FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2010/0707

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Present

Lightning round order

   1 from random import shuffle
   2 team = [
   3     'Keybuk',
   4     'barry',
   5     'cjwatson',
   6     'doko',
   7     'ev',
   8     'mvo',
   9     'surbhi',
  10     ]
  11 order = team[:]
  12 shuffle(order)
  13 print ', '.join(order)

Apologies

Agenda

Lightning Round
- 2-4 sentences on current work/roadblocks
Outstanding actions from last meeting
Outstanding feature freeze exceptions
Farming out tasks that aren't being handled
- alpha-3 bugs
Sponsorship queue
Any business from activity reports
Good news
AOB
Next week's chair

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Actions from this meeting

Chair for next meeting

Activity reports

Barry Warsaw

Short week due to USA holiday
f-m-robust-python-packaging
- versioned .so files patch
- email discussion upstream
- need to write PEP
f-m-python-versions
- scripting py2.7 archive PPA in ~pythoneers
misc
- python-distribute upstream patch testing
- installing maverick on macbookpro
- attended uefi presentation

Colin Watson

Backported dpkg sync performance improvement (570805) to lucid-proposed.
Picked up a few stray casper bugs, and uploaded USB update-initramfs shim fix (591207) to lucid-proposed.
Switched to vga=788 in the installer, which is lots faster in kvm.
GRUB 2:
- Switched /boot/grub/device.map to by-id device names.
- Added --debug-image= option to grub-install to save on some manual work when debugging.
- More documentation work.
- Merged persistent device names in install_devices back to Debian, fixing a cluster of RC bugs, and fixing several bugs in our prior implementation in the process.
- Caught up with some grub2 SRUs: German translation bug (580178), incorrect postinst install_devices logic (580408), and avoiding offering dangerous partition choices for grub-install (576724).
open-iscsi build fix (600953).
Assisted with Maverick Alpha 2 release.

Evan Dandrea

Short week; vacation on Monday.
Hacked together a wireless network configuration page using the NetworkManager dbus API. The installer will eventually support ConnMan as well.
Uploaded a new ubiquity and Wubi.
Replied to press questions on the installer redesign.
Created a 10.04 netbook USB disk for Cezzaine.
Mail to several people on coordinating efforts around custom widgets and libraries.
Created a GreyableBin container that uses client side windows to create a greyed-out effect.

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

misc

App-install-data review/update, upload for alpha2
App-install-data-commercial: review/merge update for brian
Command-not-found data update
Flashplugin-nonfree: upload new version that fixes upgrade failure
Gdebi: port to python-apt 0.8
Grub: recover from "unaligned pointer" bootup failure in maverick
Langauge-selector: fix aptdaemon dialogs returning too early
Langauge-selector: fix crash on startup in dbus backend
Language-selector: help arne with deprecation warnings
Review/merge arnes language-selector branch
Synaptic: merge lp:~jibel/synaptic/bug.597874
Upload new app-install-data-partner
Upload new python-lazr.restfulclient that fixes #599332

software-center

Apt-xapian-index: work on whats-new plugin
Aptdaemon: debug/fix crash with STAT_FAILED/STAT_ERROR, upload new version (thanks to seb)
Aptdaemon: prepare new version with download-vendor-keys support
S-c-agent: debuan/fix odd realtive/absolute import schema validation bug
S-c-agent: improve docs, port to python-lazr.restfulclient 0.9.18+
Software-center-agent: add "categories" to the Application/IApplication (lp:~mvo/software-center-agent/categories-support
agent: fixes from merge-review
buy-something: add code to update DB from software-center-agent
fix bug in carousel view, upload new version
push plugin branch
review lp:~mmcg069/software-center/appdetailsview-gtk
review/merge lp:~mmcg069/software-center/catview-conform-w-spec
start work on the client that calls the stub API
update python-lazr.restful to latest upstream for s-c-agent
work on broken cache handling (#430200) and dirty-dpkg-journal 1
work on new-app persistance (lp:~mvo/software-center/whats-new

apt

discussion about rollback, work with david on review
work with #debian-apt on rollback solution
Python-apt: add "dpkg_journal_dirty" property to detect another failure conditi on in the apt cache 31 min
Python-apt: add test for debfile.py based on gdebi test deb package
Python-apt: fix incorrect conflicts for provides
Review/merge lp:~kiwinote/python-apt/merge-gdebi-changes
Review/merged lp:~kiwinote/gdebi/use-python-apt

update-manager

Update-manager: merge lp:~and471/update-manager/fix-bug-386196
Update-manager: port progress classes to python-apt 0.8
Update-manager: review upgrade tester results and move milestone for #535132
Update-manager: upload new SRU to lucid-proposed
Update-notifier: add hook dir for oneconf when cache changes
Update-manager: upload new SRU to lucid-proposed
Update-notifier: add hook dir for oneconf when cache changes
Update-notifier: review https://code.edge.launchpad.net/~didrocks/update-notifier/async-scripts/
Update-notifier: send example for update-notifier events to keybuk for refactor update notifier spec

Scott James Remnant

Surbhi Palande

fixed some bugs in btrfs support for grub2. Submitted the patch on grub-devel@gnu.org. Waiting to see whether it can be passed as GPL3.
worked on bug 598946 - of applying a patch for btrfs support to gparted. Submitted a proposed merge request for the same. Need to rework on this - got comments from cjwatson.
started work on mdadm delta