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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)

Eastern Edition

• Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

• Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)
• Chris 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

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)

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)

Didier Roche (didrocks)

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Assigned blueprints: all done

Done:

• Bug fixing: gvfs, langpack-locales, pm-utils, rhythmbox, udev
• New upstream version: gvfs
• Release management and engineering, and some related archive administration
• Lots of bug triage
• Caught up on MIR reviews, there were tons of last-minute stragglers
• Booked train tickets for SomeHands/UDS

Sponsoring:

• gnome-doc-utils, language-selector

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

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