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done: * Upgrade testing, had to write a script to fix various upgrade quirks and work out when the best time to run that is * pre-beta CD and DVD testing * Fix konversation with message indicator * Update kdepim with new patches from Aurelien * work around kdebluetooth wanting to get in users way * Upstart-ify KDM * Fix KOffice for khelpcentre4 * Add language packs to CDs and jiggle them around * Remove stuff from the DVD to make them not oversized * Package new taglib and taglib-extras todo: * beta release |
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)
- Chris Cheney (calc)
- Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
Ken VanDine (kenvandine)
- Martin Pitt (pitti)
- Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
- Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)
- Tony Espy (awe)
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
- X Stack Updates
- 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:
- user list is now in the session applet
- menu ordering bug still needs to be fixed
- New gdm artwork is uploaded
Kubuntu Update
- In decent shape for Beta
- Some further upgrade and i18n testing needed
X Stack Updates
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)
- langpack-o-matic:
- build new language packs for Karmic, Jaunty and Hardy
- language-selector:
- continue to write a script to do the language-support completeness check independently from gnome-language-selector. This can be called by other applications to figure out which packages are still missing on the system for a given language code.
- Rosetta import queue cleaning
- Misc
- flight booking for UDS
- chat with HR
- finalized the dates of the remaining language-pack updates until release with release team.
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Chris Cheney (calc)
Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
done:
- Upgrade testing, had to write a script to fix various upgrade quirks and work out when the best time to run that is
- pre-beta CD and DVD testing
- Fix konversation with message indicator
- Update kdepim with new patches from Aurelien
- work around kdebluetooth wanting to get in users way
- Upstart-ify KDM
- Fix KOffice for khelpcentre4
- Add language packs to CDs and jiggle them around
- Remove stuff from the DVD to make them not oversized
- Package new taglib and taglib-extras
todo:
- beta release
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)
- GNOME updates: libgnomekbd glib gconf gnome-screensaver
- reviewed lot of desktop bugs, triaged those and nominated some for karmic
- rebased gtk+, vino, libgweather on recent debian changes
- updated xdg-user-dirs download directory to fix a hundredpapercut bug, the change is upstream too now
- updated the places menu bookmark limit before submenu to 8
- worked on the new gdm to fix several milestoned bugs: strings not being translatable, autologin relogin users, gdm crashing when the log directory is not there, the debconf questions not working in karmic and gdm setup not being translatable
- updated gnome-session to not run compiz with the gconf option
- changed gnome-menus to not list software-store in the system administration category
- updated libgnome default icon theme and cleaned an ubuntu specific touchpad change no required in karmic
- updated notify-osd in karmic
- backported gstreamer upstream changes to fix easy codec installation
- changed bluez audiosink ranking to not hijack the easy codec installation
- updated launchpad-integration to use the correct launchpad urls and not redirections
- backported a papyon git change to fix a crasher
- updated xdg-user-dirs to the newer version which use the updated download dir and has updated translations
- did some tweaking to the indicator launchers changes in evolution-indicator empathy and pidgin before sponsoring those
- updated gnome-menus for the software-store rename
- updated piding to recommends pidgin-libnotify and rebuilt it once promoted to get translations correctly set
- looked to an indicator-session crasher with ted
- looked to the notify-osd crasher for mirco, got several valgrind logs and tried updates
- looked to some translation issues
- backported gtk+ changes to fix f-spot csw issues and a crash in the background capplet
- backported an indicator-session fix for the crash at session start issue
- updated gdm to set a custom theme to the login screen
- sponsoring: evolution gtk+ evolution-indicator empathy pidgin gdm indicator-session nautilus pessulus gdm gdm gnome-session indicator-messages libdbusmenu indicator-session
Tony Espy (awe)
- Attended Wireless Mini-Summit in Portland, OR.
- Camped out with the Kernel Team during the Kernel Sprint.
- Worked on backporting mac80211 background scanning improvements from the
- wireless-testing tree. Had to do a bit of fixup to get them to apply and build on top of the latest karmic. No testing done yet.
- Attended Plumber's Conference, also in Portland.
- Reviewed new network-manager applet with upstream while @ Plumber's.
Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)
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