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Bryce Harrington

• Nouveau
  • Talk with RAOF about requirements for running nouveau
  • Install apw's kernel and test booting dorset on it
  • Test installing stock -nouveau onto dorset
    • Why does stock xserver-xorg-video-nouveau refuse to install?
  • Test installing xorg-edgers -nouveau onto dorset
  • Review bug reports for xserver-xorg-video-nouveau
  • Test -nouveau after RAOF has had a chance to update the DDX bits
  • Test booting nouveau with kms enabled on dorset
• Wayland packaging
  • Install sconklin's wayland kernel on salisbury and boot it
  • Package the mesa branch for wayland support
    • Is the dri copy buffer extension in the released mesa or only on a branch?
    • Pull git checkout of mesa branch with required code
    • Extract patch to implement dri copy buffer
    • Verify patch applies on stock mesa package, else evaluate packaging the branch itself
    • Backport mesa dri2_swap_buffer patch to apply/build for mesa 7.7
  • Create package for wayland library
  • Create package for libeagle-dev library
  • Create package of cairo-drm git branch
  • Set up PPA with all wayland dependencies included
• Arsenal work
  • Catch error in arsenal if user account has been disabled
  • Convert all report scripts to use common json object
  • Create a routine or class to create common json object for arsenal

  • Go thru https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bughugger/JSONformat again

  • Complete deprecation of bug-listing
  • Fix symptoms report to display chipset and symptom
• FailsafeX
  • Sponsor patch to make failsafeX translatable
  • Plan breaking out failsafeX into a separate source package
  • Decide on a name for new failsafeX package: xdiagnose
• Apport hook work
  • Fix -intel to install the apport python script in an .install
  • Update xorg apport hook to not warn on missing bits quite so much
  • Include make.log file(s) to apport hook
  • Include dkms status to apport hook
• Sprint
  • Plan list of items to do during sprint
  • Button up dorset to take downtown
  • Receive Dell Mini 10V from Rick
  • Receive USB-to-VGA adapter from Persia
  • Discuss X status with tseliot
  • Advise Riddell on X issue with openchrome

  • Advise Persia on X issue with DisplayPort

  • Advise JJ on X issue with booting -nvidia from USB drive
  • Set up dorset for testing in Desktop room
• Update to a newer -ati snapshot
• Follow up: rootless X -nohwaccess patch
• Follow up: Impact assessment for chromeos pull
• Experiment with ppa "is active" flag
• Test out simplescan -- very cool

• Determine objectives for 2010 & finalize with Rick

• is it possible to get 'bzr log' to paginate automatically? Yes! (blogged)
• Sponsor patch from didier to fix supporting session with arguments (lp: #512235)
• Update gtg import_json branch to new work-items json syntax by jib