2010-07-13
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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
- Partner Update
- Kubuntu Update
- Release Bugs/Release Status
- Review activity reports
- Any other business
Discussion
Actions from this meeting
Outstanding actions from last meeting
Partner Update
OLS
- Desktop client for single signon is probably not going to make it for Maverick
DX
- appmenu, plan to turn off duplicate menus this week
Kubuntu Update
UNE Update
Software Center Update
- Buy Something
- Continued excellent progress by Michael Nelson and team on software-center-agent
- Details of progress documented by Michael in regular status updates to buy-something list
Client development continues using the s-c-agent stub server by mvo and tremolux in branches (see buy-something branches at https://code.launchpad.net/software-center)
- Integrated buy-something features to new gtk-based appdetails view
- Continue wiring backend functionality
Continued refactoring for new AppDetails model class
- Lots still to do, but everyone feels on track to meet goal of full end-to-end integration of buy-something while at Prague sprint
- Continued excellent progress by Michael Nelson and team on software-center-agent
- New Apps on a Stable Release
- Added new test apps to app-review-board PPA, they appear in "What's New" panel of software-center
- Next step, implement list view of new apps ordered by date that they appeared, and Soyuz metadata integration for icons
- Added new test apps to app-review-board PPA, they appear in "What's New" panel of software-center
- UI Enhancements
- Navigation history feature updates for new gtk-based details view and single-pane dept screen now complete
- Kiwinote continues to make nice progress on apt-url integration in branch lp:~kiwinote/software-center/deb-files
Matthew McGowan's new GTK-based appdetails view is merged and has been set as the default in trunk
Matthew McGowant currently working on applist view enhancements in branch lp:~mmcg069/software-center/cellrender-buttons201
OneConf in Software Center
mvo has merged his plugin support to software-center trunk for use by didrocks in OneConf integration
- didrocks and mvo working on further design/abstraction of navigation panel to corresponding view when using a plugin
- General
New AppDetails abstraction refactoring and integration continues, provides a very nice UI/backend separation
Need to fill out test cases for AppDetails
- Kiwinote working on startup speedup enhancements at lp:~kiwinote/software-center/sc-and-the-need-for-speed
Release Status
http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/maverick/canonical-desktop-team-maverick-alpha-3.html
Other Business
Activity reports
Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Chris Cheney (ccheney)
Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)
Chris Halse Rogers (RAOF)
Didier Roche (didrocks)
- Was at RMLL most of the week (Tuesday to Sunday), but report Monday and previous week report there:
- UNE:
- unity release (x2: 07/01/10 and 07/12/10):
- unity, unity-places_files, unity-places-application, clutk, bamf,
- backport to lucid ppa
- Alpha2 iso testing
- change ubuntu-netbook-default-settings to show ubiquity on live
- fix notify-osd not running in UNE session if notification-daemon is installed
- sponsor FTBFS in liblauncher for netbook-launcher-efl
- merge mutter with debian
- Update to clutter 1.2.10
- Merging banshee netbook interface changes to maverick
- fix a tiny drawing issue with evolution express
- unity release (x2: 07/01/10 and 07/12/10):
- GNOME
- fix brasero depending on tracker and waiting for build
- SRU empathy 2.30.2 to lucid
- continuous work on the backend, enables it running on very very slow netbook
- add USC integration for login to Ubuntu One. Detect last sync and enable sharing/not package list
- begin to tweak USC for changing view. Important refactoring needed.
- Enables update-notifier to trigger hooks asynchronous and in order to get oneconf refresh list
Gary Lasker (tremolux)
- LP: #601987 - fixed software-center crash with GError
help with refactoring for new AppDetails class (appdetails-in-db branch)
- upgraded my main development machine to maverick, all good
worked on appdetailsview-gtk branch for AppDetails, misc integration
- reviewed, lots of testing, and merged lp:~mmcg069/software-center/appdetailsview-gtk
adds Matthew McGowan's new GTK-based appdetails view
- checked and verified that it also fixes LP: #578650 - appdetails Install button enabled during install
- updated potfiles list for software-center per latest module configuration
- LP: #602610 - fixed crash related to apt cache initialization
- tested, merged lp:~mmcg069/software-center/appdetailsview-gtk, fixes broken description parsing
Mumble with mvo on plan for further work on AppDetails class, continued buy-something design
- reviewed and tested lp:~mmcg069/software-center/cellrender-buttons201, found some intermittent bugs, reported back to Matthew
- got latest revision of software-center-agent, but getting test suite errors and can't run mock server, investigated
- IRC with noodles to report issues; problem seems to be when running the agent under maverick, he is working on a fix
- populate app-review-board PPA with additional test apps
- buy something work with mvo in lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/buy-something
additional refactoring for AppDetails
- implement the "Buy" button to appdetailsview-gtk, wire to mvo's purchase dialog
- small fix in SSO login code
- updated navigation history functionality to work under new gtk-based views and single-pane dept screen
- lots of testing, all cases and navigations now seem good
- uploaded feature to trunk, closed corresponding A3 work item
- Weekly Software Center call
Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
Ken VanDine (kenvandine)
- optimized the facebook backend for gwibber, only pulling new data down from facebook (both in maverick and SRU for lucid).
- - Facebook is throttling all gwibber users, based on queries and throughput from gwibber, optimizing this will get us back under their allocation but it we won't see a big difference until quite a few users get the new version
- telepathy-indicator-approver:
- - built telepathy-glib with vala bindings and applied patch needed for vala (in my ppa for now) - got the approver registering with telepathy as an approver, but now found out we need to add an observer in order to see incoming messages on existing channels
- merged some patches for adium-theme-ubuntu
Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)
Martin Pitt (pitti)
- Reviewed and merged Jos' work item tracker enhancements
- fixed hibernation in upower (LP #599352)
- SRU review and processing
- bug fixing: apport, pkgbinarymangler, udev
- new version updates: pm-utils, calibre
- apport retracer maintenance: enabled maverick
- ddeb archive maintenance
- some archive admin
Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
- dx updates: indicator-application appmenu-gtk indicator-sound ido indicator-sound
- desktop updates: gimp poppler pidgin
- resyncing the new pidgin on debian
- backported a serie of nautilus git changes to fix hundredpapercut issues
- backported debian improvements to the glib triggers
- updated appmenu-gtk and backport several upstream changes
- debugged some empathy issues, updated the package to install migration scripts and recommends telepathy-logger
- uploaded a gdm update to maverick with tweaked version number to be newer than lucid and some git backports
- synced and merge gstreamer debian updates
- workaround vala build issue to get the new version in
- backported a clutter-gtk fix for refresh issues on intel
- changed pygobject to depends on gir1.0-glib-2.0
- sponsored a nautilus typo fix change
- updated rhythmbox to correctly install its vapis
- updated new gimp version from debian
- reapplied papyon workaround for a bug triggering apport dialogs
Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)
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