2010-04-20

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Meeting Minutes

Present

Main Meeting

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)
Travis Hartwell (Nafai)

Eastern Edition

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)
Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)
Chris Halse Rogers (RAOF)

Apologies

Rick Spencer (rickspencer3)

Agenda

Outstanding actions from last meeting
Partner Update
Kubuntu Update
Release Bugs/Release Status
Review activity reports
Review blueprints list
Any other business

Discussion

Actions from this meeting

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Partner Update

OLS

Last minute uploads that will be accepted for lucid after RC:
- pyinotify - including a critical patch
- ubuntuone-client - fixes a nasty bug that would delete local files on interrupted download
- desktopcouch - properly restart desktopcouch when it is needed, it doesn't handle suspend/hibernate well

DX

bug list is under control, current status here
- There are 3 that aren't fix released,

Kubuntu Update

Release Status

http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/canonical-desktop-team-ubuntu-10.04.html

Other Business

Activity reports

Alberto Milone (tseliot)

Done:

LP: #562226 'Hardware Drivers' showing all drivers as active
LP: #553954 plymouth has a non translatable string coming up on screen
LP: #440233 fglrx fails at startup because of missing amdpcsdb.default + removal leaves bad settings in Xorg.conf
LP: #559587 package fglrx (not installed) failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/etc/ati/signature', which is also in package xorg-driver-fglrx 2:8.721-0ubuntu8
LP: #432814 Touchpad: Action for middle and right click is reversed since jaunty
LP: #553200 nvidia-96 Mouse and keyboard stop working after selecting user (Uploaded. Will be approved after the RC)

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

built new language-packs for Lucid
bug fixing in language-selector
font package updates for the Live CD
trying configuration settings for fontconfig to better select CJK fonts

Bryce Harrington

X Bug Work

Assign or decline through all of the X bugs nominated to Lucid
Consider redhat patch - lvds modesetting on -intel and -ati. Opted to not worry about it for now, since it only affects UMS situations anyway.
Make general purpose script to migrate bugs from one package to another
Run script to move all wacom-tools bugs to xf86-input-wacom and ask users re-test Lucid
Solve all high priority triaged xkeyboard-config bugs tagged 'lucid'
Triage all -ati bugs tagged 'lucid'
Update xkeyboard-config POT and set up packaging to regenerate it automatically
Work towards resolving all -ati bugs tagged 'lucid'
Follow up on bunch more bugs. Bugs bugs bugs.

Update Documentation

Document situation and workarounds for i8xx freezes in ReleaseNotes
Heavily update/rewrite X/Reporting with slant towards making good 'defect reports'
Document use of drm.debug=0x04 to get more debugging information in dmesg
Document xorg.conf.d configuration
Sketch up collected thoughts for rootless-x blueprint
Update driver requirements wiki page
Write a ubuntu-x bug report faq

Multitouch

Hook up dorset with new ATI card
Update firmware and then reinstall Ubuntu on MT hardware

Other

Test getting graphics to show up on Persia's displaylink device
Document development work needed to support USB video
Brainstorm objectives for next review period

Chris Cheney (ccheney)

Uploaded openoffice.org 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu1 for hardy, karmic, lucid
- Fix RC bugs: 555716, 555276, 556348, 555977
Uploaded openoffice.org-l10n 1:3.2.0-7ubuntu1 for hardy, karmic, lucid
OOo still has an upgrade problem due to an apt bug(?) but mvo determined the only real way to fix it is through update-manager.

Chris Halse Rogers (RAOF)

X bug work:

i845, i855
- Try to reduce crashes for i855 and i845 users by disabling DRI (Bug #541492 and Bug #541511). Feedback suggests that it hasn't helped enough and has introduced regressions for others.
- There's a big, scary upstream patch for i855 which is starting to be merged into drm-intel-next. This should get backported to stable, and we'll try to SRU it.
- Discussed solutions with Bryce and slangasek. We'll revert the DRI disablement after RC, and document workarounds.
Apart from i8xx, -intel is going well
Noaccel quirks for nouveau worked. Nouveau also looks good

Documentation:

Write a draft mmiotrace howto
Update X/Freezes with some details about common nouveau freezes

Mono

Discovered that libappindicator0-cil wasn't installing correctly. Filed bug 564351, added a patch. Eventually got duped to bug #564506, which has a bigger patch fixing this and making the package CLI-policy compliant.

Packed up flat & moved to Hobart.

Didier Roche (didrocks)

UNE related:
- netbook launcher new release to fix (LP: #554807)
- bug triaging
- No more widespread annoying bug known for lucid release
- iso testing
GNOME:
- update nautilus-action
- integrated patches in gnome-system-tools (LP: #551936), xkeyboard-config (LP: #221112)
- fix guest-user-session depending on your current session (will switch on an UNE gues session if you are on UNE or gnome one otherwise) (LP: #562908) (gdm/gdm-guest-user-session)
- propose empathy 2.30.0.2 as an SRU
- revert gthumb to 2.10.x
- add a patch by merging several commit from git to poppler for selection (bug waiting since 2006)! Will be updated after RC. (LP: #33288)
- sponsor ubuntu-wallpapers, pitivi patch, cheese apport hook
- reviewing other patch in metacity, but won't make them in lucid
Misc:
- release and update Quickly 0.4, blog about it too
- some patches in trunk for 0.4.1
- work on pyjunior to leverage pygtk knowledge and cleaning the project
- register latest blueprint not registered already after last week feedbacks: (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-maverick-oneconf)

(an awesome community member take from my initial notes on to setup a first draft (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OneConf). I just polished it)

some time reserved to gsoc mentee for duplicate handling

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

done:

CD and upgrade testing
Update kdepim to include missing kstatusnotifieritem patch, later removed due to issues with gnome
Update kdebase-workspace with kstatusnotifieritem patch for krandrtray and improved brightness feedback
Security update for KDM in intrepid, jaunty and karmic
Fix colibri so it doesn't conflict
Fix password loading in plasma-widget-googlecalendar
Patch kdesdk not to need packages in universe
Update libmsn and kdenetwork for new version

todo:

RC testing and release

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

uploaded pyinotify, desktopcouch, and ubuntuone-client
blueprints are registered!
chased down the gwibber breakage after suspend/resume and proposed the fix for desktopcouch
i18n fixes for gwibber
released gwibber 2.30

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Assigned blueprints: all done