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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
• rickspencer3 availability
• Partner Update
• Kubuntu Update
• UNE Update
• Mozilla Update
• Software Center Update
• Release Bugs/Release Status
• Review activity reports
• Any other business

Discussion

Actions from this meeting

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Partner Update

Kubuntu Update

UNE Update

• Unity got places:
  • you can enjoy files and applications place now on UNE to browse recent files and be able to launch applications
  • zeitgeist is used as a backend
  • All seeded by default on maverick
• appmenu bar is also by default on maverick

Mozilla Update

Software Center Update

• Buy Something
  • Excellent progress this week by Michael Nelson and mvo on the Software Center Agent API, stub implementation, and client integration

    • Agent design and implementation details here: https://wiki.canonical.com/Ubuntu/SoftwareCenter/10.10/Roadmap/SoftwareCenterAgent

  • The Agent stub is complete and mvo is running it on his local machine; it provides API stubs for:
    • What is available for purchase?
    • What have I purchased?
    • I want to buy "X"
  • Implementation of the real Agent is in-progress

    • Open issue: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-foundations/+bug/598464

  • mvo has two branches with client features in-progress:
    • Webkit view and JS callbacks for "I want to buy X", database update code at lp:~mvo/software-center/buy-something
    • An ubuntu-sso login object implementation for use with s-c's login dialog at lp:~mvo/software-center/lazr
  • Billing system making good progress and is on-schedule
• New Apps on a Stable Release
  • RT ticket filed for new extras.ubuntu.com archive and sync from app-review-board PPA
  • Continue development using PPA
  • Work on Soyuz metadata integration this week
• UI Enhancements

  • Many beautiful improvements to the main category screen this week from Matthew McGowan

  • Single-pane department screen feature complete
  • All alpha-2 targeted items are done

Release Status

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

Other Business

Activity reports

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Chris Cheney (ccheney)

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)

Chris Halse Rogers (RAOF)

• Unpriviledged X

  • Mail on xorg lists queried why we've discounted ConsoleKit for backlight permissions. Followed up with pitti - it looks like ConsoleKit can provide the permission-setting we need, so there'll be no need for kernel changes for the backlight.

  • Talked with Alberto Milone about OEM's experience of unpriviledged X. They ran into some minor problems with the radeon DDX, which have patches. These shouldn't be problems for Maverick.
• Updated xorg apport hooks: attempt to detect manually installed nvidia drivers, attach information for upstreaming nvidia bugs, and attach KMS info.
• Checked failsafe X options still make sense and still works. They do, and it does. Yay!
• Sent a mail to kernel lists to harmonise kernel/X bug tagging. Apw and jfo are on holiday this week; discussion deferred until they return.

• Document how to get WiFi outside of X in debugging pages.

Didier Roche (didrocks)

• UNE:
  • new unity release: bamf, clutk, dee, libzeitgeist, unity-place-applications, unity-place-files, unity, ubuntu-netbook-default-settings
  • some packaging changes in unity to pull indicators on by default.
  • Backport to lucid UNE ppa and update ubuntu-netbook-unity-default-settings
  • packaging unity-place-applications and first upload to maverick (+ libzeitgeist and unity-place-files)
  • wrote MIR for them and zeitgeist
  • updating zeitgeist for new unity release
  • lot of unity QA (testing, opening bugs, triage some, target others)
  • dx team daily build crazyness support
  • seed indicator-appmenu by default on UNE
• GNOME:
  • evolution:

    • take express2 branch and adapt it to current release. evolution --express is now ready for your pleasure

    • backport upstream patch for having less crasher in alpha2
  • mutter:
    • review all metacity patches and take relevant one which applies to mutter
    • remerge on debian
    • debug and fix SSH_AUTH_SOCK issue on mutter preventing gnome-keyring to show the ssh prompt (LP: #599506)
  • meld: sync on debian
  • update evince, brasero
  • review alf's clutter egl branch. Few work to be done before merging
  • sponsoring: metacity
  • lucid SRU: light-themes, evince, brasero, empathy
• Misc:
  • Quickly:
    • review merge proposed branches:
      • move bzr call to use internal API (Jelmer Vernooij)
      • support user defined template paths (Barry Warsaw
      • add apache license (Monty Taylor)
      • update and improvment of the tutorial (Ryan Macnish)
    • Merge my branch for enhanced API
    • Discuss with LP team about pushing ssh/gpg keys

  • OneConf:

    • drop application/codec detection, only get selection now
    • work with mpt on design
    • return origin from each package

Gary Lasker (tremolux)

• Software Center
  • Completed single-pane department screen UI enhancement

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#Single-pane%20department%20screen

  • Modified subcategory screens to use large icons per spec
  • With above, alpha 2 work items complete

  • Reviewed, tested and merged some great iterations of Matthew McGowan's lp:~mmcg069/software-center/catview-conform-w-spec branch

  • Testing and misc bug fixes in preparation for alpha 2 release
  • Updated LP: #596443 for dupes, documented a workaround, fix released today with version 2.1.4
  • IRC/email thread about New Apps open questions, resolved and moving forward according to updated work item list
  • Opened RT ticket to create extras.ubuntu.com archive and implement sync from app-review-board PPA
  • Software Center bug triage
  • Weekly Software Center call
• Misc
  • New laptop arrived! Ubuntu installed and everything set up; old machine very happy in retirement

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Accessibility

• Further work with Vinux developers to make their derivative somewhat more clean in implementation, packaging settings, cleaning up scripts, and discussing changes.
• Packaged gnome-orca 2.31.4, mousetweaks 2.31.4 for Ubuntu maverick.
• Uploaded an SRU for atk1.0 in lucid, to fix a package upgrade issue for libatk1.0-dev from karmic to lucid.
• Started preparing gnome-orca 2.30.2 for SRU update into luid.
• Looked at accerciser bugs and new upstream releases, and started SRU updating one bug involving warnings when accerciser is started.

Audio

• Audio bug triaging, bugs in question were against the alsa userspace packages, pulseaudio, and the kernel.
• Spent more time with Brad Figg to get lucid alsa daily snapshots building again. Maverick is not fixed, but that is not so urgent at this point.
• Involved with discussion about new firewire stack, which is somewhat related to audio, due to libffado requiring the use of the new firewire stack.
• Found that I get no sound when booting the lucid live CD. Need to check latest maverick images to see if the issue still exists, and address it for one or both releases.

Misc

• More uploading sponsoring for Robert.

Martin Pitt (pitti)

• SRU review and processing (1.5 h)
• bug triage (1 h)
• update-notifier bug fixing (.5 h)

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

• desktop updates and merges on debian: eog farsight file-roller libgnomekbd gnome-panel pidgin-libnotify libgnome-keyring libgweather libsoup appmenu-gtk pyxdg
• fixed a glib build issue
• cleaned a duplicated change in gnome-settings-daemon
• backported some appmenu-gtk upstream changes
• new rhythmbox snapshot
• updated ofono and connman for dx
• updated gjs to fix gnome-shell builds
• new indicator-sound
• debugged and fixed gnome-bluetooth crashing in maverick issue
• updated gtk with recent changes from cody to fix appmenu issues
• backported an upstream gtk change to fix the build with recent glib
• lucid SRU updates: telepathy-sofiasip gedit gtksourceview vinagre gnome-keyring evolution-data-server libgnome-keyring gnome-desktop farsight gnome-panel libsoup libgnomekbd

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

• foomatic-filters: Work for the 4.0.5 release: Logging of printed pages missing when foomatic-rip gets PDF as input, alternative page logging without inserting PostScript code for PostScript input, generation of multiple copies does not work for some drivers. Discussion with Ghostscript upstream developers about Ghostscript's possibilities here.

• Answered and triaged printing-related bug reports.

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