Re: GCC 4.7, STL and binary compatibility of objects built with different language standards

2012-06-12 Thread Chase Douglas
On 06/12/2012 09:22 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: On 08.06.2012 17:10, Chris Coulson wrote: I've just finished debugging a Unity crash which occurs when we try a test rebuild of Unity and Nux with GCC4.7 in quantal. Although the original issue was caused by mixing 2 C++ ABI's (because libsigc

Re: GCC 4.7, STL and binary compatibility of objects built with different language standards

2012-06-12 Thread Chase Douglas
On 06/12/2012 10:30 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: On 12.06.2012 19:18, Matthias Klose wrote: On 12.06.2012 18:50, Chase Douglas wrote: My understanding is that this is only a problem if one library compiled with one standard passes objects to another library compiled with another standard

Re: GCC 4.7, STL and binary compatibility of objects built with different language standards

2012-06-11 Thread Chase Douglas
On 06/08/2012 08:10 AM, Chris Coulson wrote: Hi, I've just finished debugging a Unity crash which occurs when we try a test rebuild of Unity and Nux with GCC4.7 in quantal. Although the original issue was caused by mixing 2 C++ ABI's (because libsigc hasn't been rebuilt yet in quantal), it

Creating isos from PPAs

2012-05-01 Thread Chase Douglas
Hi all, I would like to have a developer tool that allows for someone to spin an ubuntu iso with a set of ppas enabled. Then someone else, say someone from the design team, could run the iso under test drive or even on metal to see the changes. I imagine this is possible, but I don't know where

Re: ClickPads and Click Actions

2012-03-02 Thread Chase Douglas
On 03/02/2012 10:14 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 08:55:58PM -0800, Chase Douglas wrote: I'm beginning to think that this is all so complicated even when we try to be verbose and convey things as accurately as possible that nothing short of it just works perfectly

Re: ClickPads and Click Actions

2012-02-29 Thread Chase Douglas
On 02/29/2012 02:11 PM, Nicholas Skaggs wrote: Chase, I would try and make the use case of clicking and dragging along with 2 finger clicking work. The other scenario could possibly be worked out via a ppa or script for users who wish to change or otherwise enable the split clickpad. I

Re: ClickPads and Click Actions

2012-02-29 Thread Chase Douglas
On 02/29/2012 03:32 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Wednesday, February 29, 2012 01:11:30 PM Chase Douglas wrote: Hi all, I'm sending this to both ubuntu-devel and ubuntu-desktop to try to get a larger pool of feedback. I recently added ClickPad support in Precise. This is automatically picked

Re: ClickPads and Click Actions

2012-02-29 Thread Chase Douglas
On 02/29/2012 05:22 PM, Bryce Harrington wrote: On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 01:11:30PM -0800, Chase Douglas wrote: Hi all, I'm sending this to both ubuntu-devel and ubuntu-desktop to try to get a larger pool of feedback. Here's some random thoughts. I don't have a fully formed opinion

Re: Smoke testing of Precise X server bits

2012-02-06 Thread Chase Douglas
On 01/20/2012 09:21 PM, Rohan Garg wrote: There seems to be a bit of a issue with rotating plasmoids on my KDE desktop using two fingers ( MacBookPro8,2 ). Earlier I could rotate my plasmoids using 2 fingers. That functionality seems to be lost with the latest updates ( I'm guessing I need a

Re: Smoke testing of Precise X server bits

2012-01-20 Thread Chase Douglas
On 01/20/2012 02:52 PM, Tim Gardner wrote: Will any of these updates address cut and paste on a Mac touchpad ? It appears to be impossible to select text without using an external mouse. Not yet. We are still working on that feature and hope to land it before feature freeze. -- ubuntu-devel

Re: Plans for Precise X upload

2012-01-17 Thread Chase Douglas
On 01/16/2012 11:18 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:03:24 +0100 Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: * Pocket copy source and binary packages from the PPA into Precise - This PPA has been blessed and builds amd64, i386, armel, and powerpc. Due

Re: Plans for Precise X upload

2012-01-17 Thread Chase Douglas
On 01/17/2012 06:02 PM, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, On Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:44:27 +0100 Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: could you also make sure to make your PPA build for armhf (which is likely to be the supported arm subarch for precice (to be decided at feature freeze) ? I

Re: Plans for Precise X upload

2012-01-17 Thread Chase Douglas
On 01/17/2012 06:48 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Saturday, January 14, 2012 05:17:37 AM Chase Douglas wrote: On Jan 13, 2012, at 10:21 PM, Jonathan Riddell jridd...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 13 January 2012 16:03, Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: How does this sound? If it works

Plans for Precise X upload

2012-01-13 Thread Chase Douglas
Hi all, We're now all ready to push the new X server to Precise. This will cause breakages for many items, so we need to plan this carefully. Chris Halse-Rogers and I have devised the following plan: * Push all new packages (Xorg and packages that need changes) to ppa:canonical-x/x-staging,

Re: Plans for Precise X upload

2012-01-13 Thread Chase Douglas
On Jan 13, 2012, at 10:21 PM, Jonathan Riddell jridd...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 13 January 2012 16:03, Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: How does this sound? If it works for everyone, the only remaining question is which qt4-x11 version to upload. Qt 4 4.8 is about

Re: [ubuntu-x] Heisenbug in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

2012-01-07 Thread Chase Douglas
On 01/07/2012 09:09 AM, Tormod Volden wrote: On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 5:48 PM, Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: On 01/06/2012 06:05 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: Hi all, I tried to track down the bug in the X staging ppa (ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-staging) that causes trackpads to flip

Heisenbug in xserver-xorg-input-synaptics

2012-01-06 Thread Chase Douglas
Hi all, I tried to track down the bug in the X staging ppa (ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/x-staging) that causes trackpads to flip to the edge of the screen. This is what I found: In the X server when there's a relative motion event it computes an acceleration for it. You can follow the events from

Precise X staging

2011-12-24 Thread Chase Douglas
Hi all, At UDS we decided to use the X.org 1.11 server with the input subsystem backported from 1.12 for multitouch. The upstream 1.12 server development branch just landed the multitouch support, so I packaged it up for Precise. Ubuntu has had multitouch support in our X server since 11.04, but

Patch Pilot Report 2011-08-22

2011-08-22 Thread Chase Douglas
* lp:~sergio91pt/ubuntu/oneiric/gvfs/bug-388904 - Bug #388904: Nautilus 'Computer' displays redundant labels - Patch looks ok - Needs to be forward ported from Natty to Oneiric - Needs to be converted to a packaging quilt patch - Was blocked on lp:ubuntu/gvfs getting updated to latest

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-04 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/04/2011 08:52 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 11:46 AM, Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: Realistically, you also can't expect that if you are on a publicly elected board that evaluates individuals that there will not be disagreements. It is a very

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/02/2011 06:46 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Tuesday, August 02, 2011 04:04:31 PM Chase Douglas wrote: On 08/02/2011 12:43 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.com wrote: Sounds like a good idea to me. It makes it analogous

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 09:18 AM, Oliver Grawert wrote: hi, Am Dienstag, den 02.08.2011, 09:33 -0700 schrieb Chase Douglas: Hi all, Yesterday I attempted to attend a DMB meeting, but unfortunately only two members showed so there wasn't a quorum. I think I've been to about an equal number of meetings

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/02/2011 09:33 AM, Chase Douglas wrote: My proposal would be to do away with formal meetings, at least for evaluating typical applications, and move them to Launchpad. Create a project (maybe ubuntu-developer-membership) and then have people open bugs when they have something to bring up

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 11:43 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 2:32 PM, Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: I don't think the DMB process is an important piece of community socialization at all. I doubt many people pay attention to it if they don't have a specific need

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 12:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: What is the policy for email applications? Can anyone apply this way, or is it only under specific circumstances? Split votes go to the mailing list to try

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 12:30 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: On 08/03/2011 12:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: What is the policy for email

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 12:35 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:24 PM, Scott Moser smo...@ubuntu.com wrote: At very least, this issue needs to be fixed. Meetings need to happen at scheduled times, or be postponed/rescheduled at least 24 hours in advance. Believe I already said

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 12:44 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 03:04:14 PM Chase Douglas wrote: On 08/02/2011 09:33 AM, Chase Douglas wrote: My proposal would be to do away with formal meetings, at least for evaluating typical applications, and move them to Launchpad. Create

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 12:50 PM, Allison Randal wrote: On 08/03/2011 12:23 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: On 08/03/2011 12:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: What is the policy for email applications? Can anyone apply this way

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 01:45 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/03/2011 04:36 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: On 08/03/2011 12:50 PM, Allison Randal wrote: On 08/03/2011 12:23 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: On 08/03/2011 12:14 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Wed

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 02:05 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 04:06:26 PM Chase Douglas wrote: On 08/03/2011 12:44 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Wednesday, August 03, 2011 03:04:14 PM Chase Douglas wrote: On 08/02/2011 09:33 AM, Chase Douglas wrote: I think it's really up

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-03 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/03/2011 02:01 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: On 08/03/2011 01:45 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 08/03/2011 04:36 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: On 08/03/2011 12:50 PM, Allison Randal wrote: On 08/03/2011 12:23 PM, Chase Douglas wrote: On 08/03/2011

DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-02 Thread Chase Douglas
of a bug I would create for this: --- Affects: ubuntu-developer-membership Status: New Importance: Medium Assigned to: Unassigned Description: I, Chase Douglas, am applying for Ubuntu Core Dev upload rights. Full application (what is normally filled out on a wiki page) --- Endorsements can be added

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-08-02 Thread Chase Douglas
On 07/29/2011 11:24 AM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: Hola, On Fri, July 29, 2011 11:01 am, Michael Bienia wrote: This leads to the next question: how much do you trust the person writing the endorsement? Of course I trust endorsements from long-standing dev members with a great reputation where

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-02 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/02/2011 12:43 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 3:23 PM, Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.com wrote: Sounds like a good idea to me. It makes it analogous to other processes such as the sponsorship, MIR, SRU, etc. processes that applicants may already be familiar with.

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-02 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/02/2011 01:12 PM, Dan Chen wrote: The only thing I add is that we should be cognizant of building a timeout into the process using Launchpad so that applications don't spin indefinitely, e.g., the stale five-digit Launchpad bug report. Launchpad can auto-expire bug reports that remain

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-02 Thread Chase Douglas
On 08/02/2011 01:26 PM, Brad Figg wrote: On 08/02/2011 01:12 PM, Dan Chen wrote: On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 16:04, Chase Douglaschase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: True, but progress sometimes means change. I think this system would work better, and if proven right it could be a model for other

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-27 Thread Chase Douglas
On 07/27/2011 11:47 AM, Michael Bienia wrote: On 2011-07-26 15:53:09 -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: - The pressing need for some standards for what counts as enough. I've long been frustrated with the fuzzy, moving targets we have for membership and privileges in Ubuntu, and I think we are

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-27 Thread Chase Douglas
On 07/27/2011 01:08 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: However, I'm not quite sure on what the policy is for upload rights. The issue I see is that the upload rights seem to be based on an intangible quantity of stuff

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-21 Thread Chase Douglas
On 07/21/2011 11:17 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Thursday, July 21, 2011 01:09:46 PM Chase Douglas wrote: On 07/20/2011 04:02 PM, Iain Lane wrote: On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 06:16:45PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 05:43:23 PM Mackenzie Morgan wrote: [...] And then I

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-21 Thread Chase Douglas
On 07/21/2011 12:05 PM, Iain Lane wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 11:40:44AM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: The point is that I believe there are cases where it makes sense to bestow Ubuntu membership on upstream-only individuals. When we create and enforce policy, we need to keep in mind that we

Re: Understanding the definitions and expectations of our membership processes

2011-07-21 Thread Chase Douglas
On 07/21/2011 11:48 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 2:40 PM, Chase Douglas chase.doug...@canonical.com wrote: On 07/21/2011 11:17 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: All of that is equally true for any upstream work. Should all postgresql developers be Ubuntu members

Re: touchpad: can we reverse up and down like iPod?

2010-11-17 Thread Chase Douglas
On 11/03/2010 03:16 PM, Peter Hendriks wrote: Hi, would it be possible to enhance the touchpad properties/settings with an option for the two-finger scrolling to reverse up and down. The reason is that when you frequently use iPod Touch and the like, the touchscreen or touchpad is used in