DevelTeamMeeting20070531

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Apologies

  • Matthias Klose (doko) - medical appointment
  • Michael Vogt (mvo) - on leave

  • Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) - at LinuxTag

Agenda

  1. Roll call
    • Apologies
    • Introduce new starters (if any)
  2. Review agenda
    • Review activity reports
    • Propose additional items
    • Accept agenda
    • (Keybuk) Gutsy Sprint
    • (tfheen) Release management, Tribe 1 is coming up, but who is doing release management for this release?

    • (doko, tfheen) possible GCC 4.1 -> GCC 4.2 transition

  3. Release readiness update
  4. Other business

New Starters

  • Evan Dandrea (evand) - installer
  • Søren Hansen (shawarma) - serrver

Activity Reports

Adilson Oliveira (adilson)

  • Continuing work on bringing in Hildon/Maemo components.
  • Preparing and updatating UME TODO list.
  • Conference calls with Intel and Nokia.

Alexander Sack (asac)

  • updating firefox trunk bzr repo to build against latest CVS
  • firefox security update preparations
    • cleaning up and reorganizing local git repo in order to make rebase against updated upstream versions more convenient
    • rebase and merging of firefox 2.0.0.4 security/stability update; tricky merge was the gnome mime handling patch for bugzilla bug 273524 which was overlayed by upstream landing of mime-mailcap handling fix for bug 373955; proposed updated patch now forwarded to debian maintainer for discussion.
  • acquire basic understanding on network-manager and dbus code (-paths)
  • motu student mentoring and sponsoring
  • processing firefox bugs in Needs Info/mt-confirm state
  • discuss refinement and options to improve automisation of mozilla bug workflow
  • looking at minimo and a bit mozilla gfx/gtk and xul code reading for (future) mobile discussion.

Ben Collins (BenC)

General:

  • Kernel Team meeting
  • Discussion of LTS kernel update issues

Kernel:

  • Merged more patches from feisty to gutsy.
  • Upload of 2.6.22-rc3 based kernel (2.6.22-6.12)
  • Bug work, filing upstream bugs and following up with upstream devs

Brian Murray (bdmurray)

Bug triaging:

  • assigned packages to some bugs that had none i.e. were just filed against Ubuntu
  • looking at openoffice.org bugs
  • tagging openoffice.org bugs based on application
  • reading through bug mailing list and triaging bugs
  • Hug Day participation

Bug helper:

  • Bug hunting via bughelper
  • created multiple clue files

Other:

  • sru verification of 113508
  • improved per package bug stats script
  • created wiki page with list of activities for Hug Day on May 30th
  • ubuntu membership

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Packaging

  • Package merges/syncs: appres, beforelight, bitmap, xorg-sgml-doctools, xorg-docs
  • Made xorg packaging checklist

Testing / Bugs

  • Bug triage

  • Assisted cr3 & jbailey with Feisty xrandr rotation issue

  • Updated test hardware
  • Further testing of displayconfig-gtk on various hardware
  • Gathered pcitable info for glatzor
  • Filled in upstreams for some xorg pkgs in LP

Specs

Misc

  • Memorial Day holiday (Monday)
  • Expense report for UDS

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)

MOTU

  • blogged about needing more mentors
  • motu mentoring
  • MOTU Documentation
  • marked bugs as packaging/bitesize/mentoring
  • MOTU meeting
  • reviews

  • announced MOTU Q&A sessions

  • announced universe hug day
  • started MOTU/Recipes

Bugs:

  • bug triage
  • HUG DAY

Bug Tools

  • bughelper patch review
  • worked on buglog

Community

  • CC meeting
  • derivative team planning

Misc

  • Status Update meeting
  • glade merge
  • empathy update

Evan Dandrea (evand)

  • Started Tuesday, May 29th.
  • Finished drafting ubiquity-oem, migration-assistant, and
  • migration-assistant-kubuntu.
  • Familiarized myself with some of the d-i merges.
  • Tested d-i daily builds.
  • Tried my hand at merging aMule.

Fabio Di Nitto (fabbione)

Off Sick

Henrik Omma (heno)

  • WinFOSS upload for Gutsy
  • Screening interview
  • GSoC mentoring, incl. weekly skype meeting
  • Attended Orca community meeting
  • Specs - drafting complete, need review
  • ISO test tracker: looking good for the first tribe release:

Ian Jackson (iwj)

Done:

  • Last week I was on holiday to move house (this is mostly done but my house fileserver died) and Monday was a public holiday in England.
  • This week so far I've:
    • double-checked my specs;
    • done the dpkg merge (which was a bit of a PITA really but should hopefully be easier next time as I expect Debian to take many of our patches now that etch is out);
    • caught up on email.

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Done:

  • KDE 3.5.7 packaging
  • e-mail backlog catchup
  • merges

Todo:

  • qt 4.3 packaging
  • finish merges
  • KOffice 1.6.3
  • kde-system-settings spec

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

Done:

  • Monday was Pentacost holiday in DE-land, so only 4 days
  • UME mockups: Software keyboard, IM client, more work on media player
  • UME fakes, icons for marketing presentation
  • Kubuntu banner finished; Kubuntu advert almost finished
  • Edubuntu web design 1st round finished
  • Started creating "example-theme" and documentation for community artists

Kyle McMartin (kylem)

General:

  • updated mesa to 6.5.3
  • fallout from mesa 6.5.3 update, needed to update xserver
  • testing intel i965gm with updated mesa

Misc:

  • sorting receipts to file expenses from us tour
  • calling shipping company about wayward sun t2000 box
  • finally found and received

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Done:

  • Merges: all done except for laptop-mode-tools, will do tomorrow
  • Other stuff done that week:

    • huge effort on NEW, got binary NEW down to 0 and source new down to < 20 on Friday; continuing efforts

    • various bug fixes to get packages building and the archive more consistent

Specs:

  • bzr-best-practices: needs some more details, will finish tomorrow
  • apport-better-retracing: implemented complete library installation with Contents.gz (point 1), fixed ddeb-retriever to cope with multiple Ubuntu releases and fetch ddebs from pockets
  • rest are pending-approval and not yet started

Mathias Gug (mathiaz)

Apparmor integration:

  • work on command line administration tools : improve apparmor_status script (in cooperation with upstream).
  • look into logging/auditing/reporting infrastructure for apparmor.

  • edit specs: AppArmorGutsy is the short term plan for gutsy.

  • update AppArmor user guide (UsingAppArmor on w.u.c)

  • debug profiles.
  • package updated profiles : sent to kees, who approved and uploaded it to universe.

MOTU:

  • started to do some packaging for apparmor.

Ubuntu server team :

Matthias Klose (doko)

  • package syncs and merges (all uploaded except OOo)
  • toolchain update to include the C++ visibility backports
  • go on with the OOo packages
  • start g77/gfortran package transitions (refblas, lapack)
  • go back to python-subversion failures (feisty, python2.4)
  • Fri 25, sick leave
  • Mon 28, bank holiday

Michael Vogt (mvo)

On Leave

Phillip Lougher (pkl)

Kernel:

  • Bug triage
  • Followed post-feisty kernel upload feedback
  • Started new kernel release, and integrated the current outstanding patches
  • kernel team meeting

Mobile:

  • Some work on ububtu-mobile, mainly Unionfs 2.0 status, and ODF (On disk format) investigation
  • Learning about and playing with Bazaar
  • Looking through current LiveCD build script
  • ubuntu-mobile conference call

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

(monday was an holiday, I was on vac tuesday)

  • desktop bugs triage
  • extra specs writing
  • desktop merges with Debian and updates
  • looked at some GTK changes for Ubuntu Mobile
  • some bugs fixing
  • archive admin work

Søren Hansen (shawarma)

Started on May 28th. \o/

Administrativia

  • Subscribe to mailing lists, add myself to the wiki, define working hours, etc.

Bugs

  • Went through the server seeds identifying packages we should handle.
  • Apache bug squashing (nothing uploaded as I want to go over my changes with the maintainers first and also crunch a larger chunk of the bugs)

UbuntuEasyBusinessServerSpec

  • Split up into "File/Print server" and "everything else" (new spec: UbuntuEasyFilePrintServer)

  • Set up virtual environment for testing existing solutions (vmware hates my Gutsy installation)

  • Initial testing of eBox. It's shiny, it's functional, and upstream seems eager. Smile :) I need to figure out how much work it's going to be to get it to do what we want it to. I also need to take a closer look at Conga.

Misc

  • Mentoring a new MOTU padawan working on a PHP/MySQL application.
  • Trying to be helpful on mailing lists and IRC.

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Done:

  • Packaged CUPS Driver Development Kit (cupsddk, www.cups.org), will get uploaded into Universe today and tomorrow. Not (yet) available at Debian.
  • Adapted dependencies of HPIJS package (source: HPLIP) to the new grand unified Ghostscript (package: ghostscript).
  • Answered bug reports.

Tim Gardner (rtg)

General:

  • Continued work on frequency broker as time allows.
  • 3 days holiday.

Kernel:

  • Feisty Atheros security update.
  • Researched Edgy/Dapper security update for Atheros.

Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)

Done:

  • - Mobile packaging, including getting more components into the archive. - Conference calls with Nokia and Intel - More mentoring of Adilson

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