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/2009-04-28
== Present == * 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) * Sebastien Bacher (seb128) * Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) == Apologies == == Agenda == * State of Jaunty * U1 * Launchpad Team and Kubuntu * All Hands * UDS * Grand Canaria * OEM team swapperoo * Review activity reports * Any other business == Actions from this meeting == * ACTION: rickspencer3 to get definitive list of who has talks at all hands to double check that everyone who has one is prepared == State of Jaunty == * pitti reports that we are seeing a fairly normal number of SRUs for this release, though there are no severe issues as of yet. Evolution Data Server, and i965 are serious issues that are still being address. * Generally consensus is that Jaunty we quite a solid release and that users are reasonably happy with it. * rickspencer3 stressed the need to move to karmic work asap. Asked that people with access to i965 hardware volunteer to help with testing, etc... == U1 == * rickspencer3 mandated that the desktop team join and use U1 * Instructions to get started: https://ubuntuone.com/support/installation/ * All employees currently have access, public beta is soon * kenvandine discussed the topic briefly, and asked that everyone with access please test as much as you can, starting April 29 == Launchpad Team and Kubuntu == * rickspencer3 spent time with launchpad leads in London. Interesting perspective as users, also, three of them are big fans of Kubuntu. == All Hands == * rickspencer3 encouraged team members to get their all hands talks ready asap. * there was some ambiguity regarding who got talks accepted and not. rickspencer3 to follow up. == UDS == * Got key partner related blueprints stubbed out * pitti asks people to follow naming convention: desktop-karmic-* * pitti and rickspencer3 to review UDS sessions by next meeting == Grand Canaria == * rickspencer3 reminds team about opening night party * rickspencer3 asks that everyone schedule to be there for opening night party (as Canonical is hosting) == OEM team swapperoo == * Reminder, that calc starts this starts on 5/1 * General plan is to slow OOo development during Karmic, as OEM staff joining us should not be assigned to just OOo * calc will still be available 20% time for consulting on OOo == Activity reports == === Alexander Sack (asac) === * release bug triage ... staying on top - day and night * workaround apturl issue that broke install of flash on live CD (LP: #363798) * network-manager-pptp 0.7.1~rc4.20090316+bzr23-0ubuntu3 uploaded and approved for ubuntu/jaunty (LP: #364356) * roll firefox/xulrunner security update 3.0.9 * investigate firefox/xulrunner 3.0.10 firedrill and prepare builds; also found another variant for which 3.0.10 is still crashing * release party === Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje) === * upgraded my home server from debian lenny to ubuntu jaunty. Took quite some time but worked. :) * bug triaging for language-selector * work on my presentation for AllHands === Bryce Harrington (bryce) === ==== Distro ==== * Sent out 'Jaunty-Eve' thank-you's to X.org bug triagers * Email catch up ==== Xorg ==== * X freezes on -intel - Reproduced freeze with various options suggested by upstream. Provided upstream with several more GPU dumps for each case. - Met with Eric Anholt in Portland to show reproduction of issue - Updated general Freeze troubleshooting page in wiki - Continued polishing documentation for new debugging tools https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-freeze-test - Reviewed all bug reports mentioning X freezes on intel, and notified them of the new tools, asking for them to provide dumps for their freeze issue. (28 bug reports) - Developed mechanism to do patch bisecting within quilt patching system so can git bisecting of Debian packages - Did extensive git bisecting/testing on mesa, no result - Tested Virtual settings - setting at >1606 seems to resolve. * Helped various people with their X issues * Create graph of bugs for major video drivers * Wrote script to move bugs from xorg to more appropriate source packages. Eliminates one big chunk of X bug drudgery. * Enhanced script to add device name to -intel bug report titles * Full triage on 'xorg' package * Misc. fixup of scripts to account for launchpadlib changes * Created script to itemize -intel bugs based on tagged symptoms * Set up PPA for X driver updates - https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/x-updates/ - Merged latest versions of several drivers * UDS session planning === Chris Cheney (calc) === * Working on OOo 3.1.0 packaging. * Weekly OOo Release Status Meeting - OOo 3.1.0 rc2 this week * Weekly desktop team meeting * Lots of OOo bug triage === Jonathan Riddell (Riddell) === done: * Jaunty final testing and release! * E-mail catchup * Reviewing translations and fixing where broken * SRUs for packagekit, acpid * discussing and pondering specs for Karmic * Open Week talk * Fill in performance review todo: * get cracking on merges * oversee KDE 4.2.3 packaging === Ken VanDine (kenvandine) === ===== Done: ===== * Jaunty install testing * U1 testing and debugging ===== Working on: ===== * U1 testing and debugging * Message indicator session for Ubuntu Open Week === Martin Pitt (pitti) === Currently open stable/milestoned bugs: * Bug:353879 (move Apport launchpad crash database implementation to launchpadlib): Fixed in ubuntu bzr head, ready for Karmic upload * Bug:334446 (Remove gnome-pilot from the default ubuntu install): simple to do, needs some discussion though Done: * Jaunty final CD testing, and some release management * Merged hal, cdbs, debhelper (those were all pretty complex) * Major SRU round (lots of jaunty SRUs, cleanup for older stables) * tracked down a cdbs/python-distutils regression, discussed with Debian * Set up apport retracer for armel, filed RT to fix firewall rules on rimu; once that's done, it'll actually work * Organized i965 testing activity, and added a few ideas * Bug fixing in hal, hal-info, udev (in particular #356631, which is now in -proposed) Sponsoring: * consolekit, gnome-system-tools, mjpegtools, pulseaudio, tor, tracker === Sebastien Bacher (seb128) === * jaunty CD testing * tried to keep up with the jaunty desktop bugs * some jaunty desktop sru uploads === Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) === * SRU for pstopdf CUPS filter (bug 357732) is now in updates, did another fix on pstopdf and prepared second SRU as one user still reported problems (also bug 357732). * Answered and trigaed several printing bug reports. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
