2010-09-14

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For minutes of previous meetings, please see DesktopTeam/Meeting.

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 Big Grin :)

  • 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

622777

telepathy-butterfly crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _handle_UBX()

629501

telepathy-butterfly crashed with TypeError in _send_chunk()

630239

gnome-settings-daemon crashed with signal 5 in gkbd_keyboard_drawing_new_dialog()

602828

evolution crashed with SIGSEGV in gtk_widget_get_toplevel()

551809

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
  • 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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