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Meeting Minutes

Present

Main Meeting

• Bryce Harrington (bryce)
• 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

• Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair (holidays)

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

Kubuntu Update

Release Status

http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/maverick/canonical-desktop-team-maverick-alpha-3.html

UNE update

• Fresh unity from Monday, ready for rocking A3:
  • add support for places in the launcher
  • improved power and CPU management (more to come!)
  • browseable unity-place-files
  • lot of bug fixes
• UNE got shotwell by default!
• evolution and banshee got dedicated desktop file for UNE session
• banshee still want on the udev backend to be merged into trunk

Other Business

Activity reports

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Chris Cheney (ccheney)

Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)

Chris Halse Rogers (RAOF)

Didier Roche (didrocks)

• distro rally, GUADEC
• UNE:
  • New unity release: clutk, bamf, unity-asset-pool, unity, unity-place-files, unity-place-applications
  • patched vala and experimental clutter/mutter (in desktop ppa for now)
  • backport to lucid UNE ppa
  • update latest libzeigeist
  • add shotwell to UNE default
  • Unity debugging and bug triaging
• GNOME
  • Evolution: Fix FTBFS with latest gtk, add desktop files for evolution express
  • sponsor: lernid, liferea
  • evince: fix bug #607530 (upgrade issue)
  • gdm: add XDG_CONFIG_DIRS on session
  • adds banshee desktop files for the netbook interface
• Misc:

  • finished and upload a first new version of OneConf. Package ready to be tested with last Software Center and update notifier

  • lot of discussion with launchpad team for Quickly
  • some cleanup and contribution to software center
  • ask dh-autoreconf sync
  • banshee : add apport hook and work with jcastro/upstream about

Gary Lasker (tremolux)

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Ken VanDine (kenvandine)

Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)

Martin Pitt (pitti)

• SRU review and processing
• apport retracer maintenance
• archive administration
• bug triage
• coordinated apt rebuilds with mvo
• debugged unwanted suspend on undocking (LP #595985)
• gnome-power-manager bug fixing
• merged libwmf, to get desktop installable again
• prepared and conducted interview for desktop engineer
• python-distutils-extra bug fixing
• release management and engineering
• some package changes to reduce CD space, by eliminating huge upstream changelogs
• udev bug fixing

Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

• distro sprint, GUADEC
• backported a gnome-keyring fix for non ascii keyring names
• lucid sru for the gnome-keyring change
• updated pidgin
• backported an indicator-sound crash fix
• cleaned launchpad-integration .la files to fix build issues
• cleaned an obsolete compiz build-depends
• sponsored Cody's update to fix gtk warnings due to the proxy changes

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

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