Desktop Team 20091208 meeting minutes

[Rick Spencer]

Here are the minutes from the desktop team meeting. You can also find
them, the activity reports, and the irc log here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Meeting/2009-12-08

= Meeting Minutes =
== Present ==
=== Main Meeting ===
 * Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair
 * Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)
 * Chris Cheney (ccheney)
 * Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
 * Ken VanDine (kenvandine)
 * Martin Pitt (pitti)
 * Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
 * Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)  
 * Alexander Sack (asac)  

=== Eastern Edition ===
 * Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

== Apologies ==
 * Alberto Milone (tseliot) - National holiday
 * Bryce Harrington (bryce) - Holiday
 * Luke Yelavich (TheMuso) - Moving House

== Agenda ==
 * Outstanding actions from last meeting
 * Partner Update
 * Kubuntu Update
 * Release Bugs/Release Status
 * Lucid blueprints
 * 2010 Events
 * UNE
 * Review activity reports
 * Any other business

== Outstanding actions from last meeting ==
 * ACTION: rickspencer3 to track down robert's scanning tool
  * RESULT: It's in his PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~robert-ancell/+archive/simple-scan
 * ACTION: seb128 to add initial work items to UNE session blueprint
  * RESULT: didrocks beat him to it:
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-unr-session
 * ACTION: robert_ancell to do seed changes for new games
  * DONE (by pitti, needs core-dev)
 * ACTION: rickspencer3 to confirm robert_ancell commitment to GDM/GDM
Greeter refactor
  * RESULT: Based on current OEM commitment, documenting the current API
is in scope for A2, rest of the work may be done post A2
 * ACTION: kenvandine to investigate improving startup time of Messaging
Menu and related tasks
  * RESULT: tedg added profiling code, next update of libindicate should
bring some speedup
 * ACTION: ricspencer3 to set up call with pitti, bryce, and tselliot to
get tselliot on board
  * RESULT: tseliot set up a weekly meeting with rickspencer3, we used
the first one to confer with pitti
 * ACTION: all to try robert_ancell's new scanning tool
  * RESULT: ArneGoetje tried, does not talk with his scanner (xsane
works); will contact Robert

== Actions from this meeting ==
 * ArneGoetje to talk to Robert about scanner failure in simple-scan
 * Everyone to add their conference interests to list below
 * Martin to followup on UbuntuSpec:desktop-lucid-une-applications
drafting
 * Martin to followup on UbuntuSpec:desktop-lucid-desktop-cloud drafting

== Partner Update ==
 * DX [[DesktopExperienceTeam/LucidWeeklyReleases|Weekly releases]] to
start again this Thursday
 * Decorations and RGBA code was released into a PPA along with a call
for testing, results tracked here:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gtk+2.0/+bug/491521

== Kubuntu Update ==
 * 4.4 Beta is mostly in lucid
 * Colin Watson fixed Qt
 * Remaining kdelibs problems are now fixed
 * In a few hours: ready for alpha-1

== Release Status ==
{{http://piware.de/workitems/desktop/lucid-alpha2/burndown.png}}

No alpha-1 release blockers right now.

== Lucid blueprints ==

Most are drafted/approved now. Oustanding are 

 * UbuntuSpec:desktop-lucid-une-applications : Was not discussed at UDS,
needs followup
 * UbuntuSpec:desktop-lucid-desktop-cloud: No drafter, needs followup

== 2010 Events ==
We need to create a list of the events in which the Ubuntu Platform team
will be participating in 2010. Please indicate which ones you want to
attend in 2010, and add any events which are missing.

 * Camp KDE
 * linux.conf.au
  * robert-ancell
 * FOSDEM
 * Black Hat
 * Scale
 * Pycon
 * Cloud computing
 * CELF (USA)
 * CELF Europe
 * Linux Collaboration Summit
  * pitti (?)
 * Java One
 * Usenix 09
 * LinuxTag
 * Akademy - JonathanRiddell
 * Guadec
 * Ottawa Linux Symposium
 * Debcamp
 * Debconf
 * OSCON
 * USENIX Security
 * Atlanta Linux Fest
 * LDAP
 * LinuxCon
 * LinuxPlumbers
  * pitti (?)
 * X Developers
 * Maemo Summit
 * OOoCon

== UNE ==
 * Desktop team to deliver UNE going forward
 * didrocks will be the maintainer
 * Until didrocks starts, only goal is for SteveK to do UNR -> UNE
rename
 * mini-sprint in January to get first desktop owned UNE image built

== Other Business ==

== Activity reports ==

=== Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje) ===

=== Chris Cheney (ccheney) ===
 * Sick Friday (Dec 4)
 * Worked on list of xulrunner for firefox conversion
 * Working on getting OOo 3.1.1 available for Hardy users
 * OOo bug triage

=== Jonathan Riddell (Riddell) ===

done:
 * Holiday all last week
 * Security updates for kdelibs, kdebase
 * Review status of KDE 4.4 beta packaging and uploaded
 * e-mail catchup

todo:
 * Get KDE 4.4 beta finished
 * Alpha 1

=== Ken VanDine (kenvandine) ===
 * Updated empathy to 2.29.3  
   * ported the libindicator patch
   * patched to always take focus when raised
   * patched to append notifications
 * Ported indicator-session from libempathy to telepathy-glib
 * added gtk-doc support to indicator-application (not quite complete)
 * worked on pulling f-spot edit-in-view patch into our stable version
 * worked with DX and OLS teams on their blueprints

=== Martin Pitt (pitti) ===

Drafted blueprints: All written and approved

Assigned blueprints:
 * desktop-lucid-likewise-open-migration: blocked on upstream sending
the packages
 * desktop-lucid-jockey-hotplug-support (beta available): Should be
working, just a bug fix and documentation left
 * desktop-lucid-suspend-quirks-halsectomy (beta available): hal-less
pm-utils landed upstream, packaged for lucid; sent out a call for
testing, no response yet
 * desktop-lucid-xorg-halsectomy: udevified X.org landed in lucid now,
2009-12-08 dailies do not have hal any more; works well on live system
 * desktop-lucid-powermanagement-tweaks: Added work items, discussed
strategy with slangasek

Non-blueprint work done:
 * Tech Board Meeting
 * Bug fixing: apport, devicekit-disks, erlang, gnome-menus,
gnome-power-manager, jockey, media-player-info, udev
 * Cleaned up macaroni, aka ddebs.ubuntu.com (went out of hd space)
 * Implemented gnome-menus desktop file caching
 * Discussed xserver update/halsectomy with Timo; landed now
 * Many improvements to work items tracker
 * Investigated remaining usage of hal: oem-config (filed LP#493139 with
a merge proposal)
 * Investigated xbacklight support and gpm without hal
 * Updated packages to new versions: pm-utils, python-launchpadlib, gvfs
 * Sorted out python-lazr* renaming

Merges:
 * dbus, gpgme1.0, hal

Sponsoring:
 * pidgin (SRU), pkg-create-dbgsym, apport, gdm, metacity, python2.6
(lucid and karmic), ruby1.8 (SRU)

=== Robert Ancell (robert_ancell) ===

Lucid packaging: gedit, gtk-vnc, brasero, gdm, file-roller, libgnomekbd,
clutter-gtk, yelp

=== Sebastien Bacher (seb128) ===

blueprints:
 * desktop-lucid-startup-speed: drafted, approved, started work
 * desktop-lucid-gnome-3: informational spec about GNOME changes for
lucid, drafted, approved
 * desktop-lucid-compiz-effects: drafted, approved, no work on it yet
 * desktop-lucid-gnome-geoclue: drafted, approved, deferred to next
cycle the stack is not ready 

non blueprints work:  
 * desktop merges and updates: gtksourceview eog seahorse glib evince
gst-plugins-good0.10 gnome-system-monitor libgnome gnome-desktop
gnome-python gir-repository totem libunique pygtk gjs seed
gnome-settings-daemon gnome-media
 * fixed totem build issue and wrong depends 
 * libsoup git fix backport to lucid
 * fixed gir-repository build issue
 * fixed libgnome keyboard bell option value 
 * fixed libgnomekbd and totem conflicts
 * sponsoring: rhythmbox(sru) ubuntuone-storage-protocol
ubuntuone-client

Boot speed:
 * weekly timing: boot = 20.2 seconds, login = 10.1 seconds (was 22.6
and 12.9 a week ago)
 * lot of bootcharting with different configs and tweaking
 * stopped running xsplash for now it takes cpu and costs around 0.8
second to login
 * changed gnome-panel layout as discussed at previous meeting and
changed back, that's a topic which requires extra discussions, the win
was around 0.5 second
 * stracing nautilus showed a lot of icons opening, lead to figure that
the gnome-icon-theme icon cache was not working, fixed that and won
almost 1 second on login
 * compiz-fusion-plugins-extra has been moved to universe (thanks to
amaranth), win around 0.5 second on desktop login
 * hal has been dropped from the default installation (thanks to pitti),
win around 0.8 second on boot time (not desktop login)
 * gnome-session delays the dkpower init now (thanks to chrisccoulson),
win some 0.15 second
 * see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Lucid/StartupSpeed for
extra notes about investigations and things that could use come work too

=== Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) ===

 * Uploaded Ghostscript with patches for correct Gamma correction with
the CUPS raster output device in RGB mode and with a collection of bug
fixes and improvements of the PCL-XL driver. Both are backported from
the upstream SVN repository and added to give more time to users for
testing.
 * Uploaded HPLIP package with correction from Mark Purcell (Debian
maintainer) to prevent FTBFS when man pages get built.
 * Committed upstream changes on the pdftopdf and pdftopvp CUPS filters
to the Debian BZR repository of CUPS. These changes make the filters
continue to work with Poppler 0.12.2. This Poppler version had API/ABI
changes within a stable series and without bumping the soname.
 * Answered and triaged printing-related bug reports.

=== Alexander Sack (asac) ===
 * draft firefox new support model spec
 * good progress on all-in-one firefox package
 * evaluate ways to wrap firefox online/offline experience in an
about:ubuntuhome handler.
 * discuss/coordinate NM SRU for karmic with tony and cyphermox