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Hobbsee@schedule sydney08:34
ubotuSchedule for Australia/Sydney: 23 Nov 01:00: Desktop Team Development | 23 Nov 23:00: MOTU meeting | 30 Nov 01:00: Desktop Team Development08:34
lifelesshahahhaha. NO.08:47
MacSlowhi lifeless08:48
lifelesshi MacSlow08:48
Hobbseelifeless: ?08:57
lifeless0100 meetings. unlikely ;)08:57
Hobbseethey're not so bad.08:57
lifelessyes, when you're waking at 0600 :)08:59
Hobbseelifeless: well, that goes without saying.10:26
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RichEdogra you here ?12:34
ograsure12:35
RichEdwe'll keep it short today guys ... ogra and I have specs to finalise12:36
RichEdogra: tech12:36
ograwell, main achievent of the last week was to get the educonlinux,eu server up and running12:36
ograbeyond that and some classmate stuff not much has happened in edubuntu land ...12:37
ograthe LTSP upstream handover is going on, i wrote some scripts to make that code change easier but i'm waiting for sbalneav to merge and roll out a tarball12:37
ograthats about it from tech12:38
ogranext deadline is debian import freeze on dec 13th ...12:38
ograthere are a bunch of manual merges to be done, but no biggies12:38
RichEdogra: other people committed to specs or work for 8.04 ?12:38
ograhttp://merges.ubuntu.com/main.html12:38
ogramoquist is doing work on edubuntu-content-server as before ....12:39
RichEdCan we hear from them if they are here: #1 are the specs written (for deadline tomorrow) ... #2 can they manage the workload12:39
RichEdmoquist - content-server12:40
ograand stgraber does italc ... (which will need a MIR etc and its not clear yet the tech board wants to let such new stuff into 8.04)12:40
ograi'll check through the specs12:40
RichEdLaserJock - menus completion12:40
stgraberI have done some work on iTalc, I'll revert my sudo patches and add two scripts I did to generate the .xml config file12:40
RichEdand sbalneav - LTSP12:40
ogracurrently only italc, content-server, menus-completion and addon-cd are on my list12:40
ograLTSP specs are all owned by ltsp-drivers ... not ubuntu12:41
stgraberbut the original packaging looks good, only problem I see is that they introduced a separated lib and I'm not sure if I should create one more binary package for that12:41
ograso nothing to approve there12:41
ograstgraber, depends hos close you want to stick to debian policy12:41
ogra*how12:41
stgraberso we would have italc-master italc-client and libitalc with libitalc containing a single file used by the two others12:41
ograby policy you would have to ...12:42
stgraberwell, italc-master can't be installed without italc-client, so I don't really see the point of creating another binary package12:42
RichEdstgraber: could you do us a big favour ? could you do a short outline of:12:42
ograbut i know there are KDE packages that ship their own libs in the package as well12:42
RichEd* where italc is now12:42
RichEd* what you would like to do for 8.0412:42
ograstgraber, i dont think it's *needed*12:42
RichEd* risk on each point (in terms of delivery)12:43
ogra(it was accepted for debian as is :) )12:43
RichEd* issues12:43
stgraberok, well current version is 1.0.3 but the one working (lot of changes + fix for VNC) is 1.0.4 and should be released "soon"12:43
ogrado you have any info if that will be in time before feature freeze12:44
stgraberwe would like to have italc well integrated which means having menu entry (not done yet), creation of keys at install time (done), detection of LTSP clients (done) and an easier UI12:44
ograwell, adding a .desktop file is a no brainer :)12:44
stgraberI have no idea, it's in the "stable" svn branch but I didn't see any change for a very long time12:44
stgraberogra: yes, but to run italc you need to have ica running so I'll need to make sure ica is launched at session open time12:45
ograhmm, we should probably ask upstream if they have any real ETA12:45
ograwell, add a script that checks for ica :)12:45
ogra(worst case)12:46
stgraberI currently have done two scripts, one running ica on different ports for each thin clients (and default port for server), another to generate the .xml file from the running ica and then start italc12:46
stgraberso italc and ica will have launcher scripts to work with LTSP12:46
ogracool12:46
ograyou really rock :)12:47
RichEdstgraber: would you be able to add that info to: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdubuntuAndItalcHardy12:47
stgraberfrom my point of view 1.0.4 is really stable (haven't tested it on Windows though) so talking with upstream about our deadlines may give us a new official italc release12:48
* ogra hopes so12:48
stgraberI can email him or ogra (he's german)12:49
ogracan you  ? and CC me ?12:49
stgraberok12:49
stgraberthe current debian/ dir is on bzr, I'll also push the instruction about the SVN branch I'm using12:51
ograyou could let LP mirror it into bzr ;)12:52
ograeven though that wouldnt buy us anything for upstream commits i guess12:53
ograso thats it for tech i guess12:55
ograRichEd, ?12:55
RichEdyep ... looks like it12:55
ogramanagement/community ?12:55
RichEdnot much else for today from my side ... deadline pressing more urgently12:56
RichEdno pips1 for web sites12:56
pygithere should be more community involvement :)12:56
RichEdanyone else with issues / questions ?12:56
RichEdlike the point pygi raised ...12:57
RichEdpygi: "more community involvement :)" in the meeting, in the production of edubuntu, or in general12:57
RichEdplease expand and give ideas on how to address ?12:57
pygiwell, in everything ... edubuntu doesn't really have a lot of people around it, and those who used to hang around here left even since they felt somehow discouraged12:58
RichEdpygi: any idea how we address that ? #1 what was discouraging #2 new recruiting ?12:59
ograpygi, edubuntu has tons of people around it ... its lacking devlopers13:00
ograthe prob here is that our users are busy teachers ;)13:00
pygiogra: how come we dont get to see any of those people raising voices in discussions, creating new ideas, writing docs?13:00
ograthey do, on the mailing lists13:01
ogramost users we have are not IRC people13:01
pygiwell, I dont think I get a lot of m-l traffic from edubuntu13:01
Kamping_Kaisertheres a certain amount of RL involved for some people too :(13:01
pygiKamping_Kaiser: ofcourse, that's true as well13:01
RichEdpygi: what we need is a champion to get some community buzz going13:01
ograpygi, feel free to make some more noise on the ML ;)13:02
pygiRichEd: heh, doesn't Canonical have Jono? Is he all about Ubuntu? Cause it surely seems so13:02
RichEdpips1 can do work on the facilities, but we need someone to think of exciting things to build interest13:02
RichEdpygi: he will support what we do, but he cannot lead ...13:02
pygiheh13:02
RichEdthe sort of thing laserjock and i have discussed is a weekly or monthly poll on the mail lists13:03
RichEdsomething that every person can respond to ... not just problem issues13:03
pygiwell, all I can say is that people I've spoken to feel pretty discouraged ... and they are not some unknown folks :)13:03
Kamping_Kaisersounds like the 'dead man' switch on trains - you have to keep hitting it to show your alive *heh*13:03
RichEdespecially on ubuntu-education .. where we can ask questions about teachers real lives13:03
pygiogra: I know devs for edubuntu was always a problem .... but I thought canonical would hire you some helpers13:04
pygithat was supposed to happen ages ago13:04
RichEdthe problem is that we do not have anyone who has a clear headspace to get that started13:04
ograpygi, instead i moved into the distro team and am able to share out the load now ... many of the probs we face are not 100% education related ...13:05
Kamping_KaiserRichEd, i'm inclined to agree13:05
ograso they will be handled by people that are on the topic anyway13:05
pygiogra: true, but are ldap-related, new apps development related, better collaboration with upstream, and such13:05
ograi personally will be the responsible edu contact and only care for edu apps and the building of the edubuntu addon CD to the ubuntu base13:06
RichEdwe get people in the channel who pop in and offer to help in some way (once they are impressed by how our s/w is making their life easier and say they want to give back)13:06
ogra*all other stuff* like ldap etc doesnt belong into edu at all13:06
ograits a job for the server team to solve that13:06
RichEdthe problem is that it takes a clear head and time to bring them into the right palce to become productive13:07
ograpygi, upstream only as far as its edu apps13:07
ograif thats not the case that person already working with upstream will have to take on13:07
pygiRichEd: been there, done that. Everybody offers to help, but there's nobody to mentor them and make them work13:07
pygiI can take my experience with the Handbook as an example13:07
* pygi must apologize for crashing in the meeting like this, but ...13:07
RichEdso i think we need a "community ambasssador - 1st point of contact for volunteers"13:08
RichEdpygi: it is an issue we are grappling with ... needs attention13:08
pygiRichEd: perhaps, but it's taking ages13:08
RichEdhighvoltage: has said that he is getting more time that he could apply back into edubuntu ... he might be the ideal ambassador13:08
RichEdhe is knowledgeable, and patient13:09
RichEdcbx33 also says he can mentor a bit, but does not want to live in the channel again for a while13:09
highvoltagehowdy13:09
highvoltageooh, meeting13:09
RichEdhighvoltage: hi13:09
highvoltagehi RichEd13:09
ograRichEd, i'm a bit cautious about cbx3313:09
RichEdhighvoltage: <RichEd> so i think we need a "community ambasssador - 1st point of contact for volunteers"13:10
RichEdhighvoltage:13:10
RichEd<RichEd> highvoltage: has said that he is getting more time that he could apply back into edubuntu ... he might be the ideal ambassador13:10
RichEd<RichEd> he is knowledgeable, and patient13:10
ograafter the experience with TCM13:10
ogra(he just dropped it on the floor silently)13:10
RichEdhighvoltage: would you be willing to help in that sort of a way ?13:10
highvoltageRichEd: what would that entail?13:10
highvoltageRichEd: I'm on leave from the 10th, from then I'll have lotsof time for pretty much anything I need to do13:11
highvoltagenext year should also be quite smooth compared to the rocky 2007 year13:11
ograhighvoltage, a lot of extra time and a promise to give us your firstborn :=)13:11
highvoltageogra: that all!? :)13:11
ograyeah, only that :)13:11
RichEdhighvoltage: being called the education community ambassador (nominal name to give confidence to volunteers)13:12
Kamping_Kaiserhighvoltage, labour shortage, only taking one child atm ;)13:12
RichEdbeing 1st point of contact fora volunteer13:12
* Kamping_Kaiser wonders what happens if the first born was twins13:12
RichEdadvising them on how to help ....13:12
RichEdadvising us on what we need13:12
RichEd---13:12
ograKamping_Kaiser, we'll take the first onf them still :)13:12
RichEdhighvoltage: no actual work, just hand holding ?13:12
Kamping_Kaiserogra, :)13:12
highvoltageRichEd: I'm up for it, but I must admit I'm not an education expert. I know a lot of people I can fall back on if I get stuck though.13:13
highvoltageRichEd: but hand-holding, sure, I'm quite good at that, I think :)13:13
RichEdhighvoltage: have you heard a term used in advertising : traffic13:13
ograyou dont need to b edu expert ... we want a motivation expert ;)13:13
RichEdthe dude who stands in the road pointing to where people need to go13:13
highvoltageRichEd: and I practically live on IRC/lists, if people mention my name or hilight me, I'll be here, if I'm awake or not driving.13:13
highvoltagegive me an "E"!13:13
highvoltageok13:13
ograE13:13
highvoltageRichEd: ok, good13:14
RichEdhighvoltage: once the ball is rolling it will drop away and can get more widespread13:14
highvoltageRichEd: ok, baby steps, I like that.13:14
RichEdin a nutshell the problem is someone saying: "how can I help" and a lack of time or attention from RichEd and /or ogra means we do not get to harness them13:14
highvoltageah yes.13:15
pygiit also means harrasing people to actually do some work =)13:15
* RichEd gives highvoltage the riding crop13:16
RichEdhighvoltage: okay ... we can take this offline and make some sort of a suggestion plan ... and I'll share it next week with the rest of the people at the meeting13:17
highvoltagepygi: I know how to harass people (mhuhahahahaha)13:17
highvoltageRichEd: ok, that sounds good13:17
RichEdstep 1 i would think is a nice friendly email we can have on record, and bang out to anyone looking like they are interested in putting in some effort13:17
ograjust dont forget about te new structure we have13:17
pygihighvoltage: I know you can :p13:17
highvoltageogra: I might have to catch up to the new structure13:18
ograpeople working on server apps should be directed to the server team, desktop to the desktop team etc13:18
RichEdpart of this is also a revision of the launchpad groups ... cull the sick and weary ... and get the live ones back to health13:18
highvoltageogra: interesting.13:18
ograhighvoltage, edubuntu technical is focused on the edubuntu addon CD ...13:18
ograall other stuff has to go int distro13:18
highvoltageogra: the Ubuntu CD?13:18
RichEdogra / highvoltage : but any volunteer who comes in via us must first be given the education badge and oath of allegiance13:19
ogra(ideed on behalf of us, if some edubuntu user comes and wants to work on server stuff he has to do that inside teh server team but we need to make sure he doesnt loose contact to edubuntu)13:19
highvoltageRichEd: ok13:19
RichEdso they can help the server team, but will do so from an education user / admin / support perspective13:19
ograhighvoltage, right, our base will be one of the ubuntu CDs ... either server or desktop13:20
RichEdhighvoltage: we can do this with launchpad group membership13:20
ograedubuntu will turn into a plain educational addon13:20
ograso all stuff thats not on that addon CD has to be handed elsewhere13:20
highvoltageogra: that makes sense from a practical p.o.v., even though we loose some slight turn-key-bility13:20
ograyeah13:21
ograwell, its the only way to put off load if you dont want to hire more and more people13:21
RichEdhighvoltage: we were pretty much crossing over the 1CD limit13:21
highvoltageif someone orders an edubuntu and an ubuntu cd, at least they won't have two cd's with 95% identical data anymore13:21
highvoltagegives the team more space to focus on education, rather than technical aspects13:21
ograwell, actually the plan was that you can order a two CD set if you order edubuntu ...13:22
ograbut thats not 100% approved yet13:22
highvoltageaah13:22
ogralike we did for warty13:22
ograon one side of the sleeve you have ubuntu, on the other you have the addon13:22
RichEdhighvoltage: and we will try to push for a link on the ubuntu firefox home page saying "if you want to convert your ubuntu installation to edubuntu click here"13:23
Kamping_Kaiserthat would be cool.13:23
RichEdand then give advice on download or ordering the edubuntu CD13:23
Kamping_Kaisercan i ask what the status is of the 'edubuntu-not-just-for-primary' concept? (disclaimer, havent tried last two releases)13:23
Kamping_Kaiser*lower primary13:23
ograit was on low prio ... my personal focus was to get us mass deployment ready13:24
ograa duty that now moved into the server team realm, so i should have more time for that n 8.1013:24
RichEdKamping_Kaiser: there are lots of good apps already in main ... laserjocks menu enhancements were going to help with getting that impression and functionality across13:24
Kamping_KaiserRichEd, nice. i'll look forward to trying it all our in a month or two13:25
ogranot actually the menu enhancements13:25
ograrather the addon cd work13:25
RichEdalso, I have a major priority task to provide a list (wiki, www.ubuntu.com and pdf) on all the education applications in main with an indicator for:13:25
ograwe have the prereuisite on the addon to just have different age driven flavors13:26
RichEd* subject * age * grade * version * from CD * from add/remvoe13:26
ogra*prerequisite13:26
ogra(our current addon has categorization features already, just lacking the categories)13:27
ograi.e. we have the light desktop that installs a subset of xfce13:27
RichEdhighvoltage: can we make a time to chat about the ambassador idea ? an hour on the weekend could work for me to get started13:27
ograyou can do that age driven as well13:27
Kamping_Kaisersounds interesting13:30
highvoltageRichEd: yep, any  time over the weekend would be good13:32
highvoltageRichEd: otherwise this evening would be goof too, are you back home?13:32
RichEdyep ... can try ... might be a bit busy with specs ... i'll ping you after 6:0013:33
highvoltageok13:33
RichEdany other matters arising ?13:34
RichEdsome news I will leave you with: http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/newss/6438/1/13:34
RichEd"According to the Macedonia Ministry of Education and Science, more than 180,000 workstations running Edubuntu 7.04 have already begun to be deployed to Macedonian students."13:35
pygiwe know, we know :D13:35
RichEdpygi: official release went out yesterday13:35
RichEdogra: you done ?13:35
ograi'm done so far13:35
pygiRichEd: unofficial ages ago :D13:36
RichEdgoing once ?13:36
pygitwice13:36
ograadjourned ?13:36
RichEdand gong13:36
RichEdthanks all13:36
ogra:)13:36
pygisold to the folk in red13:36
ogratanks13:36
Kamping_Kaiserum. meeting over?13:42
pygiKamping_Kaiser: aha13:42
* Kamping_Kaiser assumes so13:42
Kamping_Kaiserok. see you all in edu ;)13:42
* pedro_ waves15:58
sourcercitohi there15:59
* heno waves15:59
pedro_hey sourcercito15:59
pedro_hello heno15:59
* ogasawara is here15:59
cjwatsonoh, have I clashed with a QA meeting?15:59
cjwatsondrat15:59
henohey pedro_, ogasawara15:59
liwhi16:00
pedro_hello ogasawara, liw16:00
calcthere is nothing scheduled on fridge for today afaict16:00
henocjwatson: what meeting do you need to conduct?16:00
ograsomeone should really fix the fridge16:00
evandhi16:00
nand`hi16:00
henowe can go to the qa channel16:00
cjwatsonheno: platform team. I'll take it to #ubuntu-platform16:00
henook, thanks16:00
henoyeah the fridge has a very short memory16:01
seb128hey16:01
ograseb128, -> #ubuntu-platform16:01
henolet's give everyone a moment to change rooms :)16:02
seb128ogra: how come?16:03
ograschedule clash16:03
seb128we have a well defined schedule, the other team should change ;-)16:04
ograheh16:04
cjwatsonwe're moving now16:04
ograwell, neither is on the fridge16:04
cjwatsonboth are on Google calendar; we knew they were at the same time, just not that they were in the same channel16:05
cjwatsonbryce: #ubuntu-platform please16:05
ograubotu should get a googlecal backend then :)16:05
* heno suspect the google calender fails to say that the QA meeting is here16:05
cjwatsonI didn't think to check, as we haven't clashed before16:06
henocjwatson: is this a new regular time for you?16:06
cjwatsonsame as always, but we alternate between irc.c.c and irc.f.n16:06
henohm, did you adjust to daylights savings time?16:07
heno(we did not)16:07
heno(relative to UTC)16:07
cjwatsonah, we adjusted yes16:08
henook. perhaps we should consider alternating between c.c and freenode as well16:08
henothat way we could fit in a people with different time constraints better too16:09
heno#startmeeting16:10
MootBotMeeting started at 16:10. The chair is heno.16:10
MootBotCommands Available: [TOPIC], [IDEA], [ACTION], [AGREED], [LINK], [VOTE]16:10
henoWelcome to the QA team meeting16:10
henoThe agenda is here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam16:10
heno(very short)16:10
henoIf you've come for the  platform meeting see #ubuntu-platform/freenode16:11
heno[TOPIC] Spec status - all Hardy specs to be finalised by 2007-11-21 (tomorrow)16:12
MootBotNew Topic:  Spec status - all Hardy specs to be finalised by 2007-11-21 (tomorrow)16:12
liw2007-11-21 was tomorrow yesterday, i.e., it is today16:12
henoliw: you're right, my typo16:13
henoshould be Thursd 22nd16:13
ogasawarahttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/DeveloperWeatherReport16:13
ogasawaralet me know if you guys have any more feedback16:13
henofixed in wiki16:14
henoogasawara: looks good to me, and steve seems happy with it too16:14
henoSo I'll go ahead and approve16:14
ogasawaraheno: great, thanks16:14
henoI havent followed up as well as I should on spec writing the past few days, sorry, been a bit ill16:15
henoMy form seems to be returning now though, fortunately16:15
liwmy two specs are https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/DesktopAutomatedTests and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs/SelfTestingDesktop -- is there anything more I should do about them?16:16
henoliw: they both need review still. Please ask someone on the review team to look at SelfTestingDesktop16:18
henoThe other one has been discussed already I think?16:18
liwoh, I thought it was enough to mark them for review in launchpad (should read instructions better)16:18
henoI can approve these without a formal review first, but it's always better to get a third oppinion16:19
henoliw: you actually have to ping a review team member16:19
liwright, looking up info on that now16:19
henopedro_: FixedBugVerification looks ready, thanks16:20
pedro_heno: yep , thanks for your feedback on it16:21
pedro_will ask a member of the review team to see it16:21
henolooks like Brian's specs still need to have Bof notes merged into the spec16:21
henocould someone here help with that16:21
henoI guess most of you were in these meetings16:21
pedro_let me check if i have the gobby logs16:22
henoI can do the final cleanup and review afterwards16:22
henopedro_: thanks16:22
ogasawarapedro_: I'll check to see which logs I have too16:22
pedro_great16:22
henoshort meeting then. any other topics?16:23
stgraberhello16:24
liwI can't find the info on whom to e-mail about reviewing my spec(s)16:24
stgraberI haven't managed to reach the bus on time so I'm still at the station :)16:25
henoliw: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-reviewers16:25
henostgraber: with a laptop I assume16:26
liwheno, so I should just pick a random member of the review team and e-mail them?16:26
henostgraber: perhaps we can meet up on IRC later and chat about specs?16:26
heno(I'm a bit behind in my review)16:27
stgraberheno: sure, I need some advice :)16:27
stgraberI have the wifi connection till 17:50, then will be back at around 18:30 :)16:27
henoliw: yes, preferably someone who knows the topic a bit. steve would be good16:27
liwheno, er, steve? I see no steve in the membership list16:28
liwwait, I *have* seen this page before, I now realize I wondered before whether Ian Jackson is still an active member16:28
henohm, he has been doing other reviews16:29
henolooks a bit out of date ...16:29
liwsteve langasek?16:29
henoyes16:29
ogasawarapedro_: I can't seem to find any useful gobby notes for brian's specs16:29
henothere are some notes pasted at the bottom of each though16:30
pedro_ogasawara: it seems that i have the same ones listed at his specs on the wiki page16:30
henoI think we're done16:31
liwaye16:31
henoThanks all!16:31
heno#endmeeting16:32
MootBotMeeting finished at 16:32.16:32
liwmay all our meetings be so short :)16:32
ogasawarathanks heno, hope you start feeling better :)16:32
heno:)16:32
henoogasawara: thanks, looks that way16:32
pedro_thanks!, heno get better soon :-)16:33
* pedro_ hugs heno16:33
* heno hugs pedro_ back16:33
stgraberargh, crappy wireless, have to take the bus now ...16:45
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