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Activity reports

Colin Watson

• Uploaded initial Eucalyptus installer support. Ongoing bug-fixes as testing became feasible.
• Further discussion with GRUB2 upstream about keystatus interface design. Uploaded first plausible version to Ubuntu.
• Uploaded preseedable LVM-on-RAID support. Working on wedging support for it into kickseed.
• Merged: grub2 (twice)
• Fixed mouseemu #419947 (mouseemu prevents use of multi-button mice).
• Fixed hw-detect #251830 (don't install mouseemu on Intel Mac desktops).
• Merged Dell Driver Injection Disk support (#341526).
• Backported fix for console-setup #390292 (undefined kernel key code warnings) to Karmic.
• Arranged for grub-installer to pass user kernel parameters through to grub2.
• Miscellaneous installer updates for Alpha 5, especially translations.
• Sponsorship:
  • rsyslog #407862.

Evan Dandrea

• Short week. Vacation on Monday and Tuesday.
• Fixed some small bugs in the slideshow code. The slideshow is now fully functional and working on resolutions greater than or equal to 800x600, its intended target.
• Spoke with the design team about getting their input on the slides.
• Guided Roman on how he could best build on the work of the ubiquity-slideshow team to create a KDE slideshow package.
• Followed up on the plugins merge. I was set to merge it in, but decided to hold off to give Mario and Colin more time to look it over. I spoke with Steve about it briefly and filed bug #419989 for the FFe.
• Filed bug 419796 on devicekit-disks, which is preventing usb-creator from having a working format button.
• Backported some debian-installer changes for bug 234185.
• Fixes to usb-creator.

James Westby

Distro tasks

• bzr 1.18 and associated packages uploaded to karmic.
• Talked with dobey about oauth packages.
• Many reviews/sponsoring/uploads for people who wanted things in before FF.

Distributed Development

• Followed up on a few Launchpad things that are waiting.
• Spoke to jml about branch permissions.
• Landed some fixes from Muharem.

Daily Builds

• bzr-builder uploaded to karmic.

Kerneloops

• kerneloops-daemon seeded.

Lars Wirzenius

• Work on getting apt to use zsync for updating Packages files. Waiting for feedback from Michael Vogt on my patch.

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

software-store (was app-center)

• Update software-store copyright to gpl-3
• trying to follow the change in the software-store spec
• create webkit branch
• use webkit for rending of the application details page
• Add "add_repository" functionatliy to aptdaemon
• make the categories view emit proper signals so that the app class can react
• much improved search entry
• Fix crash in aptdaemon (#403467)
• open cache in the background and keep gtk alive
• add basic keyboard navigation
• discuss private PPA integration (APIs missing)
• add "enable-channel" functionality in software-store
• Fix crash in software-store postrm
• Work on the progress animation icon (with rugby471)
• add launchpad integration into software-store
• Debug/fix problem when the aptdaemon stops because of inactivty (we need to reconnect our signals)
• Add jcastro to the project and activate his daily builds ppa
• Show rdepends count in softtware-store for installed apps
• Review/merge changes from lp:~rugby471/software-store/software-store-andrew

• add "CellRendererAnimatedImage" for the progress view

• rework the webkit branch to have a "WebkitWidget" base class that supports running python code from the html/JS and running JS from

  • python
• Update aptdaemon branch to include "wait-for-dpkg-lock" feature
• add substituation support based on string.Template()
• Work on the webkit branch, merge changes from rugby471, support basic thumb fetching (from screenshots.debian.net)
• make the category view a webkit widget to be able to display it the way the spec says
• kill right click menu in webview, enable simple keyboard navigation in the category view
• update pending view on initial startup

update-manager

• Merge the update-manager change from seb back into bzr
• Work on base-installer integraton

compiz

• Upload new compiz-bcop (bugfix) to archive
• Upload more compiz fixes to the compiz PPA
• Tighten compiz dependencies, upload a bunch of new packages to the compiz ppa

apt/synaptic

• Debug/fix synaptic crash
• debug/fix segfault in apt
• Add patch for apt ALLCAPS problem to the apt mvo branch

misc

• Phonecall with doko about python-robustness
• Fix duplicated IDs in gdebi and upload new version (#422096)
• Bug triage/fixing gdebi (two crashes)
• Add lzma as a valid member to python-debian (so that it no longer crashes)
• make gdebi more robust against crashes from python-debian
• Add "--auto-close" option to gdebi to have better auto-test capabilities
• Phonecall with robbiew

sponsoring

• Review/sponsoring gtk-vnc, vinagre, notification-daemon, gnome-control-center
• Review/merge/upload software-properties string fix #420672
• Review/merge/upload apturl kde frontend

Mike Terry

Ubiquity

• Continued to work on my plugins branch (merge with trunk, bugfix). There is an FFE for it, but will be pushed after Alpha 5 to minimize any risk.
• Did a bunch of bug cleanup (closed out bugs that are fixed by my timezone work or no longer apply)
• Investigated better mangling of user's real name into a POSIX username. Seems like we need a feature patch from upstream PyICU svn

before we can properly fix this.

Rsyslog

• Fixed an annoying bug with permissions on output log files. If rsyslog received a HUP (as it does when rotating logs), it might not have been able to write to a root-owned syslog anymore.

Muharem Hrnjadovic

Distributed development

• More tests and fixes for "merge-package" bzr command, see:
  • - lp:~al-maisan/bzr-builddeb/locked-repo-updates - lp:~al-maisan/bzr-builddeb/missing-tests

Archive administration

Syncs

• libio-compress-perl
• f libio-compress-perl
• f python-numpy
• libtorrent-rasterbar
• taglib
• xboard

Component mismatches

Checked out a number of potential mismatches. It turned out neither of these were to be demoted to universe:

• language-support-translations-*, in the process of being replaced by language-selector
• ibus-qt/ibus-qt4 needed by Kubuntu
• nvclock/smartdimmer needed by hal

Scott James Remnant

Boot Performance

• Merged current debhelper with Steve and Joey's pass of a dh_installinit with Upstart support. Extended it to provide maintainer scripts that use proper Upstart commands, and do support optional replacement of init scripts of the same name
• Hostname patched to support fallback default ("localhost") if the file doesn't exist or is empty, and no hostname is set. This eliminates all the need for work in the initscript/Upstart job.
• Bulk of rcS and gdm-critical Upstart jobs packaged from max
• Rewrote the upstart-event helper binary into an upstart-udev-bridge daemon that's somewhat more efficient since we don't need to fork/exec all the time
• Added that to the Upstart source tree for the Ubuntu package
• Began adding the "mountall" code, which needs some work to support the more complex configurations but works for the simple cases.

Steve Langasek

Release management

• NEW processing for FeatureFreeze

• UDW session on FFes
• Alpha5 prep

Specs

• foundations-karmic-multiarch-support: knocked a number of items off the dpkg todo list; evaluated the current upstream status and took the decision to defer this until karmic+1

Sponsorship

• pam (bug #285574)
• boost1.37 (bug #371617)
• net6 (bug #422149)

Misc

• Monday archive duties