Desktop Team 20090505 meeting minutes

[Rick Spencer]

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