of paprefs to go with the latest pulseaudio code.

Misc

• A little sponsoring, pulseaudio uploads from Daniel Chen, eog, file-roller.

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Karmic feature work:

• desktop-karmic-automagic-python-build-system:
  • beta available
  • just the upstream discussion is missing (which isn't bound by release cycle)
• desktop-karmic-symptom-based-bug-reporting:
  • beta available
  • first symptom has been in karmic for a while
  • just release note/test plan left, on track for Ubuntu beta
• security-karmic-apport-abort: no progress so far, need to get this done by Thursday

• hal deprecation:

  • discussed hal deprecation in checkbox, branch available
  • no other progress, this is probably as far as we can get in karmic; I'm happy about how far we got, though
• gnome-panel speedup: no progress this week, target of opportunity

Other work done:

• updated devicekit-disks and gnome-disk-utility to new versions
• some udev and apport bug fixing
• cleaned some cruft on rookery to free disk space
• started digging into holiday mail backlog

Sponsoring:

• gnome-power-manager, gnome-system-tools, policykit-1, policykit-1-gnome, system-tools-backends

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Tony Espy (awe)

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Network Manager:

• New snapshots of network-manager-applet, and modemmanager sponsored & uploaded by asac.

• Debugged 3g problems with Dell Mini.
• general network-manager bug triage.
• discussed applet menu changes with upstream
• submitted a NM init.d patch to kill old NM 0.7 system settings daemon on restart.
• New snapshots of network-manager-openvpn and --pptp; need to get these sponsored and uploaded.

Misc:

• updated my MOTU/Contributing Developer application page. Created an Uploads page with more detailed information.

• wrote an overview of Bzr everywhere for the OEM team.

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

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Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

• Packaged CUPS 1.4 after having talked with Mike Sweet that the current SVN state is practically the final 1.4 and after having agreed with rickspencer3, asac, and pitti, to take it into Karmic and to do an update to the official tarball as soon as it gets available. The CUPS package needed adaptation of nearly all patches and also several new binary packages due to 4 added dynamic libraries. Also a patch from Fedora had to be applied to get DNS-SD support working. Committed to BZR repo at Debian, pitti is doing some additional small fixes and uploads the new CUPS then.
• Uploaded new snapshot of system-config-printer: Today's snapshot of the upstream GIT repo, CUPS-1.4-related fixes., fix for LP: #416014 (collected 20 duplicates).
• Uploaded foomatic-gui and ebox-printers with dependency on foomatic-db-hpijs removed.
• Answered and triaged printing-related bug reports.

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