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Hobbsee@schedule sydney03:19
ubotuSchedule for Australia/Sydney: 13 Dec 10:00: Kubuntu Developers | 14 Dec 01:00: Desktop Team Development | 19 Dec 02:00: Server Team meeting | 21 Dec 01:00: Desktop Team Development03:19
ardchoilleThe more I see ubotu do, the more useful he appears :)03:22
ardchoillekudos to ubotu's developer03:22
Hobbseeardchoille: ther eare multiple03:22
Hobbseeardchoille: and contrary to what scottk says, kubuntu and ubuntu membership are pretty much the same.03:22
ardchoilleHobbsee: Ah, ok.. well I'm on the agenda for both. I just didn't wanna miss the meetings.03:23
somerville32What does ScottK have to say about that?03:25
HobbseeCC meetings take forever03:25
ardchoilleHe told me to become an Ubuntu member and bug Hobbsee until she added me to kubuntu membership too03:25
somerville32That was cute of him03:26
Hobbseescottk has now been enlightened.03:26
Hobbseesomerville32: people make mistakes at times.03:27
Hobbseesomerville32: do you even have an edubuntu council yet?03:27
somerville32Hobbsee, I'm pretty edubuntu has a council but I'm not a part of it. I only got involved in Edubuntu recently03:27
somerville32*pretty sure03:27
Hobbseeerm, s/edubuntu/xubuntu/ sorry.03:28
somerville32No, it doesn't have a council - just xubuntu-team really03:28
Hobbseeedubuntu has a council03:28
somerville32cool03:29
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calchi15:53
* asac waves15:57
evandhi15:57
henohi15:58
liwhi, evand15:58
* pedro_ waves15:58
henoevand, asac: do we have a meeting room clash again? - platform/qa15:58
evandah, apparently15:58
evandhi liw15:59
evandhrm, off to #ubuntu-platform then15:59
asacoh15:59
* ArneGoetje waves15:59
* Hobbsee wonders why neither of them are on the fridge calendar.16:00
asacArneGoetje: -> #ubuntu-platform16:00
seb128hi16:00
ArneGoetjeasac: got it16:00
asacseb128: u2 ;)16:00
* heno did email the fridge editors requesting a posting16:00
Hobbseedid you sacrifice a pigeon?  they're quite partial to pigeons.16:01
* bdmurray wonders what he missed16:01
ogasawaraheh16:01
Hobbseequite unlike launchpad, really.  perhaps a good thing, that.16:01
liwbdmurray, :) "* heno did email the fridge editors requesting a posting"16:01
Hobbseebdmurray: only discussions about sacrificing qa developers for various causes.16:02
henoonly if we run out of pigeons16:02
bdmurrayWeird, I think I had a dream about being eaten by a hippo last night16:02
heno#startmeeting16:03
MootBotMeeting started at 16:03. The chair is heno.16:03
MootBotCommands Available: [TOPIC], [IDEA], [ACTION], [AGREED], [LINK], [VOTE]16:03
liwhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam has the agenda16:03
henoWelcome all! Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam16:03
heno[TOPIC] Cool QA stuff happening16:04
MootBotNew Topic:  Cool QA stuff happening16:04
henoThis shouldn't require much discussion, just FIY16:04
henoall very cool though :)16:05
liwI have a quick question16:05
henook16:05
liwogasawara, how close are you to accepting random new sources of information with the weather report? I'm thinking that the hardy piuparts results might be a good addition16:06
ogasawaraliw: should be easy enough, it's basically just a template that I dump the data to16:06
liwogasawara, ok, in that case could you e-mail me what you would need from me? I can adjust the piuparts output to what you need easily16:07
ogasawaraliw:  will do16:07
liwogasawara, when you're ready to add things, that is, no hurry yet from me16:07
henoliw: how would you plan to condense it? Total number of errors, warnings, etc?16:08
liwok, I'm done on this topic :)16:08
liwheno, in useful ways that I haven't decided yet :)16:08
henook16:08
henoanyone else on this topic?16:08
henomoving on16:09
heno[TOPIC] Spec status: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs16:09
MootBotNew Topic:  Spec status: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Specs16:09
henoany notable achievements or blockage on specs?16:10
ogasawaranone here16:10
heno(this meeting item will become more central later in the cycle)16:10
liwnothing from me; I haven't really started work on the automated desktop testing thing, having spent my time wrestling with piuparts and qemu and wandering about the Spanish plains16:10
pedro_none here either, just waiting for the QA feedback module16:11
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henoliw: the lintian and piuparts stuff could have been represented by a spec I guess16:11
liwheno, I guess16:11
henook, next16:12
heno[TOPIC] QA hardy bug list - we are preparing a list of long-standing and 'popular' bugs for hardy which we will present to the development community shortly16:12
MootBotNew Topic:  QA hardy bug list - we are preparing a list of long-standing and 'popular' bugs for hardy which we will present to the development community shortly16:12
henoI just sent an email to the QA list about this16:12
henoI've had feedback from Pedro by email so far16:13
liwI think it sounds like a great idea; I don't have any particular bugs to suggest, though16:14
henoI guess the main question is: can we do this in ~10 days?16:14
liw(except anything I've reported myself, obviously ;-)16:14
henoyes, that would be why I didn't post it to the ubuntu-users mailing list :)16:15
henoevery bug in LP would be nominated16:15
henobdmurray, ogasawara: views?16:15
liwthis list is going to be compiled with the best possible taste, I guess, not by voting?16:16
henoliw: drawing on the accumulated knowledge of our esteemed triage team, yes16:16
bdmurrayheno: I think I can get mine done by then16:16
ogasawaraheno: yah, seems reasonable16:16
bdmurrayThe next hug day should be pretty easy to setup I think16:16
henobdmurray: focusing on this list?16:17
pedro_we also have a few nominations here : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+nominations16:17
bdmurrayheno: I meant it won't take that much of the rest of my time16:17
henopedro_: yep, I'll take on looking at those16:17
henobdmurray: ok cool16:18
pedro_ok!16:18
henoany other meeting topics?16:18
bdmurrayogasawara: and I have talked about it but we were thinking kernel bugs for the 19th16:18
bdmurrayasking people to test with Alpha 216:19
* liw has no more topics for today16:19
henobdmurray, ogasawara: sounds good16:19
bdmurrayWe could start doing some statistic collecing on the +nominations . . .16:20
henobdmurray: what sort of stats?16:21
bdmurrayheno: just numbering gathering - the standard stuff16:21
bdmurrayer number gathering ;)16:21
Hobbseeheno: forums should be able to help you with that, too16:21
* heno still has a fair number of +nominations to go through16:22
bdmurrayinterestingly 18 of the hardy ones are New16:22
henoHobbsee: yep, jono is looking at that16:22
henomost of the gutsy ones i've looked at were new16:23
heno(now generally something else)16:23
Hobbseeheno: cool16:24
bdmurrayWill everybody be around on the 2nd of January for the next Hug Day?16:24
ogasawarabdmurray: I'll be here16:24
henoI will16:24
bdmurraypedro_: ?16:24
pedro_yep me too16:24
liwI will, too16:24
liwassuming it is of any help16:24
bdmurraysure it is16:25
henofinally note that there is a bug day today as well! focusing on ubiquity bugs. -> #ubuntu-bugs16:25
heno#endmeeting16:25
MootBotMeeting finished at 16:25.16:25
henook, thanks all!16:25
heno25 minutes, not bad :)16:26
liwwe're learning :)16:26
bdmurraySo Friday it will be 4 weeks past the update-manager bug day16:26
* liw needs to run16:26
liwbye bye16:26
bdmurraySo please go through your Incompletes or I'll be happy to do it for you16:26
seb128I've a bugtriage suggestion16:26
seb128needs to mail the list about that16:26
seb128but it would be nice to encourage users to get backtraces using apport16:27
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seb128rather than pointing them to the "how to use gdb instructions"16:27
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bdmurrayseb128: what do you mean?16:27
seb128that would be much easier for them and would allow automatic retracing and duplicates closing16:27
seb128bdmurray: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Responses16:27
seb128Missing a back trace16:27
seb128"Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Please try to obtain a backtrace following the instructions at [WWW] http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingProgramCrash and upload the backtrace (as an attachment) to the bug report. This will greatly help us in tracking down your problem."16:28
bdmurrayI meant more the process for using apport to get the back trace16:28
stgraberhello16:28
seb128well, tell them to go to /var/crash and double click on the .crash16:28
seb128rather than send them to "how to get a backtrace using gdb"16:28
bdmurrayokay, I understand16:29
seb128this way we get automatic retracing, dub finder, etc16:29
seb128and they don't have to figure what dbgsym to install16:29
seb128easier for everybody16:29
bdmurrayseb128: If you could mail then list and/or add it to the todo list that would be great16:31
seb128I'll mail the list16:31
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=== ubotu changed the topic of #ubuntu-meeting to: Current meeting: Edubuntu Calendar: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/event | Logs: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/ | 12 Dec 23:00 UTC: Kubuntu Developers | 13 Dec 14:00 UTC: Desktop Team Development | 18 Dec 15:00 UTC: Server Team meeting | 20 Dec 14:00 UTC: Desktop Team Development
scrapbunnyis the edubuntu meeting in a few minutes?19:52
LaserJockyep19:53
scrapbunnygreat, thanks19:53
ardchoilleIs the kubuntu meeting going to be held in here in about 3 hours?19:56
scrapbunnyardchoille- according to the fridge, yes19:59
ardchoillescrapbunny: Thanks.19:59
ardchoilleI have a habit of being somewhere other than where I wanted to be, lol20:00
* stgraber waves20:00
ardchoille"fridge", that was a cool name. I wonder who thought of that.20:00
ograardchoille, eff waugh20:01
ogra*jeff20:01
ardchoille:)20:01
LaserJockok, I'm here20:02
RichEdoh what a relief we can begin ... the *main man* Mr LaserJock is in attendance20:02
RichEd:)20:02
LaserJockhah20:02
scrapbunnythanks to the mailing list i finally figured out how to tell what time these meetings are at20:03
RichEdevening all ... the usuals ... and welcome to any newcomers20:03
ograscrapbunny, yeah the fridge urgently needs fixing20:03
ardchoillescrapbunny: Indeed, I dislike time zones20:03
RichEdhi scrapbunny ... yep we need to get our meetings back up on the fridge ... it got dinged a while back20:03
ograwell, for the other teams in the topic it seems to work20:04
RichEdogra: i asked for today's meeting to go up in the fridge channel ... and requested to the end of jan via the mail list20:04
ograah, good20:04
RichEdwe'll skip "boxing day" to have a decent break from komputas20:04
LaserJockyeah, I'll try to get to those20:04
LaserJockI'm not sure why we don't have a decent event scheduler yet, but it is what it is20:05
scrapbunnythe time zone thing got me but i learned how to find out the universial time in terminal :)20:05
LaserJockscrapbunny: yeah, it's a life saver for sure20:06
RichEdone sec ... let me get the list for the next while and paste20:06
RichEd--> Edubuntu Meeting : Dec 19 : 12h00-14h00 UTC20:07
RichEdEdubuntu Meeting : Jan 02 : 20h00-22h00 UTC20:07
RichEdEdubuntu Meeting : Jan 09 : 12h00-14h00 UTC20:07
RichEdEdubuntu Meeting : Jan 16 : 20h00-22h00 UTC20:07
RichEdEdubuntu Meeting : Jan 17 : 12h00-14h00 UTC20:07
RichEdEdubuntu Meeting : Jan 23 : 20h00-22h00 UTC20:07
RichEdEdubuntu Meeting : Jan 30 : 12h00-14h00 UTC20:07
RichEd<-- that will all go up on the fridge20:07
RichEdokay ... let's kick off with TECHNICAL20:07
RichEdtake it away ogra ...20:07
ograwell, i actually have done nothing edubuntu related apart from working on the classmate image autobuilder stuff with the livefs tools20:08
ograbeyond that debian import freeze is tomorrow and i had to do merge stuff20:09
ogra(still two packages left for the night)20:09
ogradue to traveling i didnt to and dev work during the beginning of the week20:09
ogra*do20:09
ograahead we have the alpha2 release on dec 20th20:10
ograi'll try to get the major CD changes done for that20:10
LaserJockso we are going to drop the 1st CD for Hardy?20:10
ograyes20:10
RichEdhey corey :)20:10
scrapbunnyogra- you might not think it technical but without your tech help this month  I would have nothing working so I really thank you :)20:10
ograand ltsp needs to go on the ubuntu alternate CD properly20:11
RichEdfor the benefit of the new people, ogra please explain:20:11
RichEd#1 what is happening with LTSP20:11
RichEd#2 and your new reporting structure ... being part of a bigger team20:11
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ograscrapbunny, well, even though i was slightly bitter when answering the mail on the list today, there is a grin of truth in the thread about degrading quality and we need to adress that20:12
RichEd( please :)20:12
ogra*grain20:12
* RichEd pleads in our defence that we have recognised almost all of the problem areas, and are already adressing some20:13
ograwell, LTSP is team maintained by a board of developers from fedora, debian, upstream and ubuntu now, we changed the whole code structure and sparated the distro specific packaging ...20:13
ograinside ubuntu it will move on the ubuntu alternate CD as an option20:14
Burgundaviahey RichEd20:14
ograthe first edubuntu CD will go away and edubuntu will completely turn into an addon20:14
ogra...20:16
ograi moved back into the distro team from being a developer "team" on my own20:16
ogradistro specific tasks i had to do in edubuntu will rather be delegated to the specalists for the specific feature  ... i.e. server related work will be done with the server team20:17
LaserJockwho will work on LTSP?20:17
ograso i can share out more workload whle helping the team as a whole20:18
ograLaserJock, upstream or in ubuntu ?20:18
LaserJockubuntu20:18
ograme fr now20:18
ogra*for20:18
scrapbunnyso with hardy for a school lab we would install ubuntu from the alternate cd for ltsp and then edubuntu-desktop?20:18
ograscrapbunny, right20:19
ograthat way edubuntu-desktop can be only lots of edu apps and branding while it depends on ubuntu-desktop  ... i.e. we dont need to maintain ubuntu-desktop and only have to care for the edu related stuff20:19
ograthat raises quality since more time for the actual apps is available20:20
ograthe sam goes for the distro core ... installer, etc20:20
ogra*same20:20
scrapbunnythat will be good. will we go to having edubuntu-desktop updated once a year?20:20
ograit drops off a lot workload and ubuntu benefits as well20:20
ograedubuntu is tied o the ubuntu cycle20:21
ograwhat we coud do is to call one a beta release20:21
ogra*could20:21
LaserJockI don't think we really gain anything by doing 1 year releases20:21
ograbut we will have to stick to the release schedules of ubuntu20:21
ograme neither to be honest20:22
RichEdscrapbunny: the alternating "production / evaluation" release for education was just a suggestion (as per the mail list today)20:22
scrapbunnyi think that sounds good and goes with what people were saying on the mailing list20:22
LaserJockwe can try to do a "we're gonna focus on crack on .10 releases and bug fixing/stability on .04" but we should still release every 6 months IMO20:22
RichEdwe can debate it through ... but the school terms north/south is still an issue20:22
ograbeyond that as i said we're bound to the schedule20:23
* ogra points to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule20:23
ograthere is only a slim time of development20:23
ograthen the different stabilizing freezes kick in20:23
ografor doing a 1 year release that doesnt do well20:24
RichEdscrapbunny: the idea of a stable tested release alternating with a whizz bang preview release seems to have some support20:24
ograsince everything breaks in the middle of your relese schedule if ubuntu resyncs with debian20:24
ograso you can start over20:24
RichEdwe'll still release every 6 months, but could pay more attention to testing and stability for an agreed annual release20:24
scrapbunnyreally given what ogra is saying that edubuntu will now be an add on I think people will be able to pick if they want to update to 8.4 or 8.10 or both20:24
ograi'm pretty sure that makes it less stable that imply getting enough (read more than 3) testers20:25
ogra*simply20:25
stgraber:)20:25
RichEdlet's keep that discussion going in the mail list ... 8.04 is LTS ... so the point is moot for another cycle at least20:25
ograwell, the point of more manpower is never moot20:26
RichEdogra: agreed ... but it may be easier to rope the community into an annual wall-to-wall testing effort20:26
RichEdlike a "test fest week" :)20:26
scrapbunnysorry for a silly question but when can we start testing 8.04?20:26
ogratoday :)20:26
ograthere are daily isos being built ... we made the first alpha CD20:27
RichEdstgraber: you've got a neat testing admin process ... is there a newbies follow the yellow footsteps guide to getting involved ?20:27
stgraberwell, IIRC current images have gnome-orca and OpenOffice broken, but you can still get the Alpha1 and upgrade20:27
ograhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule has the release dates for alpha CDs20:27
scrapbunnyi would be happy to test it out as we go on a winter break next week20:28
ograwrt to ltsp that will move over to the ubuntu alternate iso so testing will have to happen with that one20:28
RichEdstgraber: ^ my comment ??20:28
stgraberRichEd: joining #ubuntu-testing the week we release the Alpha is a start, the Testing/ wikipages are currently being rewritten to be more attractive and understandable to newcomers20:28
RichEdstgraber: well as I said in the mail response today, testing is *vital* to oliver ... let's make sure that *anyone* who wants to help can get invoved as easily as possible ...20:30
RichEd*involved20:30
RichEdhighvoltage: you around ?20:31
scrapbunny7.10 is not working well with my client load so i am trying to decide if I should a)use 7.04 b)try debian-edu c)test 8.04 or d) give up since i am still pretty new to everything and in over my head :)20:31
beachy   /part ubuntu20:31
RichEda nice prominent "you can be a tester" link on edubuntu.org would be good20:31
stgraberscrapbunny: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/ISO20:31
LaserJockscrapbunny: you don't want to try testing 8.04 in production, although it is very valuable in general20:32
ografor the classmate interested people, i played a bit with XUL while sitting on trains the last days http://people.ubuntu.com/~ogra/LightBrowser/ :)20:34
scrapbunnylaserjock- since i'm using my lab as thin clients testing is no big, if it totally false I just switch some cables and the computers boot to their windows xp harddrives :)20:34
LaserJockah, that's very cool20:35
ograyeah20:35
LaserJockogra: what is that exactly?20:35
scrapbunnygotta love having a donated server to play with :)20:35
ograLaserJock, a little browser based on xulruner20:35
LaserJockogra: that would *so* rock for documentation20:36
ograLaserJock, has all firefox features out of the box but uses way less ram, only one win and no tabs20:36
ogra(can have all ff features i didnt enable many :) )20:36
scrapbunnyogra- will it handle flash or quicktime sites?20:37
ograbut its a lot of fun to write apps in :)20:37
ograscrapbunny, if the plugins are installed, yes20:37
ograit uses all FF plugins ou of the box20:37
ogra*out20:37
scrapbunnyvery cool20:37
ograthe engine is the same .... only behavior and ui are small :)20:38
ograbut that cuts down a lot20:38
LaserJockogra: will we actually have that for Hardy?20:38
ograLaserJock, its no official project, its a spare time thing i started20:39
ograbut if i manage to get all functions working properly it will go into universe in any case20:39
scrapbunnyas you may remember one of my issues is that i need to be able to run flash internet sites in my lab and my server runs out of cpu too fast with firefox20:39
LaserJockyeah, I'm just thinking it would be a very nice documentation tool for Hardy20:39
ograLaserJock, the fon size thing only exists in the ui yet ... you cant remove bookmarks either and the code is crap and needs to be sanitzed .... f i get that done i'll release it20:41
ogra(and put it into universe)20:42
ograits really hackish atm ... i wrote it in 5h train ride and a boring evening in the hotel20:42
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ograscrapbunny, there is not much we can do about flash's cpu consumption i fear apart from making gnash better20:43
lns_That's what I was going to ask..how's gnash dev going?20:43
scrapbunnyon testing did i understand correctly that we need to wait for ltsp to be added to the alternate cd?20:43
ograscrapbunny, no, the latest splitted ltsp packages need testing already20:44
ograthey are already in hardy20:44
ograltspfs is still waiting for some upstream changes but ill come soon20:44
ogra*will20:44
scrapbunnythis is the site i want to grab things from right? https://iso.qa.stgraber.org/20:45
ograldm is still waiing for me to split out a themes packgae ...20:45
ograright usually 3 days before a milestone is released is best to start some testing20:45
ograor two days if you dont want to experience the worst bugs :)20:46
ograif we build a milestone we usually start shuffling the CDs and clening out bugs for that on monday ... to release it on thursday20:47
ogratesting during that time is the most valuable one20:47
stgraberfor first Alphas, we usually have the first candidates on Tuesday (Monday when we are lucky), Tuesday evening is just standard testing, Wednesday is where the fixed images are usually built, then testing on Wednesday evening for all the remaining testcases20:47
ograsince we're all focused and in bugfixing mode :)20:47
stgraberthen published Thursday afternoon20:48
ogra... nothing more from my side about tech so far ...20:51
ograoh, one thing ...20:51
ograi heard from someone who installed in the triple e pc20:51
ograit seems to work very well with a normal install20:52
ogra(it was a question from some weeks ago)20:52
LaserJockcool20:52
stgrabercool20:52
ograsuspend/resume seems to have the same probs as the classmate though20:53
ograbut since t has a bigger flashdisk a normal instal wors just fine20:53
stgraberok, will order one as soon then20:53
ogra(i really need to work on my typing)20:53
ograso thats it for tech20:54
ograany other questions ?20:54
RichEdokay ... LaserJock wanted to jump in on tech if noone else has questions for oliver20:54
stgraberfrom my side (iTalc), the one that was recently uploaded has non-working logout/shutdown/reboot20:55
stgraberI have a new one with that fixed and I'm debugging the demo mode as we speak20:55
scrapbunnyside qustion-is the suspend/resume fixed in the hardy being tested now?20:55
ograstgraber, ping me for uploading20:55
stgraberthe LTSP scripts are also working but need some tweaking before being integrated20:55
stgraberogra: Just have to solve a bad segfault when entering demo mode ...20:55
ograscrapbunny, suspend/resume in which context ?20:55
ograstgraber, well, still plenty of development time :)20:56
ograand i really count on a better community participation in the future ...20:57
scrapbunnyfor standalone laptops. i can't suspend on my dell d600 with 7.1020:57
stgraberogra: yes, I'm working on iTalc when I'm getting bored of working on the QA website, but I'm pretty proud of how it currently works, it's far better than what I had at UDS :)20:57
ograi wasnt happy about the mail thread today, but it shows something starts to move there20:57
ograwhich is a good thing20:57
ograstgraber, you rule !20:57
* ogra cheers for stgraber 20:58
* RichEd adds to the cheer20:58
LaserJock\o/20:58
LaserJockok, so I had 6 things real quick I came up with20:58
RichEdstgraber: you done ? LaserJock wants to raise a couple of points20:58
stgraberRichEd: yep20:58
RichEdcouple != 620:58
LaserJockthey're quick20:58
LaserJock;-)20:58
ograscrapbunny, did you file bugs ? such things are really very specific to one hardware usually ...20:59
scrapbunnyi think it is hard for people to understand that this is not windows or mac releases after 7 years of testing but a small group of unpaid people20:59
ograespecially if it comes to laptops20:59
LaserJock1) Sugar. jani has been working on getting the Sugar interface working on regular machines. Is that something we'd be interested in?20:59
lns_fwiw, i can help testing on the EEE pc20:59
RichEdogra: as per *that* mail thread ... is just filing a bug visible and helpful enough ? would it be good to have a "user added release notes" wiki page ?21:00
* ogra isnt a bit fan of sugars usability but for the sake of having it in the distro in any case21:00
ogra*big21:00
ograRichEd, for suspend/hibernate on the dell d600 ?21:00
LaserJock2) I also talked to jani about squeak21:01
scrapbunnyriched- i think it would be a big help for edubuntu bugs21:01
ograscrapbunny, thats not edubuntu relted at all21:01
ogra*related21:01
RichEdogra ... even a one liner for "known issues" is useful ... to read all at a glance ... it just needs to be a topic & link to actual bug report21:01
LaserJockhe'd like to see squeak and etoys updated an in *buntu21:01
ograRichEd, it has nothing to d with edubuntu21:01
scrapbunnyi have a hard time finding the right catagory to put my bug reports in21:01
ograRichEd, the CD split will make that clearer though21:02
RichEdogra: well then we can add a note to say ... ubuntu related ... and deflect bad perceptions ...21:02
RichEdand also, users could add a bug and say "I need help filing this properly"21:02
ograRichEd, i dont work on/ change anything of the ubuntu base in edubuntu21:02
ograso suspend hibernate bugs surely dont belong in our release notes21:03
LaserJockogra: I don't think people would see that split21:03
LaserJockI agree that Release Notes is a bit odd21:03
RichEdbut the report comes in from our users and they think it's our issue ... so we can refer to the correct responsible party21:03
ograLaserJock, if they have to install ubuntu to get edubuntu ?21:03
LaserJockbut certainly some sort of Errata would be useful21:04
ograthey will *feel* that split21:04
ogranot only see it21:04
ograthey have to use a second CD21:04
scrapbunnysorry i think my side question on suspend/hibernate is getting confused with the need for an easy place for all edubuntu related bugs to be found and discussed21:04
LaserJockogra: yes, in that case it's much better21:04
ograscrapbunny, well, usually bugs need to get assigned to packages at some point ... but if you dont know what to file a bug against thats no problem21:05
ografirst of all filing it is important21:05
ograwe have a team of bug triagers that goes over them and will try to get the right info out of you to assign it to the right package and people21:06
RichEdscrapbunny: i also feel the need for a single reference page ... it will also give people confidence if they can read through to look for known issues against their current hardware or intended hardware purchse21:06
ogralaunchpad will subscribe the edubuntu-bugs team to all bugs that are filed on edubuntu related packages21:07
ogra(we might to check that the list is up to date here, i think that hasnt happened for a while)21:07
LaserJockI check once in a while21:08
* lns_ agrees with bug/doc/etc consolidation and easier tracking of current issues/information21:08
RichEdso how many supporters for a "known issues" overview wiki page, listing:21:11
RichEda one liner description for each issue21:11
RichEda status of whether it has been filed properly in launchpad (with link)21:11
RichEda status if the reporting person needs help with proper logging/filing21:11
LaserJocksounds good21:12
* lns_ raises hand21:12
LaserJockwe might have to work a bit on implementation21:12
ograRichEd, how would you judge what goes on that page from the X1000 bugs we get every day in ubuntu ?21:12
LaserJockbasically it should be mapping what we *should* already be doing21:12
RichEd* note that this will need user input ... it will largely be a self filing system ...21:12
ograand who would maintain that21:12
RichEdogra: users add their issue ... we scan it weekly before meetings, and redirect problems that are not our own21:13
lns_Personally, I really like LP, I just think it could use an overhaul for user-friendliness21:13
michalskisomebody who doesnt have a life :P21:13
RichEdit will be good for communications with our community21:13
RichEdand also it would be nice if we could find someone to monitor the mailing lists for issues ...21:14
ograRichEd, i disagree here LP should be the too to handle bugs ... we should see that we get it straight there21:14
LaserJockRichEd: I don't think it should be filled by users21:14
michalskispamming isues21:14
LaserJockwhat we *do* need is a list of high impact bugs that we have workarounds or upcoming fixes21:15
LaserJockit's about us giving info to users not users giving us info21:15
LaserJockwe should be getting bug info from Launchpad21:15
ograright21:15
michalskilaserjock: good idea21:15
RichEdquestion: do all of our users scan launchpad for bugs before an upgrade or install ?21:15
ograwe used to do that for milestones in the past21:15
LaserJockRichEd: hahaha21:15
LaserJockI don't think most developers do that21:15
* ogra does that the end of the week week before a milestone week usually21:16
michalskiriched: i sure hope they dont scan every bug in launchpad21:16
lns_My problem with LP is that it's too 'flat' when searching for things... bug status, importance, there's hardly any sorting/filtering mechanisms and it makes it really hard to actually get to relevant information21:16
michalskiins: what do you mean?21:17
lns_the search function is ok but compared to others i've seen it could use much improvement21:17
RichEdLaserJock: so would it not be useful to have a wiki page where someone can add ... installing 7.10 on my ***PC would not suspend/ resume21:17
ogralns_, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?advanced=1 thats not enough fuctions ?21:17
michalskiyes, but we dont want the wiki filling up with bug reports21:17
lns_michalski, basically when i go to launchpad and look for issues (related to problems i'm having) i'm not confident at all that i've successfully parsed all information correctly21:17
michalskiwhat exactly makes you unconfident?21:18
LaserJockRichEd: no21:18
LaserJockRichEd: that's what bug reporting is for21:18
michalskiand theres also the ubuntu forums for bugs and stuff21:18
ograRichEd, it totally wouldnt be useful to hide the bugs from the devs that way ...21:18
lns_ogra, i didn't see that before - but that seems like TOO much to go through - you lose the forest in the trees so to speak21:19
ograand we shouldnt do the work of the triage team either21:19
* RichEd sits down and defers21:19
ograRichEd, we have a team for assigning them to the right people so i dont think we should go over them ever meeting21:19
michalskiogra, we could try to impliment an automatic triage system?21:19
lns_michalski, because there is too much information when you browse through things, you're not always sure which package you're supposed to be looking at when searching bugs, or if people who filed similar bugs put the right package in, etc21:20
ograwe could see that the edubuntu-bugs teamlist is properly up to date21:20
ograi'm pretty sure we can get bugstats for that automatically on a weekly base21:20
RichEdogra: a final comment from me ... my intention was for a user "pre-install warning" page ... not the fix part of the problem ... that should take the established route21:20
LaserJockRichEd: The usefulness, as I said, of such a page would be to alert users of big issues21:20
michalskiins: hmmm....21:20
LaserJockRichEd: right, but it's gotta come from us to them, not them to us21:21
* LaserJock realizes he's created a big "us" and "them" there ;-)21:21
ograheh21:21
RichEdLaserJock: we do have cases where people scream in the channel or mail list ... your 7.10 broke my whatsit ... and they do not file and log anything ... they just leave in a noisy sulk ... lp bug report is a schlep to them ...21:22
RichEdso a "add your whinge here" wiki page is low effort21:22
michalskilol not good for public image :P21:23
LaserJockRichEd: no, we should take that an create a proper "entry" for that21:23
ograit has nothing t do with public image it braes the developer workflow21:23
LaserJockwe shouldn't have just complaints21:23
ogra*brakes21:23
ograhaving bugs on mailing lists, forums, wikis is a wrong approach21:24
LaserJockwe want "this is what is broken and this is how it's getting dealt with" and that should come from developers21:24
lns_What i see is a bunch of great facilities for getting help/bug reports, but they are all fragmented and disconnected, so everything basically means nothing to someone - they don't know where to look, and it's too frustrating to try and search through every medium21:24
ograthe only thig where they belong is a bugtracker21:24
ograthats the only way to get them in the attention of developers21:24
michalskiogra: i agree21:24
ograas soon as a user thinks his bug is taken care of because he whined about it on a wikipage or forum entry without filing a bug you have lst21:25
ogra*lost21:25
lns_ogra, i agree that the bugtracker NEEDS to be THE central focal point for getting issues resolved21:25
michalskiwe could have those taking care of the wiki and forums to "recommend" that they go to the bug section21:25
ogramichalski, righ, thats the right way21:26
LaserJockso the policy like on -motu when somebody complains is to point them to Launchpad in a nice way21:26
michalskii hope that wasnt sarcasm im new :S21:26
ograright21:26
ogramichalski, nope, that wasnt sarcasm :)21:26
michalskiok :)21:26
Tm_Tagreed, bugs in launchpad, impossible to track them otherwise21:27
ograwe might have a better guide for users to use LP though ...21:27
michalskiins: at least if all the bugs are in a central location, they get fixed eventually21:27
ograand as i said, having regular automated reports with bugstats for edu related packages21:27
lns_michalski, exactly21:27
LaserJockogra: agreed21:28
michalskisorry have to go eat supper, bye21:28
LaserJockI think pretty much everything brought up by the ML thread can be fixed without new processes21:28
LaserJockit's a matter of documentation and communication21:28
lns_It would be so cool to have an easier to 'drill down' interface in LP21:28
LaserJocklns_: that's something that can be worked on and documented21:29
LaserJockit's difficult to change the interface sometimes, but there can certainly be a guide on how to get things done21:29
ogralns_, beyond that you can file whishlist bugs against LP *in* LP :)21:29
lns_oh cool21:29
lns_wasn't aware of that ;)21:29
ograanyway, i'd ike to close tech now to leave RichEd still some time for community  ....21:31
ograwe're at 90min already21:31
RichEdLaserJock: are you finished with your 6 points ?21:31
ograRichEd, oh, i think we came to 1 :) and then te bug discussion started21:32
ogra<LaserJock> 2) I also talked to jani about squeak21:32
RichEdLaserJock: go on then ... i'll need 15 mins or so ...21:32
ograthat got swallowed in the discussion21:32
LaserJockok21:33
LaserJockso we already have a plan for squeak21:33
LaserJockI'll try to get that going21:33
ogragreat :)21:33
LaserJockbut he also wanted etoys21:33
* ogra needs to look up what that is21:33
LaserJockI think it uses squeak perhaps21:33
ograhmm21:33
LaserJockalso there are some other edu stuff that uses squeak21:33
ogragoogle isnt helpful21:33
ogra(got me to a shopping site)21:34
scrapbunnyi know that the XO laptop will have etoys, that's all i know about it :)21:34
LaserJockright21:34
ograah, yeah it uses squeak21:34
LaserJockI'm pulling up my convo with him now21:34
LaserJockthere's also croquet and seaside21:35
LaserJockanyway21:35
ogrado you know if he's aware that we'll never have arm support ?21:35
LaserJockfor?21:35
ograOLPC21:35
LaserJockI have no idea21:35
ograso having all the apps in is a bit pointless ...21:35
ograbut i dont object it indeed21:35
LaserJockanyway, I was kinda wondering if we can have a little squeak set for people21:36
ograthe OLPC laptop is arm based ... ubuntu doesnt and will not support arm21:36
LaserJockI have no idea how useful it'd be and obviously we can't ship it21:36
mjg59`ogra: ?21:36
mjg59`ogra: It's x8621:36
ogramjg59`, OLPC ?21:36
mjg59`Yes21:36
ograsince when ?21:36
mjg59`Since forever21:36
ograthe last time i saw it it was arm they told me ...21:37
mjg59`No21:37
ograhrm21:37
mjg59`It's Geode, which is embedded x8621:37
ograyay for good information ressources21:37
* ogra takes that back then 21:37
mjg59`However, it doesn't have a standard BIOS, so the default Ubuntu won't install21:37
ograLaserJock, who would create such a set ?21:40
LaserJockumm ....21:40
* LaserJock looks around21:40
* somerville32 is here now.21:40
ograwe need squeak enthusiasts21:40
LaserJockif the squeak upstream guys have it21:40
LaserJockthen it should be easy21:40
ogrado they ?21:40
LaserJockI just wondered if that'd be a good selling point21:40
* ogra cant remember21:40
LaserJockI'm not sure about etoys, but I think I've seen seaside and croquet packges floating around21:41
LaserJockmy squeak work back in dapper produced a lot of bug reports21:41
scrapbunnythey even have some apps for you to install on the xo, http://www.laptopgiving.org/en/software-and-interface.php#Download21:41
LaserJock*somebody* must be using it21:41
ograwell, if there is an rpm there sureyl is an upstream tarball of etoys21:41
LaserJockok, well I just wanted to point that out21:42
Burgundaviaupstream git21:42
Burgundaviaat the very least21:42
BurgundaviaI don't know and haven't seen tarballs and I think Jani is building out of upstream git21:42
* ogra remembers there was a german company that uses squeak a lot they offered help once ... i have t look up the contacts ... 21:42
LaserJock3) dynamic menus21:43
LaserJockI'm pretty blocked here21:43
ograBurgundavia, jani builds it ?21:43
LaserJockbasically we've got to think of a different way to do dynamic menus21:43
ograthen it should be straightforward to get it in21:43
Burgundaviaogra: I think he does, he has most of the other OLPC stuff21:43
LaserJockor convince gnome, fd.org to make it possible21:43
Burgundaviahttps://launchpad.net/~sugar/+archive21:43
Burgundaviamaybe not21:43
ograLaserJock, got any suggestions for a solution from the gnome side ?21:45
LaserJockwell21:45
ograif they think their current spec suffices they should be able to point out a solution21:45
LaserJockpart of the problem, as I understand it, is that gnome doesn't properly implement the XDG spec21:45
ograthen we need to make them fix it (or do that ourselves *sigh*)21:46
LaserJockmy understanding is that you should be able to "stack" the XDG_CONFIG_DIRS paths21:46
LaserJocklike you would with PATH21:46
ograand that doesnt work ?21:46
LaserJockso we should be able to set XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg/:/usr/share/edubuntu-menus/21:46
LaserJockhowever, Gnome will only take the first one21:46
ograso lets fix that or make them fix it21:47
ograthat seems to be the only opion21:47
LaserJockso the essential problem21:47
LaserJockis that right now we are moving XDG_CONFIG_DIRS to our own directory21:47
LaserJockbefore say Feisty, that directory was only used for menus, so everything was good21:48
LaserJockbut now it's used for much more, like autostart stuff21:48
LaserJockso we break everything if we redirect21:48
ograright21:48
ograits not the right approach anymore21:48
ograwe need the above fixed21:49
LaserJockso my idea would be that if you can stack the config dirs21:49
LaserJockit should look for the menu *first* in /usr/share/edubuntu-menus21:49
LaserJockI believe this is how KDE does it, from what aaron segio said in Paris21:50
ograyou can flip the values (or jus prepend the edu dir)21:50
ograyeah21:50
LaserJockso, how should I proceed?21:50
ograpoke for a fix21:50
LaserJockshall I talk to seb or gnome directly or ...?21:50
ograif there is no reaction, pkoe me21:50
ograeither should be fine21:51
ograseb will forward it21:51
LaserJockok,21:51
LaserJockthe last thing of relevance that I had was, do we have an idea of what apps we want to ship?21:51
LaserJockI would like to make some changes to the edu apps21:52
LaserJockbut do we have a plan somewhere?21:52
ograi guess file a list with suggestions to the ML is best21:52
ograi didnt have a specific plan beyond whats in the live desktop atm21:52
LaserJockI want to get rid of rasmol21:53
LaserJockwill dropping it from the seed be enough to get it demoted?21:53
ogradrop to universe `21:53
ogra?21:53
ograyeah thats enough21:54
LaserJockyeah, it's just too old and I'm finding better apps21:54
ograits only on the addon seed21:54
* ogra has to vanish at 11 (in 7 min) 21:54
LaserJockok, I'm done21:54
RichEdokay ... me gives a quick overview of 2 plans in action for community21:54
RichEd#1 volunteer uptake process21:54
somerville32\o/21:55
* RichEd will cut & paste to save time, but essentially I'd like people to check out the wiki pages21:55
RichEdhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Community/VolunteerUptakeProcess21:55
RichEd<paste warning>21:55
RichEdPeople pop up in #edubuntu, say they would be keen to help, but often do not get engaged.21:55
RichEdWe recognise that a better volunteer structure and uptake/introduction process would make a difference here.21:55
RichEdWhat also happens is that the person who offers to help is usually in the channel to get a solution to a particular problem. Often they get back to their daily issues once they resolve their issue, and do not "come back" to carry thought their offer of help.21:55
RichEdWe ourselves are busy (with work or travel) and usually do not get the time to hold their hand and lead them to the right place.21:55
RichEdWe are sorting out a process which will allow us to easily kick an intro email to them for later response, and have also come up with the volunteer position of "Edubuntu Ambassador" ... who will be an individual with the role of performing introductions and giving guidance to match volunteer skill and time availability to a decent work effort.21:55
RichEdJonathanCarter is the first EdubuntuAmbassador, who will help to shape the role so it can easily be transferred to successors.21:55
RichEd---21:55
RichEdso if you look at the wiki page, you will see a questionnaire we have sent out (once thus far to somerville32)21:56
RichEdplease check to see if you have added questions / comments21:56
RichEdwe'll refine the mail questionnaire into a web form when we have it reviewed21:57
RichEdand add the web form URL to the channel topic here21:57
RichEd--- make sense ? ---21:57
LaserJockhmm, I'm still skeptical :-)21:57
RichEdLaserJock: add comments to the page, we'll bounce this around over the next few weeks21:58
RichEd#2 Launchpad Education Groups Policy21:58
RichEdhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/Education/Launchpad/Groups/Policy21:58
LaserJockI think it's kinda covering symptoms without addressing the real issue21:58
RichEdwe've agreed over the past few weeks that there are dead & overlap education groups in launchpad21:59
RichEdleads to fragmentation & dead ends for new users21:59
RichEdso we discussed a "policy for launchpad education groups" and will ask the existing groups to comply, or be pruned / absorbed21:59
RichEdbefore we take decisive action, i'd like the community to agree that the "policy" is reasonable22:00
RichEdsee the wiki page for full details but there are 3 main points:22:00
RichEd1. Group Description is Useful22:00
RichEd * All groups must have a useful description in their overview22:00
RichEd2. Team Owner is Contactable22:00
RichEd * The Team Owner for a group must have a working contact address in their launchpad profile22:00
RichEd3. Group Overview Ubuntu Wiki Page22:00
RichEd * All Groups must have an overview Ubuntu Wiki Page22:00
RichEdi will mail a link to that page, and the reason for the prune exercise to all existing group owners22:01
LaserJockhmm, it's not bad, but again seems like a bandaid22:01
RichEdwe'll give them until the end of jan to get with the program, and then discuss pruning in the meeting22:02
RichEdLaserJock: it's a tidy up so that our renewed efforts in the new year are not lost in the ether22:02
LaserJockI guess I wonder if this policy is necessary22:02
LaserJockhave any other *buntu teams done something like this?22:02
LaserJockI don't think anybody has as big a problem as we do with LP team, that might make the difference22:03
RichEdhere are the reasons we discussed previously:22:03
RichEdThere is little point to many fragmented and/or inactive groups, as new people join, and can get frustrated or disappointed by lack of interaction.22:03
RichEdLess groups, less members, more meaningful activities would be a good target.22:03
RichEdLaserJock: our community is (currently so small) that it does not help having 15 groups with one active member in each22:04
RichEdall 15 would fit in one group and get more done :)22:04
LaserJockright22:04
RichEd---22:04
Tm_Ttoo much splitting is harmful22:04
RichEdanyway ... both of the above are a start and a suggestion22:04
LaserJockbut perhaps focusing on activating the ones we *do* want makes more sense22:04
LaserJockjust a thought22:05
RichEdLaserJock: indeedly good sir ... cull the dead ends ... energise the survivors22:05
LaserJockRichEd: it's a good wiki page though22:05
RichEdplease add comments / sugggestions to the page22:05
* RichEd notes that we have run out of time ... and it is now officially thursday where I sit22:06
* RichEd thanks *all* for a good meeting ... much more people ... much more interaction22:06
* lns_ claps22:06
LaserJockyes, lots of fun22:06
somerville32:)22:06
RichEdlet's give it a good go next week ... then a week's rest ... and hit 2008 running22:06
scrapbunnythank you for include newbies like me in the process :)22:06
RichEdscrapbunny: we love all people who love edubuntu :)22:07
RichEdgoing once ....22:07
RichEdgoing twice ?22:07
RichEdBONG .., thanks all22:07
RichEd12h00UTC next wednesday ... same place22:07
lns_ty RichEd22:07
scrapbunnyone last question- which hardy should i download for testing? i need ltsp and22:08
LaserJockright now Edubuntu22:08
scrapbunnythe one from here?22:09
scrapbunnyhttp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/daily-live/current/22:09
* RichEd waves goodnight22:09
* lns_ scavenges for left over brownies22:10
LaserJockscrapbunny: no, not the live one22:11
LaserJockscrapbunny: you want from daily/22:11
scrapbunnythanks, i see the server one now22:12
scrapbunnyso is the split ogra was talking about were we would install ubuntu alternate plus the edubuntu-desktop for the 8.10 release then?22:14
LaserJockscrapbunny: you would install ubuntu alternate and then the edubuntu disc22:14
LaserJockwhich would have edubuntu-desktop and whatever other goodies we want22:15
LaserJockor you could install it from the net as well if you want22:15
LaserJockjust as now22:15
scrapbunnyi just thought there would no longer be a test edubuntu cd from what ogra said, only ubuntu alternate22:17
LaserJockno22:17
LaserJockEdubuntu will still produce a CD22:18
LaserJockbut it will be an addon CD22:18
LaserJockscrapbunny: you know how now you have the Classroom Server CD and Classroom Server Addon CD?22:18
scrapbunnyright22:18
LaserJockbasically we're going to be using the Ubuntu Alternate disc instead of the Classroom Server CD22:19
scrapbunnythat was what i was thinking so it surpriced me that the testing site is still the classroom server and addon22:20
LaserJockwell, we haven't done the split yet :-)22:21
scrapbunnywell thank you soooo much for all the help as always. i am going to burn the current classroom server image and test it out friday22:22
LaserJockscrapbunny: awesome, thanks a ton22:23
scrapbunnyhope everyone has a great night22:24
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* Tm_T pulls his pants up22:54
* mhb wakes up22:54
* X314 puts on a fresh pot of coffee22:57
ardchoilleX314: Thank you :)22:57
X314ardchoille: well genii is not here yet so someone has to do the job ;)22:58
ardchoillehehe22:58
cheguevarathere :P22:58
ardchoillehi genii22:59
geniiHello ardchoille :)22:59
dthacker-laptopooo coffee, back in a pflash22:59
Tm_Tsomeone should ship some coffee to me too22:59
X314genii: the coffee pot is on and so am I ^^22:59
Tm_Tand cocacola23:00
* genii grabs one of X314's coffees23:00
geniiPretty quiet for a meeting supposedly going on23:00
RiddellGood Evening Friends23:01
ardchoillehi Riddell23:01
RiddellI don't think we have a quorum council23:01
txwikingerhi Riddell23:01
mhbgood evening to all23:01
kwwiihi23:01
Riddellnaughty council members, they'll just have to review the logs23:01
dthacker-laptophello all23:01
Tm_TRiddell: heh23:01
Tm_Tlook, I'm here o/23:01
Tm_Tnot happening too often, I'd say23:02
RiddellSo, a mostly empty agenda https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Meetings23:02
Riddellany comments on RC 2?23:02
Tm_TKDE4 that is?23:02
Riddellye23:02
Riddellyes23:02
Tm_Tshame I can't help with that, living with svn :(23:03
Riddellsomeone on the mailing list was saying it broke his ~/.kde23:03
Riddellwhich it curious23:03
sub[t]rnlthe plasma or kmenu bar just felt clunky to me.  Other than seemed ok.23:03
Riddellsub[t]rnl: be thankful it works, which is more than rc 1 had :)23:04
Tm_Tmy svn build seems to use software acceleration, don't know why23:04
sub[t]rnlhehe, agreed23:04
Tm_Tonly issue I can think of right now23:04
Riddellpossibly good news (except for our sysadmins) was that the Kubuntu live CD managed to max out the data centre link for the websites23:04
Riddellappologies to the sysadmins for that and thanks for working around it23:04
dthacker-laptophehe.23:04
kwwiiRiddell: I'll do a test install tomorrow, if anything is borken I seem to be the one it breaks on23:05
Riddellok, anyone here for membership?23:05
ardchoilleI am23:05
Riddellardchoille: could you introduce yourself23:05
felipewoohoo!23:05
ardchoilleHi, my name is Ian MacGregor and I use the nick ardchoille online. My wiki page is at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ardchoille223:05
ardchoilleI have been using, and loving, Ubuntu/Kubuntu for years.23:06
geniiWill kde4 install to .kde if none yet or .kde4 ?23:06
Riddellardchoille: what have you contributed to Kubuntu?23:06
ardchoilleFor the past few years I have volunteered my time in #ubuntu, #kubuntu, and other channels, and have also provided support on the Ubuntu Forums, submitted bugs to launchpad, and edited the Ubuntu Wiki and Ubuntu Documentation.23:07
ardchoilleI spend a lot of time promoting Ubuntu/Kubuntu and have helped many people in my area switch to Ubuntu since 2003.23:07
Riddell"helped over 200 people and businesses in my area switch" that's a lot23:07
Riddellhow do you go about that?23:08
* sub[t]rnl cheers23:08
ardchoilleI enjoy it23:08
ardchoilleMainly through friends who help spread the word23:08
dthacker-laptopardchoille helps a lot in #kubuntu, including me more than once.23:09
ardchoilleWord of mouth is a powerful advertising tool23:09
kwwiianyone else know ardchoille here?23:09
tomawI do23:09
sub[t]rnlI do23:09
Tm_TI do well23:09
felipemeee!23:09
Tm_Tardchoille <323:09
X314I do23:09
stdinme too :)23:09
cheguevarai do23:09
felipelol23:09
ardchoilleomg23:09
sub[t]rnlHe's extremely helpful, and always goes out of his way to help people23:09
geniiI do23:09
stdinhe helps take the load off my shoulders :p23:10
sub[t]rnlhehe23:10
Tm_Tand mine23:10
Riddellstdin: which load?23:10
stdinRiddell: support in #kubuntu23:10
geniiVery helpful and civil to even the most frustrating users23:10
stdinRiddell: and helps keep it "on topic"23:10
tomawHe is indeed very patient23:10
Riddellkeeping #kubuntu on topic?  now that is impressive :)23:11
Tm_TI can only agree with brothers here23:11
Riddellardchoille: what plans for the future?23:11
Riddellardchoille: you mention you want to help with packaging?23:11
ardchoilleI plan to continue providing the help and support for Ubuntu/Kubuntu that I have provided for the past few years. Eventually I would like to become a packager and I evetually would like to set up a LoCo Team for Seattle, WA..23:11
ardchoilleRiddell: ye, very much so23:12
Riddellardchoille: planning to come to the Kubuntu Tutorials Day?23:12
ardchoilleRiddell: Indeed :)23:12
Riddellkwwii: any more questions?23:12
nixternalwhoa, didn't know there was a meeting going on :)23:12
nosrednaekimme neither...23:12
Tm_Tnixternal: muh23:12
Riddellah, nixternal, we have quorum23:12
Riddellnixternal: any questions for ardchoille23:13
kwwiiRiddell: nope, seems like enough info for me23:13
nixternalhrmm23:13
kwwiigive him a minute to read the log23:13
stdinI'm sure you can think of something nixternal :)23:13
nixternalreading wiki page really quick23:13
dthacker-laptop"what is the flying time of an unladen European swallow....?"23:13
ardchoillehehe23:14
ardchoilledthacker-laptop: with or without a coconut in tow?23:14
dthacker-laptop:)23:14
Riddellnixternal: you could ask him why a person of the Clan MacGregor would use the sassenach spelling of Iain :)23:14
nixternallol23:14
nixternalI just read that on his wiki page :p23:14
nixternalardchoille: don't know if this was asked, I didn't see it...what are your future goals with Kubuntu? What does the Kubuntu Membership mean to you?23:15
* nixternal smells pasta23:15
Tm_Tnixternal: it's my shoes23:15
ardchoilleI plan to continue providing the help and support for Ubuntu/Kubuntu that I have provided for the past few years. Eventually I would like to become a packager and set up a LoCo Team for Seattle, WA..23:16
nixternalyou have garlicy feet23:16
ardchoilleUbuntu membership mens, to me, that I feel recognised for my contributions and feel "a part" of the community23:16
nixternalwould your #1 goal for a loco in seattle to storm camp lake washington and debug that area? :D23:16
ardchoilleI wish!23:16
nixternalhey, I at least mooned camp gates :)23:17
nixternalhave you done any packaging yet?23:17
ardchoillenixternal: I feel it's better to conquer them with good software ;)23:17
felipeyes, you kmoon them23:18
ardchoillenixternal: I have created a few packages for my own use, but I would like to learn proper packaging for the repos23:18
ardchoillefelipe: lol23:18
nixternalhow about helping with bug triage? how familiar are you, or better yet, how comfortable are you with triaging bugs?23:18
ardchoillenixternal: That's another thing I wish to learn, haven't done it yet.23:19
Riddelltime to vote23:19
* ardchoille votes for self23:19
Riddell+1 from me for lots of supporters and number of converts23:19
Tm_T:)23:19
Riddellkwwii? nixternal?23:20
nixternalone sec, running a grep and word count :p23:20
mhbhang around in #kubuntu-devel more so we get to know you better :o)23:20
kwwii+123:20
ardchoilleWill do23:20
nixternalhahaha, forget that, locked up the server23:20
nixternal+1 from me as well23:20
cheguevaralol23:20
Tm_Tnixternal: locked yourself in I hope23:21
Riddellwelcome to membership of Ubuntu and Kubuntu ardchoille23:21
nixternal523223:21
Tm_Tardchoille: yay!23:21
sub[t]rnlGrats ardchoille23:21
sub[t]rnl:D23:21
ardchoilleRiddell: W00T! Thanks23:21
cheguevaracongrats23:21
Tm_TRiddell: poke me when it's my turn if ever23:21
Riddellany more memberships?23:21
X314congratuwelldone ardchoille !23:21
claydohcongrats ardchoille!23:21
ardchoilleAnd thank you all for your wonderful support :)23:21
RiddellTm_T: go go23:21
nixternalthat's pretty good! good job and congrats ardchoille, welcome to our small, yet disfunctional, however very loving, family! :p23:21
* nosrednaekim notes that w00t is the word of the year and pats ardchoille on the back23:21
Tm_TRiddell: okie23:21
kwwiicongrats ardchoille23:21
felipecongrats23:21
felipe:)23:21
nixternalnosrednaekim: you seen that on MSNBC or whatever? w00t is the word of the year...how silly23:22
mhbcongratulations23:22
* Tm_T is Jussi Kekkonen, https://launchpad.net/~tmt23:22
* genii hands ardchoille a congratulatory coffee23:22
Tm_Tand want to become Kubuntu member23:22
nixternalwhat?!? another person who I thought was already a member23:22
nixternal-1 :p23:22
Tm_Tyup23:22
nosrednaekimnixternal: even worse....slashdot23:22
nixternalkeep on rockin' homeskillet23:22
RiddellTm_T: do you have a wiki page?23:22
nixternaland LP page please23:23
Tm_TRiddell: I do, sorry I'm in a bit mess currently here, in a moment23:23
cheguevarahttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/JussiKekkonen23:23
kwwiiTm_T: although i've talked to you quite a bit I honestly have no idea what you do :D Could you explain shortly?23:23
nixternalel che to the rescue!23:23
Tm_Thttps://launchpad.net/~tmt  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JussiKekkonen23:23
Tm_Tcheguevara: :)23:23
cheguevara:P23:23
tomawardchoille: congrats :)23:24
Tm_TI mostly been in irc, for support, IRC op, upstream testing, random develop ranting, advocating, converting etc etc23:24
ardchoilletomaw: ty :)23:24
nixternalNo karma has yet been assigned to Jussi Kekkonen. Karma is updated daily    :(23:24
Tm_Talso our loco faces23:24
RiddellTm_T: what activities does the Finnish Loco team do?23:24
nixternalTm_T: time to start rockin' on some triage homey...you been around long enough :)23:24
geniitriage sounds interesting23:24
nixternalya, it is something I haven't done in a while myself23:25
X314generall nonrelated to Tm_T question. is there a way to contribute to the comunity if your a rubbishcan at coding and cant really draw artworks and such?23:25
Tm_Tnixternal: should, somehow I fail to do so except with upstream :p23:25
nixternalX314: most definitely, I am living proof...all I do is poke fun :)23:25
cheguevaralol23:25
nosrednaekimX314: do user support.23:25
Tm_TRiddell: translation, support, spreading (including our parliament) and lots23:25
nixternal#kubuntu definitely needs as much help as possible23:25
Riddelldoes anyone have testimonies for Tm_T?23:26
ardchoilleI do23:26
* cheguevara been around irc to little23:26
nixternaloh man, don't tell me where are Tm_T's only friends :)23:26
X314nosrednaekim: well.. helping someone else you'd kinda have to know what you yourself are doing..23:26
* dthacker-laptop notes that he is behind on the monthly report, but is on the mailing list and is logging the devel channel, so he will start populating this weekend. I'll read the logs tommorrow between tutorials. cya23:26
ardchoilleI have been in #kubuntu for a long while and have seen Tm_T help others. And has helped me many times.23:26
nixternalTm_T: MOTU plans at all? How can you help Kubuntu to be the best?23:26
stdinhe's always helping out in #kubuntu and is the boss in -offtopic23:27
nixternalno doubt23:27
sub[t]rnlI can second Tm_T's helping23:27
kwwiiI think that bug triaging is actually something that almost anyone could do with a little bit of time and experience asking the right questions to the right people23:27
X314I have seen Tm_T help people and think he has helped me with some minor issues.. though I am a bit of a new one around here23:27
RiddellTm_T: how active is #kubuntu-offtopic?23:28
nixternalRiddell: annoyingly active :)23:28
Tm_TRiddell: sometimes very, but quite similar to #kubuntu23:28
kwwiiindeed, all of my contact with him has been productive and a joy to talk to23:28
stdinsporadic activity23:28
Tm_Tnixternal: plans, though failed thus far, I am trying to see Kubuntu as the best for average joe, thats why I like me being between users, upstream and Kubuntu as distro23:28
geniiYes, sporadic23:28
X314well.. its more freetalk but very often support talk in -offtopic i would say23:28
Riddellthat's pretty much the point of it23:29
nixternalTm_T: how have they failed? how can we help you to not fail with your future plans? and how can you help us not fail with our future plans?23:29
geniiX314: definitely23:29
Tm_Tmy main plans though is in Kids Office, but thats long future (and goes with Kubuntu well)23:29
X314genii: more coffee too.23:29
* genii puts another pot of coffee on23:29
Tm_Tnixternal: my health is bit issue, so I don't always can do much myself, but always like to help where can23:29
nixternaland I can attest to you helping out a ton, so that is always good :)23:30
Tm_Tnixternal: also I afraid to take responsibility because of that23:30
nixternalplus, if I didn't ask some tough questions, then I wouldn't look good :)23:30
Tm_Thaha23:30
Tm_Ttrue23:30
Riddellkwwii, nixternal, shall we vote?23:30
kwwiisure23:30
Riddell+1 for testimony on user support23:31
ardchoille+1 from me for active support23:31
Riddellbut lets get that karma up! :)23:31
nixternalTm_T: very much understood, but seeing as you have made us aware of your condition, I think you should feel safe taking on some responsibility, and let us help you with it and not worry about it so much...you have other things to worry about :)23:31
kwwii+1 from me, he's a nice guy :-)23:31
nixternaloh definitely +1 from me... Tm_T has been rockin' for quite a bit23:31
Tm_Tnixternal: thanks, appreciate it :)23:31
Riddellcongratulations, and welcome Tm_T23:31
cheguevaracongrats Tm_T23:31
ardchoillecongrats Tm_T23:31
Riddellany other business?23:32
Tm_TRiddell: thanks, as I have said ofren, karma should get raised from irc too :-P23:32
* stdin w00ts for Tm_T23:32
nixternalcongrats Tm_T and welcome to the disfunctional family, well you know the rest, you been around long enough :p23:32
nixternalw00t :)23:32
Tm_Tnixternal: indeed23:32
geniiRiddell: I dunno if qualifies as business but is anything being done about a gui web control panel to replace webmin? If so what stage at now, etc23:32
nixternalanymore members? I have to head to that eternal place of education :)23:33
Riddellgenii: -> #ubuntu-server23:33
Tm_Tnixternal: sleep?23:33
geniiRiddell: Ah, OK thanks23:33
Tm_Tnixternal: or uni23:33
Riddellplease pimp up Kubuntu Tutorials Day wherever you can23:33
nixternalno, uni unfortunately23:33
nixternalRiddell: I will be around all day for the tutorials day btw...no class tomorrow :)23:33
claydohcongrats Tm_T!23:33
Riddellit all kicks off in 15.5 hours time in #kubuntu-devel https://wiki.kubuntu.org/KubuntuTutorialsDay23:33
nixternalplus, i am doing a podcast interview for linux links tomorrow23:33
geniiThis may sound dumb but can someone enlighten me to "Kubuntu Tutorial Days"23:34
nixternalgenii: check out Riddell's link23:34
nixternalOK, can I go to school now?23:34
geniinixternal: Will do23:34
Tm_Tnixternal: that last part I might be help, if I'm online then23:34
Riddellnixternal: yes, we're done I think23:34
Riddellhappy learning23:34
txwikingerhave fun nixternal ;)23:34
Riddellgood night all, thanks for coming23:34
Tm_Tnixternal: as it's my "homefield"23:34
nixternalgroovy...if you need anything for tomorrow, hightlight/msg me and I will work on it tonight when I get back from class23:35
Tm_TRiddell: thanks to you, and nighty night, see the dragons!23:35
Riddellnext meeting a week on saturday I believe23:35
nixternalsee ya'll later! and congrats once again to ardchoille and Tm_T23:35
ardchoilleRiddell: Now that I'm a member, how do I apply for the irc cloak?23:35
X314nixternal: so if I just hang around long enough and be a yolly good person and do whatever I can to helpout with whatever I can I might become a member too ish?23:35
kwwiiRiddell: I will be on a plane to america on that day23:35
ardchoillenixternal: Thank you :)23:35
nixternalX314: of course!23:35
* nixternal out for real this time :)23:35
pedX314: and get some karma up on LP. :) That helps too. (if you don't already have some)23:36
stdinardchoille: #ubuntu-ops and ask :)23:36
ardchoilleAh, thanks23:36
txwikingerardchoille: there is a wiki page with instructions https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcTeam/Cloaks23:37
X314ped: this is going to sound silly. but LP?23:39
Tm_TX314: launchpad, our bugtracker and more23:40
X314Tm_T: right. o: I'm still getting into all of these acronyms everywhere23:41
Tm_Theh23:41
pedX314: LP is of the few I understand myself. ;) Than again, I'm not trying to get kubu membership (not yet). :)23:44
pedX314: otherwise I'm just as confused as you23:45
X314ped: well it feels good that someone is ^^23:45
ardchoilleThank you all :)23:49

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