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Meeting Minutes

Present

Main Meeting

• Martin Pitt (pitti) - chair
• Alberto Milone (tseliot)

• Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

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

• Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

• Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
• Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Eastern Edition

• Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

• Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Apologies

• Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - stuck in meeting

Agenda

• Outstanding actions from last meeting
• Partner Update
• Kubuntu Update
• Chris -- Mozilla support update
• All -- Setting goals for next cycle

• Release Bugs/Release Status

• Review activity reports
• Alberto - Nvidia packages name schemes
• Any other business

Discussion

Actions from this meeting

Outstanding actions from last meeting

• ArneGoetje to talk to Robert about scanner failure in simple-scan

• Everyone to add their conference interests
• Martin to followup on desktop-lucid-une-applications drafting
  • DONE, will be done during Paris mini-sprint
• Martin to followup on desktop-lucid-desktop-cloud drafting
  • DONE, approved now

Partner Update

• DX Weekly releases

• Decorations and RGBA patch testing uncovered some significant bugs, these need to be addressed before upload to lucid. Results tracked here: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/491521

• indicator-application related packages are in lucid now as well as a karmic ppa

• expect regular updates to these libraries as well as more example applications using them. Porting infomarion can be found here.

Kubuntu Update

Release Status

Other Business

Activity reports

Alberto Milone (tseliot)

• Synaptics:
  • Ported my jumpy cursor patch to Lucid
• Specs from the UDS.
  • Xorg - proprietary video driver support improvements:
    • My proposed DKMS patch to build the kernel module for the latest
      • kernel (in addition to the current kernel) was accepted by upstream.
    • Started working on the new nvidia packages.
  • Boot experience work:
    • Develop a plymouth plugin which replaces usplash features:
      • A first release is available.
      • Put together a pdf with the current status of the plugin and a list
        • of requirements for the artwork for the Design team.
• X.Org:
  • Made the xkbcomp patch work with xserver 1.7.

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Chris Cheney (ccheney)

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

• Ported indicator-session from libempathy to telepathy-glib
• finished gtk-doc support for indicator-application
• DX team weekly releases
• indicator-application related package work for karmic (in a ppa) and lucid
• packaging for python-libappindicator
• worked with DX and OLS teams on their blueprints

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

• desktop merges and desktop updates: totem nautilus libgnomekbd gtkhtml gnome-keyring nautilus
• lucid alpha1 testing
• desktop bug triage
• workarounded an epiphany-browser build issue
• fixed some pidgin build issues
• karmic sru uploads: gst-plugins-base to fix totem hanging on subtitles
• tested simple-scan and filed some bugs, it's working fine there out of some ui glitches and the lack of preview and selection
• tried bughugger without real luck due to lucid issues
• sponsoring: indicator-applications gnome-control-center liboob gnome-system-tools gtk

boot speed:

• weekly timing: boot = 18.2 seconds, login = 11.1 seconds (was 20.2 and 11.1 a week ago),
  • no splash for the moment though, will get slower once plymonth is running
• looked quite a lot to nautilus straces to spot slow actions without lot of success
• spotted nautilus rewritting the gtk bookmarks list several times on start for no reason,
  • upstream fixed that in git now, the change is in lucid too (the win is around 0.3 seconds on nautilus start but nautilus is not the slowest desktop component so doesn't change the login timing)

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

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