2010-10-05
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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)
- Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
- Michael Terry (mterry)
- 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
UNE update
- No unity release this week, but still a lot of love! Some cherry-pick to fix latest issues, mostly translations one.
- Now shotwell is blacklisted from appmenu, so you can safely run it under UNE.
- I think we are pretty good for the release, no flow of bugs after RC, no showstoppers at least.
- Still working heavily on the icon loading taking long on some hw configuration and others bugs set for an SRU.
USC update
- Buy Something
- Testing continues with $1 test package
- ISD set to deploy round of software-center-agent tweaks and fixes this week
- Ratings and Reviews
- Kicked off development for Natty
- mvo has brought the code out of mothballs and merged with current trunk at lp:~mvo/software-center/reviews
- Miscellaneous
- continued testing, targeted bugfixes over past week
10.10 tagged bugs: http://tinyurl.com/29drbv4
- #647212 mvo has part of a fix, in progress
- #649939 reported fix in policykit by james_w, will likely be SRU
- #652903 and #652927 are fix committed, will likely go in as SRU
Weekly bugs summary
Release Status
http://people.canonical.com/~platform/workitems/maverick/canonical-desktop-team.html
Other Business
Bugs to have a look:
Number |
Title |
Embedded Terminal Emulator isn't giving a TERM variable |
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nautilus crashed with SIGSEGV in g_closure_invoke() |
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Transferring songs from iPod to local drive does not copy extension (ie, .mp3), confusing some portable devices |
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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:
- cherry-pick some fixes: unity, bamf, unity-place-applications, unity-place-fils
- debugging, discussing and helping dx to see which bugs should be fixed for final and for first SRU.
- add an extra string to mutter for 2D/3D detection/
- appmenu-gtk, shotwell : blacklisting shotwell crashing under UNE because of appmenu.
- lot of bug triaging with incoming RC and release
- UNE seeds mangling: backporting all fixes from the desktop seed and some fixes. regenerate ubuntu-netbook metapackage for adding the new font.
- lot of ISO testing (both desktop, but UNE at first).
- GNOME:
- empathy: backport a fix pointer by upstream
- evolution: fix u1 email french translation having not title, nor sender
- Misc:
- debugging and helping dx in indicator-datetime for getting 12/24h format, backport the fix then.
- updating indicator-network
- oneconf: a lot of fixes to it. Should play nicely now. Will also play nicer as fixed a bug/feature in USC (so wait for next SRU!).
- some Quickly love, discussion and merge (thanks mterry)
- backport a patch for appmenu-gtk to show gedit plugins menu
- sponsoring: devhelp, cairo, vala, monodevelop, eclipse, totem-plugin-arte, ubuntu-soo-client
- some investigation on keyboard not being set as azerty in the French local for the live CD.
Gary Lasker (tremolux)
fixed LP: #617004: intermittent crash bug affecting many users
wrote wiki page howto for adding new-apps metadata: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PostReleaseApps/Metadata
- update new-apps test package, test using my PPA
- RC ISO testing, desktop and UNE images
- Software Center testing for RC
- Software Center bug triage, close watch on new bugs for RC
- Weekly Software Center call
- Reviewing lp:~mvo/software-center/reviews, mvo's ratings and reviews code merged to latest trunk
todo: tzdata updates LP: #649348
Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
Ken VanDine (kenvandine)
Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)
Martin Pitt (pitti)
- CD Testing
- SRU review and processing
- apport retracer maintenance
- bug triage
- build, test, upload final maverick langpacks
- discussed and fixed libvala-dev NBS
- fixed broken yelp in English locales (#605577)
- fixed cups startup on servers (#650893)
- fixed regression from cups upstartification (#647369)
- improved udisks test suite
- release management and engineering
- sponsored gvfs
- joined parts of release team meeting to coordinate final release staffing
- udisks bug fixing
Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre (cyphermox)
- Testing:
- ISO testing for RC
- SRU testing for #615549 fix, gdm/kdm / drm race
- Test fix for #594162 w/ cjwatson; wget segfault in installer chroot
- Updated gvfs
Fix upgrade file conflict between hildon-desktop & gnome-menus (#647628)
Fix seamonkey RenderBadPicture bug (#575160)
Fix vinagre auth methods >(#634571)
- Some FTBFS fixing (abiword (by way of aiksaurus), gauche-gtk)
Michael Terry (mterry)
- ISO testing: alternate free, alternate resize, alternate expert, alternate oem, une full disk (this one erased my disk due to user error! whoops), une oem
- Quickly
- Fix crash when using help() - 649881
- Fix cdbs / directory with spaces bug - 636277
- Fix distutils-extra being put in Depends - 643655
Lots of work on a vala-dep-scanner to determine what packages a set of vala source files requires (for vala template to be as question-free as the python template) https://launchpad.net/~mterry/+junk/vala-dep-scanner
- FTBFS: desktop-webmail / cairo, devhelp
- GNOME 2.32.0: nautilus-sendto, gnome-bluetooth, gtksourceview2
Blogged about/prepared for/gave talk about release management (http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/10/01/%23ubuntu-classroom.txt)
14:00 UTC is either too early, release management is not exciting enough (unlikely!), or I gave every piece of info people wanted, because there was not much chatter.
Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
- extra catchup after being away for 2 weeks
- backported an indicator-session crash fix
- debugged a translation issue in tomboy and uploaded a fix for it
- new zenity version
- new seahorse version
- rc isos testing
- desktop bugs triaging
- sponsoring: desktop-webmail gnome-applets brasero gnome-themes gnome-bluetooth nautilus-sendto gtksourceview2
Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)
foomatic-db, system-config-printer: Fixed regression introduced by adding by-PDL PPD selection to let printers get set up correctly also if they have an optional PostScript add-on. This made PCL PPDs being selected for some PostScript printers (LP: #653814)
- Organization of travel for UDS
- Answered and triaged printing-related bug reports
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