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

  • Weekly releases

  • Desktop client for single signon is probably not going to make it for Maverick

DX

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
  • 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
  • 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

    • 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
  • GNOME
    • fix brasero depending on tracker and waiting for build
    • SRU empathy 2.30.2 to lucid
    • OneConf:

      • 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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