2010-09-14
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Meeting Minutes
Present
Main Meeting
- Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair
- 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
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
X Update
Release Status
http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/maverick/canonical-desktop-team-ubuntu-10.10-beta.html
UNE update
USC update
- Buy Something
- purchases of the test item using the production server are successful end-to-end
- plan is to remove the team limitations for test purchases and open the store for general testing, current target very end of the week/early next week
- continued bugfixing in preparation for final freeze
- metadata for the details screen for items-for-purchase is complete
- hosting for screenshots is in-process (for buy-something and new-apps)
- RT for tracking #41184
- New Apps on a Stable Release
- extras.ubuntu.com and corresponding sync from app-review-board PPA are live!
- currently testing and bugfixing using extras.ubuntu.com
- full metadata in the details screen for items in the new-apps repo is now displayed
- in-progress: add extras.ubuntu.com to default sources.list (lp:~mvo/apt-setup/extras-ubuntu-repo)
we are already getting inquiries from folks about how to get their apps into the new repo
- Miscellaneous
- many, many excellent bug fixes this week (many thanks to kiwinote, mmcg069 and devildante!)
- continued focus on bug fixing as final freeze approaches
Other Business
Bugs to be aware of:
Bug |
Title |
telepathy-butterfly crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _handle_UBX() |
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telepathy-butterfly crashed with TypeError in _send_chunk() |
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gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in gkbd_keyboard_drawing_new_dialog() |
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evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in gtk_widget_get_toplevel() |
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gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV |
Activity reports
Bryce Harrington (bryce)
Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)
Chris Halse Rogers (RAOF)
Didier Roche (didrocks)
- UNE
- New unity release: bamf, clutk, unity-place-files, unity-place-applications, unity
- Work on migrating favorites desktop/launchers applications from netbook-launcher, ubuntu GNOME panel and ubuntu GNOME desktop to unity panel. Script integrated on first launch in unity itself.
- change defaults launchers in ubuntu-netbook-default-settings to be more compliant with new schema format and avoid futur issues.
- lot and lot of bug triaging for unity
- help dx team with debugging and setting bug priorities and such
- GNOME:
- work with jelmer to get new evolution-mapi working for maverick for deps:
- sync of openchange, samba4, tdb, teven and trying to workaround getting new update in main component (still a build-dep issue, will dput manual sync this week)
- merge new evo-mapi, still waiting on deps to be sorted.
rhythmbox: adding "smart closing" (only close on close button or <control>w if no music playing and hide otherwise)
- New GNOME 2.31.92: update evince, totem, gnome-system-tools, gnome-bluetooth, totem-pl-parser, folks, shotwell, libsoup
- work with jelmer to get new evolution-mapi working for maverick for deps:
- Misc:
- work on banshee dep with #debian-cli, coordinate, discussion with upstream (libgpod, banshee)
- announce (see UNE status) that banshee won't be the default in UNE maverick
- fix a oneconf typo
- fix undecorated compiz 0.9 in compiz ppa
- sponsor a fix for evolution-data-server, utouch-grail and mtdev new releases, quickly-widgets new release (+FFe)
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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