Here are the minutes from the desktop team meeting. You can also find them and the irc log here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2009-05-05
== Present == * Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair * Alexander Sack (asac) * Tony Espy (awe) * Bryce Harrington (bryce) * Chris Cheney (calc) * Jonathan Riddell (Riddell) * Ken VanDine (kenvandine) * Martin Pitt (pitti) * Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) == Apologies == * Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje) - Vacation * Robert Ancell (robert_ancell) - Out of timezone * Sebastien Bacher (seb128) - Dx Team Sprint == Agenda == * Outstanding actions from last meeting * Welcome awe * UDS * Desktop Summit * Triaging versus Bug Fixing/Closing in Karmic * Review activity reports * Any other business == Outstanding actions from last meeting == * ACTION: rickspencer3 to get definitive list of who has talks at all hands to double check that everyone who has one is prepared * Result: have pinged a couple of people, but haven't gotten such a list yet, will carry over * Follow up: since the meeting rickspencer3 has gotten this info and shared with effected parties via email == Actions from this meeting == * ACTION: All - if you are going to desktop summit, add yourself to the list on this page * ACTION: rickspencer3 to create and schedule UDS sessions for bug management == Welcome awe == * Tony (awe) is joining the desktop team 80% of his time for the Karmic cycle. To start off he will be working with asac to identify some interesting NM related work, and to engage in the UDS process. == UDS == * Most all blueprints have been submitted * rickspencer3 notes that there will be time set aside for impromptu sessions at UDS * bryce thinks that there are too many xorg sessions planned, and will pair them down. * rickspencer3 and pitti will review, sort, and prioritize sessions * rickspencer3 will schedule sessions * Consensus that QA and community needs to be part of the discussion == Desktop Summit == Need a definitive list of who is going, and when. Also, do you have papers to present. || '''who''' || '''when''' || '''what''' || || rickspencer3 || core days || talk || || robert_ancel || || lightning talk || || kenvandine || Mon - Thur || talk || || seb128 || core days || || || JonathanRiddell || sat - sat || distro track, Wednesday || == Triaging versus Bug Fixing/Closing in Karmic == * Discussion about doing the right amount of bug fixing versus bug triaging versus other work. * rickspencer3 encouraged that the team to think "bold" about how to address this in Karmic, discussion ensued. * rickspencer3 will schedule a UDS sessions to discuss. == Activity reports == === Alexander Sack (asac) === * Mozilla: * mozilla backports * yet another firefox security update * fix mozilla build failure in karmic that was uncovered by gcc 4.4 * investigate daily bot + launchpad/soyuz issues; discussed with cprov and identified why latest launchpad doesn't handle lots of uploads in one batch properly anymore (LP: #371640) * mentor mozillateam members about how to maintain daily bzr branches to get more eyes caring for those builds * work with Jazzva on fixing prism trunk builds * NetworkManager: * network-manager bug triage; evaluating fixes for jaunty SRU * finding root-cause for weird dbus permission issues for some PPP/VPN users in jaunty; discussed and found potential fix for that with upstream - LP: #371291 (PPP) + LP: #360818 (VPN) * finished network-manager 0.7.1 hardy backports for NetworkManager and got verification from community that this works * Misc: * started to gather input from other teams on browser/network needs * more thoughts on karmic tasks === Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje) === * Dealing with Malayalam translations in Rosetta. The Malayalam translators requested to revert all translated string back to upstream (Packaged). * Discussion with Jeroen Vermeulen about the Malayalam translations and rolling back to upstream translations in general. * Preparing talk for AllHands === Bryce Harrington (bryce) === * Sponsored: -intel (LP: #371544), mesa (LP: #368049), -ati * Karmic merges: fglrx-installer, -ati, -nv * Wrote a getting started page for Ubuntu-X https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/SwatTeam * Started drafting a KMS howto: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/KernelModeSetting * Focused most of week into solving X.org freeze bug. A suitable workaround was found and currently in testing. * Addressing various concerns about -intel performance. (Needs backports of kernel patches by kernel team.) * Triaging, upstreaming UXA bugs. Wrote LPL script to report on current status of UXA bugs in lp and fdo. === Chris Cheney (calc) === * Working on OOo 3.1.0 packaging. Almost done for all: hardy/intrepid/jaunty/karmic * Had the following packages synced for OOo 3.1.0 - icu, flute-openoffice.org, libbase-openoffice.org, libfonts-openoffice.org, libformula-openoffice.org, liblayout-openoffice.org, libloader-openoffice.org, librepository-openoffice.org, libserializer-openoffice.org, libxml-openoffice.org, pentaho-reporting-flow-engine-openoffice.org * Weekly OOo Release Status Meeting - OOo 3.1.0 final later this week * Weekly desktop team meeting * Meeting with Michael Frey about new position * Lots of OOo bug triage === Jonathan Riddell (Riddell) === done: * Merges, cmake, kdelibs, kde4libs, qt4, pkg-kde-tools, kdepimlibs, kdebase* * Pondered, discussed and registered UDS specs * wrote and discussed MIR for xmlrpc-c * filled in preformance review and for colleague * oversaw KDE 4.2.3 packaging for jaunty by ninjas todo: * more merges * KDE 4.3 beta packaging === Ken VanDine (kenvandine) === ===== Done: ===== * Upgraded to Karmic * U1 testing, bug reporting and debugging * Reviewed libindicator API docs * Worked with the OLS team to define acceptance criteria for U1 in Karmic * Message indicator session for Ubuntu Open Week * UDS Karmic planning ===== Working on: ===== * U1 testing, bug reporting and debugging * Continue to work on acceptance criteria for U1 in Karmic * Ayatana planning for Karmic === Martin Pitt (pitti) === Just a four-day week, Friday was a national holiday. Currently open stable/milestoned bugs: * Bug:334446 (Remove gnome-pilot from the default ubuntu install): simple to do, needs some discussion though Done: * Tons of SRU processing * Various bug fixes in apport, f-spot, hal, hal-info * Prepared two blueprints for UDS karmic * Updated gnome-power-manager (mega-merge), now using DeviceKit-Powre * Packaged devicekit-disks, gnome-disk-utility, libatasmart * Packaged gvfs with devicekit support, in ubuntu-desktop PPA; some things don't work yet, but by and large looking good * Heavy testing of U1, filed some bugs * upgraded to Karmic and -intel 2.7.0 video driver, filed major bug upstream, update my other reported bugs against -intel Merges: * Done: grep, mcrypt, po-debconf, ttf-tmuni, asciidoc, backuppc, gconf, gnome-mount, gthumb, gzip, latex-beamer, libdv, nis, pbuilder, tzdata * Outstanding: gthumb (merged, but f****ng autotools breakage), texlive-extra (no time yet) Sponsoring: * Uploaded: alacarte, ekiga, f-spot, gnome-themes, lintian * Reviewed, needs fixing: libmtp, dbus-python, tomboy === Sebastien Bacher (seb128) === * lot of desktop bugs triage after jaunty * archive admin work, initial karmic autosync run, manual syncing and NEW queue cleaning * started on desktop merges for karmic: desktop-file-utils gedit gtkhtml rhythmbox gnome-media gftp libxml++ poppler libxklavier nautilus gnome-pkg-tools libgnome rarian * some desktop bugs fix in karmic and sru uploads to jaunty * listed desktop components and who is working on what * booked flights for dxteam sprint === Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) === * Lots of new printing bugs answered and triaged. * Prepared SRU for SpliX. It did not upgrade the PPD files of all previous versions (bug #367650 and #352472), uploaded SpliX also to Karmic. * Added second fix on pstopdf filter (bug #357732) to Debian CUPS BZR repository (for Karmic). * Bug fixes on Ghostscript CUPS Raster output device upstream (to be added to Karmic). === Robert Ancell (robert_ancell) === * General triaging * Accepted to do lightning speech at GUADEC: Practical Part-Time Refactoring (gcalctool) * Preparing blueprint for UDS: Compiz bug management * Bug:352041 - Ekiga crash when no accounts configured/working - Jaunty SRU * Bug:181553 - Some Totem/Rhythmbox playlist newline formats not supported - My patch applied upstream, will SRU * Bug:368252 - Totem browser plugin not working with Apple HD trailers - fixed upstream, will SRU * Bug:343707 - Rhythmbox tries to find plugin for corrupt files - candidate patch, will SRU * Updating packages for Karmic -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop