Re: Auto Bug Expiry on Launchpad

2010-10-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 06:19:07PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, October 15, 2010 05:47:10 pm Bryce Harrington wrote: On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 03:44:17PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Friday, October 15, 2010 09:31:38 am Deryck Hodge wrote: These individual scripts

Re: Unity desktop and maverick backport

2010-11-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 04:03:32PM -0500, Marjo Mercado wrote: Hi Didier, Thanks for sharing this proposal. Based on the technical discussion below, it seems like the right trade-off to make, if we can't have both. Having said that, it becomes even more important to the overall quality of

Patch Pilot report 2010-01-06

2011-01-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
Pretty puiet day, so focused on the various Xorg patches still outstanding. Most needed some grunt work done; some had gotten kicked from the queue previously because of this, so gave them the needed TLC. #691653 - Unity-affecting X driver bug. Packaged patch, stuck in a PPA to get

New X stack in xorg-edgers

2011-01-14 Thread Bryce Harrington
We're going to be moving natty to its new X stack within the next week or two. This includes snapshots for the upcoming xserver 1.10 and mesa 7.10, along with some new driver bits. Currently this stack is available in xorg-edgers, and maps well to what we'll be uploading shortly. You can help

Re: [ubuntu-x] New X stack in xorg-edgers

2011-01-14 Thread Bryce Harrington
on xserver-xorg-input-wacom, which is broken due to a dependency on an old xorg-input-abi-11.0. Regards, Felix On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 15:54 -0500, Bryce Harrington wrote: We're going to be moving natty to its new X stack within the next week or two. This includes snapshots for the upcoming

Patch pilot report for Feb 4th

2011-02-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
400851 - kdesudo sru backport to fix failure with non-ascii passwords. Sponsored upload to maverick-proposed. 653910 - nvidia-graphics-drivers - backport of ioctls fix. Reviewed; change looks sane but needs reviewed by tseliot. Assigned tseliot to take a look. 710619 -

Re: $HOME changed by sudo

2011-02-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 11:55:04PM +0100, Benjamin Drung wrote: Hi, I detected that sudo in natty changes $HOME to /root [1]. Is this a bug or a changed configuration? It had the bad side effect that sudo pbuilder didn't find ~/.pbuilderrc. [1] sudo sh -c 'echo $HOME' I noticed this

Re: changing perms on /sys/kernel/debug by default

2011-02-22 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 03:16:39PM -0800, Kees Cook wrote: Hi, While I'd like to just not compile debugfs into the Ubuntu kernels at all, it seems that there is a fair bit of push-back on this idea. Instead, the dangerous /sys/kernel/debug/acpi/custom_method interface has been removed as

Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!

2011-03-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 09:01:51PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: We just uploaded a couple of small patches a week ahead of UserInterfaceFreeze to five packages that affect the console tty and vt interface. So what does all of this look like? Here are some screen shots! * On the console

Re: Call for testing: Aubergine-love for Server folks!

2011-03-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 01:45:35PM -0500, Dustin Kirkland wrote: On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:50 AM, Loïc Minier loic.min...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Thu, Mar 17, 2011, Dustin Kirkland wrote: After upgrading your local system's kbd and console-setup packages, you should now have a crisp, new,

Re: Using something better than Gobby for session notes at UDS

2011-03-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:53:45AM -0700, Brad Figg wrote: On 03/24/2011 11:49 AM, Philipp Kern wrote: On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:09:45AM -0700, Brad Figg wrote: It is my understanding that the current plan is to usd Gobby for session note taking at the next UDS. Please say it isn't so.

Re: Using something better than Gobby for session notes at UDS

2011-03-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 12:37:51PM -0700, Clint Byrum wrote: On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 12:23 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: My recollection is that this was not actually the case for UDS-M. For UDS-N, we had just switched over to the new client+protocol+server, and things were definitely less

Patch Pilot report 2011-04-04

2011-04-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
749755 empcommand - merge from upstream + sponsored upload fixed after cnd's review comments 660483 couchdb - drops obsolete symlink. + Reviewed, uploaded patch. + 1st time contributor, so gave some congrats tips on IRC 741338 lmsensors - use upstart instead of init-script + Packaged

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-14 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:41:22PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:17:47PM -0500, Ted Gould wrote: But, I'd also love to see the requirements for Universe be something higher than just the DFSG. For instance, I believe Debian requires everything in /usr/bin to have a man

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04

2011-04-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 11:17:32AM -0500, Ted Gould wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 13:16 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 12:41:22PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 02:17:47PM -0500, Ted Gould wrote: I don't think we should do this unless we also have

Re: changing how apport handles master bugs with private data

2011-04-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 09:53:56PM +1200, Robert Collins wrote: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/764414 has a summary in it of a chat pitti and I had on IRC about the handling of master bugs with private data. What we currently do consistently confuses users and prevents

Re: Measuring success/failure in the installation

2011-05-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 10:03:47PM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote: Bryce Harrington schreef op di 17-05-2011 om 10:16 [-0700]: Would you be open to including one more uuid return, following the first login attempt? I know it probably doesn't matter for a ubiquity perspective

Re: Enabling the kernel's DMESG_RESTRICT feature

2011-05-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 11:46:48AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: Hello! In Oneiric, I'd like to change the default availability of yet another long-standing system debugging feature: dmesg. Thoughts, flames, etc? See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg/+bug/716595 for some sudo

Re: Enabling the kernel's DMESG_RESTRICT feature

2011-05-25 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:01:42PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote: On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 08:27:01PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: Hello Kees, all, Kees Cook [2011-05-25 10:03 -0700]: Yeah, the problem is that it's not a one-time question (see the bug above), so that each time we need

Patch Pilot Report - 2011-06-06

2011-06-07 Thread Bryce Harrington
lp:~pro-mathesh812004/ubuntu/oneiric/xkeyboard-config/oneiric (Merged) lp:~promathesh812004/ubuntu/oneiric/xkeyboard-config/oneiric (Dupe; Merged) lp:~promathesh812004/ubuntu/oneiric/xkeyboard-config/75 (Dupe; Merged) - Some new keyboard layouts for West Bengal, India - Filed bug report

Ubuntu Oneiric (11.10) X.org Plans

2011-06-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
[Apologies for those who've already seen this; mdz thought it would be of interest to the broader ubuntu-devel@ audience. I've updated it with the feedback we received from the driver vendors.] This email summarizes some key information regarding Ubuntu's plans for the upcoming Oneiric (11.10)

Re: Do you use Binary package hint: line in bug description?

2011-06-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 05:52:17PM -0400, Francis J. Lacoste wrote: Hello, When user file bugs on the distribution and enter a package name in the widget, Launchpad automatically adds a line to the description with Binary package hint: binarypackagename That binarypackagename actually

Re: shrinking the desktop DVD image to 1.5GB

2011-06-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 08, 2011 at 03:50:30PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: Following on the tail of this, a few of us have been talking more about the idea of shrinking the 4.3GB DVD image down to a 1.5GB flash card/USB stick/DVD image. It's looking interesting enough to be worth talking about it more

Re: release cadence for Q and R

2011-06-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 03:58:54PM -0700, Steve Beattie wrote: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:48:58PM -0700, Allison Randal wrote: Very valuable perspective, thanks. To other upstreams, do you have similar or opposite needs? Perhaps this is just me being naive, but with upstreams, shouldn't we

New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric

2011-06-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
There's now support in launchpad for displaying source package diffs between what's in ubuntu oneiric and what's in debian sid. Check it out: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+localpackagediffs This is an outcome of the Launchpad team's current 'Derived Distros' development focus. The

Re: release cadence for Q and R

2011-06-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 09:41:49PM -0500, Ted Gould wrote: On Wed, 2011-06-15 at 14:48 -0700, Allison Randal wrote: A few practical considerations I ran through: - Release on Oct 11 means UDS on Oct 29-Nov 2 (the week of Halloween) - Release on Oct 18 means UDS on Nov 5-9 - Release on

Re: New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric

2011-06-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:26:50AM +0100, Dave Walker wrote: On 16/06/11 07:03, Bryce Harrington wrote: There's now support in launchpad for displaying source package diffs between what's in ubuntu oneiric and what's in debian sid. Check it out: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric

Re: New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric

2011-06-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 03:08:14PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: On mer., 2011-06-15 at 23:03 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: There's now support in launchpad for displaying source package diffs between what's in ubuntu oneiric and what's in debian sid. Check it out: https

Re: New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric

2011-06-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 03:23:57PM +0100, Julian Edwards wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2011 14:08:14 Sebastien Bacher wrote: * is the current page only tracking Debian unstable? GNOME3 is in experimental still in Debian and for desktop work we are interested to track experimental and not

Re: New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric

2011-06-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 11:59:21AM -0400, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 10:39 AM, Daniel Holbach daniel.holb...@ubuntu.comwrote: The way I read the mails up until now, I couldn't see anyone suggesting to remove current infrastructure or resources. Bryce wrote in

Re: New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric

2011-06-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 07:46:41AM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Thursday, June 16, 2011 01:25:05 AM Steve Kowalik wrote: On 16/06/11 16:11, Scott Kitterman wrote: This new page still offers substantially less functionality than MoM/grab-merge. If you want to mark merges as in

Re: New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric

2011-06-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:01:16AM +1200, Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.com wrote: It doesn't appear to have any functionality for auto-linking bug #'s. They get linkified on display :) - but an explicit link is something we could

Re: New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric

2011-06-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 03:05:55PM +0100, Julian Edwards wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2011 18:11:01 Micah Gersten wrote: On 06/16/2011 04:26 AM, Dave Walker wrote: snip / * The new page should probably indicate the sponsor of the Ubuntu upload (if present). snip / Thanks again!

Re: New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric (bug #s)

2011-06-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
I've filed bugs based on people's comments in this thread. Here's the list I've provided to the Launchpad developers. == Critically Urgent == Nothing == Important to Ubuntu == 798297 No way to get DistroSeriesDifferenceComments via the web service * 798522 +localpackagediffs should require

Patch Pilot 2011-07-11

2011-07-11 Thread Bryce Harrington
Total requests: 61 - 49 Bug #758942 for debian-installer: - Fix was already committed in bzr; unsub sponsors Merge 65551 for initramfs-tools: Switch to /run https://code.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/oneiric/initramfs-tools/oneiric-201106221912/+merge/65551 - Automatically generated

Re: What I like least in Ubuntu

2011-07-26 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 02:41:29PM -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: At UDS for Karmic (Barcelona) we had a session that defined the current state of things.  We discussed renaming MOTU and decided against it.  IMO this sort of Oh, it's different now ... MOTU will need to be renamed ...

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-02 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 09:33:59AM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: 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 where quorum has and has not been reached :(. This

Re: DMB: Proposal for a different review process

2011-08-02 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Aug 02, 2011 at 01:28:54PM -0700, Chase Douglas wrote: 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

Re: The need for apport hooks (was: Re: SRUs for typo fixes in descriptions)

2011-08-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 09:34:33AM -0500, C de-Avillez wrote: 3. Apport is disabled on stable releases -- which pretty much means no hooks are driven. Only for automatic crash collection. 'ubuntu-bug package' still works, and for some packages like xorg and others it's the recommended way of

Re: The need for apport hooks (was: Re: SRUs for typo fixes in descriptions)

2011-08-07 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 07:17:52AM +0200, Rick Spencer wrote: On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 15:46 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: side comment I think we are doing it wrong: we should collect crashes on all supported releases. /side comment I agree. As designed, apport files a new bug

Re: Crash database requirements (was: The need for apport hooks (was: Re: SRUs for typo fixes in descriptions))

2011-08-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 at 04:25:30PM +1000, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: On Sun, 2011-08-07 at 22:46 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: On Mon, Aug 08, 2011 a 07:17:52AM +0200, Rick Spencer wrote: On Sat, 2011-08-06 at 15:46 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: side comment I think

Re: SRUs for typo fixes in descriptions

2011-08-10 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 02:47:51PM -0700, Brian Murray wrote: On Thu, Aug 04, 2011 at 07:28:24PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: On jeu., 2011-08-04 at 07:36 -0700, Brian Murray wrote: Do you have datas that showing that most of the bugs are coming from stable versions? I would rather think

Re: Error database requirements

2011-08-11 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:02:09AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote on 09/08/11 06:37: On Mon, 2011-08-08 at 00:34 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: ... Here's a start... * The user should have some way to check back on the status of their crash

Re: SRUs for typo fixes in descriptions

2011-08-11 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 11:22:31AM -0700, Brian Murray wrote: Whether or not apport should be left on post-release for crash reporting is independent of the original question which in my mind was: Should we provide Stable Release Updates for apport package hooks? I say aye. We did get

Desktop failing to start today due to glib2.0 update

2011-08-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
Jono and jcastro brought to our attention today a rather nasty bug that we expect most users who update oneiric today will hit, which causes the GNOME session to fail. X then exits normally but you're left at the console (or a black screen). The problem was traced to the glib2.0 update to

Pilot report 2011/09/06

2011-09-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
Package Sponsoring == * lp:~om26er/ubuntu/natty/unity/unity-fix-761409 Backports two fixes for unity: Can't click on indicator if systray icon is there; memory leak. - Reviewed; sponsored; uploaded to natty-proposed *

Re: Getting new packages into Ubuntu

2011-09-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 12:28:03PM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote: Hello everybody, with the help of the nice people on the Debian derivatives mailing list, we updated https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopment/NewPackages Particularly the section about getting a package into Debian.

Patch pilot report, 2011-09-30.

2011-10-03 Thread Bryce Harrington
* Copyedited the patch pilot page. The documentation was a bit wordy and repetitive; now it says the same stuff but more concisely. * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdvdread/+bug/852345 SRU of patch to make libdvdread handle reading (intentionally) corrupted metadata in

Launchpad stakeholders planning

2011-11-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
I'm working on assembling a prioritized list of feature requests from the Ubuntu community for Launchpad for the upcoming stakeholder's meeting. So, if you have a burning desire for some change in launchpad, please let me know asap. Email me directly (offlist). What I'm looking for are

Re: Launchpad stakeholders planning

2011-11-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 01:38:14PM -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: I'm working on assembling a prioritized list of feature requests from the Ubuntu community for Launchpad for the upcoming stakeholder's meeting. So, if you have a burning desire for some change in launchpad, please let me

Patch pilot report: 2011-12-09

2011-12-09 Thread Bryce Harrington
#900307 - python-launchpadlib keyring problem #877374 - python-launchpadlib keyring problem - Helped bac file SRUs for natty and oneiric to fix these two bugs - Re-ported patch; generated packaging; verified builds; uploaded #900421 - libsigc++ - Reviewed patch, verified it built -

Re: Blessed virtual machines? (Precise uninstallable on vmware)

2012-01-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 01:04:13AM -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote: Ubiquity has been crashing for me on VMware Player, both for dailies and Alpha 1. This sounds like the sort of bug that wouldn't have survived long if vmware installs were part of the new smoke testing process. bug #? Is there a

Patch pilot report 2012-01-26

2012-01-27 Thread Bryce Harrington
lp #754000 - Longstanding patch to -synaptics Needs to be melded with cnd's recent work - Needs Fixing lp:~jconti/ubuntu/precise/screen-resolution-extra/fix_empty_package Already fixed independently - Merged lp #920284 - Needs elaboration - Unsubscribed lp #920699 - Sync request for mdbtools

Re: Changelog entries for post-release updates

2012-02-03 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Feb 03, 2012 at 11:56:34AM -0800, Scott Ritchie wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/2012 11:31 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: Now, I'm not at all picking on Micah here. This was a completely typical Ubuntu changelog. Almost every Ubuntu changelog has

Re: X transition time!

2012-02-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
Known bug with fglrx, already filed on launchpad against fglrx-installer. On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 09:53:56AM +0530, Pritam Baral wrote: I just came across this unusual behaviour. I upgraded to the new X server on Tuesday night, watched a couple of videos (in VLC, with Hardware Acceleration,)

Re: Precise developers testers: please hold off on upgrading today

2012-02-10 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Feb 09, 2012 at 09:15:29AM -0600, Kate Stewart wrote: An issue has been noticed due to interaction between a recent libc upgrade and the nvidia graphics driver. If you have nvidia hardware, please avoid upgrading until this has been resolved. Investigation is ongoing. Details

Re: Distro-provided mechanism to clean up old kernels

2012-02-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 08:29:08AM +0100, Vincent Ladeuil wrote: Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com writes: snip/ I think it'd be best if update-manager would auto-remove all kernel packages except the most recent two or three during dist-upgrade. This needs to be

Patch Pilot Report 02/23/2012

2012-02-23 Thread Bryce Harrington
725988 emacs23 - .desktop update 217611 xchat - apturl support 933188 inkscape - merge new 0.48.3 version 891215 task - merge new 2.0.0-beta5 933745 SRU: xorg-server - fix xvfb with xinput in lucid 901959 SRU: libreoffice - welcome screen is mis-drawn 410262 SRU: -openchrome - X.org hang

Re: What are you doing next Friday?

2012-02-27 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 05:33:25PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: We are currently not doing that great, partly because some patch pilots didn't do their shifts recently. We currently have 65 items in total in the queue. 13 of those are add_quicklist which is a new category that I guess got

Re: What are you doing next Friday?

2012-02-27 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 05:33:25PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: = Sponsorship = We are currently not doing that great, partly because some patch pilots didn't do their shifts recently. We currently have 65 items in total in the queue: 1 from 2011, 7 from January, 10 from February but older

Re: What are you doing next Friday?

2012-02-27 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 06:03:02PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: Hello Bryce, On 27.02.2012 18:00, Bryce Harrington wrote: 13 of those are add_quicklist which is a new category that I guess got added recently? Problem is there is no documentation for how to sponsor these kinds of items

Re: What are you doing next Friday?

2012-02-27 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 06:30:15PM +0100, Daniel Holbach wrote: Hello, On 27.02.2012 18:13, Bryce Harrington wrote: How about we omit them from the sponsor overview until that's sorted out? Might save sponsors some head scratching time (I know I wasted a good half our or so trying

Re: What are you doing next Friday?

2012-02-27 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:10:11AM -0800, Evan Broder wrote: On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 9:54 AM, Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.com wrote: Basically the items all need forwarded upstream and/or wrapped up in debian packaging properly.  I'd only display them if the item includes debdiff

Re: ClickPads and Click Actions

2012-02-29 Thread Bryce Harrington
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 on the topic, but maybe these general observations can

Re: ClickPads and Click Actions

2012-03-02 Thread Bryce Harrington
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 and exactly how I wanted will be good enough. Although

Patch Pilot report for March 22nd

2012-03-22 Thread Bryce Harrington
Primarily focused on SRUs. Got through about half a dozen. 851612: SRU: lightdm user switching - Already rejected by pitti since patch is an incomplete fix - Unsubbed sponsors 958841: SRU: Security issue - Filled out SRU. (Not sure it's required for SRUs...) - Verified patches build

Re: Quantal open for development

2012-05-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 03:37:36PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2012 at 09:27:33AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote: On May 01, 2012, at 03:14 PM, Benjamin Drung wrote: Am Montag, den 30.04.2012, 12:16 -0400 schrieb Barry Warsaw: (Hint: you need to install debootstrap

Re: New mailing list for discussion of Arsenal

2012-05-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 04:11:53PM -0400, Anmar Oueja wrote: Hello Bryce: On 8 May 2012 12:50, Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.com wrote: Arsenal is our tool for creating listings of bug reports.  As per yesterday's session at UDS, we've set up an open membership team and mailing list

Pilot Report 2012-05-17

2012-05-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
80 items at start, 70 (actually, 63) by end. 221112 keyboard-config: [SRU] Fix problem with space bar for fr(oss) keymap + Uploaded to quantal in 2.5-1ubuntu2 + Filed SRU 825624 xkeyboard-config: [SRU] Add dead_hook and dead_horn to latin keymap + Uploaded to quantal in 2.5-1ubuntu2 +

Re: Releasing Alphas and Betas without freezing

2012-06-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 11:49:46AM +0200, Rick Spencer wrote: On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Martin Pitt martin.p...@ubuntu.com wrote: Sebastien Bacher [2012-06-15 17:26 +0200]: Can we just drop the image rolling part of milestones? Our automated tests are still wy to incomplete for

Pilot Report 2012-07-19

2012-07-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
33 items at start of session 16 items at end of session == Sponsored Upload == 1026417 - gnomeradio shortcut key - LGTM, uploaded to quantal 1012946 - parted fix dm-part-sync.patch for LVM breakages - LGTM, uploaded to precise-proposed 926918 - mesa SRU fix for es2_info - Already included

Launchpad downtime Thursday 2 Aug 1100 UTC

2012-08-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
Got this note from the LP team: Thursday 2nd Aug 11am UTC Launchpad will be down for 3-60 minutes: PPA, Ubuntu builds, Ubuntu uploads, for the duration will be affected. We'll have to disable PPA and Ubuntu builds, and Ubuntu uploads, for the duration, and it's likely that some other internal

Re: dropping old video drivers (was: new xorg stack in quantal-proposed)

2012-08-02 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Aug 02, 2012 at 03:43:18PM -0500, Micah Gersten wrote: On 08/02/2012 03:15 PM, Timo Aaltonen wrote: snip / I didn't push updates for obsolete video drivers not depended on by xserver-xorg-video-all, since I think it's probably time to remove them from the archive (we dropped them

[laura.czajkow...@canonical.com: [Private-canonical-launchpad-stakeholders] Launchpad code hosting unavailable 22.00 UTC 2012-08-17]

2012-08-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
- Forwarded message from Laura Czajkowski laura.czajkow...@canonical.com - Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:38:57 +0100 From: Laura Czajkowski laura.czajkow...@canonical.com To: Launchpad Stakeholders private-canonical-launchpad-stakehold...@lists.launchpad.net Subject:

Pilot Report 2012-08-16

2012-08-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
At Start: 83 At End:74 https://code.launchpad.net/~gandelman-a/ubuntu/precise/sqlalchemy/lp1025544/+merge/116345 - Marked Merged as all work is done https://code.launchpad.net/~logan/ubuntu/quantal/adlint/new-upstream/+merge/117010 - Set back to Work In Process since further info/work

Re: Ubuntu+1 inside a sandboxed partition

2012-08-21 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 08:36:44PM +0200, Dražen wrote: Hi all, is there a way to run the development Ubuntu version dual boot, but by using the OS installer (and other related stuff) from the stable version so that there is little or no chance of it damaging other partitions with the

Re: Proposal to drop Ubuntu alternate CDs for 12.10

2012-08-29 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 12:29:35PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: Hi Doug, On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:18:36PM -0400, Doug McMahon wrote: On 08/27/2012 05:50 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: Do any of you see reasons for not making this change, and dropping the alternate CDs? Are there

Re: Simple but worthwhile to fix bugs?

2012-09-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 11:47:32AM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote: Another question is: what kind of fixes do we want new contributors to work on? How simple is too simple? Are we afraid of typo fixes piling up in the queue? Bad spelling and bad grammar are pet peeves of mine. I try to submit

Pilot report 2012-09-13

2012-09-13 Thread Bryce Harrington
54 items at start, 40 at end Merged and uploaded: https://code.launchpad.net/~bkerensa/ubuntu/quantal/weston/fix-control/+merge/124143 https://code.launchpad.net/~dholbach/ubuntu/quantal/xgrep/move-homepage-field/+merge/124128

Re: Future of the Hundred Papercuts project

2012-09-26 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 01:05:33PM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: Hi there Desktop and Dev teams, My name if Chris Wilson and I've recently taken over the leadership of the Hundred Papercuts project, and am exploring ways to revitalise it now that contributions have all but dried up. I'm drawing

New nvidia experimental driver packages coming soon for 12.04

2012-10-11 Thread Bryce Harrington
We are introducing new 'experimental' driver packages for NVIDIA, which will be available via the Additional Hardware Drivers setup tool for 12.04 user (and 12.10 too). These packages will provide NVIDIA's beta drivers, which are required for certain commercial games. There is an

Re: New nvidia experimental driver packages coming soon for 12.04

2012-10-11 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 01:20:11AM +0200, a.gra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, On 12 October 2012 01:12, Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.com wrote: We are introducing new 'experimental' driver packages for NVIDIA, which will be available via the Additional Hardware Drivers setup tool for 12.04

Re: [ubuntu-x] New nvidia experimental driver packages coming soon for 12.04

2012-10-12 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:18:07AM +0200, Michael Wisheu wrote: Hi Bryce, How about updating it to 304.51? This is mainly a bugfix release and I would recommend it over 304.43. http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux-display-amd64-304.51-driver We actually have looked at that, but we found

Re: [ubuntu-x] New nvidia experimental driver packages coming soon for 12.04

2012-10-12 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:14:30AM +0200, Michael Wisheu wrote: Hi Byrce, Thanks for the great explanation and I agree that it makes sense this way. Please note that we've seen another bug with 304.43 and later (but might affect also earlier 304.x driver versions) on Precise that cause X

Re: [ubuntu-x] New nvidia experimental driver packages coming soon for 12.04

2012-10-12 Thread Bryce Harrington
details please let me know. Best, Michael PS: Wish you a nice weekend... On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.comwrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 11:14:30AM +0200, Michael Wisheu wrote: Hi Byrce, Thanks for the great explanation and I agree

Re: [ubuntu-x] New nvidia experimental driver packages coming soon for 12.04

2012-10-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
will be released this Friday. Best, Michael Sent from phone... Please excuse typos. On Oct 12, 2012 6:46 PM, Bryce Harrington br...@canonical.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 05:18:33PM +0200, Michael Wisheu wrote: Hi Bryce, Unfortunately 1060346 is an internal bug tracking ID

Patch Pilot Report: 2012 Nov 16

2012-11-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
I focused on several of the X.org items in the queue. Some were a bit involved and took most of the time. There were 92 items at the start of my day. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xorg-server/+bug/1069031 * Patch looks fine. Merged into git, uploaded to raring * SRU'd to quantal

Re: [ubuntu-x] xorg package set update for lts

2012-11-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Nov 19, 2012 at 02:09:27PM +0100, Maarten Lankhorst wrote: Op 12-11-12 11:50, Maarten Lankhorst schreef: Hey, Could the xorg package set be updated to include the following packages, for the lts point release? libdrm-lts-quantal mesa-lts-quantal xorg-server-lts-quantal

Re: Minutes from the Developer Membership Board meeting of the 1st of November (at UDS)

2012-11-20 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sun, Nov 18, 2012 at 07:55:33PM -0500, Stéphane Graber wrote: A new Xorg packageset was created: http://people.canonical.com/~stgraber/package_sets/raring/xorg and Maarten was added to it as an uploader. The list of packages ubuntu-x tends will generally vary over time. We track the

Re: Intel SNA in Raring

2013-01-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:09:49PM +0100, Gökçen Eraslan wrote: Hello, Today, I have tried a Raring daily build and realized that UXA is still being used as the default acceleration method for xserver-xorg-video-intel (dh_auto_configure -- --enable-sna --enable-uxa

Re: Minutes from the Ubuntu Kernel Team meeting, 2013-01-15

2013-01-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 12:10:37PM -0500, Joseph Salisbury wrote: === Status: Raring Development Kernel === We have rebased the Raring kernel to the latest v3.8-rc3 upstream kernel and uploaded last week. Please test and let us know your results. A few people have come to us about new

Re: Screen orientation and backlight sensing for the Nexus 7

2013-01-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 12:36:00PM +0100, Oliver Grawert wrote: However, to prevent adding yet another daemon with non-negligible memory footprint (~1.8M), I think behavior and various thresholds should be configurable in the Control Center GUI and the functionality added to one or

Patch Pilot for Jan 31, 2013

2013-01-31 Thread Bryce Harrington
Removed from queue since needs fixing: * https://code.launchpad.net/~qrilka/ubuntu/precise/libvirt/libvirt-fix-1092826/+merge/141163 * https://code.launchpad.net/~roger.light/ubuntu/quantal/mosquitto/fix-972389/+merge/141467 *

Re: Let's Discuss Interim Releases (and a Rolling Release)

2013-02-28 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 10:59:36AM -0600, Mario Limonciello wrote: Thanks Rick. I applaud this proposal. This definitely helps to reaffirm the decision that we made with Mythbuntu to move to LTS only for our releases. We have had an incredibly positive response within our sub-community

Patch Pilot - Feb 28, 2013

2013-02-28 Thread Bryce Harrington
Removed from sponsors queue (WIP/unsubbed) due to issues needing resolved: * https://code.launchpad.net/~danilo/ubuntu/raring/command-not-found/python2-package/+merge/149494 * https://code.launchpad.net/~logan/ubuntu/raring/piuparts/0.49ubuntu1/+merge/149918 *

Re: taking Unity to the next level

2013-03-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 01:39:36PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Monday, March 04, 2013 05:46:54 PM Oliver Ries wrote: Hi, I wanted to give you a quick heads up regarding Unity in preparation of this weeks UDS. The traction that Ubuntu Touch is creating is great and the team is

Re: taking Unity to the next level

2013-03-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 03:35:21PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Monday, March 04, 2013 11:45:57 AM Bryce Harrington wrote: On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 01:39:36PM -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Monday, March 04, 2013 05:46:54 PM Oliver Ries wrote: citizens in the long run. Also, one

Re: reflecting on first UDS session on rolling releases

2013-03-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 02:19:52PM +, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Hall wrote on 06/03/13 00:41: On 03/05/2013 06:49 PM, Allison Randal wrote: There were a few things that concerned me in today's session on cadence of

X.org 1.14 and RR / 13.04 (un-)plans

2013-03-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
Xserver 1.14 was released upstream today. We are maintaining this new X stack in a PPA for anyone interested in testing on it: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-x/+archive/x-staging We've decided to hold off on putting this into raring for now. But we probably will let the mesa 9.1 update

Re: Minutes from the Technical Board, 2008-07-15

2008-08-12 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 11:52:25AM +0100, Matt Zimmerman wrote: == Filesystem checking / AutoFsck == A suggestion was made to the technical board that Ubuntu could be smarter about how and when it performs filesystem integrity checks (fsck). Decision: This should be discussed more widely

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