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Meeting Minutes

Present

Main Meeting

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

• Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

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

Agenda

• Outstanding actions from last meeting

Announcements

Status Updates

• Partner Update
• Kubuntu Update
• Release Bugs/Release Status
• Review activity reports

Discussion

• remaining work, known major bugs

Any other business

Actions from this meeting

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Partner Update

UbuntuOne:

• Online services team is sprinting this week, and I haven't gotten an update from them yet
• couchdb
  • Latest snapshot needed for desktopcouch syncing uploaded
• bindwood
  • uploaded version with oauth enabled
• desktopcouch
  • version which should be able to sync with other desktopcouch instances uploaded. It should also sync with U1 when the production couchdb server in the cloud is ready.
• ubuntuone-client
  • Updated to include a preferences launcher

DX:

• Weekly releases

  • user list is now in the session applet
  • menu ordering bug still needs to be fixed
• New gdm artwork is uploaded

Kubuntu Update

Remaining Work/Known Major Bugs

Activity reports

Alexander Sack (asac)

• lots of bugmail processing to spot important pre-beta bugs
• helped bindwood to get into karmic beta
• merged and discussed apparmor fixes submitted by jdstrand for firefox; uploaded most critical one into karmic beta
• discuss thunderbird 3 status with upstream; filed memory consumption bug upstream
• lots of upstream prototyping on applet changes, push hard to find a consent upstream; prepare patches

• upload network-manager applet menu changes for karmic; flash out initial bugs and remove "hearts"

• work on gnome-bluetooth; submit patches upstream that make this work oob for me even if device is powered down
• work with doko on making xulrunner 1.9.1 build on all archs; added fixes and hooks to successfully build on powerpc and sparc; also we tracked down iwlib.h header issue and fixed this
• more upstream discussion on applet changes
• swap day on friday for work on applet UI
• reviewed and sponsored openconnect VPN plugin for network-manager; get motu-release FFe
• sponsored #tuxguitar

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Chris Cheney (calc)

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

Done:

• Prepared weekly releases for most of the DX packages
• debug video calls in empathy
• fixed notifications in gwibber
• worked on making gwibber a bit more robust, dbus race conditions
• couchdb, new snapshot and more work on making the couchdb/couchdb-bin split better
• desktopcouch update

Planned:

• Prepare DX package uploads
• bug fixing in the libindicate patch to empathy
• fix handling of the icon in empathy when the indicator applet is displayed
• fix green dot handling in empathy for login notifications as well as time setting
• debug video calls in empathy
• perhaps fix the broken indicator support in gajim

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Tony Espy (awe)

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

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