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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)
• Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)
• 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)
• Chris Halse Rogers (RAOF)

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

• ACTION: pitti to drive "hiding X cursor" project

Partner Update

Kubuntu Update

Release Status

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

Other Business

Activity reports

Alberto Milone (tseliot)

* Updated nvidia and nvidia-settings to 195.36.08 * Warned users about a potential issue with Nvidia drivers (no evidence of the problem on Linux so far) * Updated and uploaded the new bootsplash * Made sure that /etc/modprobe.d/lrm-video is removed by nvidia-common (LP: #467490) * Fixed the debconf interface of nvidia-common (thanks Colin Watson for the help) * Further fixes for the packaging scripts of fglrx * Working on 16 colours support for Plymouth

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

• Bug Triaging
  • Triage all fglrx bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Triage all wacom bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Triage all evdev bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Triage all -ati bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Triage New -intel bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Triage Incomplete -intel bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Triage Confirmed -intel bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Symptom tag all -intel bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Symptom tag all -ati bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Symptom tag all mesa bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Symptom tag all evdev bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Symptom tag all wacom bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Work on bugs from high-karma-bugs report for several hours
  • Write email to ubuntu-x@ explaining about lucid tagging scheme
• Upstreaming
  • Upstream all triaged wacom bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Upstream all triaged -intel bugs tagged 'lucid'
  • Upstream lp #531000
• Sponsoring
  • Take care of 8 ubuntu-x-swat bugs with patches
  • sponsor SRU bug #402260
  • Make script to locate sponsorable patches/debdiffs in X packages
• .33 drm backport
  • Install apw's drm from his red ppa onto dorset and run through tests
  • Send out a request-for-testing of new drm by -intel users. Follow up
  • Review .33 drm test results with apw. Reach decision to go forward
    • with the backport.
• Multitouch
  • Study upstream discussions to understand current situation
  • Make a blueprint for multitouch
  • Gather and review the experimental patches/code proposed upstream
• xdiagnose
  • Start maintaining xdiagnose packaging in bzr
  • Set up xdiagnose debian packaging to install failsafeX files
• Apport hooks for X
  • Improve apport hook for X freezes
  • Add info for freeze dump apport hook
• Arsenal
  • Fix unicode bugs in arsenal
  • Plan work to improve triaging scripts
  • Plan better use of ls-gitcommit-bugs.py
  • Check that process-expiration is running daily
  • Fix send_upstream.cgi
  • Start collecting metrics data for bugs tagged 'lucid'
• Hardware upgrades
  • Determine what needs to be done with the motherboard/cpu replacement stuff for Intel HW
  • Test USB/PS2 dongles to support mouse *and* keyboard. Succeed
  • Test fresh install of Alpha-3 on a Fujitsu Lifebook. Succeed unexpectedly
  • Upgrade i945 laptop to alpha-3 from karmic. Succeed
  • Try upgrading webserver from hardy to lucid. Fail. Reinstall from scratch.

Chris Cheney (ccheney)

Chris Halse Rogers (RAOF)

• Checked xorg apport scripts after noticing a strange lack of attachments to a nouveau bug. Fixed the crashes in apport scripts, packaging sponsored by bryce.
• Reviewed apport hooks; they capture all the information upstream would like.
• Reinstated clean upstream HEAD code in xorg-edgers/nouveau PPA to refer interested bug-reporters to in preparation for call for testing.

• Talked with bryce & apw about .33 drm backport kernel. Delayed call for nouveau testing until after -16 ABI reaches the archive.

  • linux-meta now points at the -16 ABI, so send out a call for testing today.
• Tracked down the cause of many of the currently reported nouveau bugs to interference from vga16fb. Verified that the .33 drm backport kernel fixes this for free. Nouveau is now lacking good bugs. Hopefully a call for testing can round some up.
• Poked at libgjs build failure on armel; set up an emulated chroot environment and can reproduce, but haven't found the cause.
• Tracked down and fixed crashers in f-spot patch by kenvanidine, then added functionality. F-Spot's view mode now has editing with undo, browsing, and explicit saving. Package sponsored by seb128, who picked up a bug in save-as. Upstream has expressed interest in the patch, so I'll spend the odd hour cleaning it up to push it into GNOME git.

Didier Roche (didrocks)

* WI related:

• fix gnome-update-cache-wallpaper not installed in gnome-settings-daemon

* Not WI related:

• UNE
  • Play with seeds and ubuntu-netbook metapackage to get the CD size on track again
  • ubuntu-netbook-default-settings: remove Dust theme by default and take lucid one
  • merge and review a patch on liblauncher (show display name)
  • prepare a package for clutk fixing the "more than 8 rows icons spawning"
    • (available in ubuntu-desktop ppa, call for testing done on the related bug reports)
  • bugs triaging
• misc
  • Fix gthumb FTBFS
  • 4 ws on metacity/compiz/mutter by default
  • adjut the changed color in gnome-terminal to get the same than the bg
  • Launchpad hacking (mostly for Quickly):
    • expose gpg key
    • expose ssh key
  • Lot of merge review on Quickly branches and some hacking
  • Prepare and handle session on UODW
• GNOME updates: gnome-settings-daemon, gnome-control-center, gnome-menus,
  • gnome-menus, cheese, gdl, anjuta, gdm, gnome-session

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Assigned blueprints: All implemented

Done:

• Bug fixing: apport, cups, vala, gdm, gnome-disk-utility, gnome-menus, langpack-locales, libatasmart, metacity, pm-utils, udisks, upower, xorg, xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse
• Version updates: langpack-locales, tzdata (for all releases)
• Checked lucid for duplicate libraries/programs, created blueprint and wiki page; worked on transitions to drop a couple of them
• Cleaned up NBS quite a bit
• Migrated packages away from obsolete automake1.7
• Migrated packages to libreadline6
• Transition to drop gtkhtml2 from main
• Reviewed/applied appindicator patch to policykit-1-gnome
• Reviewed/applied appindicator patch to brasero
• gnome-mount/g-v-m/libipoddevice/policykit-gnome cleanup (LP #530829)
• Reviewed language-selector branch, discussed with Arne, sponsored
• Lots of bug triage
• Some conf calls/job interviews
• Spec reviews

Sponsoring:

• acpi-support, apport, brasero, cups, language-selector, policykit-gnome

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)

• General:
  • Updates - gtksourceview2, gedit
  • Fixed a race condition in gnome-power-manager which triggered display blanking whilst not idle
  • Backported a wpasupplicant change from upstream to fix some syslog flooding
  • Implemented the gnome-terminal theme change. I had to patch gnome-terminal to merge the new profile in to the list of profiles for existing users - there still seems to be some issues with this though
  • Uploaded a gnome-system-tools change to fix audio issues when switching users
  • Sponsoring - deskbar-applet
  • Bug triage
  • Tracking down an openjdk-6 build failure as part of the xulrunner 1.9.2 migration work. The issue is triggered by a llvm update, and not caused by xulrunner 1.9.2
  • Started investigating LP #531583. I understand the conditions that trigger the bug now, and asac has given me some pointers for this
  • Worked on the gnome-screensaver apport hook to add the list of idle inhibitors to bug reports (needs some fine-tuning though). This should help track issues where users report their screensaver doesn't activate. I'll probably add the same to the gnome-power-manager hook too (listing idle and suspend inhibits)
• Blueprints:
  • desktop-lucid-new-firefox-support-model - compiled a list of source packages providing Mozilla extensions in the archive. In the process of reviewing which ones we want to keep

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