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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
• Transitioning from A3
• Pitivi
• Release Bugs/Release Status
• Review activity reports
• Any other business

Discussion

Actions from this meeting

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Partner Update

• Online Services:
  • libubuntuone, the gtk widgets is ready for upload to lucid
  • rhythmbox ubuntuone-music-store is ready for upload to lucid
  • U1 config tool, which replaces the current applet, is still on track to land before feature freeze.
• DX:

  • Weekly Releases.

  • indicator-sound has landed in lucid
  • ayatana folks are still working on patching applications to use the application indicators, packages are rolling in

Kubuntu Update

Transitioning from A3

Finish blueprints this week, then:

1. Find and fix the worst bugs (how to find and track?)
2. Ensure a smooth upgrade experience (how to test?)
3. Integrate the latest and greatest

Pitivi

How to define ready to ship?

Release Status

• http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/canonical-desktop-team-lucid-alpha-3.html

• f-spot to handle editing (need to finish this work)
  • kenvandine working on
  • crop, rotation, red-eye required
  • view next is nice to have
  • link from eog to f-spot

Other Business

Activity reports

Alberto Milone (tseliot)

Edit conflict - other version:

Edit conflict - your version:

• Helped the OEM team from the Lexington office
• Updated the Broadcom wireless driver in Lucid
• Ported fglrx to the alternatives system (still in the upstream git)
• Discussing with NVIDIA the issues with suspend/resume in Lucid
• Sent a status update on proprietary drivers to the Xorg-prop-drivers-testers mailing list
• Working on the plymouth theme
• Working on nvidia-common (LP: #518879)

End of edit conflict

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)

• Off Feb 11 - 15
• Worked on libsoup2.4, now done except for some bits that probably belong directly in glib and gnutls

Didier Roche (didrocks)

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Edit conflict - other version:

done:

• On holiday all last week
• KDE 4.4 packaging and release and overseeing backports
• Amarok 2.3 beta packaging
• Fix kimpanel for ibus and compiling without scim
• new libindicator-qt packaging and testing
• Testing daily images, some bugs in ubiquity reported
• fix nepomuk to work in dolphin
• fix plasma-netbook to include ubiquity icon on live image

Edit conflict - your version:

End of edit conflict

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

• backported patch for f-spot to allow editing in view mode (still has crashers, working on it)
• more SFTS work, gwibber is ready for the MIR
• created package for the new empathy adium theme, but need to square away package names, etc with design team
• updated packaging for libubuntuone and rhythmbox-ubuntu-one-store
• synced all the indicator related packages to the application indicators karmic ppa
• weekly releases of course, including the new indicator-sound

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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