March2008

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March 2008 Team Reports

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Ubuntu Development Teams

MOTU Team

  • NEW Packages: libksane.
  • Mentoring: The situation for mentoring is not excellent, due to the chronic lack of available mentors. We have about 7 active mentors and about 8 active mentees. Since the beginning of the year we have received 10 requests for mentoring, all had to be queued up but one.
  • MOTU School: 2 sessions organised as part of Developer Week. One session scheduled for 25th March. There is a lack of other people offering to present sessions, and I do not feel comfortable presenting many sessions myself.
  • MOTU SWAT: Kept up our usual flow of fixes to previous releases. I (Fujitsu) have also been updating the hundreds of open universe issues in ubuntu-cve-tracker, with the goal of being able to give Hardy reliable and complete security support. We've only around 3 people working on updates; we really, really need more!

  • Launchpad Liaison: 21 open motu bugs mostly in soyuz (6) and malone (14) in the [https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad-project/+bugs?field.tag=motu bug list]. So far there have been 17 motu bugs fixed (2 additional with next rollout). Relevant bugs being fixed in the next rollout (March 23rd): [https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/141540 #141540], [https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/136413 #136413], [https://bugs.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/4593 #4593], [https://bugs.launchpad.net/soyuz/+bug/191217 #191217]. If you would like to add a bug to the motu list or have suggestions for making Launchpad more functional for MOTU please contact Jordan Mantha (LaserJock).

Full Circle Magazine

  • Full Circle Podcast #1 finally released. Comments mostly positive, Matt is working on ironing out any remaining quirks.
  • Full Circle Magazine #10 released and doing well. Over 22,400 downloads in just three weeks.
  • FCM #11 almost complete, preview will be released to Marketing Team by Mon 23rd March.
  • FCM #12 is our first anniversary and I (Ronnie) have written an article detailing how FCM got started and included statistics on downloads and readership done using Google Analytics.
  • New French translation team working on #10
  • From #12 onwards, regular contributors are required to submit a short 30 word bio which should not contain any business promo's/URL's

  • We now have several dozen proof-readers working on removing spelingk mistooks Wink ;) from our articles wiki.

  • We are planning a Gameathon where the community selects an open source, online, game and we have monthly and yearly winners. It's really just a lame excuse for us all to play more games.
  • FCM #9 Italian is up. As is #9 in Chinese.

Mobile Team

  • Modified Open Office to be able to export documents to PDF from the command line. The reason behind this is to allow evince to view MS Office documents. This will enable reading of MS Office document files. The patch converts whatever OO can read, converts it to a PDF and launches evince pointing to the resulting file. The conversion time is amazingly fast so it's quite a nice solution. We created a small launcher application called "treb" (short for trebuchet) that is basically an openfile-type dialog that will let the user select a file and will automatically filter it using Open Office and pass it to be read by Evince. There were also some discussions about adding finger scroll support to Evince , browser dialogs and preference window using the Moko library

  • Firefox 3.0 beta2 chinese language pack was patched and made to work with Midbrowser and we added all the internationalization support back into moblin-applets and enabled mobile-basic-flash to display multi-language icon texts. Language issues on mobile are summarised [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded/I18nQuickstart here]

  • We prepared elisa (a project to create an open source media center solution for GNU/Linux) packages which will need testing

  • The UME control panel was [http://moblin.org/projects/projects_moblin-applets.php documented] and a sample applet is being created to demonstrate best practice.

  • We discovered that changing kernel configure options could let Moblin kernel boot faster. Setting "no" to CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD and CONFIG_ISAPNP could save as many as 3 seconds!!! We also saved another 6 seconds for normal boot by removing some "unnecessary" services and moving some services to be started after hildon desktop is launched. We removed the services pcmciautils and mountkernfs. The postponed services are IUSBC and Bluetooth
  • A need for additional documentation was identified for the tarball release + ppa upload process, the patch addition process and bug tagging process.

A more comprehensive weekly report can be found [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MobileAndEmbedded/ReportingPage here]

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Desktop Team

  • Added two gtk themes for testing. Neither use the Ubuntulooks engine; One is based on Clearlooks and the other (currently set to default) uses Murrine.
  • Jockey now correctly configures the fglrx driver for ATi cards, including working with compiz (pitti)
  • Laptop battery handling should behave itself again (pitti)

  • Prepared a new 'bug-kill-o-zap' hal upload; widespread testing and feedback heavily appreciated! https://launchpad.net/~pitti/+archive

  • Successful upgrade from gutsy to hardy with ~5300 packages.

  • Lots of testing/fixing for dapper->hardy upgrades.

Ubuntu Studio

  • Artwork completed.
  • Continue testing and fixing bugs.
  • Working on release notes.
  • Reading website updates for release.

Xubuntu

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Mythbuntu

  • LIRC bug triage
  • Beta release
  • Create FAQ for users to see

Kubuntu

  • Released 8.04 Beta
  • Uploaded docs package - ready for translations

  • Hug Days - Konqueror, KNetworkManager, and Amarok

  • Most of the Kubuntu KDE 4 default settings sent upstream
  • Guidance fixes
    • Powermanager brightness
    • Displayconfig doesn't crash if current display size/refresh rate can't be fetched
    • Powermanager uses new hal keys
    • Powermanager checks to being a unique app
    • Powermanager listens for HAL button events and issues dcop calls to guidance-power-manager
  • Kaffeine install-codecs script now written in Python

  • KHelpCenter 3.5.9 patched so htdig works with the correct directory

  • Kubuntu now warns about low disk space

Ubuntu Documentation Team

  • Kubuntu documentation complete and uploaded for translations
  • Kubuntu Firefox startpage received a decent amount of new translations
  • Translation templates generated and uploaded to bzr for the Ubuntu documentation (now string-frozen)
  • Lots of bug-fixing!
  • Welcome to the new documentation mentoring students who joined us this month
  • Milo Casagrande and Andrew Stabeno have nearly finished writing the documentation for Brasero (upstream), and members of the Doc Team have started writing for another upstream project (Empathy) under Milo's mentorship

Wine Team

  • Wine 0.9.58 will be the version in Hardy, as 0.9.59 comes out a day after full freeze

  • Wine's built in Tahoma (and other) fonts should support glyphs from most languages now. If a language is still missing, there is still time to fix it for Hardy. Please report it here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/188368

  • We are looking for testers for Wine on the lpia arch. So far all we know is that it compiles.
  • Upstream work on Console Configuration has started so in the future we will be able to configure Wine from new GUI tools such as a gnome applet.

Ubuntu LoCo Teams

Japanese Team

Ubuntu Nicaragua

US LoCo Teams Project

  • The US Teams has it's second social meet n' greet on March 13, 2008. Logs are the meeting log for March 13, 2008.

  • The US Teams Project held a [:USTeams/Meetings/Minutes/2008-03-13:Meeting] on March 13th in the form of a social meet n' greet.

    • [:USTeams/Meetings/IRCLogs/2008-03-13:Minutes]

  • The next [:/USTeams/Meetings:Meeting] tbd.

  • State & City LoCo Teams

    • 55

  • Approved State LoCo Teams

    • 13

  • State LoCo Teams

    • 45
  • Approved City Teams
    • 2

  • City LoCo Teams

    • 9

US Colorado Team

US Florida Team

  • The FloridaTeam is currently planning to [:FloridaTeam/Projects/HardyReleaseParty:Party Hardy] Awesome! B) on the day Hardy is released and/or a few days to follow. At the moment we have plans for two parties: Orlando and Miami.

  • The FloridaTeam is gearing up to represent at and attend Barcamp Orlando [:FloridaTeam/BarcampOrlando Barcamp Orlando]. There will be a day for Developers and another for New Media. The FloridaTeam will also have a F2F Meeting after the Developer day Awesome B-)

  • The FloridaTeam will be representing on March 26, 2008 for Document Freedom Day in Orlando. GavinBaker will be putting the event together.

  • The Floria Team held a [:FloridaTeam/Meetings:Meeting] on March 16th. The next Florida Team [:FloridaTeam/Meetings:Meeting] will be March 30th @ 8 pm EST.

US Maryland Team

Tamil Team

Georgia US Team

  • InstallFest planning - A date and location have been set for the Hardy InstallFest, and we are lining up presentations.

  • Face 2 Face Meeting - We held our March F2F Meeting on the 8th in Sandy Springs.
  • Release Party - We will be having a release party for Hardy Heron, and are planning the location and time.

South African Team

Jordan Team

Chilean Team

Ecuador Team

US New Mexico Team

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