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flintogra, Is there and Edubuntu meeting on this channel soon?12:08
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ubotuSchedule for Etc/UTC: 24 Oct 20:00: Edubuntu Team | 30 Oct 16:00: Kernel Team | 31 Oct 12:00: Edubuntu Team | 07 Nov 20:00: Edubuntu Team | 08 Nov 15:00: Community Development Team12:08
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flintogra, thanks12:10
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ubotuCurrent time in Etc/UTC: October 24 2007, 15:00:01 - Next meeting: Edubuntu Team in 4 hours 59 minutes15:59
evandhi16:00
ArneGoetjehi16:00
cjwatsongood afternoon16:00
brycemorning16:00
asachmm can we get our meetings in this channel on the fridge?16:00
cjwatsondoko_,lool,seb128: ping16:00
seb128cjwatson: hi16:00
* lool w00t16:01
cjwatsonif somebody would like to volunteer as secretary to get our meetings onto the Fridge, I would welcome that16:01
* asac has no idea _how_ to do that ... but would volunteer16:01
cjwatsonI have no idea how either, which is why I'm asking :-)16:02
loolI think there's an ics for the fridge and there's another one for our meetings, perhaps people maintaining the fridge could use it?16:02
cjwatsonI suspect it involves mailing fridge-devel16:02
doko_pong16:02
asaccjwatson: i will figure out ;)16:03
asacis it worth an ACTION? :)16:03
cjwatsonit is now, I'll note it16:03
asacok16:04
loolasac: Just in case that's useful, http://fridge.ubuntu.com/event/ical and http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=15dh3ig0tj98ot7pchdqrvl09g%40group.calendar.google.com16:04
cjwatsonso, I don't see any agenda items from folks; anything to raise, or are we saving it all for our upcoming meeting marathons?16:04
asacsave +116:04
cjwatsonI mainly wanted to take the opportunity to talk to people a bit about fosscamp and uds before we all set off16:05
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cjwatsonfor veterans, FOSSCamp is new; for new people, everything is new16:05
evandgiven the past two UDS, should we expect the VoIP sessions to not be saved again?  I'm debating going out and buying a voice recorder just in case.16:06
cjwatsonI don't think you should rely on getting voice recordings16:06
cjwatsona voice recorder is an option, though I would recommend being more religious about making sure every session has a secretary at the start16:06
cjwatsonwe have learned from last time and will be presenting a launchpad intro in a plenary session at the start, and I hope printed sheets as well16:07
evandthat is my intention, but even with good notes I often wish I remembered *exactly* what someone said16:07
asacabout launchpad ... i am not sure if i subscribed myself on launchpad for attending uds ... how can i figure out if i am now subscribed?16:08
cjwatsonasac: that's a good point16:08
cjwatsonhttps://launchpad.net/sprints/uds-boston-200716:08
cjwatsonthere is an "Attendees" expander16:08
asacah  ... i really did it;)16:09
cjwatson(which I'm not in, *cough*)16:09
asaclol16:09
cjwatsonplease follow my example and register your attendance if you haven't already ;-)16:09
bryceoops, me either16:09
cjwatsonI think the scheduling frankenstein we're using actually has you all hardcoded as attending, but please register anyway to avoid relying on it16:09
brycehow are blueprints getting decided for the agenda?16:10
asaccjwatson: i know i came up with it lates ... but is there still a slot in the core schedule for application-qa-community16:11
asac(no idea if it matters at all)16:11
cjwatsonI'll finish talking about fosscamp (briefly) and then move onto UDS16:11
cjwatsonas I think you've all been told, FOSSCamp is an ad-hoc conference to help improve communication with upstreams16:12
cjwatsonthe scheduling will happen on the day, by means of a whiteboard or post-it notes or similar low-tech16:12
cjwatsonplease come with an informal list of things you want to discuss with people, and make sure to grab schedule slots early16:13
cjwatsonthere's a list of whom Canonical has sponsored to attend at https://wiki.canonical.com/UdsCambridgeSponsorships (under BarCamp)16:13
cjwatson(since the naming changed during planning)16:13
cjwatsonif you were responsible for inviting somebody, please make sure to take advantage of that and talk with them :-)16:13
cjwatsonotherwise, it should be lower-pressure than UDS, and a good opportunity to ramp up, not to mention figuring out what your upstreams are doing by way of input into UDS16:14
cjwatsonOK, so the 10000-foot view of UDS scheduling16:15
cjwatsonwe have a core schedule and an automatic schedule16:15
loolcjwatson: I see Julien Cristau listed on the page, but I met him IRL last week and he never heard of the event; is this the same Cambridge?16:15
cjwatsonlool: he's on for UDS, not FOSSCamp16:15
cjwatsonlool: if he didn't hear about it, that's unfortunate, check with clan16:16
loolOk, I will16:16
cjwatsonthe core schedule is what we want to make sure gets discussed, and is scheduled with some care by hand16:16
cjwatson(in the past we had problems with important things getting bitten by autoscheduler bugs, hence this practice)16:16
cjwatsonhttp://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/uds-boston-2007/ in the unlikely event that you haven't already seen it16:17
cjwatsonwe can still make changes to the core schedule, so if there's something important you want, mail me the details, preferably with a spec already registered in Launchpad16:17
cjwatsonhowever, the autoscheduler will be used to fill in the gaps16:17
cjwatsonspecs that are proposed and accepted for uds-boston-2007, that have a priority set, and that have status New or Discussion (phew) will be considered for scheduling16:18
cjwatson(I may have missed out a condition or two there, so if it breaks, come to me)16:18
cjwatsonobviously this is dependent on the necessary people being available in some slot16:19
cjwatsontry not to make me "participation essential" for meetings as otherwise it'll probably never get scheduled :-)16:19
cjwatsonhowever, there is actually a fair bit of room in the platform track16:20
loolAre we to set ourselves participation essential or is the person motivating the spec supposed to mark the important people as such?16:20
cjwatsonso yes, there is space for more sessions16:20
cjwatsonlool: I *believe* that the autoscheduler will consider the assignee and the drafter as implicitly essential16:20
asaccjwatson: ok ill mail you about the application qa thing then16:20
cjwatsonbut if you think you really need to be at something, then yes, feel free to mark yourself as participation essential16:21
cjwatsonthe semantic there is "this spec probably can't be properly sorted out without this person"16:21
loolOk, thanks16:22
cjwatsonany further questions about the next week?16:22
ArneGoetjeso, should I register specs for each topic I sent to you for the i18n round table session?16:22
cjwatsonArneGoetje: it may be appropriate to do so after the roundtable discussion, and then they can go onto the agenda for the next day16:23
cjwatsonthe colloquial term you'll hear for this is "breakout sessions"16:23
ArneGoetjecjwatson: ok16:23
bryceI had marked some existing X specs for this UDS a while back, but I'm not seeing any of them here.  Should I just go ahead and create new specs for them?16:23
cjwatsonbryce: mail me a list and I'll look into it16:23
bryceok16:24
cjwatsonbear in mind that the schedule in ~scott is just the core schedule16:24
cjwatsonthe automatic schedule stuff will be filled in first thing each morning16:24
bryceit's not showing up on sprints/uds-boston-2007 either16:24
cjwatsonok, definitely mail me16:24
cjwatsonnext: roundtables16:24
cjwatsonI have two confirmed roundtables, two further ideas, and five slots in total16:25
cjwatsonthe roundtable sessions are 45-minute sessions that aren't there to produce specs, but to talk through a relatively large topic and come up with ideas for specific plans of attack16:25
cjwatsonor even just "how could we improve all this mess in future"-type stuff16:26
cjwatsonthe two I have confirmed are internationalisation (arne) and CD size control (doko)16:26
cjwatsonthe two maybes are bug reporting improvements and derivatives; I'd welcome somebody to chair those, though I'll probably chair one myself16:27
cjwatsonany more ideas for things that could benefit from a fairly large number of people?16:27
cjwatson(don't say "paintball")16:27
cjwatsonfor those who were in Sevilla, this is sort of an evolution of what we were calling "forums" then16:27
cjwatsonok, if you think of anything, please mail me or talk to me at FOSSCamp about it16:28
cjwatsonthe last thing I have is that some people (particularly newcomers) have asked for training sessions, and we're planning to fit those in at allhands16:29
ArneGoetjequestion: do we need to register ourselves for sessions we want to attend or do we just walk in whatever interests us?16:29
cjwatsonArneGoetje: in RFC-speak, you SHOULD register but MAY walk in16:30
ArneGoetjecjwatson: where to register?16:30
cjwatsonhttps://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/<specname>/+subscribe16:30
ArneGoetjeah...16:30
* ArneGoetje is not familiar with this sytem yet...16:31
asaccjwatson: maybe you can give us (new ones) an idea about all-hands as well? what kind of work? do we expect to happen there?16:31
cjwatsonregistration means you'll automatically get mail about wiki page updates following the session on which you may want to comment, which can be useful16:31
cjwatsonasac: ok, fair question16:32
cjwatsonAllHands is Canonical's yearly whole-company meeting; individual teams see each other reasonably frequently but it's not often that we meet other parts of the company16:32
cjwatsonso its purposes include:16:33
cjwatson * learning about what other parts of the company are doing (which has an effect on what we do, even if it's not obvious at times; it is helpful to be aware of it)16:34
cjwatson * meetings about projects that are commercially-sensitive16:35
cjwatson * training sessions, perhaps on things that cross teams (Bazaar, Python, Launchpad, Landscape, etc.)16:35
cjwatson * induction for new staff, you know the sort of thing that happens at a real company :-)16:35
cjwatson * social interaction; it is much easier to work with people when you've chatted with them face to face16:36
evand * paintball? ;)16:36
simira:)16:37
cjwatsonI'm sure there'll be some fun as well, yes :-)16:37
cjwatsonthe agenda so far is on the wiki, so please go and look16:37
simiraI'm so sorry I can't come to the uds :( Hope to be with you guys next year16:37
evandso is this going to be similiar to UDS in that we might not be scheduled for a meeting but we're welcome to sit in on them?16:40
cjwatsonyes, indeed generally encouraged if you aren't otherwise busy16:40
cjwatsonif in doubt, feel free to ask16:40
evandok16:40
cjwatsonthere might be some private sessions but the worst that happens is that somebody apologises and tells you to go away :-)16:40
evandhaha16:41
cjwatsonand the *really* last thing I have is to remind people that tomorrow is a free day off for the Canonical distro team16:41
cjwatsonsince we'll all be travelling and then working hard for quite a while16:41
seb128\o/16:42
ArneGoetjegood... need some time to pack my things. :)16:42
cjwatsonme too16:42
cjwatsonOh, would anyone like to be a platform representative on some QA team tracks?16:42
cjwatsonthey have asked for somebody to help review technical plans16:42
cjwatsondoesn't have to be a single person16:42
slangaseksounds interesting16:43
seb128cjwatson: I'm happy to go to QA sessions16:43
cjwatsonexcellent; in particular they have some automatic testing work that's going to bleed over into things we do16:43
cjwatsonOK, if I don't get round to explicitly scheduling you guys for it, please go along as you have time16:44
seb128ok16:44
evandI'll be in the automatic testing meeting for sure16:44
cjwatsonright, sounds like that's a wrap, so adjourned. Bonne voyage!16:45
cjwatsonand see you all in Boston :-)16:45
slangaseksee y'all in Cambridge :)16:45
asacsee you all in boston :)16:45
asacthanks16:45
evandsafe travels to all16:46
seb128cjwatson: thanks16:46
evandthanks16:46
ArneGoetjethanks16:46
brycecya all!16:46
ArneGoetjecjwatson: BTW: when we arrive at the Hotel, do we have some scheduled meeting time, or do we just check in ourselves and look who is there already?16:47
evandArneGoetje: I'll let cjwatson reply as well, but my experience has always been that the first night is there to get settled in and hang out.  So you check in and look for familiar faces (or announce yourself on IRC if you're new)16:50
simiracjwatson: have a nice day off, and a nice trip. :)16:53
cjwatsonArneGoetje: yes, what evand said. There are usually folks around in the lobby or the bar, but failing that, get a head-start on the jetlag :-)16:53
ArneGoetjecjwatson: ok, I'll try... with 13 hours time difference that's tough. :)16:54
evandyay, finally no jet lag16:55
calc13h ouch16:55
ArneGoetjeBTW: do we have a special IRC channel or do we just use the usual ones?16:57
henomeh, doesn't look like the QA meeting is o the Fridge schedule16:59
henobut I take it the chan is free17:00
simiraheno, how are you?17:01
liwI see no objections17:01
liwheno, shall we start?17:01
henohey, simira :)17:01
simiraI see a liw also!17:01
liwhi, simira17:01
simirahi :) when did you convert to ubuntu?17:01
* pedro_ waves17:02
* ogasawara is here17:02
simirawell, have a nice meeting, I'm heading home for dinner17:02
* stgraber too17:02
liwsimira, http://liw.iki.fi/liw/log/2007-09.html#20070924b -- exactly one month ago17:02
evandArneGoetje: there's usually a #uds-boston or some such channel.17:02
* bdmurray is lurking in the shadows17:02
henook, let's start17:03
liwshall I chair? heno? stgraber?17:03
simiraliw: wow, grats!17:03
simiraliw: you're going to Boston then, lucky...17:03
henoliw: go ahead :)17:03
simira(I'm not the least jealous... :( )17:03
liwI've not done this before, let's hope I'm not messing things up17:03
liw#startmeeting17:03
MootBotMeeting started at 17:03. The chair is liw.17:03
MootBotCommands Available: [TOPIC], [IDEA], [ACTION], [AGREED], [LINK], [VOTE]17:03
liwwe don't have much of an agenda prepared17:04
liw[TOPIC] post-release bug status17:04
MootBotNew Topic:  post-release bug status17:04
henoI just posted a straw man one now17:04
liwhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam -- right, at the bottom of the page now17:04
henomy favourite bug graph this week http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/testing_graphs/plots/update-manager-month-unconfirmed.png17:05
liwwhat's the situation with bugs now, almost a week after the release?17:05
liwuh oh, that doesn't look good17:05
henopoor mvo really gets flooded just after release17:05
liwmvo?17:05
henowe should help out with these I think17:06
bdmurrayI think some of them are invalid, just temporary issues with mirrors, etc17:06
henobdmurray: can you try some bughelper duplication-finding magic on those?17:06
mvoliw: hello17:06
liwdo I read that graph correctly: it shows the number of new, untriaged bugs each day?17:06
henoare there lots of apport-generated ones?17:07
mvothat is quite possible17:07
mvoyes, those are mostly auto-generated17:07
mvowe have e.g. ~50 duplicates for a adept bug, let me dig the bugnumber17:07
henoliw: right, see http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/testing_graphs/update-manager.html for the interactive version17:08
mvohttps://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+bug/15477117:08
bdmurray153500 maybe?17:08
ubotuLaunchpad bug 154771 in update-manager "Kubuntu 7.10 Upgrading to Kubuntu 7.10 and after gives error and says Distribution is Up To Date" [Undecided,Confirmed]17:08
liwis there automation for finding duplicated, automatically reported bugs?17:08
mvobdmurray: yes, that is the other one17:08
henohttp://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/testing_graphs/ for other packages17:08
MootBotLINK received:  http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/testing_graphs/ for other packages17:08
mvothe problem with the update-manager bugs is that each update problem gets to this package first17:09
bdmurrayliw: I believe ther is for crash reports17:09
pedro_liw, for stacktraces yes, don't know if there's one for that kind of issues17:09
henomvo: so you don't sound too worried17:09
mvoeven if its really a bug in e.g. a postinst17:09
mvoits certainly not good17:10
mvoour upgrade is fragile, mostly because of the fact that for ~2000 installed package ~4000 maintainer scripts gets run and some are really fragile17:10
mvoit used to be a upgrade error if e.g. invoke-rc.d can't stop a daemon17:11
mvo-> maintainer script failre, upgrade error17:11
liwmvo, do you think the fragility could be lessened by more vigorous pre-release testing using automated tools?17:11
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bdmurraymvo: did you find anything out about the medibuntu repo ones?17:11
henomvo: I guess you and liw should talk a bit about upgrade testing at UDS17:12
mvosame for .e.g python. if python-central is not able to compile py modules (e.g. because of locally installed stuff) the upgrade may fail17:12
mvoliw: to a certain extend yes17:12
mvoliw: one big issue is that we do not test universe packages enough for upgradability17:12
henomvo: what's the limiting factor on test coverage; coding tests or HW to run on?17:12
Lutinbdmurray: what are the medibuntu-related ones ?17:12
cjwatsonwe made python a bit less fragile in the gutsy cycle by at least ensuring that debconf doesn't fail to configure in that case17:12
liwmvo, we should test universe packages as well, certainly17:12
mvoliw: but then its a problem with our paradigma, maintainer script fails -> upgrade fails17:13
henoimagine if we wanted to run a silly amt of permutations of upgrade scenarios17:13
mvoheno: time17:13
henomvo: as in dev time?17:13
bdmurraybug 153948 is an example17:13
ubotuLaunchpad bug 153948 in rosetta "Launchpad translations take a plain '%' char as a format string when it's not a format string" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/15394817:13
mvocjwatson: yes, I think we do better than before (with invoke-rc.d as well)17:13
mvobdmurray: no, sorry17:13
bdmurrayLutin: bug 153958 is an example17:13
ubotuLaunchpad bug 153958 in update-manager "update-manager problem when upgrading from Feisty to Gutsy" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/15395817:13
mvoheno: dev time to setup the tests17:13
mvoheno: the currently available auto-upgrade tester could test universe as well, the code is there17:14
Lutinbdmurray: this url has been deprecated for months17:14
mvoheno: but it takes time to generate the base image for the upgrade test and especially in universe quite a few packages fail to install17:14
henoI wonder how many of the bugs we are getting involve universe packages17:14
bdmurrayLutin: well, apparently not everyone knows that17:14
liwit would be possible to set up piuparts for example to break invoke-rc.d and see what happens, might be an interesting thing to do17:15
mvoheno: the other issue is that the upgrade takes a lot of time with  a lot of packages17:15
mvoheno: I did tests with ~12000 installed packages and dpkg eat ~500 mb of real mem17:15
Lutinbdmurray: unfortunately :/17:15
liwmvo, that's thankfully a problem that can be solved by throwing hardware at it17:16
mvoliw: if invoke-rc.d is broken, every upgraded daemon fails and that makes the upgrade fail (or at least it gives scary errors)17:16
henomvo: right, I'm thinking it would be cool to combine this with other tests, like server testing that needs HW anyway17:16
mvoright17:16
liwmvo, right, the point would be to see how much stuff breaks by that kind of thing17:16
mvoright17:17
henoso just to wrap up the topic:17:17
Lutinbdmurray: does this kind of bug _break_ the upgrade ? I wouldn't believe it17:17
mvoI didn't managed to analyze the bugreports fully yet, but from what i have seen over the weekend it seem a lot of errors are releated to getting the upgrades because of server overload (especially mirrors) and then packages breaking during the upgrade17:17
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henobdmurray, pedro_, ogasawara: would you say the bug report impact from the release has been noticeable, but not alarming?17:18
ogasawaraheno: yes17:18
pedro_i thought it would be worse17:18
pedro_we indeed get a lot of reports during the weekend but nothing alarming17:19
henook, great17:19
henonext topic?17:19
bdmurraymy concern is us fallling further behind in the next 2 weeks though17:19
liw[AGREED] the bug report impact from the release has been noticeable, but not alarming17:19
MootBotAGREED received:  the bug report impact from the release has been noticeable, but not alarming17:19
liw[TOPIC] mobile platform test cases17:20
MootBotNew Topic:  mobile platform test cases17:20
henobdmurray: with UDS and AllHands getting in the way, true17:20
henoany one here have experience with the mobile platform?17:21
liwnot me17:21
ogasawaraheno: I don't17:21
pedro_i dont...17:21
bdmurrayI've used a mobile device before. ;)17:22
henowe need some better test plans there; But I'll email some people17:22
heno(it was worth asking :) ) ; ok, next topic17:23
liw[TOPIC] testing plans for hardy17:23
MootBotNew Topic:  testing plans for hardy17:23
henoI seem to remember we had various long-term issues we wanted to discuss last week, but cut short17:24
henohence the general testing and bug topics on the agenda17:24
henohas everyone going to UDS looked at the proposed topics and subscribed?17:25
liwI'm trying to find the log from the previous meeting17:25
liwI've looked at and subscribed to all relevant UDS topics I know of17:26
henoyou need to subscribe to the specs to be scheduled for the meetings17:26
* ogasawara needs to subscribe then17:26
henoyeah, please do that before UDS starts17:26
liwhttp://kryten.incognitus.net/mootbot/meetings/ubuntu-meeting.log.20071017_1719.html -- that should be our previous meeting17:26
MootBotLINK received:  http://kryten.incognitus.net/mootbot/meetings/ubuntu-meeting.log.20071017_1719.html -- that should be our previous meeting17:26
henoI'll go through the list later today and subscribe other distro people to things that seem relevant as well17:27
liwnothing much in that log, though17:28
liwI'll re-iterate my intention of concentrating, to the extent possible, on automating tests, starting with using existing tools of various kinds17:28
liwanyone else?17:29
henoright; system-level stuff before new year (est.) and then make a start on gui-based testing after new year17:29
liwanything else?17:29
liwyeah, like that17:29
henoI have another topic: QA resource page17:30
liwlet's do the remainign one in the wiki first17:31
liw[TOPIC] bug management plans for hardy17:31
MootBotNew Topic:  bug management plans for hardy17:31
liwI have the feeling we should try to keep the number of untriaged bugs and the number of open bugs as low as possible -- it's easier to do triage if there's only a small number of bugs to work on17:31
liwbut I haven't participated in triage at all yet17:31
henoa noble goal17:32
liwlet's see if it is a practical one as well17:33
liwanything else about bug management?17:33
henothat either means cloning more triagers, tightening policy (closing more bugs), making it more difficult to file bugs, etc.17:33
bdmurrayI think writing some bughelper clue files for previous high profile bugs to identify duplicates and cleanup some packages might be worthwhile17:33
henowhich may all be valid choices17:34
henobdmurray: 'clean up some packages' -> the clue files for them?17:34
bdmurrayLike mvo mentioned an update-manager bug earlier, lets write a clue file for that and other update-manager bugs and see how many dupes we can find and what affect that has on the number of update-manager bugs17:36
henobdmurray: right, this is a good time for that as we're not under the pressure of a release17:37
davmor2Sorry I'm late :(17:37
bdmurraywell, we also need to keep an eye out for sru candidate bugs17:37
bdmurraybut I think some of the reports may help with that17:37
davmor2SRU?17:38
bdmurraystable release update17:38
davmor2ta17:38
liwanything else on this topic?17:40
henonext?17:41
liw[TOPIC] QA resource page17:41
MootBotNew Topic:  QA resource page17:41
liwheno?17:41
henoI just posted this page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Resources17:41
henoI'd like us to bring up a few on-line resources about QA at these meetings each week17:42
henothere is lots we can all learn out there17:42
henoas a new team I think that would be valuable17:42
liwI agree17:43
henoWe could all just add links to that page, but I'd like them to be mentioned here in some way17:43
henoa long list of links is not that useful17:43
liwmentioning them here would be good17:44
liwalso, perhaps adding a few words of description to each link?17:44
liw[LINK] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Resources17:44
henoI wonder if we could ask each person to bring one item to the meeting each week and say two lines about it?17:44
MootBotLINK received:  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Resources17:44
liwI'd rather have people mention anything they happen to find17:45
henoit could be an article, research paper, good blog entry about QA, video, etc.17:45
liwin a repeating topic that happens every week17:45
henook, that works too17:45
davmor2sounds good :)17:45
liwI'll add that topic to the agenda now so we don't forget17:46
bdmurrayAnd what is the purpose?  I'd have to stop doing something else to do this.17:46
henothese are not required reading of course, just recommended :)17:46
henobdmurray: if you don't feel it helps you then you don't need to17:46
henoyou might want to glance at what is being posted though17:47
bdmurrayI'd certainly like to, but I'm quite uncertain where to fit it in17:47
liwI follow programming.reddit.com and they fairly often have testing stuff there, so I'd be more than happy to mention anything there17:47
henobdmurray: you mean about finding links or looking at other people's submissions?17:48
bdmurrayheno: both. ;)17:48
davmor2I think an useful links that further the cause can only be a good thing :)17:48
henoright, the google tech talks are quite long, about an hour17:48
henobdmurray: you could post an informative bug search from your weekly work that new community people might find useful17:50
bdmurrayheno: okay, I'll see what I can come up with17:51
liwso: anyone is welcome to bring what they have, and anyone is welcome to make what use they can of what is brought -- are we in agreement? :)17:53
henoI guess this is something I'm used to fro my university days; lunch-time talks17:53
henoI think so17:53
liwany other topics?17:53
henoany other business?17:53
heno:)17:53
henooh, the open week sessions went really well!17:54
bdmurrayWhen will the next meeting be?17:54
henobdmurray, pedro_, liw: well done!17:54
liwbdmurray, good point17:54
henohm, we should schedule one during UDS17:54
davmor2yes,  Is there a way that we can log our hardware fully?  So that it gets added to bugs and reports save having to add it each time?17:54
henowith in-person and voip17:54
liwheno, would it be best to do that scheduling on site when we know what the uds schedule looks like?17:55
henoright, should we punt that decision to Monday?17:55
liwdavmor2, the reportbug(-ng) program could perhaps be adapted to report bugs to launchpad17:55
liwheno, I'd say we should punt to Monday17:56
henodavmor2: I'd like to start using hwtest for this17:56
davmor2any links for hwtest?17:56
henoit produces an XML file that we can store different places17:56
henoit should be an ubuntu app17:57
* heno looks for it17:57
henowhen did we remove that from the menus?17:57
bdmurrayI thought it was run once thing17:58
davmor2okay cool.  I'm thinking that in testing senario's it may speed things up if every tester with intel cpu is having issues where as everyone with amd's are fine same for 32 and 64 bit etc.17:58
bdmurrayThat is why it isn't in the menu17:58
bdmurrayHowever, I don't recall seeing it when doing Gutsy installs17:59
henoI think it was there in the old days, but removed for the reason you stated17:59
henolet's take that question to the mailing list ...18:00
liwanything else for this meeting?18:00
henobdmurray: should that be announced somewhere, should we just start using it?18:00
davmor2heno are you on about ubuntu device database?18:01
bdmurrayheno: that what?18:01
henodavmor2: yes18:01
henobdmurray: ubuntu-qa mailing list18:01
davmor2it's hidden in system tools18:01
heno(sorry, unclear)18:01
davmor2ubuntu-qa has a mailing list ?18:02
bdmurraydavmor2: yeah, I haven't looked at it in a bit and no is subscribed but we thought we would start using it for this18:02
bdmurrayso I need to double check the config then we can start using it18:03
henobdmurray: can you post some info to the bugsquad list and place a link in the wiki, etc. when it's ready?18:03
henoor we can just subscribe and go?18:04
stgrabersorry, was afk for quite a long time :)18:04
bdmurraywhy don't we just start using it and see what happens18:05
henodavmor2: let's play with that app a bit and brainstorm on the new list18:05
henook cool18:06
davmor2where's the sign up point?18:06
henoanything else?18:06
liwhow does one subscribe?18:06
bdmurrayhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/Ubuntu-qa18:06
davmor2request sent :)18:07
pedro_subscribed :-)18:08
henook, I think we're done18:08
liwsubscribed18:08
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liwheno, I'll write a summary in a bit, where should I send it?18:09
henoliw: thanks, can you email it to me?18:09
liwwill do18:10
henoshould be just the bot output mostly18:10
liwyup18:10
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RichEdhello edubunteros ... and good evening :)21:01
RichEdogra will kick off with technical21:01
RichEdthen we'll move into UDS Hardy Heron Discussions21:01
* RichEd hands the mic to ogra21:02
ograwell, not much to say, i'm up t my ellbows in the guts of the classmatePC21:02
ogra*up to21:02
stgrabergood evening21:02
ograand i just realized i missed a talk i had to hold yeterday21:02
ograbut apparently someone held it (there is praise on planet)21:03
LaserJockogra: hehe, I covered for you21:03
RichEdoops ... juliux's ubucon ?21:03
juliuxRichEd, it was a sucess;)21:03
RichEdgoed21:03
ograLaserJock, WOW, i owe you a truckload of beer21:03
LaserJockRichEd: Open Week21:03
juliuxbut no ogra ;)21:03
sbalneavMeeting?21:03
juliuxRichEd, next ubucon in german in 2008 weekend after the .10 release;)21:03
LaserJockI just gave a brief overview of Edubuntu21:04
ograi totally missed it (worked on the classmate image from 8:00 in the morning till 23:00)21:04
LaserJockand fielded as many questions as I could21:04
LaserJockthere was quite a lot of interest21:04
ograyeah, you had good press :)21:04
juliuxRichEd, more then 300 visitors on two days21:04
RichEdnice :)21:05
ograi'm really feeling a bit overworked atm .. i need a break after UDS, sorry if i miss stuff21:05
LaserJockthere's clearly interest in Edubuntu, we just need to capitalize and market it21:05
ograyeah21:05
* juliux votes for holiday for ogasawara 21:05
* juliux votes for holiday for ogra 21:05
ograwell, beyond that here is a little list of proposals for specs i want to put up21:06
ograLTSP:21:06
ogra- virtual-haldevices (revisited from seville, i have some demo code already)21:06
ogra- loacalapps (majority of work is already done by scott)21:06
ogra- GUI frontends for ltsp-tools (should probably be a sub spec of a general edubuntu server maintenance tools spec)21:06
ograClassmate:21:06
ogra- UME-edu derivative21:06
ogra- inclusion of the defined missing bits (TPM etc)21:06
ograEdubuntu21:06
ogra- network session management (italc and the like)21:06
ogra- edubuntu-content-server (moodle/wiki flavor integration)21:06
ogra- edubuntu CD discussion (how do we proceed with teh edubuntu CDs)21:06
ogra- meta system enhancements (new meta packages or install tasks):21:06
ogra    - edubuntu-content-server (see above)21:06
ogra    - edubuntu-auth-server (based on teh network auth server work of teh server team21:06
ogra    - edubuntu-file-server21:07
ogra    ....21:07
ograis sbalneav around btw ?21:07
ograah, yes21:07
ogra(missed that)21:07
ograRichEd already created a spec for the CD discussion21:07
ograyou might want to subscribe to it21:07
ograhttps://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/edubuntu-addon21:07
RichEdgreat ... i think colin added me ... will check21:07
ograsince it might have huge impact o the future of edubuntu21:08
LaserJockyes, for sure21:08
ograwell, my main cocern with the addon CD is that we force a two CD install upon the user ...21:09
sbalneavYes I am!21:09
ograand we wont gain anything in testing since the install tests for each milestone CD still has to happen21:10
ograso instead of doing two CD tests (live and server) its then ubuntu and edu-addon so i think that will be on par time wise ...21:10
ograbut well, thats to be discussed during the BOFs :)21:12
ograany comments on the above lists ...21:12
ograadditions ...21:12
ogracritics ...21:12
LaserJockyeah, there's a lot of things that can be done21:12
sbalneavOne quick one, but I think we can just roll it into maybe the virtual hal21:12
sbalneavC versions of cdpinger and jetpipe, started from udev if devices is available.21:13
LaserJockhmm, do we need to do anything more edu focused?21:13
stgraberogra: no spec about TCM/Italc/Any other classroom management tool ?21:13
LaserJockmost of your list is server related21:13
LaserJock- network session management (italc and the like)21:13
LaserJockstgraber: ^^21:13
* stgraber is blind :)21:13
ograstgraber, you come, right ?21:13
sbalneavLaserJock: Did we want to resurrect the menus thing?21:14
stgraberogra: yep21:14
LaserJocksbalneav: I will be working on it yes21:14
ograYAY21:14
sbalneavAny other edu apps we want to get in there?21:14
LaserJockI don't think we need to spec out the menus again21:14
LaserJockjust need implementation21:14
sbalneavI'll help with that.21:14
LaserJockwell, we should have an application review21:14
sbalneavDo we want a seabass spec? :)21:15
LaserJocklol21:15
sbalneavI'm game if you are.21:15
LaserJockno, that's ok21:15
ograwe should find ressources to have a look at the getdeb UI ... (without the package install option, i like the app revie pages)21:15
LaserJockbut there are certainly apps I think we should be including21:15
LaserJockogra: good idea21:16
ograit looks like it assembles some of the stuff we dfined in seville21:16
ografor an online app DB21:16
LaserJockyeah21:16
ograseems to be a good time since there are some collaboration efforts lately21:17
LaserJockoverall it seems to me like we're heading into two directions21:17
LaserJockwe have a server focus21:17
LaserJockand an educational app focus21:18
ograyeah21:18
sbalneavogra: what flight are you coming in on?  I can't get international calling turned on in my phone fast enough, so I'll give you my cell: (204) 795-8321.  When you touch down, start pinging me.  If you tell me your flight, I'll try to make it over to the terminal you're at.21:18
RichEdI've just published a wiki page for this spec discussion:21:18
RichEdhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Education/UDS-Boston/Overview21:18
ograi think its LH42021:18
RichEd* there's the list ogra put up above ...21:18
RichEd* the edubuntu roadmap which has some outstanding spec from Gutsy21:19
RichEd* an and ideas page from David Trask21:19
RichEd* and an21:19
sbalneavGet my cell #?21:19
RichEdwe need to extract the good feature proposals from the roadmap and david21:19
RichEdand add any new ones raised here21:20
RichEd...21:20
RichEdogra / LaserJock: who wants to lead us through the roadmap at lightnening speed to agree what should be brought in ?21:20
LaserJockogra probably knows better what's been implemented21:21
ograhmm21:22
LaserJockI would like to insert here, that I'd personaly like to see a specific "These are the products we are going to produce and their purposes" list21:22
* ogra fixes formatting21:23
LaserJockI imagine that the results of the CD discussion will affect the list21:23
ografor sure21:23
LaserJockbut I think we need to nail down what we want to deliver before we list features21:23
ograwell, the question is what fits on such a CD if i have to add half a system for ltsp21:24
RichEdLaserJock: two main thrusts requested by upper management ...21:24
ogracurrently addon doesnt carry *any* base packages21:24
RichEd1. tools to assist large scale deployment and management21:24
RichEd2. tools for actual teaching in the classroom21:24
RichEd---21:24
ograi fear we would have to drop the excessive list of langpacks21:24
LaserJockRichEd: ok, those sound good21:25
LaserJockis there a constraint on delivery?21:25
LaserJocklike how many CDs21:25
ograevery CD costs money21:26
sbalneavIsn't the list of langpacks exacerbated by the need to include Mozilla langpacks as well?   Should we raise the xulrunner/netkit issue?21:26
RichEdThere is a bit of resistance to provide more than one education / edubuntu CD21:26
LaserJockthe problem I'm seeing is that we're becoming a server OS + educational OS + teaching OS21:26
ograsbalneav, hardy will have xulrunner in main ;)21:26
ograand epiphany built against it21:26
RichEdSo that is another reason to try to get edubuntu to be an add on that installs straight after and on top of Ubuntu CD121:26
LaserJockRichEd: except I don't think we have enough space21:27
RichEdi.e. Ubuntu swallows the cost of our first CD21:27
ograwell, it builds a psychological hurdle we need to overcome via marketing21:27
ograso we'll need to do way more promotional work then imho21:28
LaserJockI seriously don't think we can provide LTSP + good selection of educational apps for various ages + content and teaching tools for teachers all on 1 CD21:28
ograright21:28
LaserJockso maybe we need to have targeted CDs21:28
LaserJocktargeted Addon CDs21:28
LaserJockif we were to drop the Desktop CD and the 1st CD (because that's Ubuntu)21:29
sbalneavCorrect me if I'm wrong, but the LTSP bit doesn't take up hardly any room, does it?  So I think the issue really is splitting apps vs content.21:29
LaserJockand had a Classroom Server Addon, Educational Applications Addon, and Teaching Tools Addon or something21:29
LaserJocksbalneav: LTSP itself may not, but adding in all kinds of server bits that make it cool might21:30
ograsbalneav, it will take up as much as debootstrap needs and the ltsp-client deps21:30
sbalneavAh, ok21:30
ograthats surely 1-200M21:30
LaserJockI think there are a lot of people who wouldn't care about LTSP21:30
LaserJockthe just want educational apps21:30
ograright21:30
LaserJockor maybe they want moodle and wikipedia or something21:30
sbalneavWell, maybe the ltsp bits should get moved off to a separate cd, then.21:31
ograwe'll likely loose a lot of freshly switched K12LTSP users21:31
sbalneavalong with server type stuff.21:31
ograand indeed edubuntu is currently mostly hyped for its ltsp integration ...21:32
LaserJockIf we had a really rocking Server CD I think the LTSP people would really love it21:32
ograat least i the most reviews i saw in the past21:32
ograthe prob here is that you need a desktop for ltsp21:32
LaserJockif you start with Ubuntu though it's not going to be that bad21:32
ograso just addig it to the server CD (for which we give commercial support) is a bit tricky21:33
LaserJockslip in the Server CD and get Edubuntu branding and a great LTSP server21:33
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sbalneavBTW, there are 6 K12ltsp cdroms21:33
ograi know21:33
LaserJockyeah21:33
ograbe sure i dont want to go there21:33
LaserJockwell, yes and no21:33
ograi'm maintainng three atm and its a fulltime job21:34
ograi wouldnt want to imagine 6 :)21:34
LaserJock6 CDs gives you an enormous potential for educational content21:34
sbalneavI hate to raise the dvd issue....21:34
ograsure21:34
sbalneavmaybe it's time?21:34
LaserJockwe *should* have openclipart21:34
ograsbalneav, if you pay me a 10M line :P21:34
ograthen i'll be with you :)21:35
sbalneavMe?!?  Dude, just as soon as *I* start getting paid, I'll buy you fibre :) :)21:35
ograheh21:35
LaserJockyeah21:36
ograwell, in any case DVD production is quite a lot more time consuming due to the bandwith requirements ...21:36
ograi think its probably time to go for a DVD eve thopugh that will loose us a lotusers21:36
LaserJockwell, I personally like the idea of several (say 2 or 3) targetted CDs21:36
LaserJockplus a demo LiveCD21:37
LaserJockbut well, I don't have to maintain CDs ;-)21:37
ograwell, in such a case i'd prefer to keep the current model21:38
ograthe current addon still has a lot of potential we dont use21:38
stgraberthey would also get few testing, Add-on CDs was only tested by 3 people I wouldn't even imagine if we had 3 of those :)21:38
LaserJockwell, my point was targetting21:38
ograwe ship just blindly all langpacks for example21:38
ograLaserJock, my point is getting it all on one CD21:39
sbalneavIs it any harder (other than size) to maintain 1 dvd image, as opposed to 3 cd images?21:39
ograsbalneav, the dowload times are horrible21:39
sbalneavSeems to me the dvd would be less work.21:39
ogranote that i cant use torrents during development21:39
sbalneavWell that, but downloading 3 cd's is almost as bad as 1 dvd21:39
ograno21:39
sbalneav3/4's as bad21:39
ograsince i can start work after the first iso is there21:39
sbalneavah21:40
sbalneavWell, how often do you have to download?21:40
sbalneavOnce every couple of days?  Or once a day?21:40
ograonce every two weeks at least21:41
LaserJockI'd say have Canonical get you a faster line so you can do your work ;-)21:41
stgraberyou can also use rsync and sync only the delta (Don't know how efficient that's though)21:41
ograusually i spend every third development week only with isos21:41
LaserJockok, but here's a question21:41
LaserJockwould our testing be easier with a DVD21:41
ograstgraber, its a lot more on the DVD (it contains more than just the CDs)21:41
LaserJock?21:41
ograwell, the DVD has six install variants ...21:42
sbalneavI guess it comes down to (from canonical's point of view) what's more cost efficient.  Buying you a faster line, but you can do more work because you don't have multiple images to maintain, or slower line, but lose employee productivity because of uneccessary work.21:42
LaserJockwell, let's maybe cut that down21:42
ograthe CDs have three each and i have an addon CD21:42
sbalneavIf it were *ME*, you'd have the 10 meg line by now :)21:42
ograLaserJock, we'd likely rather raise it21:42
ografor the different flavours21:42
LaserJockbut it would all be on one media at least21:43
ograsbalneav, i just bought a 2M SDSL line since i need the upstream speed ...21:43
ograbut that oe cant get upgraded higher :/21:43
LaserJocklook, there's no clear winning solution here, IMO21:43
ograLaserJock, right21:43
ograwith neither of the scenarios you mean ?21:44
ograi agree ...21:44
LaserJockbut I think we have to recognize that we aren't going to be an Educational distro for long if we don't deliver content21:44
LaserJockif we are just Ubuntu LTSP + plus a couple token edu apps21:44
sbalneavLaserJock++21:44
LaserJockI think we might get left in the dust21:44
ograi dont see us having to deliver content though21:44
LaserJocknot content in the sense of ebooks21:45
ograbut i see us including tools to easily include content21:45
ogralike http://www.softlab.ntua.gr/~ttsiod/buildWikipediaOffline.html21:45
LaserJockaltherough somebody did suggest that21:45
ogra(something i'd loved to have in gutsy but i had no time for it)21:45
LaserJockbut stuff like openclipart21:45
LaserJockmoodle, wikipedia21:46
ograright21:46
ogramoodle is not content21:46
LaserJockand lots of educational apps21:46
LaserJockno, but it's content focused21:46
ograindeed21:46
LaserJockand I meant content in the sense that we need more edu "stuff"21:46
ograbut hw far would that go ?21:46
ograi mean you will have localized content etc21:46
RichEdsabdfl was suggesting we work with the other friendly distros to see what apps they have selected to install on top of edubuntu / ubuntu21:46
ograyou would end up with 10 DVDs if you wuld start to ship anything we can find21:47
RichEdlike guadalinex, extramedura, MAX21:47
LaserJockogra: not everything, but more than 1CD21:47
RichEdalthough their selections may not be available in english21:47
RichEdb.t.w. he says Max employ 8-10 teachers as fuill time staff to test & play with apps and make recommendations21:48
LaserJock*unless* we really want to push Universe and "install over network what you want"21:48
RichEd* luxury !21:48
ograLaserJock, i'd go for that in case of content, yes21:48
LaserJockI'm not a K12 teacher or ICT expert or anything21:49
ograLaserJock, having tools for getting the content things like aptoncd for edu content for example would make more sense imho21:49
LaserJockbut I've definately seen where people want education apps21:49
ograimagine somethig like g-a-i that offers differet teaching content and builds a CD if needed21:49
ograedubuntu job is imho to provide the platform21:50
ograand to make the content easily accessible21:50
LaserJockyes, that's why I'm trying to say, we first of all need to figure out what we are trying to provide21:50
ograbut not t package up wikipwdia21:50
RichEdogra: would it be possible for people to select a list of applications, and for an automated process to "assemble .iso for download" ?21:50
LaserJockthen we can decide what features we need to deliver that product21:51
ograLaserJock, i just outlined it :) thats my personal view of edubuntu21:51
ograRichEd, would require some dev time but is surely possible to write21:51
LaserJockAptonCD basically does that, right?21:52
ogranot online :)21:52
LaserJockoh, not viea web page no21:52
LaserJock*via21:52
ograLaserJock, RichEd wants online synaptic with iso builder ;)21:52
LaserJock*cough*21:53
LaserJockanyway21:53
ograRichEd, in fact synaptic has such a function in its file menu21:53
stgraberbut you won't be able to suppot any of those ISOs as it'd be impossible to test every possibilities (so high risk of people complaining of non-working images)21:53
RichEdso that the users can get 1 base CD from us, and then only download what they need for CD221:53
LaserJockI think we have lot more to do to get to the "make the content easily accessible" bit21:53
LaserJockand I'm not so sure about the platform thing21:53
RichEdif it is a CD which installs apps from g-a-i then isn't it like a simple archive ?21:54
LaserJockstgraber: as long as it's just a "repo on a CD" it shouldn't be bad21:54
* RichEd is just throwing out ideas ... some may very well be a bit off whack21:54
ograRichEd, i think g-a-i integration is not that easy (it needs to be sigend with the archive key etc)21:54
ograbut synaptics has a mode for that that could be tweaked and extended i think21:55
LaserJockogra: what is Edubuntu supposed to be a platform for?21:55
ograLaserJock, teaching ?21:55
LaserJockso then it needs a lot of teaching tools and educational software21:55
ograright21:56
LaserJockthat's what I was meaning by "content"21:56
ograoh21:56
LaserJockand I think we have a long ways to go before we've got enough of that21:56
ograi tught you meant content with content :)21:56
RichEdLaserJock: rather say "teaching / learning tools" ?21:56
RichEdrather than content or o/s or server tools21:56
LaserJockthere's things like ebook library management21:56
ograLaserJock, well, the ubuntu way of things was always to find a sensible default ...21:56
ograthat takes its time :)21:57
LaserJockright21:57
LaserJockwhat I'm saying is that we need to have a media or set of products that can deliver that21:57
LaserJockI don't see it happening with only 1 CD21:57
ograno, thats why we'Re at two already21:57
LaserJockso a DVD would give you enough space21:57
LaserJockbut has lots of associated costs21:58
ograbut the second CD still has a lot of potential we can use21:58
LaserJockI think an alternative would be to have targetted CDs21:58
ograwe're far from falling under any constrints here21:58
LaserJockperhaps even by age range21:58
LaserJockyes, but we've only added around 4 apps since Edgy21:58
ograyeah and we ship around 200MB of langpacks21:59
LaserJockif we really got serious about adding tools it's gonna get filled up pretty quickly21:59
ograwhich is not really needed21:59
LaserJockopenclipart is ~100MB21:59
ografine, lets add it21:59
LaserJockbut is a very important thing to educators21:59
LaserJockfor sure I think we'd be fine for Hardy with the current Addon CD22:00
ograright22:00
ograprobably even for hardy+122:00
LaserJockquite possibly22:00
ograi'm good at space shuffling after two years :)22:00
LaserJockhehe, yes you are22:01
ograi think ubuntu will do the move at some point22:01
ograand i think that might be hardy+122:01
ogra(dont trust my predictions though) :)22:01
LaserJockI think 2 CDs is still a bit confusing for people22:01
ograyeah22:02
LaserJockalthough I think that can be handled well via marketing/docs22:02
ograwell, anyway, we shouldnt do the CD discussion here and now ...22:02
LaserJockyeah22:02
ogra(even though we just did :P)22:02
stgraber:)22:03
LaserJockI just like to talk about it since I won't be in Boston22:03
ograright22:03
ograsubscribe to the spec :)22:03
LaserJockI did22:04
LaserJockand if I'm available I'll try to listent in22:04
ograso ... where do we go now ? :)22:04
ograany vote on specs ?22:05
ograwhat do we want to take from gutsy ?22:05
ograPalm device support ... is that implemented sbalneav ?22:06
sbalneavno22:06
ogrado we want to carry it over ?22:06
sbalneavUmmm.22:06
ograyour decision :) you were after it22:06
sbalneavIf I get time to implement it without it being an official spec, can it still go in?22:07
ograltsp-update-manager-integration ... is something i definately want22:07
sbalneavMy big hitter for hardy's localapps.22:07
ograsbalneav, sure, who is upstream for LTSP ?22:07
ogra:P22:07
sbalneavGawd, who knows anymore :)22:07
ograall your decision :)22:07
ograwell ...22:08
sbalneavok, leave it off for now22:08
ograedubuntu-menus-completion ...22:08
ograsomething we really should attack now ... and LaserJock already built a good information base22:08
LaserJockI'll be working on that22:09
RichEdchriskenyon is also wanting that22:09
LaserJockI don't think it needs a BOF or anything22:09
LaserJockwell, there's gonna have to be some though into actually22:09
LaserJockI think I'm going to have to bug Gnome and/or XDG22:10
LaserJockbecase our current implentation will no longer work22:10
ograedubuntu-user-management ... i'd love to tackle that but with very low priority (thats LDAP integration for users ad groups manager)22:10
ograLaserJock, well, then we need to fix xdg ourselves without breaking it22:10
ogra:)22:10
ogradran easy, isnt it ?22:11
* ogra hides22:11
ograwell, there is only edubuntu-application-review left on that list .. i think thats an ongoing thing not bund to a release22:12
ogra(and needs manpower we dont have for web development)22:12
ograbut having a look at the getdeb ui would probably make sense at least to add a note about it :)22:12
ograin case you dont know it: http://www.getdeb.net/22:13
sbalneavI gotta go.22:13
sbalneavWife's coming to pick me up.22:13
ograciao sbalneav, thanks for attending22:13
sbalneavSee you all online tomorrow.22:13
LaserJockogra: it should work via apt-url22:14
LaserJockthe "download" part anyway22:15
ograwell, i dont want the installer parts :)22:15
ograi want the app review tool22:15
ografor a datatbase22:15
ograas we defined it in the spec ... but with focus on the wine page22:15
ogragetdeb looks better suited and more in the direction we need22:16
ograbut it surely needs changes for our specific purpose22:16
LaserJockldm is done, righ?22:17
ograanyway so far we have: ltsp-update-manager-integration, edubuntu-menus-completion, edubuntu-user-management (with extra low prio, only if dev time is left)22:17
ograldm is done22:17
* ogra moves on to dtrasks page22:17
ograthats mostly a list of bugfix requests ... grmbl22:18
ogra"Out of the box support for Screen Readers and Text to Speech"22:18
ograorca is simply broken in ltsp, thats a bug and needs fixage ... no spec22:18
ograDefault Automatic Removal of Stale NBD Swap files22:18
ograis something we do with gutsy by default iirc22:18
ogra"Stale processes left over after logout"22:19
ograapp bugs that need fixage ...22:19
ogra"Firefox pixmap caching issue"22:19
ograupstream issue we cant do much here22:19
ogra(sigh)22:19
ogra"TeacherTool inclusion or should it be separate?"22:20
ograrequires someone to package teachertool22:20
ogra"Thin-client manager Improvements"22:20
ograthat would make a nice spec and i know stgraber has interest in it22:20
stgraberindeed22:21
ogra"Edubuntu needs to be focused on as a high load server"22:21
* RichEd cheers for stgraber 22:21
ograi agree that we should review if we ship the server kernel on the server CD ... *if* there is a server CD after the discussion :)22:21
ogra"Authentication Stuff and User Management Stuff"22:22
ograserver team ...22:22
ograwe'll get a nice auth server setup in hardy from the server team we can just include22:22
ogranothing for us to spe22:22
ograc22:22
ogra"Profile management (Sabayon) needs to be standard and easy"22:23
ografully agreed, covered by one of my spec suggestions22:23
ogra"Inclusion of Openoffice extensions system-wide"22:23
ogranot sure we can do that at all with our package design22:23
ograthat needs discussion with the openoffice maintainer first if its even technically possible to provide them packaged22:24
ograi know we have a policy to not ship firefox extensions packaged22:24
ogramight be that applies there as well22:24
ogra"Marketing and Advocacy"22:24
ograRichEd, ?22:25
LaserJockogra: there are lots of firefox extentions in the repos22:25
RichEdogra: I'll work through the "discussion" ones ... those will not need a formal LP spec ? or do you think we should go that route22:25
ograLaserJock, none in main22:25
ograRichEd, we will likely have "workshop" and "discussion" BOFs like in seville again22:26
RichEdwe need a specific community discussion ... and can slot most of those in ... I'll work that into my overview page22:26
ograerr ..22:27
ograi'm on dtrasks page atm22:27
RichEdyep ...22:27
ograand was asking about the "Marketing and Advocacy" topic22:27
RichEdmarketing and advocacy ... that is under way by me for my official job task22:27
ograah, fine ... not a spec then :)22:28
ogra"Support"22:28
RichEdvery high priority ... so i can share that discussion with the group at UDS ... won't take long22:28
ogranot sure what to do about that one22:28
RichEdthat's what my earlier comment ^ referred to22:28
ograthe beta site surely lacks activity22:28
ograbu we have nobody to work on it22:28
RichEdunder community ... how to muster contributors / advisors22:29
* ogra doesnt think thats a spec=)22:29
LaserJockwell, pips1, highvoltage and I have been working on a plan for edubuntu.org22:29
ograLaserJock, want to spec it ?22:29
RichEdand related is a discussion dtrask and I had this week via email ... for a school project22:29
RichEdthe idea is for david to set assignments for class work and marks etc. for adding pages to the edubuntu site ...22:30
LaserJockogra: it might not be a bad idea, is pips1 going to Boston?22:30
ograi dont think so22:30
LaserJockso none of us will actually be there :/22:30
RichEdLaserJock: he'll be invited to UDS+1 again I think22:30
LaserJockwe can spec it anyway22:30
ograright ...22:30
LaserJockmaybe just not under the official Boston schedule22:30
ogranothing to put on the list then ?22:30
ograok22:31
RichEdSee project idea above ^ to get web-site content moving and contributions coming in ...22:31
LaserJockhighvoltage got the drupal theme from Fridge imported22:31
LaserJockand pips1 updated the drupal install22:31
LaserJockso we gotta get the them Edubuntu-ized22:32
RichEdWe'll discuss this on Monday at UDS, and when we visit Davids kids and school ... he'll introduce us to the kids as the guys who put together their edubuntu software22:32
LaserJockwe're working on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Website22:32
RichEdHe reckons they would be hyped to have "their work" published, with a small acknowledgement to the school22:32
ograLaserJock, doesnt sond like it needs a spec ...22:32
LaserJockperhaps not22:32
LaserJockwe'll see22:32
LaserJockwe need details ;-)22:33
ogra"Other things that defy categorization"22:33
RichEdHe suggested (seeing as his kids are younger) a kids level section on the edubuntu site22:33
ograInclusion of NSCD. ... if the server team includes it in the auth server well, get it ... else not22:33
ograno spec22:33
ograthe rest looks like better suited for bug reports on that sitwe22:34
ograso ... to summarize22:34
ogra"Thin-client manager Improvements" , "Edubuntu needs to be focused on as a high load server" (depending on CD decision), "Profile management (Sabayon) needs to be standard and easy" (covered by my specs)22:35
ograanything i missed ?22:35
* RichEd scrolls back22:36
ograrater look at dtarsks wikipage :) if you miss anything in my list22:36
ogra*dtrask22:37
RichEd--- just this one ---22:37
RichEd<ogra> "TeacherTool inclusion or should it be separate?"22:37
RichEd<ogra> requires someone to package teachertool22:37
RichEdbut from this approach ...22:37
ograyeah its an old K12LTSP app22:37
ograit was ported during feisty abut you need to do a lot of manual work22:38
RichEdoops I was mixing up SchoolTool22:38
ograwould be a good project for someone who wants to become a MOTU22:38
ograah22:38
ograwell, schooltool waits for zope3 to be stable22:38
ograwhich might happen in hardy22:38
RichEdogra: well there was shripani in the channel this past week who has some programming skill22:39
RichEdand was keen to assist ... could he be "trained up" or mentored do you think ?22:39
ograah, nice22:39
ograyeah22:39
ograi was not very active on IRC this week22:39
ograso i missed him22:39
RichEdwell add it to the spec list if the tool is useful22:39
RichEdand i'll see if i can catch him tomorrow22:40
ogranah22:40
ograits not a spec22:40
RichEdokay ... so how would we get it started ... just a channel chat or email ?22:40
ograi mean it resembles only what italc or TCM do but uses nonstandard stuff in the backend we wont have in main22:40
ograwriting a spec for something to be packagesd for universe doesnt really seem appropriate22:41
ograin the channel is best22:41
ograif i meet him i'll talk to him22:41
ograso my spec proposals now ... what do we pick or drop22:42
ograany suggestions ?22:42
ogranone ?22:43
RichEdogra: are those allready in lp ?22:43
ograhey, i dont want to implemnt them all :)22:43
ogranope22:43
RichEdwell what about making it a mail list question ? to get input and stimulate some traffic ?22:44
ograRichEd, hmm22:44
RichEdsend out the list, and ask people to send their top 3 ?22:44
ograi fly friday early morning22:44
ograand wont have much time to read mails beyond teh bare minimun during UDS22:44
ogranot sure you and i can participate much in such  a discussion22:45
stgraberI can probably give a hand with the iTalc/TCM one (having an iTalc install working) but I'll probably be busy with Ubuntu QA and the QA Website during hardy development22:45
RichEdi'm happy to process the mail thread ... give people until end of friday to respond ?22:45
ograand tell them not to edit the wiki :)22:46
RichEdjust a suggestion that a simple "voting stats" may help22:46
RichEdno long discussion ... just "My top 3"22:46
ograelse we end up with a chaos like on dtrasks site where everyone just puts his bugs up22:46
ograright, something like that22:46
RichEdwe can still make our own decisions in the end, but have (some) external input22:46
LaserJockogra: I thought your list was good22:47
ograyeah, but i'd like to keep https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Education/UDS-Boston/Overview in a state that we can use it as a base for work during UDS :)22:47
ograits well structured atm22:47
RichEdLaserJock: ogra wants to narrow it down ... to how many ogra .. what is a reasonable number ?22:47
ograno idea22:47
ogravirtual-hal devices are surely not urget22:48
RichEdhow many do we have on the list ?22:48
ograjust something to show off with in the feature list22:48
LaserJockcan we just have a list of possibilites with high/medium/low priorities?22:48
ograwe had three from dtrask and three from gutsy iirc22:48
RichEdwell ogra .. how about this ... if you can move the ones on the list into the section -- specs proposed --22:49
RichEdthen I'll send the mail tomorrow ...22:50
ograLaserJock, i added tags to my specs22:50
RichEdto -devel22:50
ogra(if the wiki ever saves)22:50
RichEdanyone here who wants to send their own priority tags to all of the specs is welcome to send that to me by mail22:50
ograthat leaves as high: session management, UME-edu derivative, edubuntu CD discussion, GUI frontends for ltsp-tools , edubuntu-mass-maintenance22:51
LaserJockyeah, -devel is actually useful if you use it ;-)22:51
RichEdseeing as your input is valued as committed community members :) like LaserJock and stgraber22:51
ograthat makes 1122:52
RichEdso ... trim it down to say 8 with user input ...22:52
RichEdget those 8 into launchpad22:52
RichEdand aim to get 6 onto the agenda with a BOF etc ?22:53
RichEdare those numbers reasonable ?22:53
RichEd5 mins to close of meeting ... ogra ^ yes/no ?22:55
ograi'm updaing the wikpage with the lists we selected22:55
RichEddo we get all 11 into lanchpad or trim as suggested ?22:56
RichEdif we decide that we can close for the night22:56
ograhave a look22:57
* RichEd checks22:57
ograi added a proposed list with prio in brackets22:57
ograand added prios to mine22:58
ograi count 8 with high prio22:58
RichEdlet me refresh ...22:58
ogra(note the sabayon one is covered in mass maintannce)22:59
RichEdokay ... let me have the page edit for 2 mins ...22:59
RichEdogra: reload & check new section ... proposed - just a list in priority order23:04
ograwhats edubuntu ? at the bottom ?23:05
RichEdlost & found ... just wiped it :)23:05
RichEdthen I think we are done ?23:06
ograprofile management and "network session management" cover the same imho23:06
* RichEd raises the hammer to hit the gong ...23:06
RichEdwhile making the suggested edit23:06
ograhit it ... i'll fix23:06
ograah, k23:06
ograyeah, looks good23:07
RichEdi fixed ... combined them23:07
RichEdokay ... tamarra i'll send the mail to the devel list23:07
stgraberisn't thin-client manager improvements (med) similar to network session management (italc and the like) (hi)23:08
RichEdyou get working on getting the specs into launchpad23:08
ograwell, you wanted to work on TCM :)23:08
ograthat justifies a separate spec23:08
* RichEd waves the hammer threateningly at stgraber 23:08
RichEditalc may be a relationship with the developers23:08
ograi wouldnt do anything to TCM but make sure there are no regressions23:08
ograbut i wouldnt imrove it for that specific spec23:09
RichEdthin-client-manager is our baby23:09
ograright23:09
ograTCM will be covered by both23:09
RichEdgoingggg once23:09
RichEdgoingggggggg twice23:09
ograbut one is fo its development and one is for its usage :)23:09
* RichEd looks for hands ?23:09
* ogra waits for gong 23:10
ograman i'm tired23:10
ograworking since 8:0023:10
RichEdjust this german fellow muttering to this swiss fellow23:10
* RichEd hits the gong23:10
ograyay23:10
RichEdogra: did a 2 am last night23:10
* ogra falls asleep immediately23:10
ograzzzZZZZZ23:10
ogra:)23:10
stgraberyeah, will have to sleep well tonight, I doubt that I'll find time to sleep next one23:10
* RichEd hears that famous snore23:10
ograRichEd, i'm doing that since cyprus23:10
stgraberhaving flight at 6am and 2hours from the airport :)23:10
ograand there is no relaxing before UDS23:11
RichEdg'night all23:11
ogranight23:11
stgrabernight23:11
RichEdexcept at the FOSSCamp bar23:11
ograstgraber, tomorrow already ?23:11
ograright, the bar :)23:11
* RichEd vainshes in a tear in the fabric of the ether23:11
stgraberogra: nope, early Friday but will have to leave to the airport at 3am23:11
ograluckily your tains go23:12
ogra*trains23:12
stgraberthey don't23:12
ograi'm not yet sure i'll get a proper train friday at 6 :)23:12
stgraberMy father will bring me to the airport (yeah I'm lucky :))23:12
ograswiss conductors are on strike as well ?23:12
* ogra cant convince his GF :(23:12
stgrabernope but don't expect a train before 6am :)23:12
ograah, k :)23:12
ograwell, i fl out at 11 ... o have to be there around 923:13
stgraberI don't have direct flight, so I'll be at 12 at Newark and 15 at Boston23:13
ograi'm careful with connection flights ...23:14
ograif direct is an opportunity i usually try to take that :)23:15
stgraberHad some luggage problems ?23:15
ograonly once yet23:15
ograand luckily on return23:15
ograanyway, i need sleep23:16
ogranight :)23:16
stgraberso do I23:16
stgrabernight23:16
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