2010-06-08

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For minutes of previous meetings, please see DesktopTeam/Meeting.

Meeting Minutes

Present

Main Meeting

  • Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair

  • Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

  • Bryce Harrington (bryce)
  • Chris Cheney (ccheney)
  • Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)
  • Didier Roche (didrocks)
  • Gary Lasker (tremolux)
  • 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

Actions from this meeting

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Partner Update

OLS

  • Weekly releases start tomorrow

  • Weekly server-side rollouts every Tuesday
  • Weekly desktop releases every Wednesday

DX

Kubuntu Update

Software Center Update

  • UI Enhancements
    • Hide non-applications feature is complete and will be rolled out with this week's release
  • Buy Something
    • Full end-to-end integration targeted for A3 and will be a major effort at the distro sprint in July
    • Required Launchpad work targeted for next regular Launchpad upload window on June 30th
    • The ability to write code against a mock billing API is going live this week
    • Billing system and LP communication stubs is defined and planned for June 30th release
    • Software center is now able to log into Launchpad using launchpadlib in a non-blocking manner
  • New Apps on a Stable Release
    • New apps process is designed, detailed definition is in-process
    • Community process for contributing new apps needs detailed definition
    • Back end support is in place in Software Center to begin testing with the new archive once it is available
    • Detailed UI design and specification for discovery/presentation of new apps is needed and is in-process

UNE Update

Release Status

http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/maverick/canonical-desktop-team-maverick-alpha-2.html http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/maverick/canonical-desktop-team-maverick-alpha-2.svg

Other Business

Activity reports

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

  • 2 day sprint with mvo to get language-selector-development going
  • chat with Michael Forrest (design) about language-selector UI design
  • vacation last week
  • preparing and upload new language-packs with updated Firefox translations for the Firefox 3.6.4 transition for Hardy, Jaunty and Karmic. All available in the language-pack PPA.
  • arranging travel for the desktop sprint

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Chris Cheney (ccheney)

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)

Chris Halse Rogers (RAOF)

Didier Roche (didrocks)

  • short week (Friday as a swap day)
  • alpha1:
    • test desktop and une alpha1
  • UNE:
    • bug triaging
    • cleaning UNE packages and pushed dee, indicator-datetime, unity-asset-pool, libunity-misc and unity to maverick
    • new release of bamf, clutk, dee, indicator-datetime, unity-asset-pool, libunity-misc, unity
    • mutter: add patches needed for unity
    • ubuntu-netbook-default-settings: fix call to register default gconf value (fix the interface not showing for alpha1)
    • wrote corresponding MIR
  • GNOME:

Gary Lasker (tremolux)

  • Software Center
    • Reviewed branches lp:~j-johan-edwards/software-center/hide_nonapp_pkgs and lp:~mvo/software-center/hide_nonapps_pkgs_xapian
    • Integrated and finished the "hide non-applications" feature based on above, used mvo's Xapian-based approach
      • Much nicer user experience, much improves the "Provided by Ubuntu" view
      • Branch to mvo for review
      • Feature will roll out with this week's release
    • Reviewed mvo's channel code refactoring in trunk
    • Reviewed and tested lp:~mvo/software-center/launchpad-login/

    • Bug fix: UnboundLocal error when /var/log/apt/history.log is empty

    • Weekly Software Center call
    • Meeting today with Ricardo Kirkner to learn/discuss Payment API
  • tzdata, LP: #578650
    • Prepared 2020j updates for lucid, karmic, jaunty, hardy and dapper
    • Tested in -proposed, fix released for all but dapper (last pending proper testing)
  • Misc
    • Made travel arrangements for Prague

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

  • testing, fixing and releasing alpha 1
  • start organising Kubuntu Tutorials Day
  • Testing and fixing upgrade from KDE SC 4.4 to 4.5
  • discussing kubuntu.org update

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

  • Completed porting gwibber python API to libgwibber
  • Started on gtk widgets for libgwibber
  • Finished mono bindings for libindicate
  • Ported libindicate python bindings from indicate-python sources to libindicate
  • Weekly DX releases
  • Created mono bindings for libgwibber

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Accessibility

  • Uploaded gnome-orca and mousetweaks 2.31.3 to maverick.
  • OpenTTS is now packaged, still got a few copyright issues to sort, but technically, its done. Still need to test the packages.
  • Updated at-spi2 packages, still need to upload them to a PPA.

Audio

  • Audio bug triaging, bugs in question were against the alsa userspace packages, pulseaudio, and the kernel.
  • Merged in Debian's latest alsa-driver changes for maverick.
  • Reviewed a patch from the pulseaudio mailing list regarding the alsa a52 plugin and pulse. Its still not working, but is looking good already. There may be a way to privde users with S/PDIF multi-channel audio output support soonish, and offer it as another installable package in maverick.

Misc

  • Sponsored uploads for Robert Ancell

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

  • ghostscript: Debian considered too much of the upstream source files as non-free. Instead of removing the whole Resource/CMap/ directory from the source tarball, only 61 of the 242 files in the directory were actually non-free (there are many files from Adobe where Adobe moved to a free software license and some files from Artifex which were always free). Discussed this with the upstream developers of Ghostscript and removed only the 61 really non-free files and with this fixed the Ghostscript part of LP: #321932.
  • foomatic-filters: Finished upstream fix of foomatic-rip not stopping with an error if certain issues occur. This made many jobs considered to be printed but they did not get actually printed. This should fix LP: #570522.
  • Answered and triaged printing-related bug reports.

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