November 2010 Team Reports

No applicants were present at the meeting on 2010-11-18

Developer Membership Board meeting 2010-11-08 19:00 UTC

• Chair: Stéphane Graber
• Present: Benjamin Drung, Cody Somerville, Colin Watson, Emmet Hikory, Michael Bienia
• Absent: Soren Hansen
• Action review:
• Administrative Matters
  • Review Marco Rodrigues participation in Ubuntu Development
    • [ACTION] persia to ask the CC for assistance regarding Marco's request for unban

• PerPackageUploader Applications

  • Monty Taylor (mtaylor)

    • Adding upload rights to haildb
      Approved: 6 for, 0 against. 0 abstained.

• MOTU Applications

  • Micah Gersten (micahg)

    • Approved: 6 for, 0 against, 0 abstained.
• Next meeting
  • Date: November 22nd 2010, 12:00 UTC
  • Chair: Emmet Hikory

Meeting Log

• Team Report
  • Locobots replaced with Ubuntulog (in conjunction with LC and canonical sysadmins)
  • Finalised Member approval process and sent to CC for approval
  • Call for new ops for #ubuntu, #ubuntu-offtopic and #ubuntu-ops
  • Call for IRCC nominations
  • Removal of bans without comments
  • Reviewed and worked on shell host ban draft document (not yet completed)
  • Liased with freenode about ways to improve the network (continuing work)
  • Bantracker access added for #ubuntu-women ops
  • 2 Escalated items
• Meeting Minutes
  • Meeting, 13th November 2010
    • Meeting cancelled because of lack of quorum.
  • Meeting, 28th November 2010

    • Logs available at http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.log.20101128_1204.html

    • TOPIC: -offtopic 'support' discussion policy
      • ACTION: Pici to write a proposal for offtopic support and mail to the list for comments
    • TOPIC: Ubuntu IRC name space over crowded and managed to different standards beyond that of the Ubuntu IRC principles.
      • ACTION received: ikonia to draft a set of basic guidelines for channel creation

    • TOPIC: Ubuntu operator recruitment process a waste of time, impractical and not required (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IRC/IrcTeam/OperatorRequirements)

      • VOTE: clarify the process for op applications and remove the wiki page requirement.
        • RESULT: 4 for, 0 against, 0 abstained. Total: 4
    • TOPIC:  Creation of a #ubuntu-ops-backstage channel.
      • AGREED received: Take this proposal to the ubuntu-irc list

• We had a LoCo Council meeting on November 16th. Topics discussed:

  • LoCo Team {re}approvals

    • Ubuntu-SE - not approved
    • Ubuntu-VN - not approved

• Meeting 2010-11-02
  • Chair: Kees Cook
  • Present: Martin Pitt, Matt Zimmerman, Colin Watson, Mark Shuttleworth
  • Apologies: Scott James Remnant
  • Guests: Emmet Hikory
  • Action review

    • Colin to ensure that documentation on nature of extras.ubuntu.com archive makes it into process docs, and ensure that ARB legality checks are synchronised with those of ubuntu-archive. carry over

    • Matt to follow up with Brian on 174375 DONE

  • Dynamic "per package upload permissions" for Debian Developers
    • Supported in theory, formal proposal desired, since the details will be the hard part.
  • Micro release exception request for Chromium
    • Approved and documented.
  • Quarterly Brainstorm review
    • [ACTION] Matt to write up Quarterly Brainstorm review and send to TB mailing list.
  • TB meeting moved to 1500 UTC
  • Next chair: sabdfl
• Meeting 2010-11-16
  • Chair: Martin Pitt
  • Present: Colin Watson, Kees Cook, Scott James Remnant
  • Guests: Scott Kitterman, Allison Randall, John Lenton, Eric Casteleijn
  • Action review

    • Colin to ensure that documentation on nature of extras.ubuntu.com archive makes it into process docs, and ensure that ARB legality checks are synchronised with those of ubuntu-archive. DONE

    • Matt to write up Quarterly Brainstorm review and send to TB mailing list. DONE

  • KDE micro version update exception

    • upstream policy draft: http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/Minor_Point_Release_Policy/Draft

    • Proposed policy: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/UpdatesPolicy

    • Approved with 3 for, 0 against. 0 abstained

    • Martin added this to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions

  • couchdb on lucid: backport 1.0

    • https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2010-November/000563.html

    • UbuntuOne cloud servers got updated to couchdb 1.0 to handle the load and SSL

    • According to README and James Westby, the 0.10 -> 1.0 upgrade needs to be done manually for the system wide instance

    • Impact on per-user couchdbs to be clarified
    • API is said to not have changed "much", but any change will break existing couchdb applications, and thus needs to be clarified and evaluated
    • will cause problems with shared home directories and clients with mixed 1.0/0.1 packages
    • To be investigated by U1 team: introduce couchdb-1.0 package into lucid; what other packages need to be changed, what's the impact?
    • To be re-discussed at next meeting with more information on the wiki page
  • ARB exception proposal

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PostReleaseApps/MaverickExceptionsProposal

    • Public python libraries shouldn't be a matter for these packages
    • Private libraries could be kept in the app dir by setting sys.path
      • Can quickly templates be updated in lucid to automatically add the application dir to sys.path?
      • Non-quickly apps would have a requirement to set this up by themselves; is that practical?
    • .pyc files are not a must, so we could ship maverick packages without them
    • general opinion was that making an exception for desktop files only would be okay
    • Some discussion whether using a vendor prefix in /opt would make sense
  • Next chair: sabdfl (carried over)
• Meeting 2010-11-30

  • Log: http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.20101130_0859.html

  • Chair: Matt Zimmerman
  • Other members present: Martin Pitt
  • Guests: Allison Randall, John Lenton, Eric Casteleijn, Rick Spencer, Stuart Langridge, Emmet Hikory
  • Action review
    • KDE microversion SRU docs - done

  • couchdb lucid backport SRU - John Lenton

    • Continuation from the previous meeting
    • We enumerated options for the Ubuntu One team to restore lost functionality in Ubuntu 10.04 resulting from the CouchDB 1.0 server-side update. The options supported by the TB members present were:
      • option 1: parallel package couchdb 1.0, update desktopcouch to use it, and release via SRU exception
      • option 3: update couchdb to 1.0 in backports, superseding 0.1 in lucid
      • option 4: do nothing, focus on natty, move on
    • The U1 team will decide which option to pursue based on available resources and business considerations

  • ARB exception proposal - Allison Randal

    • Continuation from the previous meeting
    • Allison's proposal was supported by the TB members present:
      • Allow .desktop files to be installed outside /opt.
      • In Natty, we'll modify Quickly, cdbs, python-support, and related packages o support installation in /opt.
      • For Maverick, accept that .pyc files and version symlinks won't be generated for Python libraries.
      • For Maverick, ARB will perform manual package fixes on proposed applications, to install in /opt and load libraries from /opt.
      • Binaries only in /opt (no exceptions for Maverick), will not be in $PATH.
      • Official install location is /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/ (with version number? i.e. "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/foo-1.5")

Xubuntu team report for November, 2010

Bug Triage

• Still squashing bugs. This will be an on-going process.

Packaging, Development, & Testing

• Inclusion of Xfce 4.7.x (future 4.8) is being worked on in natty.

Website & Marketing

• Xubuntu needs a Marketing Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com

Artwork

• We still need a good plymouth theme.
• Charlie is working with the Ubuntu Artwork Team to draw a specification for xubuntu artwork in Natty Narwhal.
• ochosi is working on updating the faenza icon theme to include all icons.
• ochosi is updating the bluebird theme to create greybird for possible inclusion in Natty Narwhal.

  • Feel free to check it out @ http://shimmerproject.org/hg/bluebird-colors > greybird.

• Xubuntu needs an Artwork Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com

Community

• We are striving to get more users to blog about Xubuntu. We would like to keep word out of the changes being made, as well as new releases.
• We are attempting to submit new articles to Ubuntu Weekly News at least once a month about Xubuntu.
• A community meeting was held on 2010-11-18. It was decided that meetings will be held weekly through December on Thursdays.
• A community meeting was held on 2010-11-25.

• Minutes and logs from the meetings are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Meetings.

• Xubuntu needs to nominate and vote for a permanent Project Lead. Nominations are explained in https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2010-November/007614.html.

Documentation

• Xubuntu needs a Documentation Lead. Contact us per http://xubuntu.org/devel if interested or email charlie-tca@ubuntu.com

• Natty Development

  • Moderating Seeds
    • seeds updating in ubuntustudio-dev bzr branch

    • ubuntustudio-meta package updated (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntustudio/+bug/680317)

    • emailed Colin Watson to update task list for tasksel
  • Art Development
    • plymouth theme

      • built on local machine - http://www.fossmusicproject.org/public/images/new-plymouth-theme.png

      • will begin updating package soon
    • GDM background/desktop wallpaper
      • want to update these as well
      • considering basing new images on developmental plymouth theme
• Website Update

  • Held meeting - logs start approximately [01:19] http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/12/01/%23ubuntustudio-devel.txt

  • Decisions Made

    • Will use the 'impact' mock-up theme - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuStudio/TaskWebRevamp#Impact

    • Will stick with Drupal rather than another CMS (e.g. Wordpress)
    • Will use a "landing" page
    • Primary focus of the website will be:

      • to help new users understand what is Ubuntu Studio

      • to help new users learn how to use Ubuntu Studio

      • to help all users download Ubuntu Studio
    • Secondary focus of the website will be for marketing Ubuntu Studio
  • Next Meeting Preparations
    • tomwilso will prepare a 2nd draft of the site map focusing on primary features

    • ScottLavender will assist tomwilso as required

• Kernel development

  • Alessio Bogani has developed a -lowlatency kernel for Natty

  • Waiting for "official" documentation from UKT to get kernel into the archive - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/hardware-kernel-n-version-and-flavours

• 26 November - 1Help=1Coffee & μCourses. Picture.

• 19 November - 1Help=1Coffee & μCourses. Picture.

• 12 November - Install Party Ubuntu 10.10. Post before, Post after & Pictures.

• 5 November - 1Help=1Coffee & μCourses. Picture.

• November Meeting - Regular Team Meeting held 09th November, chaired by Ryan Macnish (nisshh) and attended by 9 team members.

• Australian Localised Promotional Material - Team Members MoLE, blahdeblah and head_victim worked together to localise a pamphlet from the SpreadUbuntu site to incorporate the Ubuntu-AU team details.

• Ubuntu Advocacy @ LCA2011 - working towards Ubuntu-AU representation at the upcoming Linux.Conf.Au in January 2011.

• November 9th: presentation of Ubuntu at University of University of Ghent for students of Science Related Studies

• November 14th: booth at computer fair in Ghent

• November 21th: booth at computer fair in Genk

• November 28th: booth at computer fair in Antwerp

• Weekly IRC meetings for coordination on November 18th and 25th on #ubuntu-be

• 20 November 2010.Maverick Meerkat, install party at ESG, Douala.

  • Announcement

  • Report

• Ubuntu Hours in Waterloo, ON (Nov. 3) and Ottawa, ON (Nov. 11)

• IRC Meeting, Nov. 14

• New website up: http://ubuntu-ca.org/

• November 1st: LoCo meeting about last minute praparations for Maverick release party.

• November 5th: JosepGallart spoke about Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat and the release party on Catalan radio program l'Extraradi from Com Ràdio.

• November 6th: Maverick Release Party at CTUG venue in Granollers, near Barcelona. Pictures 1 Pictures 2

• November 11th: JosepGallart spoke about Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat and the release party on a Balearic radio program from SOM Ràdio.

• November 16th: LoCo meeting about sensation from Maverick release party and thing to improve next party.

• November 20th: Maverick Release Party at Ca Revolta venue in València.

• November news :

  • We have new goodies (Mugs, badges, tshirts for women, tshirts for men, metal stickers)

  • The design of our logo changes to be more like the new Ubuntu. Color variations and different positions will come in December.

  • We are re-organising our working teams and website projects in Launchpad, hosting the source code of our web applications. The future organisation will look like this : teams and projects

• November 5th to 7th - Ubuntu Party in Paris - conferences, workshops, classes, demonstrations, webradio, streaming video, installs - 150 benevolents, 3000 visitors, report

• November 9th - IRC meeting in #ubuntu-fr-meeting channel on Freenode for the debriefing of the Ubuntu Party in Paris friday, an education oriented day. minutes.

• November 10th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting

• November 13th - Install Party in Brives-la-Gaillarde - conferences, installs - 80 visitors, report

• November 15th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting
• November 15th - Rendez-vous Ubuntu in Paris, it's a flash ubuntu hour organised in the afternoon for the evening, 6 people show up, not bad.
• November 16th - Install Party Maverick in Lille
• November 17th - Install Party in Paris 8 university
• November 20th - Install Party in Marseille - conferences, installs
• November 20th - Ubuntu Party in Toulouse - conferences, installs, workshop - 700 visitors

• November 20th - Maverick Party in Bordeaux - conferences, demonstrations, webradio, installs - 60 visitors, report

• November 22th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting

• November 27th - Debriefing Ubuntu Party in Paris - starting to organize the next. report

• November 29th - weekly ubuntu-fr-webteam meeting

• November 30th - IRC meeting in #ubuntu-fr-meeting channel on Freenode of the association Ubuntu-fr. agenda, minutes

• Four new moderators chosen for the forum by the members. Congrats and keep up the good work!

• Ubuntistas, community's magazine, issue 10 is out! You can check it out (in Greek) here. Congratulations to the members who man the magazine's team!

• Our team's planet is up and running at http://planet.ubuntu-gr.org

• Friday 12: Curso Linux UNITEC

• Friday 26: BarCamp 4.0 UNITEC

• Presenting at the Infoera Conference (a conference for ITC teachers) at Füzesgyarmat about Ubuntu (November 26): Photos

• The number of registered users on ubuntu.hu has surpassed 19700

• We had our monthly IRC meeting on the first Thursday of the month as usual: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HungarianTeam/IRCMeetings

• We regularly updated our loco site with the latest news: http://ubuntu.hu

• We did various translation-related tasks

• Members of our loco, gave out Ubuntu cds at the Business Value of Open Source on the 16 November. Write up here

• Regular Monthly IRC Meeting was held at 8pm Irish time on Wednesday 17th November 2010.

• On Wednesday 24th of November the Dublin Ubuntu Hour took place at 19:00 in the Trinity Capital Hotel.

• On Thursday 25th of November the Limerick Ubuntu Hour took place in the Absolute Hotel at 18:00.

• Members of our loco, are giving a hand running a Christmas quiz. next month. Planing is under way.

• Members of our loco made a more interactive facebook page, Ubuntu-ie.

• We held "Ubuntu Off-line Meeting Kansai 10.10" at October 30th. About 40 people attended.

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Events/OfflineKansai201010Report

• We held "Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party Tokyo" at November 6th. 68 people attended.

  • https://wiki.ubuntulinux.jp/Events/OfflineTokyo201011/Report

  • https://picasaweb.google.com/106468260551425064278/Ubuntu1010ReleasePartyTokyo?authuser=0&authkey=Gv1sRgCMKJisuuubWm_gE&feat=directlink

• 06 Nov:

  • POSOL Ep.16 released by Team POSOL (Leandro Gomez, Jose Ernesto Davila, Norman Garcia and Marcelo Gutierrez).

• 15 Nov:

  • Pizza Bash 1.11, team members attended Bash.

• 16 Nov:

  • Team members participated meetting with CCEN

• 20-21 Nov:

  • "Digital Technoogy for civil society" workshop in Santiago de Chile. Norman Garcia gave a workshop about digital security for NGO´s and a talk about Ubuntu.

• 22 Nov:

  • POSOL Ep.17 released by Team POSOL (Leandro Gomez, Jose Ernesto Davila, Norman Garcia and Marcelo Gutierrez).

• 30 Nov:

  • Drupaleada Noviembre '10, members attended drupaleada.

• 6 November: Stellenbosch Ubuntu Hour also these cute ones

• 15 November: IRC meeting

• 21 November: Pretoria Ubuntu Hour

• 28 November: Ubuntu-za geeknic

• IRC meeting held on the 02nd and 30th

• FOSS Friday at Fossbox

Team meetings:

• Sunday, November 7th

• Sunday, November 21st

Ubuntu Hours:

• Nov 4 Lake Forest

• Nov 10 San Francisco

• Nov 11 San Jose

• Nov 18 Lake Forest

• Nov 18 Mountain View

• Nov 20 San Diego

Website:

• After discussion on list and at November 21st meeting we decided to use the ubuntu-us Linode and Google Apps

• New website team created to start website configuration

• Held our regular monthly meeting on 2010-11-01

• Held our 10.10 release party on 2010-11-21 at Pumping Station One

• Team Meeting held in #ubuntu-us-fl November 16th.

.:Events:.

• 20101106 6pm - 9pm NY State Ubuntu LoCo Launch Events Combined Launch Events

• 20101106 6pm - 9pm NY State Ubuntu LoCo Finger Lakes Launch and Holiday Party Barnes and Noble @ RIT

• 20101106 6pm - 9pm NY State Ubuntu LoCo New York City Area NYU Stern

• 20101106 6pm - 9pm NY State Ubuntu LoCo Central New York Syracuse

• 20101120 12pm - 4pm cws, deejoe and cprofitt will co-sponsor a Linux Workshop with Interlock Rochester
• 20101120 9am - 4pm cprofitt will hold a hands-on lab for educators at NYSCATE 2010 Hands-on Lab

.:Meetings:.

.:Other:.

• Regular Monthly IRC Meeting was held at 8pm Eastern on November 1

• Ubuntu Hours

  • Fridays at Noon http://ls.net/content/ubuntu-hour (Jim Tarvid)

  • First Hampton Roads Ubuntu Hour was November 23 at 7:00 p.m. in Newport News, Virginia. Announcement and photo from event. (jledbetter & jtatum)

Accessibility Team Report for November 2010

• Work continues on the Persona project

• Accessibility wiki continues to be a work in progess. We did update https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/GettingInvolved and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Accessibility/Testing . There are now tests available that any person can use to determine accessibility of software.

Classes:

• 23 Nov: Tutorial on Debian/Ubuntu Packaging by bilalakhtar for Packaging/Training

• 24 Nov: Packaging Alley-oop -- Getting your package into Ubuntu through Debian by paultag for Packaging/Training