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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 Rogers (RAOF)

Apologies

Agenda

• Outstanding actions from last meeting
• Partner Update
• Kubuntu Update
• x-update
• mozilla update
• Release Bugs/Release Status
• Review activity reports
• Any other business

Actions from this meeting

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Partner Update

Kubuntu Update

x update

mozilla update

UDS

• Book travel
• Blueprints, start thinking about what you what
• Sponsorship, who should be sponsored?

Release Status

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

Other Business

Activity reports

Alberto Milone (tseliot)

• Fix LP: #522969 call gmenucache trigger in all nvidia drivers.
• Upload new fglrx driver compatible with Lucid's xserver.
• Upload new Nvidia driver with a fix for the fan control bug.
• Fix link to OpenCL.so library in nvidia-current.
• Fix LP: #508890 Nautilus crashes when there are multiple XScreens.
• Add missing link in fglrx which prevented the VA API from working.
• Further packaging fixes for fglrx committed upstream.
• Working on the implementation of plymouth's smooth transition in Kdm.

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

• X Stabilization
  • Plan out UDS X sessions
  • Write meeting minutes from X meeting
  • Write up status on X stabilization work
  • Add to X/Projects
  • Make procmail save bugs with tag 'lucid' to launchpad.lucid
  • Send thoughts about modesetting bug troubleshooting to kernel team
  • Triaging -ati bug reports
  • Upstream -ati bug #513956
• Arsenal
  • Evaluate genshi to replace tt2
  • Reimplement milestone report in Arsenal
  • Write some scripting suggestions for tseliot for -nvidia
  • Plan work to improve process-new-bugs.py
  • Plan tasks to flesh out fix-titles.py more
  • Make a graph showing bugs per package that are tagged 'lucid'
  • Add nVidia Corporation G84 [10de:0407]
  • Set up chroot on blumonc that pulls in versions from debian and from prior releases
  • Set up package report cronjob
• Bug Work
  • Run script on several packages to request retesting with new drm
  • Help keybuk try to diagnose a kms issue (bug #539730)
  • Troubleshoot why lshw causes screen to go corrupt (#527369)
• Multitouch low level support
  • Test apw's kernel bits on lucid
  • Test touch screen support on new Fujitsu touchscreen laptop
• Identify UI polish settings and create scripts to apply them
• Test filing apport info from alternate machines
• Review kees' procmail rules and scope out redoing my rules to be more concise
• Arrange UDS travel

Chris Cheney (ccheney)

• Uploaded openoffice.org 1:3.2.0-4ubuntu1 to lucid
• Uploaded openoffice.org-l10n 1:3.2.0-4ubuntu1 to lucid
• Uploaded openoffice.org-dictionaries 1:3.2.0~rc2-2ubuntu1 to lucid
• Uploaded openoffice.org 1:3.2.0-4ubuntu0ppa1 to karmic ppa per support team
• Uploaded openoffice.org-l10n 1:3.2.0-4ubuntu0ppa1 to karmic ppa per support team
• Working on patches for next openoffice.org release to fix remaining major bugs
• Working on revising patch for epiphany-browser to correct crash bugs

Chris Halse Rogers (RAOF)

• X Stabilisation:
  • Drive through nouveau DDX bugs; all are upstream or awaiting info from reporters

  • Use upstream-testing section from NouveauEvaluation to start a Nouveau troubleshooting page

  • Pull some safe, small fixes from nouveau kernel tree for some small bugs we've filed. After testing the kernel, these will get sent to the kernel team.
  • Poke at Intel GPU hang list. With Sarvatt's help, we're down from more than 50 to 24, and we've identified a kernel patch that got accidentally dropped from the -16 kernel that should fix a large class of these.

  • Start on a patch to make VESA bail when kms is active; if VESA tries to drive a kms screen it results in pretty “blooming” rather than a useful display. Patch works, just requires some more autofoo & checks to ensure it's acceptable upstream.

• F-Spot
  • Fixed the obnoxious problem where editing would make photos with orientation information mysteriously rotate by 90 degrees. As an added benefit, orientation information is now preserved when saving files.
  • Added the (hopefully!) final polish - handling when files appear in the directory f-spot's watching, and fixing the worst part of bug #175191 by preventing the incorrect timestamps being written to imported files.
  • Triaged some f-spot bugs while I was in the neighbourhood.
• gnome-keyring-sharp

  • The keyring daemon in 2.30 no longer exports a socket interface, and gnome-keyring-sharp is totally dependent on that socket interface. Bug 536925 tracks this.

  • Poked at upstream, who are not particularly active.
  • There's a partial replacement by an upstream broken by the change on the bug, but that's unlikely to be acceptable to gnome-keyring-sharp upstream.

  • I'll keep prodding upstream & get an acceptable plan of attack

Didier Roche (didrocks)

• Away on Wednesday and Thursday for Solution Linux at Canonical booth
• WI related work:
  • gdm: continue working on setting gdm sound on and off at login. Encountered several pitfalls but on good track now.
• Non WI related work:
  • UNE:
    • bug triaging
    • Merge outcomers contribution
    • review/setup a list of bug that should be close for beta 2
  • Prepare migration to clutter 1.2 (needed for GNOME 2.30). Needs updated introspection packages which involves work on:
    • clutter 1.2 (update)
    • clutter-gtk 0.10.4 (update)
    • gtk 2.0 (enabling and fix introspection build)
    • atk (enabling introspection)
    • pango (enabling and fix introspection build)

      -> will deliver that by Wednesday (or sooner) in the desktop team ppa

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Assigned blueprints: All implemented

Done:

• Bug fixing: apport, cdbs, udisks, policykit-default-privileges, gdm, gnome-settings-daemon, devicekit-disks, udisks, gnome-power-manager, jockey, libatasmart, media-player-info, libgphoto2, poppler, udisks
• New versions: pm-utils, libgphoto2
• Release management for Beta-1
• CD install and upgrade testing
• Debugged Kubuntu plymouth breakage
• Job interview

Sponsoring:

• None this week. I suck.

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

• desktop updates: libgpod gtksourceview totem-pl-parser gedit nautilus-sendot totem gtkmm telepathy-gabble
• upgraded several machines to lucid beta1, did iso testing and new installations too
• backported indicator-me fixes for status and focus issues
• backported a gnome-desktop change to fix a gnome-settings-daemon crash
• updated gnome-menus to fix some upgrade issues
• debugged gnome-panel hardy upgrade issues, fix that and some other small bugs on the way
• rebuild gir-repository with the gnome-menus binary since it's built from gnome-menus now
• backported nautilus change to not display a frame around the desktop background
• did a rhythmbox git fixes backporting sprint
• resynced papyon on the debian version
• debugged a telepathy-gabble crasher with upstream, got it fixed and the fix in lucid
• emailed gnome-keyring and gnome list about concerning issues in the current versions,
  • got most of those fixed thanks to upstream rocking job
• updated libgnome-keyring and gnome-keyring to git snapshots in lucid
• backported papyon upstream changes to fix a crasher and add some debugging informations
• reviewed and uploaded gtk changes from Cody to fix fileselector directory selection
  • issues and Michael to speed up software-center
• backported libgnomekbd change to have the font color matching the theme in the keyboard indicator
• cleaned evolution-indicator spamming session log
• did another rhythmbox git fixes backporting sprint
• looked at gdm issues with didrocks
• update gnome-menus caching code to not translate things that should not be translated
• updated gnome-session to undo string change
• sponsoring: indicator-sound libindicator indicator-application ubuntu-mono

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

• Plug'n'Firmware: Worked out with mvo (update-notifier) a concept so that if a firmware-hungry printer (HP LaserJet 1000/1005/1018/1020/P100x/P150x) is connected but the needed firmware file is not installed on the computer hp-plugin (tool for firmware download and installation) is automatically popped up so that the user installs the missing firmware. This is triggered by update-notifier checking UDEV events. Uploaded new HPLIP package containing a wrapper for hp-plugin, so that the firmware installation works also without having Qt installed.

• Ghostscript: Some code clean-up on the "cups" output device to avoid segfaults in PostScript/PDF error conditions (LP: #534525).
• foo2zjs: Applied upstream fix to driver wrapper scripts to support custom page sizes via filter command line (LP: #539242), improved Debian patch so that downloaded color profiles and firmware files get installed at the correct place.
• Answered and triaged printing-related bug reports.

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)

• General:
  • Fixed a gnome-applets issue where the old keyboard switcher was not being cleaned from panel configs on upgrade
  • Acquired a 3G dongle and started investigating an issue some people are seeing where the dongle does not appear to be visible if connected during boot
  • Fixed a scrolling issue in gnome-terminal, introduced by my profile changes
  • Reviewed a nm-applet patch to correctly update existing notifications. Just waiting for this to be merged
  • Disabled the web UI by default again in transmission
  • Bug triage
  • Sponsoring: conkeror, gnome-web-photo, transmission
• xulrunner 1.9.2 transition:
  • mozvoikko (done - needed a minor build-system change)
  • swt-gtk (done - needed quite a few source changes)
  • totem (done - dropped the xulrunner build depends, it's not needed)

  • xiphos (done - needed a fix to workaround a change in the GtkMozEmbed API)

  • chmsee (done - merged with Debian and applied a fix to load the 1.9.2 GRE)
  • gjs (test suite fails on i386. i spent some time trying to track this down, but not having much luck just yet)

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