Re: git-ubuntu build

2023-06-07 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 06:41:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi folks, > > As git-ubuntu sees increasing use, including for such things as requests for > sponsorship of Debian merges, I've had an itch to scratch regarding the > complexity of passing correct flags to dpkg-buildpackage, so I sp

Re: git-ubuntu build

2023-06-09 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 09:11:34PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 09:27:47PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 07, 2023 at 06:41:14PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > > > It does not exist, actually! I recall we dropped it a few years ago, &g

Re: git-ubuntu MP workflows in Launchpad

2023-06-29 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 03:18:27PM +0100, Robie Basak wrote: > # The "grabbing" of review slots > > This is the immediate problem. > > The sponsorship queue displays git-ubuntu MPs for which ~ubuntu-sponsors > has a review slot. But if a member of the team votes (eg. "Needs > Information"), then La

Re: git-ubuntu MP workflows in Launchpad

2023-06-29 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Jun 29, 2023 at 09:13:01PM +0200, Sebastien Bacher wrote: > Hey Bryce, > > Le 29/06/2023 à 20:12, Bryce Harrington a écrit : > > I do love automation, however I think we shouldn't rule out letting this > > be somewhat manual. I.e. we already tell non-git-ubuntu

Re: +1 maintenance report (14/Aug - 18/Aug)

2023-08-21 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 09:47:18AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 10:16:31AM +0800, Shengjing Zhu wrote: > > + golang-github-protonmail-go-crypto > > The error message says "out of memory". I can reproduce this on a VM with > > 500M memory. > > It's because the testdat

+1 maintenance report

2023-09-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
# Plus One Maintenance for Week of Sep 04-08, 2023 # Here's notes for what I've worked on. Since Monday was a holiday for me, I also had a shortened week. The previous +1 maintenance report (by Benjamin Drung) is here: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2023-September/042775.html #

ppa-dev-tools 0.5.0 released

2023-09-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
This 0.5 release of ppa-dev-tools includes a number of usage conveniences people have requested, and some important fixes. There's multiple ways to install: By Snap... $ sudo snap install ppa-dev-tools $ sudo snap alias ppa-dev-tools.ppa ppa By PPA... $ sudo add-apt-repository -ys ppa:bry

Re: Retention period for autopkgtest test logs

2023-09-25 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:23:36AM -0700, Brian Murray wrote: > Currently test results and log files for autopkgtest runs are kept until > the release for which the test was run reaches its End of Life. This is > also true for autopkgtest runs for packages in PPAs and the Ubuntu QA > team thinks we

Re: Retention period for autopkgtest test logs

2023-09-25 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 04:02:28PM -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 3:56 PM Steve Langasek > wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 11:17:50AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 10:23:36AM -0700, Brian Mur

Re: Retention period for autopkgtest test logs

2023-09-27 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 04:53:05PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 03:22:59PM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > Moreover, there are other use cases beyond test failure fixing. > > Consider MREs and SRUs, where you prepare a package in a PPA, and run > >

Re: +1 maintenance report

2023-12-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
Heya Benjamin, Quick question for you. I'm collecting a list of tools people are finding useful or interesting for doing +1 maintenance. Can you mention any such scripts you used on your rotation this week? I'm in particular looking for weird/random/unusual stuff, personal or one-off codes, etc

Re: +1 maintenance report

2024-02-12 Thread Bryce Harrington
/wishlists for capabilities you wish we had for dealing with these things. Bryce On Wed, Jan 03, 2024 at 11:54:47AM +, Benjamin Drung wrote: > Hi Bryce, > > On Fri, 2023-12-15 at 15:54 -0800, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > Heya Benjamin, > > > > Quick question for you

+1 Maintenance Report

2024-05-31 Thread Bryce Harrington
[Shorter week than usual due to holiday.] An unusual amount of tmpfail and timeouts this week. This may be due to an infrastructure problem, as discussed in this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/auto-package-testing/+bug/2067074 It could be specific to autopkgtest, or more general, but that

ppa-dev-tools 0.6.0 release

2024-06-04 Thread Bryce Harrington
anymore (LP: #2051235) * The following error shows as passed: ERROR: testbed failure: unexpected eof from the testbed (LP: #2065754) Shortlog of changes since 0.5.1 --- Alberto Contreras (1): doc: remove invalid ppa put example Alexandre Detiste (1): rep

Re: SRU Documentation Reboot

2024-09-05 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Sep 04, 2024 at 11:20:48PM -0700, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Hi! > > > You can find the new documentation here[3]: > > https://canonical-sru-docs.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/ > > I read all of this and as a person with plenty of Ubuntu stale > security update experience, reading the SR

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

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04 - User testing results

2011-04-14 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:00:31AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > * 8/10 people could find a window's menus, but 7/8 of them learned to > * Only 4/11 worked out how to change the background picture. > * 6/10 could easily find and launch a game that wasn't in the > * Only 1/9 (P4) easil

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04 - User testing results

2011-04-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 07:08:02AM -0700, Rick Spencer wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 22:48 -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:00:31AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > > * 8/10 people could find a window's menus, but 7/8 of them learned

Re: Default Desktop Experience for 11.04 - User testing results

2011-04-15 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 01:33:27PM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Bryce Harrington wrote on 15/04/11 06:48: > > On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 03:00:31AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > > Also, these tests measure usability, but not their overall impression. > > Did t

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

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 prevent

Re: changing how apport handles master bugs with private data

2011-04-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 06:59:44AM +1200, Robert Collins wrote: > On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 09:53:56PM +1200, Robert Collins wrote: > >> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apport/+bug/764414 > >> has a su

Re: Measuring success/failure in the installation

2011-05-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 11:44:26AM +0100, Evan Dandrea wrote: > I am therefore proposing that we actually measure this. In Oneiric, I would > like to add code to ubiquity that, once connected to the Internet, sends a > GUID as generated by uuidgen. At the end of installation it would send this >

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 > >

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 tim

Re: Allowing filing bugs on unpublished packages that have an official branch

2011-06-03 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 01:41:55PM -0400, Francis J. Lacoste wrote: > We are trying to make distribution objects in Launchpad useful for other > distribution-like project. (The main use case is to manage the set of > Ensemble > formulas known-as Principia.) > > As part of that work, we are goin

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 #793778

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) r

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 actua

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, should

New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric

2011-06-15 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 pri

Re: release cadence for Q and R

2011-06-15 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 > > - R

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: > >

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

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 > wrote: > > The way I read the mails up until now, I couldn't see anyone suggesting > > to remove current infrastructure or resources. > > > > Bryce wrote in his opening e-mai

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 wrote: > > > It doesn't appear to have any functionality for auto-linking bug #'s. > > They get linkified on display :) - but an explicit link is

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: > > > > > > * The new page should probably indicate the sponsor of the Ubuntu > > > upload (if present). > > > > > > Thanks again

Re: New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric

2011-06-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 03:04:38PM +0100, Julian Edwards wrote: > On Thursday 16 June 2011 23:11:24 Bryce Harrington wrote: > > > > Also, I'm unclear how you would retrieve the comment object(s) given a > > > > dsd object, but if it's not exposed in some fashi

Re: New Launchpad feature: Diff between Sid and Oneiric

2011-06-17 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:07:31PM +0100, Julian Edwards wrote: > On Friday 17 June 2011 16:59:46 Marcin Juszkiewicz wrote: > > Especially when there is no way to sort results ;( > > Thank you for the feedback. Did you file a bug about this? I've filed a bug for him: #798904 Julian, I'll take

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 == == Important to Ubuntu == 798297 No way to get DistroSeriesDifferenceComments via the web service * 798522 +localpackagediffs should require comment w

Re: Pairing new patch pilots with old patch pilots

2011-07-06 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jul 06, 2011 at 04:40:34PM +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote: > Hello everybody, > > at UDS the question came up if we could double up new and old pilots to > effectively train new patch pilots and make it easier for new pilots to > get involved. > > What do you think about this? Especially as

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 r

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 > :(.

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 ' still works, and for some packages like xorg and others it's the recommended way of reporti

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: > > > > > > I think we are doing it wrong: we should collect > > > crashes on all supported releases. > > > > I agree. As design

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: >

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 12:18:51AM -0700, Bryce Harrington wrote: > > I don't know if we've actually written down what we want out of a crash > > database, though. Do we have a requirements document for one? If the > > Launchpad team wanted to devote some time t

Patch Pilot: Aug 8, 2011

2011-08-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
Sponsor report is broken, so spent afternoon studying nfs-utils patches, and tending to some sync requests. #822846 - utouch-qml - Overlapping same-gesture areas broken - Sponsored upload for chase #567491 - nfs-utils - Allow options to rpc.nfsd - Revised patch; uploaded #213444 - nfs-utils -

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

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 shou

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

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 2.29.16

Re: Patch Pilot report 2011-08-18

2011-08-18 Thread Bryce Harrington
With pilot reports, it's great to read about the action the pilot took, but it'd help make them more useful if you paste in the title of the bug in question. Or if the bug title is ambiguous, just say what the problem was. That way readers can get an idea of what issues are being fixed, without h

Re: FYI: Apport retracers are back

2011-08-24 Thread Bryce Harrington
Awesome, thanks!! On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:14:16AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello all, > > as Sebastien announced a while ago, the Apport crash retracers had > been broken for several weeks because fakechroot has pretty much > stopped doing anything sensible in oneiric, so our approach with

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 * lp:~maco.m/ubuntu/oneiric/system-config-printer/desktop-c

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 D

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 c

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 specific,

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 i

New Launchpad bug listings

2011-11-25 Thread Bryce Harrington
Next time you're looking at bugs you'll notice Launchpad's new UI look-and-feel for bug search results, which the LP team demo'd at UDS. There is now a gear icon at the top right of the bug table, which lets you customize the information shown to you in bug lists. (Note that this customization is

Re: Renaming the Packaging Guide

2011-11-30 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:42:15PM +0200, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Daniel (2011.11.25_12:23:48_+0200) > > I think it might be helpful to rename the Packaging Guide to something a > > bit more clear, like Ubuntu Platform Development Guide or Ubuntu > > Platform Guide or something along those lines

Re: archive-admins/MIR/stable+1: Improvements to component-mismatches

2011-12-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 01:25:42PM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Ubuntu developers, archive admins, MIR and stable+1 team, > > One of the archive consistency reports that we have is > "component-mismatches", which shows universe packages which want to > get pulled into main by existing main pa

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 - slangas

Re: Hi!

2011-12-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 07:45:58PM +0100, Tobia Tesan wrote: > Hi, I'm Tobia, a former Slackware integralist, now an Ubuntu convert :P > > I've been using Ubuntu+Unity for some months on my new notebook (and > before that Slackware on my rusty Athlon XP, and before that RedHat and > Mandrake on my

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 ther

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 mdbtool

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

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. > > Deta

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 writes: > > > > > 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 specified carefully o

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 wh

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 old

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

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

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 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 > >

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. Alth

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 -

Pilot Report 2012-04-19

2012-04-19 Thread Bryce Harrington
974887: Reviewed cnd's input patchset (pending for SRU to precise) + http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~cndougla/xserver/log/?h=input-fixes 968218: ssh x11 forwarding between releases causes memory corruption + Fleshed out SRU request + Reviewed and sponsored patch for oneiric + After consulting

Re: Quantal open for development

2012-05-01 Thread Bryce Harrington
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 explicitly from precise-backports > >> first.) > > > >Can't we have a SR

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: > >

New mailing list for discussion of Arsenal

2012-05-08 Thread Bryce Harrington
(No, not the football team...) 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 for further discussion about development, installation, and usage. Join the team, and the mailing list here: https:

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 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 a

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 + Fil

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 wrote: > > So regular manual testing rounds are still required, and the points > > when we do them might just as well be called "milestones". > > But if the focus is testing, we should opt

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 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 this step. I

Re: Releasing Alphas and Betas without "freezing"

2012-06-20 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 04:57:19AM +, Adam Conrad wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 11:06:14AM -0700, Michael Casadevall wrote: > > Milestones exist to give the Ubuntu developer community to step back, > > and check to make sure nothing important has broken, and to gauge our > > progress through

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 i

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 n

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: > > > > 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 the

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2012-08-16 Thread Bryce Harrington
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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 nee

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 >

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