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Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Chris Cheney (ccheney)

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)

Chris Halse Rogers (RAOF)

Didier Roche (didrocks)

Gary Lasker (tremolux)

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

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[17:29] <seb128> sorry u1-ers but it's meeting time for the desktop team now so you will have to be quiet or move to another channel Wink ;-)
[17:30] <seb128> chrisccoulson, didrocks, tremolux, Riddell, kenvandine, pitti, hey
[17:30] <nessita> seb128: no problem, thanks for the patience!
[17:30] <Riddell> hi
[17:30] <seb128> (did I forget anybody?)
[17:30] * tremolux waves
[17:30] <seb128> rickspencer is on holidays this week
[17:30] <seb128> so I'm leading the meeting
[17:30] <ArneGoetje> Hi all... I'm still around.
[17:30] <seb128> hey ArneGoetje
[17:30] <seb128> ok, nice Wink ;-)
[17:30] * kenvandine waves
[17:31] <seb128> ok, so let's get started
[17:31] <didrocks> hey
[17:31] <seb128> not outstanding action it seems
[17:31] <gicmo> hey mvo!
[17:31] * gicmo hugs mvo back
[17:31] <gicmo> hey rodrigo_
[17:31] <seb128> kenvandine, partner update?
[17:32] <kenvandine> sure
[17:32] <gicmo> rodrigo_, what was your lame excuse for not coming to GUADEC again?
[17:32] <gicmo> Wink ;-)
[17:32] <rodrigo_> gicmo, how you're doing?
[17:32] <kenvandine> UbuntuOne "generations" work has landed for the client, this is the peformance improvements for file sync. There are still a few items to finish on the server side, but that will be done very soon.
[17:32] <rodrigo_> gicmo, didn't want to see you Smile :)
[17:32] <gicmo> rodrigo_, ahh, valid reason I guess!
[17:32] <gicmo> Wink ;-)
[17:32] <kenvandine> single signon client is about ready, but blocked on server deployment by ISD. ubuntuone-preferences and the music store plugin are ready to use it if it lands. If the sso client doesn't make it, they gracefully fall back to the web login.
[17:32] <rodrigo_> gicmo, no, seriously, I had a travel the week before for the platform spring
[17:32] <rodrigo_> sprint
[17:32] <gicmo> ah!
[17:32] <gicmo> i see
[17:32] <seb128> rodrigo_, gicmo: sorry but we are having a meeting there
[17:32] <rodrigo_> gicmo, so didn't feel like being 2 weeks away
[17:32] <rodrigo_> oh sorry
[17:32] <seb128> rodrigo_, gicmo: can you move to query?
[17:33] <gicmo> sure, sorry seb
[17:33] <seb128> thanks
[17:33] <kenvandine> so U1 is looking ok for a3... sso didn't make it for a3 but that is pretty low risk i think if we get it soon
[17:33] <seb128> ok
[17:33] <seb128> I hope they will work on improving the changes they did this cycle
[17:33] <kenvandine> DX has been keeping a great schedule of getting stuff out, things are in pretty good shape
[17:33] <Chipaca> and471: do you have a screenshot? I'm talking with johnlea Smile :)
[17:34] <seb128> especially the nautilus and rhythmbox ones
[17:34] <kenvandine> seb128, well the generations stuff should be a big improvement for file sync
[17:34] <seb128> we got bugs about nautilus being quite slow due to u1
[17:34] <kenvandine> yeah
[17:34] <seb128> and the rb u1 icon in the bar is weird
[17:34] <seb128> the dialog with no "close" but just "tweet" as well
[17:34] <mvo> and471, Chipaca: I'm off for dinner, but if there is anything I can help with the merge, please let me know I will read scrollback
[17:34] <kenvandine> is there a bug on that?
[17:35] <kenvandine> that could be ported to use libgwibber Smile :)
[17:35] <kenvandine> and the icon should probably look different
[17:35] <seb128> dunno, I will open one later if not
[17:35] <kenvandine> or be represented differently
[17:35] <kenvandine> please assign the ubuntu bug to me
[17:35] <kenvandine> so i see it
[17:35] <seb128> kenvandine, dx do you know where we stand concerning the connman indicator?
[17:35] <kenvandine> right now it is confusing imho
[17:35] <seb128> kenvandine, ok
[17:36] <kenvandine> i think the plan is to go with connman in une still, right?
[17:36] <kenvandine> didrocks,
[17:36] <seb128> I doubt it
[17:36] <kenvandine> i asked kvalo about that in prague
[17:36] <kenvandine> he thought we still would... but i know OEMs don'e want it
[17:36] <kenvandine> yet
[17:36] <didrocks> kenvandine: no, we talked about it together in Prague, it will be very late for the change
[17:36] <seb128> ok, I will follow up with you guys and dx about that later
[17:36] <kenvandine> ok
[17:36] <seb128> thanks kenvandine
[17:36] <kenvandine> that is all i have
[17:37] <seb128> does anybody has other questions for kenvandine?
[17:37] <didrocks> no question for me
[17:37] <seb128> ok
[17:37] <seb128> let's move on
[17:38] <seb128> Riddell, hey
[17:38] <seb128> Riddell, kubuntu update?
[17:38] <Riddell> afternoon
[17:38] <chrisccoulson> b'ah, i don't get notified in the indicator anymore when someone highlights me in xchat
[17:38] <Riddell> - 4.5.0 is in the archive and compiled, although some changes from upstream are still possible and kde-l10n needs to be uploaded again
[17:38] <Riddell> - CDs for alpha 3 due to be spinned after this publisher run
[17:38] <Riddell> - message indicator on for chat but not e-mail clients following kubuntu meeting decision
[17:38] <Riddell> - yay our new website finally went live
[17:38] <Riddell> - reverted back to dragon video player, kaffeine has issues
[17:38] <Riddell> - ubuntuone-kde file syncing progressing well, mostly blocked on 'upstream' merging patches to support kwallet
[17:39] <Riddell> in unrelated news, libmpcdec3 did a transition to libmpcdec6 and gstreamer needs to update, who does that?
[17:39] <seb128> did debian did the same transition?
[17:40] <Riddell> yes
[17:41] <seb128> I guess any motu who wants to rebuild it or resync on debian
[17:41] <seb128> since it's in universe
[17:41] <Riddell> ok
[17:41] <seb128> feel free to do an upload if you want
[17:42] <kenvandine> Riddell, upstreaming being OLS right?
[17:42] <Riddell> kenvandine: yes
[17:42] <kenvandine> Riddell, feel free to point me at those patches and i will get on them about it Smile :)
[17:43] <Riddell> kenvandine: https://code.launchpad.net/~apachelogger/ubuntuone-client/kwallet-support/+merge/311
[17:43] <micahg> Riddell: bug 611024 is for the libmpcdec transition, seems gstreamer was forgotten
[17:43] <ubot2> Launchpad bug 611024 in xmms2 (Ubuntu) (and 13 other projects) "Rebuild for libmpcdec3 → libmpcdec6 transition (affects: 2) (heat: 16)" [Undecided,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/611024
[17:43] <Riddell> no https://code.launchpad.net/~apachelogger/ubuntuone-client/kwallet-support/+merge/31138
[17:43] <Riddell> https://code.launchpad.net/~apachelogger/desktopcouch/kwallet-support/+merge/31135
[17:44] <seb128> Riddell, thanks
[17:44] <seb128> anybody having questions or comments about the kubuntu update?
[17:45] <seb128> seems not, moving on
[17:45] <seb128> didrocks, UNE update?
[17:45] <didrocks> sure
[17:45] <didrocks> Fresh unity from Monday, ready for rocking A3:
[17:45] <didrocks> * add support for places in the launcher
[17:45] <didrocks> improved power and CPU management (more to come!)
[17:45] <didrocks> browseable unity-place-files
[17:45] <didrocks> lot of bug fixes
[17:45] <didrocks> UNE got shotwell by default for A3!
[17:46] <didrocks> evolution and banshee got dedicated desktop file for UNE session but not showing up in the session (bug in unity-place-applications)
[17:46] <didrocks> banshee still wait on the udev backend to be merged into trunk
[17:46] <didrocks> that's it, A3 is looking good in a nutshell Smile :)
[17:46] <seb128> didrocks, do you still have any mir pending approval?
[17:47] <seb128> didrocks, if you do please ping asac about those
[17:47] <didrocks> (special kudos to pitti for the image size)
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[17:47] <didrocks> seb128: there will be two: banshee once the udev backend is there, and another one for zg-extension with the new zg
[17:47] <seb128> ok
[17:47] <didrocks> but for now, I'm not blocked
[17:47] <seb128> alright
[17:47] <seb128> didrocks, nice job!
[17:47] <chrisccoulson> and mir for chromium too?
[17:48] <seb128> chrisccoulson, let's come back in that after the status updates
[17:48] <chrisccoulson> ok, carry on Wink ;)
[17:48] <seb128> didrocks, thanks
[17:48] <seb128> didrocks, I don't think will still need you, feel free to run for your dinner
[17:49] <seb128> ok, moving on
[17:49] <seb128> tremolux, hey
[17:49] <tremolux> seb128: hi!
[17:49] <tremolux> of, s-c update:
[17:49] <didrocks> seb128: thanks a lot, still some free minutes there Smile :)
[17:49] <tremolux> Buy Something: Good progress client and server, end-to-end integration demoed in Prague with test server; now refining UI, improve error handling, integrate metadata support
[17:49] <tremolux> New Apps: New apps displayed in carousel and in list ordered by date they appeared (newest first), custom metadata and LP icon support near-complete
[17:49] <tremolux> UI Enhancements: Added support to detect and display packages for which there is not an associated repository (or it has been disabled)
[17:49] <tremolux> General: We nailed down a plan at Prague rally for long-term server-side metadata capabilities (meanwhile we are using current LP facility)
[17:49] <tremolux> (detailed report on wiki, thanks!)
[17:49] <tremolux> (woah, large)
[17:51] <seb128> tremolux, thanks
[17:51] <tremolux> seb128: sure thing Smile :)
[17:51] <tremolux> I think we are in good shape for a3
[17:51] <seb128> impressive work going on s-c this cycle, kudos to you, mvo, didrocks and other contributors Wink ;-)
[17:52] <tremolux> thanks a lot seb128 Smile :)
[17:52] <seb128> anybody having any s-c related question?
[17:52] <seb128> didrocks landed oneconf to maverick this week on a similar note if people want to test it
[17:53] <seb128> ok, moving on
[17:53] <seb128> the freeze for alpha3 started today
[17:53] <seb128> you are welcome to help testing iso if you can
[17:54] <seb128> http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/maverick/canonical-desktop-team-maverick-alpha-3.html
[17:54] <seb128> that's our workitems line for this cycle
[17:54] <seb128> not really great but it got a bit unregular due to holidays, confs, travelling, etc
[17:55] <seb128> we postponed and dropped some specs but nothing which was important
[17:56] <seb128> chrisccoulson, kenvandine, tremolux: you still have one work item, if you don't get it done by thursday please don't forget to move it to beta
[17:56] <kenvandine> will do
[17:56] <seb128> other remaining items are mostly raof
[17:56] <tremolux> will do
[17:56] <seb128> now is about time to get your list of work items for next iteration on shape as well
[17:57] <seb128> ideally we would have those defined before alpha3
[17:57] <seb128> so please try to spend some time on that this week
[17:57] <seb128> don't take over what you can do
[17:57] <seb128> and let's try to take holidays and conferences into account this cycle
[17:57] <seb128> so if you are away during august please adjust your workitems count to reflect that
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[17:59] <seb128> ok
[17:59] <seb128> that said, going back to chrisccoulson's question
[17:59] <seb128> chrisccoulson, chromium? Wink ;-)
[18:00] <seb128> chrisccoulson, how is your workload atm? settling down a bit after the firefox security updates?
[18:00] <chrisccoulson> yeah, i've had time to do other maintenance activities, write a firefox extension and write a bot for uploading symbols to mozilla
[18:00] <seb128> nice
[18:00] <chrisccoulson> it's been a nice change Smile :)
[18:01] <seb128> how is the firefox bug to upstream thing going?
[18:01] <chrisccoulson> yeah, we're mostly there. i'm currently blocked on being able to push the crash symbols from the datacenter, but i'm talking to IS about that now
[18:02] <seb128> ok
[18:02] <chrisccoulson> so i'll probably be uploading symbols manually in the meantime, which is not good for my bandwidth Wink ;)
[18:02] <seb128> chrisccoulson, do you think you will have some time for chromium to check with the security team and fta what implication moving to main would have?
[18:03] <chrisccoulson> yeah, sure. we need fta to still be able to upload it really
[18:03] <seb128> chrisccoulson, we also need to figure what to do for translations, I guess for now it would just not have langpacks or translations stripping
[18:03] <seb128> chrisccoulson, do we have rdepends that will need to be promoted as well if we promote chromium?
[18:03] <chrisccoulson> i'm not sure yet, i'll look at that though
[18:04] <seb128> ok
[18:04] <seb128> can you take an action item to check that for next meeting?
[18:04] <chrisccoulson> yeah, can do
[18:04] <chrisccoulson> also,
[18:04] <seb128> [ACTION] chrisccoulson to check chromium rdepends and to figure what implication promoting it would have for security and contributors
[18:04] <chrisccoulson> people are still having issues with buildd capacity (particularly with PPA's), and that's going to get a whole lot worse with chromium in main
[18:05] <Chipaca> and471: mvo: nessita: rodrigo_: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TheGreatUbuntuSingleSignOnClientsMergeOf2010 (WIP)
[18:05] <chrisccoulson> i'm not sure how we're going to handle that Wink ;)
[18:05] <seb128> chrisccoulson, we got an ack for extra buildds
[18:05] <seb128> so the situations should be better rsn
[18:05] <seb128> I'm not sure when rsn is though Wink ;-)
[18:05] <chrisccoulson> seb128 - cool, thanks
[18:05] <chrisccoulson> fta^
[18:06] <seb128> ok
[18:06] <seb128> any other topic? questions? comment?
[18:06] <fta> chrisccoulson, yeah, i won't hold my breath on that though
[18:08] <seb128> ok, seems note
[18:08] <seb128> thanks everybody, and don't forget to get your beta work items in shape this week

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