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/2009-07-14
= Meeting Minutes = == Present == === Main Meeting === * Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair * Alexander Sack (asac) * Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje) * Bryce Harrington (bryce) * Ken VanDine (kenvandine) * Martin Pitt (pitti) * Sebastien Bacher (seb128) * Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) * Tony Espy === Eastern Edition === * Luke Yelavich (TheMuso) * Robert Ancell (robert_ancell) == Apologies == * Chris Cheney (calc) * Jonathan Riddell (Riddell) == Agenda == === Status Updates === * Partner Update * Release Bugs/Release Status * quickly * Review activity reports === Discussion === * Pitti: empathy in alpha-3 * asac: test bluetooth front ends == Actions from this meeting == * ACTION: rickspencer3 to create trackable feature areas for DXE team * ACTION: kenvandine to facilitate discussion between SteveA and asac regarding firefox extension * ACTION: everyone try both bluetooth front ends, report experience to asac next team meeting * ACTION: TheMuso to test accessibility of empathy built with webkit == Outstanding actions from last meeting == * ACTION: kenvandine to organize uploading new FUSA applet and new GDM, document workarounds * RESULT: DONE, FUSA isn't ready yet and new GDM is mostly working. * ACTION: hggdh, rickspencer3, pedro_ to install new gdm from ubuntu-desktop ppa, report serious problems to seb128 and/or kenvandine * RESULT: New GDM is in Karmic, and mostly working * ACTION: ALL: provide feedback and help regarding Kubuntu browsers to Riddel in #kubuntu-devel if desired * RESULT: No movement due to desktop summit, follow up next week * ACTION: All: run edgers until alpha 3, and then disable (if currently running or otherwise interested) * RESULT: Still plan of record * ACTION: robert_ancell to discuss upstream of DXE FUSA applet wtih seb128 and kenvandine * ACTION: ALL: install mozilla security update, report problems to asac * RESULT: Everyone should have done this by next week * ACTION: rickspencer3 to review how paper cut effort is working for the team next week * RESULT: while some tweaks to process might be valuable if done again, the effort appears to be working fairly smoothly. == Partner Update == ===== Ubuntu One ===== [[UbuntuOne/DesktopIntegration/Status|Status]] * desktop couchdb * being packaged * client records api * package ready, needs to go to REVU * evolution using couch for storage * evolution-couchdb and couchdb-glib are in REVU * file syncing * in universe, waiting MIR approval * generic contact picker UI * not started yet, might slip * screen sharing * might slip * firefox bookmarks syncing * being packaged More MIRs coming this week, including couchdb and it's dependencies ===== DX Team ===== * FUSA: basic features done but not ready to ship. Ted said it was pushed, but I haven't found it on LP yet. == Release Bugs/Release Status == * A bit above the trend line: http://piware.de/tmp/desktopteam-burndown-karmic.png == Empathy in Alpha 3 == Team agreed that Empathy should be moved in Karmic for alpha 3, and not wait for butterfly (MSN). seb128 believes it works fine with libpurple. Also discussed empathy being built with webkit. This supports theming, but rickspencer3 is concerned about accessibility. == Bluetooth == asac investigating whether to use gnome-bluetooth and blueman for Bluetooth front end. Asks the team to try both and report back for next team meeting. == Activity reports == === Alexander Sack (asac) === * network manager 0.8 + modemmanager in karmic evaluation and discussion * xulrunner 1.9.1 porting /ffox35 spec * ported couchdb, miro, pcmanx-gtk2, virt-viewer, gnome-web-photo, gtk-vnc * did liferea merge in order to use webkit * discuss future of epiphany with seb; waiting for upstream decision on webkit; otherwise we need porting * bluetooth frontend discussion and evaluation * mail exchange with upstreams on roadmap etc. * discussing pros- and cons with superm * filing bugs on blueman * fix (at least all) segfaults in gwibber and commit upstream * more community support and discussion about ffox 3.5 branding * mentoring old mozillateam contributor (bluekuja) * submit a packaging training session. * MIR processing for UNR and llvm === Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje) === * langpack-o-matic test run with the first full-export for Karmic: some minor tweaks needed for the Chinese langpack split * Rosetta: renaming/merging KDE translation templates * Rosetta: cleaning the import queue * hack language-selector to support the Chinese langpack split * finish the Main Inclusion Report for ibus and modules * check that the oo.o templates are all imported in Rosetta * discussing new Rosetta tarball export times: Karmic will be exported on Saturdays and Wednesdays at 22:00 UTC === Bryce Harrington (bryce) === * Sponsored mesa (#396667) * Uploaded new -intel snapshot, closing a mess of bugs * Mass triaging of -intel bug reports * Forwarded bunches of -intel bugs upstream * Follow up on bugs from previous weeks * Improve graphing scripts to display Q3 properly * Experiment with bzr for X git trees * Inkscape bugs === Chris Cheney (calc) === === Jonathan Riddell (Riddell) === === Ken VanDine (kenvandine) === ===== Last week: ===== * Travel, Desktop Summit ===== This week: ===== * Assist partners with packages in REVU or needing REVU * Assist partners with MIRs * Give the new online services features a run through for acceptance testing === Luke Yelavich (TheMuso) === ==== Accessibility ==== * Continued work on the gnome-speech replacement specification. Almost got to testing some new code I got written today, for tighter integration into a user's session, but of course the build broke in weird and wonderful ways when I attempted to do something sane. Will fix it tomorrow. * Updated gnome-orca, mousetweaks and gok to 2.27.4 in karmic. * Updated accerciser to 1.7.4 in karmic. * Attempted to get the apport retracer to give me a useful backtrace for a common speech-dispatcher crash, but no luck so far. Hopefully the latest bug I've filed should work. ==== Audio ==== * Audio bug triaging, bugs in question are against pulseaudio, alsa userspace, and the kernel for hardware enablement. * Uploaded gnome-media 2.27.4 to karmic. * Updated pavucontrol to the latest git head in the ubuntu-audio-dev PPA, since it has some new functionality to work with the version of pulse already there. * Started trying to debug why pulseaudio mutes and zeroes audio levels, but with little success so far. * Got feedback re rtkit from Kees' security audit. Need to send the comments upstream as I am in no position to comment on the requests Kees has made. * Continue to track kernel activity upstream to see if Lennart's patches have landed in mainline for use with rtkit. ==== Misc ==== * Found that the touchpad on my notebook wasn't working due to missing synaptics package/driver. === Martin Pitt (pitti) === Karmic spec drafting: all approved Karmic feature work: * desktop-karmic-automagic-python-build-system: no progress this week * desktop-karmic-symptom-based-bug-reporting: no progress this week * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy|hal deprecation]]: * updated gvfs gphoto porting to David Zeuthen's feedback, sent upstream again * gnome-panel speedup: no development progress this week; this will be attacked after above three, since this does not have reverse dependencies Other work done: * Spent most of the week fixing regressions with the new gdm * Created https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/PolicyKitOneMigration * Bug fixing: apport, devicekit-disks, gvfs * More i915 debugging and feedback to upstream; working really well now on my GM945 * libsgutils2 SONAME migration * Ported gnome-{panel,session}, gdm, consolekit to polkit-1 API using upstream patches * updated glib2.0 to new upstream version * Ported jockey to polkit-1 Sponsoring: * gnome-menus, gnome-power-manager, gnupg, gnupg2, libxklavier === Robert Ancell (robert_ancell) === * Working on gdmsetup (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-gdmconfig) * Working with Thomas Thurman (metacity) on window matching * Package update/merges: gnome-games, cheese, tsclient, brasero, nautilus, gvfs, gcalctool === Sebastien Bacher (seb128) === * spent half of the week at the desktop summit * catching up with emails and bugs after the summit * GNOME updates: gtk+ rhythmbox gnome-keyring gnome-panel gtk+ gjs evolution-data-server gtkhtml evolution evolution-exchange libsoup evince file-roller gnome-keyring * spent a while on the gtk update to get the directfb backend to build * looked a the new gtk bugs to make sure the client side changes don't break too many things * backported some gtk git changes to fix issues * tracked some other desktopish issues * gnome-system-monitor deskbar-applet === Tony Espy (awe) === * vacation - 1.5 days * started working on https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/390362 ( entering wep key to NM requires tabbing/clicking ) * tested latest patch revision; WEP/WPA/LEAP all work * Dynamic WEP(802.1x) and WPA-Enterprise don't work * may split the bug in two, as WEP/WPA are most important * more notes added to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/ConnectionManagerComparison === Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) === * Uploaded HPLIP 3.9.6b, a bug fix release from HP * Uploaded foomatic-filters and foomatic-db: Now the HP DesignJets 30, 70, 90, 100, 100+, 110, 120, 130, 500, 800, 5000, 5500 work on Karmic. * Uploaded Ghostscript: Small adjustment for the color output of the DesignJets * Investigations on Brother HL-730 printing garbage (LP: #325616): In contrary to other Brother printers it has legacy emulations (PCL, ESC/P, ...). Seems that the printer is configured to one of them. * Discussion (with pitti and Tim Waugh) and investigations on doing Plug'n'Print via udev instead of via HAL, as part of deprecating HAL. * Answered and triaged printing-related bug reports. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list ubuntu-desktop@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
