• 2013-02-07 meeting:

  • Meeting log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-02-07-17.22.html

    • Developer Membership Board catch-up

      • Discussed recent thread on ubuntu-devel about criteria for decisions the DMB makes regarding new applicants

        • Reviewed some of the concerns on the list
        • Drew similarities between DMB and Membership decisions and how both can be more transparent
      • Brought up topic of difficulty of reporting results post-meeting, tedious process with several areas to update and emails to send summarizing meeting and ways it could be simplified
    • Docs team will be contacted by czajkowski to reschedule their catch-up
• 2013-02-21 meeting:

  • Meeting log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-02-21-17.09.html

    • IRC Council catch-up
    • Developer Advisory Team catch-up
• 2013-02-28 meeting:

  • Meeting log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2013/ubuntu-meeting.2013-02-28-17.04.html

    • Doc team catch-up

Developer Membership Board meeting, 2013-02-11

Chair: Benjamin Drung

Members Present: Barry Warsaw, Benjamin Drung, Iain Lane, Micah Gersten, Stefano Rivera, Stéphane Graber

Review of previous action items

• Iain published the Dynamic PPU Procedure on DeveloperMembershipBoard/ApplicationProcess and UbuntuDevelopers.

• We voted on confirming the concluded re-staffing election

  • Link: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/w8/~andru/cgi-perl/civs/results.pl?id=E_5b1837b9f3008750

  • For: 6 Against: 0 Abstained: 0
  • Action: Micah to announce the poll results
• Stéphane added Aron to a new input-methods packageset.
• We voted on delegating managing kernel upload rights to the kernel PPU team

  • Link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/UploadRights

  • For: 6 Against: 0 Abstained: 0
  • Action: Iain to do the paperwork for the kernel PPU team delegation

Chris J. Arges' application for Ubuntu Contributing Developer

Link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/christopherarges/CoreDevApplication

Note: Chris changed his Core Dev application to an Ubuntu Contributing Developer application before the meeting.

The application was discussed and voted on: For: 6 Against: 0 Abstained: 0

Chris J. Arges was added to the Ubuntu Contributing Developer team, welcome! We are looking forward to his Core Dev application.

Developer Membership Board meeting, 2013-02-25

Chair: Micah Gersten

Members Present: Barry Warsaw, Benjamin Drung, Micah Gersten, Scott Kitterman, Stefano Rivera, Stéphane Graber

Apologies: Iain Lane

Review of previous action items

• Micah to announce DMB poll results: Done
• Iain to do the paperwork for the kernel PPU team delegation: Done

MOTU Applications

Allison Randal

Link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AllisonRandal/MOTU

The application was discussed and voted on: For: 6 Against: 0 Abstained: 1

Logan Rosen

Link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoganRosen/MOTUApplication

The application was discussed and voted on: For: 6 Against: 0 Abstained: 0

Decouple PPU from Ubuntu membership (what needs to be done?)

The issue was discussed at great length.

* Micah to send summary of proposal to DMB list

An update from the Forums Council for February of 2013

• Minimal Staff requirements
• A place for users to discuss Forum Council agenda items
• Change to user name change policy
• Discussion on #ubuntuforums IRC channel moderation
• Referral links on the Forums
• Forum upgrade

Meeting 2013-02-04:

• Chair: Colin Watson
• Attendees: Kees Cook, Martin Pitt, Stéphane Graber
• Guests: Scott Kitterman, Scott Moser, Steve Langasek
• Apologies: Soren Hansen
• MAAS SRU (Andres Rodriguez, represented by Scott Moser)

  • Initial request from Andres

  • The board generally endorses Steve's reply, and authorises a waiver of the SRU policy for the maas package and (if required) for the addition of the python-tx-tftp package to precise.

  • Colin took an action to clarify the SRU documentation in light of Steve's comments on bundling.
  • There remain three python-django changes, two of which have been bounced up to the board by the SRU team. For these, the primary consideration is avoiding a risk of regressions for other Django users. The changes are targeted rather than a wholesale version backport, which is good and makes this amenable to detailed review.

  • At an initial review during the meeting, GenericIPAddressField appears as though it could be handled in MAAS, while the prefetch changes do seem to need to live in Django itself. However, there needs to be a clear plan for regression-testing outside the context of MAAS.

  • The board is generally willing to authorise a waiver for the SRU policy of no-new-features for these python-django changes, conditional on code review and non-MAAS regression testing. If any of the changes can reasonably be handled within MAAS instead, then they should be, since that would involve the least total risk to 12.04 users.
  • The board delegates Steve Langasek to perform additional code review for the SRU team.

Meeting 2013-02-18:

• Chair: Martin Pitt
• Attendees: Colin Watson, Stéphane Graber, Soren Hansen
• Guests: Anthony Wong, Jack Yu
• Apologies: Matt Zimmerman, Kees Cook
• Action review:

  • Colin to clarify the SRU documentation in light of Steve's comments on bundling: done

• Flavor of Ubuntu Kylin

  • The Technical Board welcomes the Kylin community to take up a real Chinese Ubuntu flavour, as the Ubuntu Developer team has traditionally lacked Chinese specific skills
  • The individual points of above document have been discussed, and most items regarded as genuine localization. However, there were a few points which were requested to be clarified/changed.
  • Chinese Input Method: Using fcitx will not be compatible with the Ubuntu/Unity/GNOME assumptions of using ibus, i. e. this will not work with e. g. control-center, the keyboard indicator, and the ibus indicator.

    • ACTION: JackWu to document justification for switching to fcitx, and impact on control center, indicators, application support

  • Cooperation with WPS: The TB feels that promoting proprietary software in the installer and default desktop is against the spirit and letter of the Ubuntu brand and philosophy and should not be done. Easy installation through Software Center is perfectly valid of course.

    • ACTION: JackYu to clarify on the wiki page what WPS is, how it's going to be integrated, and status of LibreOffice

• System Assistant, Photo Handling: These two are not Chinese specific, but should rather be done in the general Ubuntu context; System Assistant sounds like the old computer-janitor, a potential successor of which should be implemented in software-center proper

  • ACTION: JackYu to clarify goals and details for both

• The guidelines for accepted Ubuntu flavours require a signed CoC, one or more developers have upload rights, show 6 months activity and have a QA contact

  • ACTION: JackYu and Anthony Wong to sign CoC

  • The TB recognizes that requiring already existing upload rights is not something we can enforce in this case, and that developer merits should be acquired while working on Kylin instead. This should be reviewed in six months, until then the Foundations team has agreed to be formally responsible for the flavour and help out with mentoring, sponsoring, and release engineering.

• SRU Minor Release Exception for Ceph: Deferred to email as we ran out of time

• Chair for next meeting: Kees (carried over)
• Next meeting is 2013-03-04.

• 7 February 2013: Ubuntu Hour Kitchener

• 28 February 2013: IRC Meeting for Ubuntu-ca (Agenda and Minutes)

The Ubuntu Hour Waterloo for February will be combined with Ubuntu Hour Kitchener on 1 March 2013.

• Tadeáš Pařík was on UbuntuOnAir.com - discussion about incoming GlobalJams

  • short article about this session on our blog

• preparations for GlobalJam in Prague - forum topic in Czech, prepared activities:

  • translations
  • HW/laptop testing

  • Ubuntu tablet installation on TF101

• online session for translations - topic on our Czech forum

• Events
  • We attended Open Source Conference 2013 Tokyo/Spring as exhibitor and speaker.

    • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Events/OSC2013TokyoSpring

    • Movie of seminar by chonan: http://youtu.be/nPgD0lAvvX0

• Writings
  • Software Design (published on 18th Feb)

    • http://gihyo.jp/magazine/SD/archive/2013/201301

    • Ubuntu Monthly Report: New features of LibreOffice 4.0

  • Ubuntu Weekly Topcis

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201302/01

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201302/08

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201302/15

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/clip/01/ubuntu-topics/201302/22

  • Ubuntu Weekly Recipe

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0260

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0261

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0262

    • http://gihyo.jp/admin/serial/01/ubuntu-recipe/0263

• 8 Feb 2013 - Ubuntu hour and presentation in one of high schools in Niksic link

• 21 Feb 2013 - Ubuntu hour and presentation in Niksic link

• 25 Feb 2013 - Participation at IT'2013 Conference in Zabljak. All attendees received a flyer and Ubuntu CD.
• ongoing discussions on FB group and Forum
• warming up at the MOS Blog/News

* Ubuntu hour - lectures for beginners were held in Belgrade haklab, every Tuesday.

* Ubuntu for phone presentation at Belgrade haklab.

* New moderators elections of Ubuntu Serbia forum were held.

* On Sunday 3th, 10th, 17th and 24th February, Administration team meeting was held.

• Mon, 18 February: Monthly IRC Meet -- Minutes

• Ubuntu flash-coffee
• Ubuntu Global Jam 13.03 preparation

• Team Meetings

  • Sunday, February 10th

• Ubuntu Hours

  • Feb 2 Berkeley

  • Feb 7 San Diego

  • Feb 13 San Francisco

• Hosted Ubucon and Ubuntu booth at SCaLE11x

  • Blog post by Elizabeth Krumbach

Team Events:

• Hands on Linux Workshop on Saturday, February 16 2012 at 12-3pm EST
• Own Cloud and Powerful Desktop Applications on Thursday, February 21 2012 at 7-9pm EST

• Feb 6: QA Team Classroom Events

  • Introduction to bug reporting by phillw

  • Following a bug report by gema

• Feb 7: QA Team Classroom Events

  • Registering your laptop on the database by primes2h, Letozaf & SergioMeneses

  • Testing on a laptop by primes2h, Letozaf & SergioMeneses

• Feb 9 - 10: Ubuntu User Days

  • Ubuntu User Days Wrap-up

• Feb 13: QA Team Classroom Events

  • Your first ISO test by smartboyhw