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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
• Release Bugs/Release Status
• Review activity reports
• Any other business

Discussion

Actions from this meeting

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Partner Update

Kubuntu Update

Release Status

Other Business

Activity reports

Alberto Milone (tseliot)

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

• Technical support requests
  • Advise pmatulis on customer Xorg issue with Intel Clarkdale
  • Advise various people on Xorg-prop-drivers-testers regarding testing issues
  • Advise Duncan on Lucid impact for rootless-x work
  • Advise Thomas Pugliese on Xorg issue with performance on radeon
  • Advise Chase Douglas on Xorg issue with crash on -nv
  • Advise verbalshadow on X issue with radeon starting with -7 kernel
  • Advise Stefan Bader on Xorg issue with high cpu and lockup after hitting enter on new install with -nv
  • Advise Neil Turner with X issue involving wacom on Karmic - suggested trying Lucid
  • Follow up jamie's bug 507148
• Bug triaging
  • Move "keyboard don't work" X bugs to kernel
  • Review -intel bugs with patches
  • Run pci-extract.py against -intel
  • Run symptoms script for -intel
  • Triage bug #513956 - jamie's garbled compiz screen on ATI
  • Triage Bug 513950 - Jamie's xfreeze with compiz but no kms
  • Dupe up Plymouth bug misfiled against X
• Sponsorship

  • Merge Tiago's patch https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/arsenal/+bug/498520

  • Sponsor patch to fix Expose & Dashboard keys in xkeyboard-config (#520519)

  • Sponsor patch to add Intelligent Keyboard support (#458206)

  • Review Sarvatt's failsafeX changes - http://pastebin.com/f58621c19

  • Sponsor patch for: [Bug 389289] Re: Cannot query freedesktop.org's bugzilla
• General packaging and bug fixing
  • Test out triggering a freeze intentionally with gem_hang
  • Fixed typo in xf86-input-evtouch fdi file
  • Update to newer radeontool - 1.6.0
  • Document hal to udev rule conversion
  • Fix gm script which causes OOPses in launchpad, reported by Julian Edwards
  • Troubleshoot karmic printing issue with evince (solved with libcairo 1.8.8-2ubuntu1.1)

• Enablement work for DisplayLink and other hw received at sprint

  • Subscribe Ubuntu-X to xf86-video-displaylink
  • Write blueprint for displaylink, etc. hw enablement
  • Review upstream status for VGA over USB
  • Review xf86-video-displaylink package
• Nouveau
  • Document mmiotrace usage in wiki
  • Plan tasks for uploading nouveau to lucid
  • Cleanup X/KernelModeSetting and include docs for turning KMS *off*
  • Put out call for testing nouveau
  • Ask apw to upload lbm for nouveau
  • Upload plymouth package from nouveau ppa
  • Upload udev package from nouveau ppa
  • Upload nouveau-firmware package from nouveau ppa
• Rootless-X
  • Upload -nohwaccess patch for xserver
  • Upload patch for requiring KMS in -intel
• Administrative
  • Scope out flights for Brussels May 10-14
  • Expense report for portland sprint

Chris Cheney (ccheney)

Didier Roche (didrocks)

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

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: implemented
• desktop-lucid-xorg-halsectomy: implemented
• desktop-lucid-bug-management: reviewed package hooks, one can benefit from default titles (that is still TODO)

Non-blueprint work done:

• Bug fixing: cups, gnome-disk-utility, gnome-menus, jockey, pyxdg, udev, udisks
• Package updates: gnome-disk-utility, gnome-menus
• De-hal-ified bluez (avoids hal startup on boot)
• Packaged python-gudev (for usage in pitivi)
• Packaged udisks (successor/renaming of devicekit-disks), and ported reverse dependencies to it (gnome-disk-utility, usb-creator)
• Packaged upower (successor/renaming of devicekit-power), ported reverse dependencies (gnome-power-manager, indicator-session; latter merge is being reviewed by DX)
• Discussed/measured UNE boot performance, tried some changes (4h)
• TB meeting
• Catch up on MIR reviews

Sponsoring:

• acct, dput, evolution-data-server (hardy), fftw3, gnome-vfs, gnu-efi, gpgme1.0, ibus (needs update from submitter), libdvdnav, lintian, metacity, mono-tools, pkg-create-dbgsym, texinfo, udev

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

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