This is summary of the UMC team weekly meeting, that took place on Wed. August 30th, 2007 on Freenode in #elisa.
Elisa
Planning the next release (0.3.2) that is due for the 26th of september:
plugin management system: easy browsing and installation of plugins
personal video recorder (PVR) infrastructure work
- easing creation of user interface oriented plugins
Artwork
New theme by Christophe: https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/wiki/chris_theme It needs to be experimented and it is likely to be kept as is for UMC. All comments welcome!
Mailing list
Still no news from Jono Bacon and the Ubuntu guys
Marketing Strike Force
Jeremy is back but not yet active. A project to federate blogs (Planet Elisa) about Elisa is under discussion.
Packaging
Unofficial ubuntu packages are online (http://elisa.fluendo.com/2007/08/29/updated-feisty-packages/) Debian package is stuck: Pigment is still in the NEW queue. Elisa update to 0.3 is close to the update.
LIRC
HAL progress (needed to autodetect USB remotes): https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=ec33acbd0708111422m3f732b6aj5c2dd04235684d27%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=lirc-list
Gutsy's GTK UI to configure remotes: philn_: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_Lirc_Gutsy
Some work done on the kernel integration: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=703B8592-38BE-47A0-A4AC-4063787558D8%40wilsonet.com&forum_name=lirc-list
Kudos guys for all the work!
Raw Log
Kaleo_: So, let's start Kaleo_: point 1) artwork Kaleo_: As you may have seen Christophe posted a complete theme dloic: sorry but the first point ins't elisa ??? Kaleo_: sorry philn_: yes Kaleo_: yes Kaleo_: Elisa Kaleo_: let's do it again :) Kaleo a quitté le salon (quit: Read error: 104 (Connection reset by peer)) Kaleo_: 1) Elisa Kaleo_: last week was spent planning the next release and starting to implement the features decided Kaleo_: one important of them being the plugin management system Kaleo_: that philn is in charge of dloic: which is the role of this plugin ? philn_: being able to install additional plugins from elisa stalker`: dloic: it's a meta plugin :) Kaleo_: exactly philn philn_ dloic: philn_: not to manage installed plugins ? Kaleo_: it has to be dead easy to see available plugins philn_: and setup a community repository for external contributions philn_: dloic: that, also dloic: dloic: yep, stupid question, sorry Kaleo_: more details are available there: https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/wiki/PluginManagement dloic: basically add/remove/configure ? dloic: ok philn_: current plugins will be splitted to various sets depending on criteria we need to define Kaleo_: second important point is the beginning of a player infrastructure necessary for the PVR Linediconsine: What is PVR? Kaleo_: lightyear is working on it and information for those interested is available there: https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/wiki/RoadMap/Television Kaleo_: personal video recorder lightyear: yep Kaleo_: watching tv, recording tv Kaleo_: from various sources lightyear: <- ask this guy... Kaleo_: a third important part of the release will be to lower the entry barrier to write Elisa plugins that need user interface bits dloic: interface with pigment ? Kaleo_: pigment yes Kaleo_: but this infrastructure work should help for any toolkit lightyear: aah, stalker`: did you get the changes on the exif-ticket? lightyear: but. psst. stalker`: lightyear: what changes? Kaleo_: anything else, lightyear, philn? lightyear: sorry. dloic: Kaleo_: interesting point because I have a plugin to "translate" Kaleo_: dloic: translate? Kaleo_: from gtk? lightyear: dloic, what do you mean? dloic: yes, from gtk Kaleo_: interesting philn_: Kaleo_: i18n, memory usage...? dloic: the plugin to choose the right remote control (writtent with wattazzoum) lightyear: btw. Kaleo_, did you say somethiing about translation? philn_: mouse support in pigment? dloic: (not really translation, i mean convert) philn_: pigment win32 ? dloic: I need something like a treeview, but we have some idea to do this with pigment Kaleo [n=kaleo@55.Red-88-18-103.staticIP.rima-tde.net] est entré dans le salon dloic: why this silence ? Kaleo: oh my god, I'm sorry Kaleo: my connection keeps going Kaleo: so, point 2) artwork Kaleo: Christophe Dumas completed the new theme Linediconsine: we need to convert it in green again ? Uzuul [n=arno@vig38-2-81-56-113-154.fbx.proxad.net] est entré dans le salon dloic: what do you think ? Kaleo: well, it is quite different: first it is fully SVG Kaleo: and the style is different Uzuul: hey guys. just taking a small break from all my house financial stuffs... dloic: Uzuul: hi Kaleo: Uzuul: I could need some help lightyear: hi Uzuul Uzuul: thanks to Kaleo for leading tonight ;-) Kaleo: Uzuul: badly philn_: hi Uzuul Linediconsine: W Uzuul :D Kaleo: we were discussing about the theme Christophe did Tartopom: hi Uzuul :p Uzuul: good work (the chris theme) Kaleo: question from Linediconsine: "we need to convert it in green again ?" Kaleo: I like it :) Uzuul: any ptr underhand? Kaleo: yes, Kaleo: https://code.fluendo.com/elisa/trac/wiki/chris_theme Linediconsine: mmh.. ptr ? I doesnt undestand.... Uzuul: pointer Uzuul: yeah, that rocks ^_^ Kaleo: I'd say that we should go with it dloic: as said in the ml, i like the variation for each icon (thematic reminder) Kaleo: it's good stuff :) Linediconsine: good work and is in svg ! good ! Kaleo: Christophe is looking for constructive criticism, so do not hesitate to send your remarks Uzuul: I'm not sure the green'ification is needed since there are various colors for icons, not only blue... Uzuul: we'll have to see what I looks like with a green background Linediconsine: not all in blue ... imho Kaleo: ok, we have to experiment Linediconsine: k Kaleo: followup by mail then Kaleo: 3) ubuntu mailing list Kaleo: no news I believe dloic: ... Kaleo: ok Kaleo: 4) Marketing strike force Uzuul: Jeremy told me he will get back on last monday Kaleo: in the meantime it was pretty quiet Kaleo: there is a plan of setting up a planet Elisa Uzuul: and will follow on the MSF tasks (forum migration with polling mod, web update, ...) Kaleo: so that developers can tell what is the new hot stuff Kaleo: such as cool plugins :) Uzuul: yup, point taken (by you ;-) Uzuul: or distro (...) progres Kaleo: 5) packaging Kaleo: good news! Debian packaging is in progress Kaleo: unofficial ubuntu packages are online since today Uzuul: lool: any update Linediconsine: wow good ! Linediconsine: :) philn_: pigment's still blocked in NEW queue :( philn_: so until it's accepted elisa package can't be uploaded philn_: if i understood correctly Kaleo: wait and see I guess Kaleo: 6) LIRC Kaleo: Uzuul: your go :) Uzuul: yup, I'll talk a bit about that Uzuul: I've posted about HAL progress (for the recall, it's needed to autodetect USB remotes): philn_: i've seen that in gutsy there's a gtk UI to configure remotes Uzuul: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=ec33acbd0708111422m3f732b6aj5c2dd04235684d27%40mail.gmail.com&forum_name=lirc-list philn philn_ dloic: philn_: have you some link ? Uzuul: as mentioned, the work done here will help a lot for the configless Kaleo_ a quitté le salon (quit: Read error: 110 (Connection timed out)) Uzuul: (ie autoconfiguration and startup of LIRC upon plugging a USB remote= Uzuul: s/=/) philn_: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Install_Lirc_Gutsy philn philn_ dloic: philn_: thanks Uzuul: philn_: from Mario (superm1) philn_: yes the mythbuntu guy, right? Uzuul: right dloic: happy to see that different guy work on the same things... philn_: seems like good stuff Uzuul: there is also some work on the kernel integration: Uzuul: https://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=703B8592-38BE-47A0-A4AC-4063787558D8%40wilsonet.com&forum_name=lirc-list Uzuul: dloic: that was the point when we got in touch with m1... and the same for linuxMCE (no follow up though) Uzuul: dloic: you've got the hand for applets... dloic: Uzuul: hum dloic: dloic: yes Kaleo: :) dloic: the applet work, just to publish it Kaleo: dloic: well, if you do quickly, we'll quickly have fun with it and help :) dloic: Kaleo: I will do my best Kaleo: dloic: nice dloic: for this and the elisa plugin Kaleo: anything we are missing for the meeting? dloic: Uzuul: the separation of mouse/keyboard has been done dloic: would you the html file ? Uzuul: dloic: yup dloic: ok Uzuul: any pointer dloic? dloic: no, i must see some point with wattazoum when he can Uzuul: that can be appended to the meeting log. To others, we are talking about the namespace stats, separating the mouse and keyboard keys. lool: Damn missing the meeting agian Uzuul: this will allow me to finalise my post about the new LIRC namespace step 1 Uzuul: hey lool Kaleo: ok jeddy3 est désormais connu sous le nom de jeddy3|Zzz Uzuul: lool: anything to add about elisa packages update? lool: Uzuul: Hey; update is: packages are mostly ready, only waiting for pigment to get out of NEW since a week or so Uzuul: lool: excellent ^_^ lool: I only need to tweak the deps of elisa a little before the upload, but the current packages are usable for me Kaleo: nice lool: Both packages are in the pkg-gstreamer SVN since last week, binary packages of pigment can be dled from http://people.dooz.org/~lool/debian/pigment/0.3.1-1/sid-pbuilder/ lool: pigment is on the first page of http://ftp-master.debian.org/new.html so hopefully will get in soon Kaleo: thank you Kaleo: Actually, thanks to all of you for the meeting