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Meeting Minutes

Present

Main Meeting

• Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair
• Alberto Milone (tseliot)

• Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

• Bryce Harrington (bryce)
• Chris Cheney (ccheney)
• Didier Roche (didrocks)
• Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

• Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

• Martin Pitt (pitti)
• Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
• Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Eastern Edition

• Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

• Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Apologies

Agenda

• Outstanding actions from last meeting
• Partner Update
• Kubuntu Update
• X Update
• Mozilla Update
• Desktop Start Time
• Release Bugs/Release Status
• Review activity reports
• Any other business

Discussion

Actions from this meeting

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Partner Update

• Online Services:
  • Ubuntu One Music store is progressing, expected to land in alpha-3
  • An early version of the rhythmbox plugin taking shape, more to come soon.
  • libubuntuone, the gtk widgets for ubuntu one will be ready for lucid soon, this includes the music store and contact picker gtk widgets.
• DX:

  • Weekly Releases.

Kubuntu Update

X Update

• Question from Intel: Lucid is still using 2.9.1. Intel already released 2.10 in 09Q4. Does Ubuntu plan to upgrade -intel 2.10 in Lucid
• i915, resime problem?

Mozilla Update

Release Status

Other Business

Activity reports

Alberto Milone (tseliot)

Blueprint work:

• desktop-lucid-xorg-proprietary-drivers:
  • Further clean-up of nvidia-$flavours and mesa and increased robustness of the alternatives system.
  • LP: #432172: further work to be compliant with the behaviour of libvdpau, as described by Nvidia
  • LP: #506547 Some GL apps won't run: libGLU.so.1
  • Fixed issue about missing libglx.so and libdri.so in xserver-xorg-core.
  • Working on ia32-libs (currently half broken) so that it can be updated (LP: #506437) and adapted to the new alternatives system (LP: #506435)
  • Bug fixing for the Alternatives class in nvidia-common.
  • Completed the release notes for Alpha 2 about Jockey and drivers in general.

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

Blueprint work:

• community-lucid-community-participation-in-coordinating-translations:

  • Documenting language-pack generation process: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTranslationsCoordinators/Actions/LanguagePackGeneration

Other work:

• Fixing upstream Mozilla translations, so that they get imported into Launchpad without problems
• Langpack-o-matic got moved to another server; did a test run to test if everything is still working like it should

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Chris Cheney (ccheney)

• National Holiday - Jan 18
• Continued to work on libsoup2.4
• openoffice.org 1:3.1.1~rc2-1ubuntu1 prepared, will be uploaded after meeting.
• openoffice.org-l10n 1:3.1.1~rc2-1ubuntu1 prepared, will be uploaded after meeting.

Didier Roche (didrocks

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

• alpha 2 testing, fixing and release
• working with upstream Plasma dev so initial setup and upgrade

scripting is complete

• simplify virtuoso package a bit
• Add back kubuntu menu icon to kubuntu-default-settings
• Testing nepomuk and adding it to default settings
• start packaging new SIP/PyQt
• recorded podcast with freshubuntu
• checked and uploaded fix for consolekit

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

• cleaned-up empathy patches, submited what we can upstream
  • split out part of the indicator patch that can go upstream
• Reverted libappindicator patch in tomboy for lucid, still maintaining it in a ppa
• Fixes for libappindicator support in rhythmbox
• Accounts UI work for Gwibber
• gwibber desktopcouch backend work
• Empathy papercut, raise contacts list when the user manually launches empathy
• new version of libubuntuone in the u1music ppa

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Accessibility

• Uploaded latest upstrea version of onboard to lucid
• Patch review of speech-dispatcher audio improvements, still haven't yet got into lucid to do thorough testing.

Audio

• Audio bug triaging, bugs in question are against pulseaudio, alsa userspace, and the kernel for hardware enablement.
• Wrote final mac mini 3,1 hardware enablement patch. Should work, but needs testing. Have had some users contact me about the work, so can hopefully give them something to test in the next few days.
• For a small amount of time when running lucid, was able to reproduce the 5.1 annoyances users are reporting with pulseaudio in karmic. I need to try some other test parameters/configurations, to be sure it is still a problem.
• Uploaded rtkit 0.5, which was promptly followed by Daniel Chen uploading rtkit 0.6.
• Involved in discussions about pulseaudio, and console screen reading/speech output, since some vocal blind linux community members are badgering me about it.

Misc

• Alpha 2 testing.
• Still get random resets in lucid. I need to spend a day finding what the problem is.

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Assigned blueprints:

• desktop-lucid-likewise-open-migration: implemented
• desktop-lucid-jockey-hotplug-support: implemented
• desktop-lucid-powermanagement-tweaks: implemented
• desktop-lucid-suspend-quirks-halsectomy (beta available): needs testing
• desktop-lucid-xorg-halsectomy: no progress this week; needs new wacom driver (Bryce's WI)

Non-blueprint work done:

• Attended Ubuntu Netbook Sprint/Induction of Didier Roche
• General email/MIR/SRU catch-up after sprint
• Applied for and got GNOME git commit access
• Bug fixing: gdm
• A day worth of work item tracker improvements

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

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