Desktop Team 20090901 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/2009-09-01

= Meeting Minutes =
== Present ==
=== Main Meeting ===
 * Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair
 * Alexander Sack (asac)
 * Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)
 * Bryce Harrington (bryce)
 * Chris Cheney (calc)
 * Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
 * Ken VanDine (kenvandine)
 * Martin Pitt (pitti)
 * Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
 * Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
 * Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)  
 * Tony Espy (awe)

=== Eastern Edition ===
 * Luke Yelavich (TheMuso)
 * Robert Ancell (robert_ancell)

== Agenda ==
 * Outstanding actions from last meeting

=== Status Updates ===
 * Partner Update
 * X Status and Mesa 7.6
 * pulseaudio status
 * Kubuntu Update
 * Release Bugs/Release Status
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 * Review activity reports

== Partner Update ==

===== Online Services =====
 [[UbuntuOne/DesktopIntegration/Status|Status]]
 * desktopcouch 0.3 is broken, fix is coming today

===== DX =====
 * notify-osd 0.9.19
   * moved notifications to near the center on the right, this is not a
bug.
   * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NotifyOSD#Outside%20the%20bubble|New
placement]]
 * Indicator applet and related libraries all uploaded
   * This includes the fusa replacement, indicator-applet-session
 * xsplash
   * Final artwork is in which will be ready for upload for Thursday

== X Status and Mesa 7.6 ==
 * Intel engineers worked over the weekend to fix a bug that manifested
itself by causing Compiz to consume 100% of the CPU.
 * The fix was confirmed fixed by the desktop team and kernel QA
(ogasawara)
 * The fix has been merged with the Ubuntu Kernel and upstream kernel as
well
 * Bryce expects this has fixed other X issues as well, and is reviewing
the bug database for this purpose
 * Bryce sees no reason not to continue with the current plan to ship
mesa 7.6

== pulseaudio ==
 * Last week rickspencer3 encountered significant stability issues with
pulseaudio
 * pedro did an analysis of the bug reports, and did not observe a spike
of new pulseaudio bugs during this time
 * rickspencer3's pulseaudio problems were resolved by a dist-upgrade
today
 * TheMuso is investigating

== Kubuntu Update ==
 * KDE 4.3.1 is uploaded and working well
 * Upstream Plasma Netbook has just decided to depend on KDE 4.4,
Kubuntu team is investigating what upstream components can work with
Karmic Kubuntu, using KDE 4.3
 * usb-creator-kde is fixed and working as well as the gtk version
 * quassel patch for message indicator has issues that need fixed before
upload.  aurelien has said he wants to create Ayatana style
notifications too as this is easier than he expected, would need FFe.
 * rickspencer3 encourages all netbook owners to try Kubuntu netbook
version and provide feedback after alpha 5. Good weekend project.

== Other Business ==
 * Open Office 3.1.1 final tested and uploaded today

== Activity reports ==

=== Alexander Sack (asac) ===

 * vacation
 * some network-manager and friends daily fix attempts

=== Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje) ===
 * langpack-o-matic:
  * build new language packs for Karmic
  * updated all language-support metapackages
 * language-selector:
  * adding a combobox for choosing the Input Method
  * general debugging
 * misc:
  * testing ibus
  * booking flights for the launchpad-translations sprint in Belgrade

=== Bryce Harrington (bryce) ===
 * Confcall with AMD about upcoming -fglrx release scheduling
 * Cherrypick some mesa bugfixes
 * Prepared and uploaded mesa and libdrm git snapshots
 * Updated several machines to latest karmic; reported bugs discovered
 * Studied CDROM use case, analyzed that all issues found are
   appropriately reported, and wrote blog summarizing situation.
 * Detailed review of recent xserver-xorg-video-ati changes upstream
 * Updated/bugfixed Arsenal cronjobs
 * Wrote a general purpose configurable lplib script to request bug
   reporters re-test when a video driver is updated
 * Reorganized test equipment
 * Assisted kees with -nvidia/-fglrx security improvement
 * Analysis/upstreaming of 100% compiz freeze bug.  Tested downgrading
   mesa.  Tested/verified kernel patch.

=== Chris Cheney (calc) ===
 * OEM work
 * Prepared openoffice.org 1:3.1.1-1ubuntu1 for karmic and jaunty ppa.
(Uploading)
 * Prepared openoffice.org-l10n 1:3.1.1-1ubuntu1 for karmic and jaunty
ppa. (Uploading)
 * OOo bug triage

=== Jonathan Riddell (Riddell) ===
done:
 * Package, test and upload KDE 4.3.1
 * Get remaining packages we want through MIR and on the CD into main
before FF
 * investigate kimpanel for CJK support, tidy up packaging and upload
 * fix Amarok packaging merge
 * Update low disk space patch from upstream
 * Patch kmail and Kopete for message indicator
 * Investigate quassel message indicator patch and report bugs
 * Day off on Friday

todo:
 * Next alpha

=== Ken VanDine (kenvandine) ===
==== Last week: ====
 * Prepared uploads for:
   * indicator-messages
   * libindicate
   * indicator-applet
   * indicator-session
   * libdbusmenu
   * notify-osd
   * xsplash
   * desktopcouch
   * couchdb
   * gwibber
 * Setup daily builds of all of the above
 * Hacked on xsplash, desktopcouch and gwibber
 * Boot testing with xsplash
 * Feature work on gwibber, xsplash and desktopcouch

==== This week: ====
 * Swap day Wednesday
 * Bug fixing in gwibber
 * desktopcouch release
 * xsplash release
 * install testing
=== Luke Yelavich (TheMuso) ===
=== Accessibility ===
 * Started debuging speech-dispatcher's pulseaudio output code,
beginning with fixing its broken setup logic, as well as adjusting
buffering sizes to get the best possible latency. This work is still
ongoing.
 * Fixed a few small speech-dispatcher bugs related to the new cdbs
packaging and other issues raised in the speech-dispatcher MIR.

=== Audio ===
 * Audio bug triaging, bugs in question are against pulseaudio, alsa
userspace, and the kernel for hardware enablement.
 * Got some feedback about the rtkit kernel patches, with the kernel
team not wanting to include them this late in the piece, particularly
since they do not yet have an upstream kernel schedule.
 * Further bug fixing for pulseaudio, thanks to Daniel Chen. We are
tracking git activity of pulseaudio, and will likely submit an FFE to
get final pulseaudio 0.9.16 into karmic.
 * Updated alsa-lib and alsa-utils with some bug fixes, thanks to Daniel
Chen.

=== Misc ===
 * A little sponsoring, paritulclary prior to feature freeze.
 * Updated dmraid to the latest Debian revision.
 * Some examination of xsplash and gdm, to try and work out a sane way
of Ubuntu derivatives being able to swap the Ubuntu themes out for their
own.

=== Martin Pitt (pitti) ===

Karmic feature work:
 * desktop-karmic-automagic-python-build-system: 
  * beta available
  * just the upstream discussion is missing (which isn't bound by
release cycle)
 * desktop-karmic-symptom-based-bug-reporting: test plan/release note
written, "implemented" now
 * security-karmic-apport-abort: 
  * implemented my part last week
  * "beta available" now
 * [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy|hal deprecation]]: 
  * Rhythmbox now dropped hal and uses gudev and media-player-id
  * this is probably as far as we can get in karmic; I'm happy about how
far we got, though
 * gnome-panel speedup: no progress this week, target of opportunity

Other work done:
 * Implemented stripping of GNOME help translations from packages, and
install them into the language packs. This will buy us a lot of CD
space, depending on how many languages we actually ship.
 * Fixed Apport retracers, they started to crash a lot due to hooks
reassigning packages
 * Absurd amount of MIR reviews
 * Fully caught up on SRU processing after holiday lag
 * Bug fixing in cups, devicekit-disks, gvfs, policykit-1,
policykit-1-gnome, gnome-disk-utility, gvfs, hal
 * Packaged media-player-id
 * Discussed ibus migration with Arne, changed seeds accordingly
 * Filed expenses for Karmic sprint
 * Tested gnomescan, added feedback to whiteboard
 * tzdata update for stables
 * Updated glib2.0 and gvfs to new upstream versions

Sponsoring:
 * couchdb, couchdb-glib, desktopcouch, evolution-couchdb, fftw3, gdm,
gimp, gnome-applets, gnome-terminal, gtk+2.0, gtkmm2.4, gtksourceview2,
indicator-applet, indicator-messages, indicator-session, libdbusmenu,
libindicate, libindicator, notify-osd, pango1.0, pangomm, rhythmbox,
ubuntuone-client, ubuntuone-storage-protocol, xsplash
 * Reviewed, but not uploaded: gnome-games
 * Reviewed outstanding sponsor sync bugs, approved as appropriate

=== Robert Ancell (robert_ancell) ===

 * Package update/merges: gcalctool, brasero, vino, gtk-vnc, vinagre,
libgweather, gnome-panel, gnome-desktop, gnome-session, gimp,
gtksourceview, gnome-power-manager gtkhtml3.14, rhythmbox, gtk, glibmm,
pango, gnome-doc-utils, gtkmm, pangomm
 * Compiz 0.8.3 and git branch review
 * Find workaround for connect-to-server SMB problem (LP: #247124)
 * Bug fixing and triaging in gnome-games and gcalctool

=== Sebastien Bacher (seb128) ===

(one work day only after holidays)

 * catching up on emails after holidays, took most of the day
 * updated notify-osd in karmic
 * backported a nautilus inhibit fix from git
 * backported a gnome-keyring crasher fix from git
 * looked at update-manager crashing on start and uploaded a fix for the
issue
 * desktop updates: libgnomekbd poppler evolution-data-server evolution
evolution-exchange 
 * sponsoring: glade-3 xdg-user-dirs libgnomekbd empathy empathy
gnome-control-center

=== Tony Espy (awe) ===

Bluetooth:
 * tested Jaunty-to-Karmic upgrade to ensure that gnome-bluetooth is the
resulting BT applet.

Network-Manager:
 * general bug triage
 * tested latest UNR build on Dell Qioa Hong.
 * started working on new upstream snapshot; fixed build failures in
'nightlies.

Misc:
 * Monday: vacation day
 * Spent more than a 1/2 day debugging problems with an nvidia driver
update which took out my system.
 * Made travel arrangements for Wi-Fi Mini-Summit and Linux Plumber's
conference in Portland, OR.

=== Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) ===

 * Testing of the new CUPS 1.4.0: Worked with pitti on changes to make
the new libusb-based USB backend work (LP: #420015), applied upstream
patch against infinite loop in USB backend (LP: #420797), asked Koji
Otani (PDF filter upstream developer) for fix for pdftopdf filter to
work with daily changing Poppler API which cause CUPS to FTBFS. 
 * Made the bluetooth CUPS backend work with CUPS 1.4.x (got accepted
upstream).
 * Uploaded latest snapshot of foomatic-db before Feature Freeze to
support Sharp's non-PostScript printers (LP: #253905).
 * Uploaded latest snapshot of system-config-printer before Feature
Freeze to get the upstream fix for LP: #416014.
 * Checked all printing-related packages whether they are up-to-date
before Feature Freeze.
 * Answered and triaged printing-related bug reports.