DevelTeamMeeting20070809

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Apologies

Daniel Holbach (dholbach) - on Leave
Henrik Nilsen Omma (heno) - on Leave
Søren Hansen (shwarma) - on Leave
Jono Bacon (jono) - meeting conflict

Agenda

Roll call
- Apologies
- Introduce new starters (if any)
Review agenda
- Review activity reports
- Propose additional items
- Accept agenda
(pitti) progress discussion for https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-6.06.2
(pitti) While I am on honeymoon, some of my roles need to be taken by some other distro team members:
- final release management of dapper.2 (final CD testing, announcements, etc.)
- release management of Tribes 5 & 6
- Handholding the apport retracers; I filed RT#28728 to make this possible, and I will write some documentation about it; seb128 offered to help out here already
- SRU bug handling and archive processing
- (maybe) language pack building; this should not take any manual intervention actually, so it's not that crucial.
Release readiness update
Other business
Reviewers meeting (non-reviewers are excused)

New Starters

Jono Bacon (jono) - community (reporting change)

Activity Reports

Adilson Oliveira (adilson)

i * Testing applications inside UME (PIM GPE and Pimlico).

Update UME docs (FAQ, Apps list, etc).
Fix UME daily builds
Porting applications for UME
Make arrangements for IDF

Alexander Sack (asac)

Firefox

trunk: getting trunk/granparadiso alpha7 binaries in (almost) releasable state ... upload pending; -dev package is still a problem though.
community work in mozillateam: taking care of new contributors and motu students.
some 1.8.0 security work

Mobile

setting up independent application module tree 'mozilla/midbrowser/'
- migrate current features and introduce new branding
update git branch that tracks firefox to latest stable (2.0.0.6); rebase/update midbrowser branches accordingly.
upload new midbrowser release to gutsy.

Network Manager

prepare/uploade network-manager.
help: if you experience new or old problems, let me know!

Spec - firefox distro addons support

server-side python cgi for plugin finder service is now in a usable state; left: mostly polishing and deployment procedure improvements.
Extension data for app-install-data is finally In-Progress.
(Initial) Development of improved plugin-finder wizard that will ship in ubufox; the default plugin finder wizard is too constraint to to deliver a good user-experience for our apt: cases.

Spec - free-flash

uploaded new gnash cvs snapshot that introduces new package layout for gutsy.

Amit Kucheria (amitk)

WIP: Integration of 2D DRM drivers into LUM for LPIA
WIP: code review and conf. calls with Intel for Thermal optimizations
Fix released: Bug 129226

Arne Goetje

Newbie stuff: reading docs and doing all the online paperwork
reinstalling my laptop and stationary machine to prepare them for Ubuntu development
Trying out Tribe3 and look for font and input method improvements
Collecting information about current Unicode coverage and which fonts are involved
Comparing fonts to see what we can modify to save space on the Live CD
Work on the CJK-Unifonts project: beautify the Latin based characters in AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni.
reading bug reports for SCIM and try to figure out how to solve #34282

Ben Collins (BenC)

* Debugged lapic timer issue on AMD mobile * Tested Alsa upstream for some newer hda-intel chipsets. Initially integrated newer driver into lum, but will be reverting in favor of a better solution. * Kernel Team meeting * Work on 6.06.2 driver backports * Bug triaging

Brian Murray (bdmurray)

Bug triaging:

triaging of gutsy bugs without a package
triaging of linux-source-2.6.22 bugs
Hug Day preparation work
held Hug Day
catching up on e-mail after vacation
Tribe 4 daily iso testing

Other:

working with pedro
vacation on 8/2 and 8/3 for DefCon

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Misc:

Vacation days Aug 3 & 6. (Proposed to my girlfriend!)
Arranged to visit Intel campus tomorrow

Specs:

Easy X Config (aka displayconfig-gtk)
- - Submitted main inclusion request
Bulletproof-X
- - Implemented dynamic failsafe xorg.conf generator based on dexconf
Xorg 7.3:
- - Uploads of bunch of remaining xorg packages
  - http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Xorg/versions_current.html

Packaging:

xserver-xorg-video-psb driver for UME
Re-did integration of vmmouse_detect into mdetect

Bugs/Testing:

Triaging of -ati bugs

Chris Cheney (calc)

Finished merging OOo 2.3 with Debian
Uploaded openoffice.org 2.3.0~src680m224-1ubuntu1
Uploaded openoffice.org-l10n 2.3.0~src680m224-1ubuntu1
Bug triage

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)

On holiday

Evan Dandrea (evand)

* worked on getting lpia live CDs building. * in the process of cleaning up the migration-assistant question mess.

Misc:

* Applied for MOTU \o/

Fabio Di Nitto (fabbione)

On Leave

Ian Jackson (iwj)

* dpkg-triggers:

Working on the implementation of this. Considerably more than halfway now but need a few more days.

* Some CD testing this evening, of the 20070808 prerelease and

of 20070808.1.

* consistent-login-screen (fast user switching sanity):

Merged gdm after upload clash and fixed a bug with VT handling.

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Done:

qt and koffice security updates
packaging new pyqt3, pyqt4 and pykde
had a first shot at building qt3 for lpia over the weekend, lots of deps needed
investigating GPL 2 only code in KDE, pass onto e.v. board who should contact them, GPL 3 libraries are going to be a hassle in gutsy+1
review and discuss restricted-manager-kde with SoC student, included in tribe thanks to pitti
packaging new cmake and libopenbabel
package qt 4.3.1 (twice, first time I had to get trolltech to remake the tar)
investigate packaging kdepim enterprise, some issues before usable
test tribe CDs
kubuntu-adept-gutsy: fix --dist-upgrade feature

Blocked:

kiosktool, kdesudo and obexftp main inclusion reports

Todo:

finnish kubuntu-adept-gutsy

Kees Cook (keescook)

Progress:

DefCon
- Won CTF again
Security Updates
- reviewed and uploaded gnash update (CVE-2007-2500)
- poppler update (USN-496-2)
Investigations
- nss_files seg fault (stack exhaustion with giant hosts file)
Testing
- Gutsy upgrade fighting

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

Various designs for Ubuntu desktop wallpaper created. Considered posting these on the wiki but due to the lack of interest in the "call for wallpapers" decided not to.
KDM dialog pic updated with logo more in line with usplash - much the same as the Ubuntu usplash and GDM have similar logos
Finally received gobuntu logo, work started on usplash. Limited time spent here - just getting the boot process online with current ubuntu/kubuntu/edubuntu designs.
Mobile Stuff: Started a test attempt to simply edit the Nokia theme template SVG (huge! and not what we want in several ways). Probably start again once I figure out a decent plan of attack. Intel promised to work on tweaking the themeing and getting back to being able to use a tool to cut up the SVG (for some technical reason the system does not work as-is).

Kyle McMartin (kylem)

checked out new e1000e driver for ich9
iwlwifi 1.0.0 + hot fix patches
more xserver-xorg-video-intel fixes
merge stable-2.6.22.y branch for gutsy
merge bits and pieces of alsa 2.6.23-rc2

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Spec status:

apport-better-retracing: no reply from wine team; will implement the fallback solution of ignoring wine crashes in apport at all next week
apport-for-upstreams: set to 'blocked' now; we did everything from our side in the spec, waiting for upstream to give more feedback on the data format and move towards it; I'll keep some IRC contact with them
debian-maintainer-field: no change (remaining universe rebuilds will be done after feature freeze to minimize churn)
restricted-manager-improvements: got notification about "you can enable nonfree drivers for better performance" check/notification implemented, will upload after Tribe release; will attempt to complete this spec before my wedding

Other notable stuff done:

Tribe 4 release management *ugh*
Lots of cups cleanups, dropped our complicated derooting patches, replaced with an AppArmor profile. Less secure, but much easier to maintain and fixes a lot of regressions from the derooting patches.
Lots of sponsoring for Till and Bryce

Mathias Gug (mathiaz)

* Developer :

AppArmor:
- looked into integration with apport.
- update package to latest upstream version.

* Packager :

sru for apache2.

* Tester :

test pre-tribe-4 isos.

* Triager :

triage bug: apache2, apparmor, samba.

Matthias Klose (doko)

activity

- lpia bootstrap: pure lpia chroots are available for basic development.

reviewed all dependencies and build-dependencies for the mobile and mobil-dev seeds, fixed packages. the 150 fixed and reviewed packages are currently building and should be in the archive soonish (other people did review gnome, kde, firefox, postgresql stuff).

- hopefully final glibc-2.6.1 merge from debian.

- gcc-4.2/gcj-4.2 updates to integrate patches to ease the iced-tea

bootstrap, updated the java packages for the libgcj soversion bump.

- openjdk b17 now builds on amd64, now taking over the packaging from

sun-javaX to be used with iced-tea.

- syncs and merges

- OOo upload

lpia status

- bootstrap should be done once current build failures are fixed.

- to get the gnome live-cd to build out of the lpia archive we need

some more packages be reviewed (kernel and image, boot related stuff). help needed.

Michael Vogt (mvo)

compiz: - updated 0.5.2 - hunted a compiz --replace segfault with upstream for ages, upstream

released a fix (race in dlopen() usage) and I uploaded it for the tribe

- new compizconfig-settings-manager (+ fix in the build system send to

upstream)

- looked into latest compiz-git, but it needs xlib-xcb and we do not

have that :/

update-manager: - new version uploaded that fixes some issues in the pre-requists

code

- fix bug when i-m-s hit prevents new releases from being seen

(happens only when it is run as root)

apt: - merged/uploaded sha256 and dpkg terminal log support - imporoved libapt apport integration so that it automatically

adds the dpkg terminal log

- merged/improved apt pre-upload testsuit to avoid regression as much

as possible

- updated/uploaded apt rdepends - merged aptitude - increase the default mmap size - fix logging if no /dev/pts is available - fix filehandle leak in apt_inst - fix https method download bug - fix local repo hash bug in sha256 code

Bugs: - bug triage - some sru verifications

misc: - updated desktop data for gnome-app-install/adept_installer - ddtp package translation upload + updated the upload scripts - gdebi bugfix, upload - looked at MoM and worked around a issue with security.d.o - notification-daemon fix - merged g-a-i changes, added unitttests for the codec/mime search

code

Oliver Grawert

last week: prepare tribe 4 more ltsp ldm2 merges some work on LinuxBIOS etherboot support for LTSP

next week: work on ltsp-manager fix thin-client-manager for new ldm more ldm fixes going through ltsp bugs on lp look at moodle packaging changes

Pedro Villavicencio Garrido

* go through the new starter tasks * triaging of desktop-bugs * triaging of bugs without a package * add a draft on Bugs/ForwardingGNOMEBugs * participated in UbuntuBugDay

Phillip Lougher (pkl)

WriteSupportForNTFS
- - updated fuse and ntfs-3g packages, moving binaries and libs from /usr -> / - updated mount to list ntfs-3g options - updated initscripts - updated WriteSupportForNTFS blueprint - added Gutsy kernel patch to make fuse module available to d-i (from Colin Watson)
Kernel
- - Added VMI lazy mode race fix from VMware

CVEs
- - General CVE triaging, and kernel-sec svn updating - Added CVE-2007-3105 to Feisty kernel - Added CVE-2007-3513 to Feisty kernel
Misc
- - Thursday sick.

Rick Clark (dendrobates)

Package work:

Review of ebox
combined ldap-auth-client and ldap-auth config in to one source package.
Started MIR's for the the ldap-auth project
tribe 4 iso testing
review of auth-client-config
debconf tutorial

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

i* Lot of bug triage

* Desktop bug fixing

* Archive admin work

* Some desktop updates and sponsoring

* Worked on the desktop changes for the new tribe

Søren Hansen (soren)

On holiday

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Done:

Bug fixes and improvements on system-config-printer:
- If an auto-detected device (USB, network) is supported by HPLIP
  - only the HPLIP URIs are shown, to assure that the user gets it correctly set up to get access to the complete functionality
- For auto-detected network MF devices from HP also an entry
  - for setting up the fax queue is shown
- Make and model info of auto-detected network printers is used to
  - direct the user to the correct PPD/driver
- For manually entered printers make and model are determined via
  - SNMP. It is also checked whether the printer is supported by HPLIP
- No "HP Fax" entry any more when no Fax-capable HP printer is
  - connected.
- When selecting an auto-detected non-HPLIP network printer the
  - fields of the form on the right are correctly prefilled now.
- Improved sorting of the device list entries.
Updated SpliX printer driver package
Got upstream SVN write access on system-config-printer from Tim Waugh
Answered bug reports.

TODO:

More polishing, fixes, improvements on system-config-printer
Update HPLIP package

Tim Gardner (rtg)

GENERAL

Bug triage
General Gutsy install and test on Dell HW

KERNEL

E1501 boot bug on Turion.
ipw3945 kill switch bug.

Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)

Done:

Vacation
Catch-up on emails, etc
Fixing up image-creator to generate a .manifest beside the image, which should make it easier for people to see what versions of packages are in a particular image.

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