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mneptok\o/02:59
pleia2:)02:59
Arcyo03:00
pleia2ok folks - Americas Council meeting!03:00
* mneptok tickles pleia2 mercilessly03:00
pleia2meep!03:00
mneptokit's "mnep."03:01
pleia2:P03:01
mneptokbut whatever.03:01
pleia2vorian? nixternal?03:01
pleia2oh good :)03:02
Technovikingsorry I'm late03:02
pleia2np, still waiting for everyone03:02
Technovikingjust got home03:02
mneptokhail Technoviking!03:02
* mneptok points skyward03:03
mneptok(hi Mike) :)03:03
* Technoviking points 03:03
* Technoviking rave dances03:03
* pleia2 goes to track down council03:04
mneptokpleia2: try waving some fake Intrepid beta .iso's around. that'll get their attention.03:05
pleia2haha03:05
Technovikinglets sic a jackalope om them03:05
Technovikings/om/on03:05
mneptoki prefer "om." i like picturing Hare Krishna jackalopes.03:06
mneptokwhat a great potential band name.03:07
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pleia2still searching, sorry folks03:11
* mneptok whistles the "Jeopardy!" theme03:16
Technovikingwoot!03:16
cody-somerville\o/03:16
pleia2yay!03:16
pleia2ok, one more03:16
* mneptok switches to the "Twilight Zone" theme03:16
pleia2I think, we need 4 right?03:16
vorianhi03:16
pleia2yay!03:17
vorianjust got home03:17
pleia2ok, lets start this thing :)03:17
pleia2Arc: you're up!03:17
Arcreally?03:17
Arcok03:17
Technovikingya'rly03:17
Arc... ok I'm at a loss of words :-P03:18
Archow does this work?03:18
pleia2Arc: a blurb about yourself, with links to your wiki, launchpad, ed03:18
pleia2etc03:18
Archttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArcRiley03:18
Archttps://launchpad.net/~arcriley03:18
ArcI've been doing Ubuntu promotion for a few years now, and have gotten pretty active with our LoCo03:19
Arcand I've been pretty impressed with what I've seen lately in how organized things are in the Ubuntu project03:19
MagicFabsorry to jump in- meeting agenda URL anyone ? can't seem tofind it, notlinked at http://fridge.ubuntu.com/node/163103:19
pleia2MagicFab: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Membership/RegionalBoards/Americas03:20
cody-somervilleArc, It seems like you've been very active in the Free Software world for close to a decade now. When did you first get involved with Ubuntu?03:21
ArcI first installed it in 2005 IIRC03:21
ArcI don't use it as my primary distro, I'm a Gentoo guy through and through, but maintain my own Ubuntu boxes and most of my consulting/community work is with Ubuntu03:22
ArcGentoo isn't exactly the best way to spread free software :-)03:23
cody-somervilleOkay. What do you feel has been your biggest contribution to Ubuntu to date? Would it be your consulting/community work?03:23
cody-somerville:]03:23
Arcwell it'd likely be through the recycling project.  we flooded Ithaca, NY with Ubuntu boxes03:23
Arcwe got to the point that when we tabled, a majority of people told us they already had that version, downloaded it, got it from a neighbor, etc03:24
ArcIFSA was spoken about at the 2007 FSF annual member meeting as a "model" for other cities, it's what inspired the FSF to promote local groups03:25
pleia2Arc: I see you're interested in taking your advocacy to libraries, are you at all involved with https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuInLibraries ? or planning to be?03:25
pleia2the project is a bit quiet right now, but I think it could really benefit from your experience once you get going03:25
Arcyea, but embarrasingly I didn't know of that URL03:25
Arcwe didn't succeed to get Ithaca's libraries to use Ubuntu because they feared loosing the Gates Foundation grants in the future03:26
Arcbut NH libraries have shown an interest, and GNHLUG members have talked about the main limitation being shortage of geeks to work with them.  I've talked to a few librarians already03:26
* cody-somerville nods.03:27
cody-somervilleArc, did you bring any advocates with you today?03:28
Arcwhat constitutes an advocate?03:28
Arcan ubuntu member, or anyone in the community?03:28
cody-somervilleGenerally an ubuntu member but there isn't a rule or anything :]03:29
pleia2I can speak up for the hard work he's done with the NH LoCo over the past few months, working with the US mentors and LoCo council to get some issues straightened out, as well as his general attention to loco meetings and such03:29
Arcone sec having another LoCo member join03:30
stevieanyone here to cheer for Arc?03:30
cody-somervilleArc, would it be fair to say that your contributions have been more distribution agnostic, more targetted to FOSS in general?03:30
Arcover the last few years they've been very specific for Ubuntu03:30
cody-somervilleCan you give a few more examples?03:31
Arcwell Canonical was sending us several large boxes of CDs for a few releases in a row, and I took responsibility to make sure they got distributed03:32
Arc>1000 CDs took quite a bit of foot work to distribute, they sent the nice point of sale glossy distro boxes that I got the library to let us put there, boxes at the local colleges, local stores03:33
cody-somervilleI imagine.03:34
Arcwhen I advertised my consulting services, I started putting "Ubuntu" instead of "Linux" since many people didn't even know they were running Linux and I was mostly unfamiliar with Fedora/etc at that point03:34
Arcand I likely spent 2-3X more time doing free help for people than paid03:35
* cody-somerville nods.03:35
cody-somervilleArc, is your other loco team member joining?03:36
Arcyea nikkiana_lappy03:36
cody-somervillenikkiana_lappy, tell us about how great Arc is and specifically about his contributions :-)03:37
Arcwell she wrote a testimonial too, if she's AFK03:38
cody-somervilleAlrighty :-(03:39
cody-somervilleWe generally look for applicants to have a few people here at the meeting to cheer you on.03:39
Arcyea most of the people I work with don't IRC, so I got testimonials instead03:40
ArcMitch for example runs IFSA at this point (I moved to NH last October)03:40
cody-somervilleArc, I think you're on the right track for Ubuntu membership but I'd like to see more ubuntu-specific activity for Ubuntu Members. I hear you've done some great work with your LoCo Team in the last few months and I'd like to see you keep that up. Your contributions to FOSS in general have certainly not gone unnoticed by me.03:42
Archow much more specific is needed?03:43
cody-somervilleI think your work with your LoCo Team is on the right track there - I'd like to see more of that over a sustained period of time. I think if you could bring some folks from your LoCo Team it would certainly help me see that.03:44
Arcdoes my involvement with other FOSS activities count against me rather than for me?03:45
steviei agree with cody-somerville, i think you are off to a great start.  I would like to see you sustain your work for a while longer.03:45
TechnovikingArc: It counts for you for sure03:45
* cody-somerville nods with Technoviking.03:46
Technovikingbut we like to see a good ammount of work in the area of Ubuntu03:46
cody-somervilleArc, I think having some folks from your LoCo team here to cheer you on would make all the difference.03:47
pleia2I'm abstaining for now03:47
Arcso years of the recycling center, running Ubuntu-specific installfests, support, etc isn't enough?03:47
cody-somervilleArc, Its hard for us to distinguish those activities between generalist work in the FOSS community and the Ubuntu community.03:48
cody-somervilleArc, Ubuntu membership is to recognize Ubuntu community members and activity in the FOSS community in not the criteria we use to give that recognition.03:49
Arcso it'd be better if that had all been done under a LoCo banner rather than IFSA?03:49
mneptokArc: don't hear a "no" when what's being said is "not *just* yet"   :)03:49
TechnovikingYou can come back at anytime03:49
Arcmy concern in the "not just yet" is that I don't think in the next year I could substantially add to what I've already done03:49
cody-somervilleArc, As I said, I think having some people here to cheer you on would make all the difference.03:50
mneptokArc: i don't think you need to add. just keep doing what you're doing, keep an Ubuntu focus to it, and get some other team members to vouch for you.03:50
pleia2Arc: I think making progress with getting the NH LoCo off the ground and doing events would be very helpful - would help clear up some of the confusion between your general foss work and Ubuntu work03:50
* cody-somerville nods.03:51
mneptokArc: SOftware Freedom Day is coming up. an Intrepid release party or installfest ...03:51
ArcI'm the "team leader" for SFD in Concord03:51
Arcwe have a permit to table in front of the State House from 10am to 6pm, a conference pack from Canonical plus GNHLUG people doing more generic FOSS advocacy03:52
mneptokArc: so there you go. use that day to distribute Ubuntu CDs and have some other team members let us know about it. that's the sort of thing that goes a long way.03:52
Archows this for Ubuntu-specific stuff; http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=AF&Date=20070625&Category=PHOTOGALLERIES03&ArtNo=706250801&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=303:53
Arcthe article that's from (I can't find it on the web) was on the front page the next day, to all of our shock.03:54
cody-somervilleNice :-]03:54
cody-somervilleAnyhow, we need to move on to the next applicant now. Thanks for showing up Arc :]03:55
Arcthanks03:55
pleia2swe3tdave: are you here?03:56
swe3tdaveyeap03:56
pleia2you're up :)03:56
swe3tdaveok.. ;)  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DavidGiard03:57
swe3tdavehttps://launchpad.net/~swe3tdave03:57
swe3tdaveWell, in december 2005, i started working on starting a team for French Canadian, the QuebecTeam, so i've been working on the web site mostly. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuebecTeam/WebAdminLog03:57
swe3tdaveSince then i got ownership of the https://edge.launchpad.net/loco-drupal project and the https://edge.launchpad.net/~loco-drupal-dev team on launchpad i started contributing, all the work i do for the ubuntu-qc.org web site, to it.03:58
swe3tdaveSo i created a Drupal 6 theme for LoCoTeams, and i am in the process of expanding it to tools, by adding some modified module, maybe creating one or two from scratch in the futur. And in the far futur, probably a complete drupal tarball for LoCoTeams, ready to upload.03:58
* MagicFab cheers for swe3tdave 03:59
* avoine too03:59
pleia2very impressive work swe3tdave :)03:59
swe3tdavethank you, ;)03:59
pleia2swe3tdave: future plans?03:59
MagicFabswe3tdave is an unstoppable workhorse03:59
swe3tdavelol03:59
MagicFabsometimes not very visible but always showing up when other go03:59
pleia2hehe04:00
* mneptok cheers for *anyone* helping MagicFab with Ubuntu-QC! ;)04:01
swe3tdavewell, i would like to go to one the release party magicfab is organising in montreal... 200 geek on a bar.. it must be something, i dont really organise it.. but since i helped to start the team.. ;)04:01
mneptokswe3tdave: Software Freedom Day a Berri-UQAM!04:02
cody-somervilleswe3tdave, so you got involved in 2005?04:02
swe3tdavefor the futur, i guess right now i've been focusing on building planet ubuntu quebec.. ;)04:02
swe3tdaveubuntu-qc.org04:02
swe3tdaveyep.. it started as a translation of the canadian team..04:03
pleia2very nice04:03
swe3tdavewhen i saw no one got interested, i started asking around what was wrong..04:03
swe3tdavethen MagicFab, told me to start a quebecteam.. ;)04:04
cody-somervilleswe3tdave, you can stop, we're ready to vote.04:04
swe3tdaveand this is exactly what i did...04:04
cody-somerville+1 from me.04:04
swe3tdaveah ok.. ;)04:04
pleia2+104:04
Technoviking+104:04
* cody-somerville cues the jeopardy music for stevie.04:05
* mneptok whistles the "Jeopardy!" theme (on queue)04:05
* Technoviking raves to the Jeopardy theme04:05
cody-somerville\o)04:05
cody-somerville(o/04:06
* MagicFab kicks som salsa steps04:06
swe3tdave:)04:06
MagicFaberrr - well you got the idea - congrats!04:06
stevieyes!04:06
stevie+1 form me too :)04:07
swe3tdavecool04:07
Technovikinglol04:07
pleia2congrats swe3tdave :)04:07
cody-somervilleEveryone do the wave! - \o\ - (o\ - (o/04:07
Technovikingo04:07
MagicFabI almost got sucked into starting another loco team and all I got is this lousy T-Shirt .. oh.. wait.. no t-shirt for that here...04:07
stevieyay!04:07
Technovikingthat is for tonight? got to get my son to bed04:08
dthomasdigitalHello04:08
dthomasdigitalI was on the list04:08
* mneptok points at dthomasdigital 04:08
pleia2oops, didn't see you there04:09
mneptokpleia2: he's wearing camouflage Underoos04:09
pleia2too much of that going on04:09
pleia2dthomasdigital: go for it :)04:10
dthomasdigitalHello, I have been using Ubuntu for 3 years and I live, breath, sleep, blog, promote and preach Ubuntu. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/dthomasdigital04:10
dthomasdigitalThe New Mexico LoCo has been a part of a few ambitious and successful projects, and I work hard to grow are membership.04:12
pleia2dthomasdigital: what was your proposed topic at Live?04:12
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dthomasdigitalIt was open source applications in the enterprise.04:13
* mneptok met dthomasdigital in Albuquerqie this weekend!04:13
mneptok*Albuquerque04:13
dthomasdigitaldetails of that talk can be found here at HDI's 2008 conf http://www.thinkhdi.com/hdi2008/session.aspx?SessionID=108204:14
mneptokhe and some other LoCo team members were nice enough to share a dinner with me and let me know about what the NM LoCo is doing.04:14
cody-somervillemneptok, are you cheering for dthomasdigital?04:15
dthomasdigitalI work for that State of New Mexico where 2 years ago there were no Ubuntu devices we now run 8 Ubuntu servers have 10 workstation running desktop ubuntu and all public kiosk run ubuntu04:15
mneptokdthomasdigital: i'm glad some of the issues that kept you away from LoCo work recently are now resolved. the team seems really anxious and happy to have you back, which really speaks well of your contributions to their efforts.04:15
dthomasdigitalprotonchris from our loco is here as well04:16
mneptokcody-somerville: i am. the NM LoCo team seems to have really benefitted from his contributions.04:16
cody-somerville+1 from me.04:16
protonchrisdthomasdigital is an integral part of the NM LoCo.04:16
mneptokcody-somerville: *plus* he ate a meal with me and never threw a punch. i know you know the imprtance of that statement.04:17
mneptok;)04:17
pleia2+104:17
* protonchris didn't punch mneptok .... at least not yet :)04:17
pleia2mneptok is mostly for hugging04:17
mneptokprotonchris: you were on the other side of the table.04:17
stevie+1 :)04:18
mneptokTechnoviking: now comes the time on "Sprockets" when we vote!04:18
dthomasdigitalWe have really worked hard and continue to make the New Mexico Loco really shine.04:18
Technovikingya, +1 from me, now we dance04:19
pleia2woo, congrats dthomasdigital :)04:19
* mneptok queues up the Kraftwerk!04:19
dthomasdigitalvery cool, thank you very much. I won't let you down.04:19
mneptokdthomasdigital: woot! conga-rats!04:19
steviecongrats dthomasdigital :)04:20
dthomasdigitalAgain thanks, Ubuntu is a great OS, and a great community.04:21
Technovikingcongrats04:22
Technovikingnight all04:22
pleia2mm, sleep now04:22
mneptokooo! shiny button! *push*04:23
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calchi15:59
TheMusoGreetings folks.15:59
evandhi16:00
ArneGoetjehi16:00
liwhi. everyone please check your firewalls are up, I have a cold and I may sneeze during the meeting16:00
davmor2liw: that would be anti-virus then surely ;)16:00
* slangasek waves16:00
liwdavmor2, could be, I am not sure I can distinguish :)16:01
james_whi all16:03
cjwatsonhi, my apologies for being late today; I'm going to do the school run a bit differently next week to see if it works better16:05
cjwatsonasac,bryce_,doko_: pin16:06
cjwatsong16:06
asacoh high16:07
doko_pon16:07
doko_g16:07
asac;)16:07
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asacoops ;)16:07
asacs/gh//16:07
cjwatsondoko: sarky :)16:07
cjwatsonalso sorry I didn't send out an agenda, being in London yesterday threw me off a bit16:08
cjwatsonhowever, we did get a chance to do a dry-run of the procedure for dealing with a compromised archive signing key16:08
cjwatsonthe good news is it almost works16:08
cjwatsonwe do have a couple of bits to iron out, though, and the procedure required rather too much thought on the fly16:09
cjwatsonanyway, outstanding actions16:10
cjwatsonColin or Evan to review to see if the /etc/fstab change is an adequate solution for long term.16:10
cjwatsonI've had a look at it; /etc/fstab really is a special case for ubiquity (it's the only file I can think of that's legitimately created before bulk file copying), so I think it's fair enough to handle it as such, although I'm going to make a small tweak to the actual implementation16:11
cjwatsonI think that's enough for that action16:11
cjwatsonLars to find sponsor for system-cleaner16:11
liwmvo promised to upload, and cjwatson puploaded python-fstab, which system-cleaner requires16:11
liwwaiting in the new queue for now16:12
liwshould I poke someone about it?16:12
cjwatsonhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArchiveAdministration says that seb128 is the admin for the day16:13
liwI'll ask him16:14
cjwatsonEvan to continue with usb-creator testing and write up MIR when ready16:14
cjwatsonMIR is done, although still more polishing to do16:15
evandindeed16:15
cjwatsonevand: worth throwing it open for ubuntu-devel to test at some point16:15
cjwatson?16:15
evandcjwatson: yes, though perhaps not tonight.16:15
evandI'd like to see how the discussions with mpt go.16:15
mvoliw: yeah, sorry for not reviewing that yet16:16
cjwatsonColin to pass around idea of distro-activity16:16
cjwatsonthis doesn't really seem to have been very popular, I'm afraid, and some were vocally against the idea16:16
asacack16:17
cjwatsonso I think the recommendation is that anything in your activity report that is of wider interest you should post as a mailing list thread16:19
cjwatsonI'll try to remember to encourage this16:19
* TheMuso often finds that its easier to start a thread to get testing for something important etc.16:20
cjwatsonevand: mpt> ack16:20
* cjwatson does a quick pass over activity reports for agenda items16:21
cjwatsonArneGoetje: thanks a lot for the new language packs16:21
ArneGoetjecjwatson: sorry for the delay... had some trouble with the exports...16:21
cjwatsonasac,james_w,doko,TheMuso: missing reports for you16:22
asaccjwatson: sorry, should be in your inbox now16:22
TheMusocjwatson: You sure?16:22
cjwatsonArneGoetje: yeah, I was tracking that; none of the delay was on your side as far as I can see16:22
dokosending now16:22
cjwatsonTheMuso: whoops16:22
asacArneGoetje: new lang packs? just intrepid?16:23
cjwatsonTheMuso: I got confused by the different start date, sorry16:23
TheMusocjwatson: hehe no problem.16:23
ArneGoetjecjwatson: true. jtv is going over the import log to see if he can fix the remaining pieces16:23
cjwatsonfeature status (that we haven't already covered)16:23
cjwatsonTheMuso: how is PA looking?16:24
ArneGoetjeasac: just intrepid for now. hardy will follow soon.16:24
james_wcjwatson: I sent mine yesterday I thought16:24
TheMusoWell, PA is getting some rather good testing from packages in my PPA, with 0.9.12 being released in the last couple of days, which fixes some important issues that 0.9.11 raised. That along with some fixes from alsa-lib git, and people don't seem to be having too many problems, however one person still has an issue that has popped up since 0.9.11 that we have yet to track down.16:25
TheMusoPavucontrol and paprefs also got new releases, so I uploaded packages for those as well. Paprefs is probably not as important, as its not tied to a particularly recent version of pulse.16:25
james_wcjwatson: I can forward it if you like16:25
TheMusoPavucontrol however requires 0.9.11 to be usable, so I guess trying to use an earlier version may present problems.16:25
cjwatsonjames_w: ok, I'll check later, shout if there was anything in it that should be covered here16:25
james_wcjwatson: no agenda items, no16:26
cjwatsonTheMuso: ok, are you liaising with upstream on things that come up?16:26
cjwatson(PA upstream has asked for more contact from us, in general)16:26
TheMusoThere is also the final issue of gnome 2.24 using libcanberra, which gets the best functionality by using pulseaudio as a backend, which has to be 0.9.11 or greater. So at the moment, event sounds are broken.16:26
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TheMusocjwatson: Yes trying to do what I can with working with upstream to sort things out.16:27
cjwatsonok, thanks16:27
cjwatsonPython 316:27
cjwatsondoko: I don't think anyone followed up to my last mail to distro-team about this. Can I suggest that we include this in universe and build the python3-* modules we need from separate source? As I understand it modules will generally not be source-compatible anyway.16:28
cjwatsonthat will avoid the security-support question for intrepid16:28
dokocjwatson: sure, I will do that.16:29
cjwatsonok, great16:29
cjwatsonsystem-cleaner we covered16:29
cjwatsonusb-creator we covered16:29
cjwatsoncalc: you said that you'd prepared openoffice.org3 packages, so confirm that this is just blocked on agreeing the Sun-branded images?16:30
cjwatsoncalc: if you don't hear back by Monday, please upload without the Sun branding and we can restore that later16:31
calccjwatson: the build i did was without the changing of the extension but yes, it should just be a flip of a variable to add the 3 and its ready other than the sun branding16:31
calci'll verify flipping the extension variable on works16:31
dokocalc: where are these packages? the PPA still has the beta16:32
calcdoko: see above haven't uploaded yet due to waiting on sun to approve the new images16:32
cjwatsonyou could upload to the PPA without the branding16:32
calcok, i'll go ahead and do that then after switching the variable on it16:33
cjwatsonok, please do ASAP, thanks16:33
dokocalc: please just upload to the PPA at least. it's not just the splash, there is other legal stuff16:33
calcthat bit hasn't been tested in a while so i need to make sure it still works16:33
cjwatsonthe sooner we get build confirmation and stuff the better16:33
cjwatsonxorg-options-editor16:34
cjwatsondid that get reviewed and promoted?16:34
cjwatsonbryce_: ^-16:36
asachmm i cant find xorg-options-editor through apt-cache search16:37
cjwatsonit's python-xkit and screen-resolution-extra, both of which are apparently in main now16:38
asacgood16:38
cjwatsonasac: reminder to write MIRs for libmbca and mobile-broadband-provider-info (I know you asked for a feature freeze exception, but ...)16:39
asacyes. ill try to do the in-depth review this week16:40
cjwatsonand Evan addressed Wubi in his activity report16:40
cjwatsonmilestoned bugs for alpha-6: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=132416:41
cjwatsonnothing for us there, though there are some on https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=132416:42
cjwatsonI'm confused by bug 267682 being Critical but not targeted to intrepid16:43
ubottuLaunchpad bug 267682 in ubuntu "Hotkeys no longer working in Intrepid (evdev?)" [Critical,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/26768216:43
cjwatsonplease note that if you just attach a milestone to a bug, that's not release-critical, it's just to help your own organisation and workflow16:43
cjwatsonif you want a bug to be on the release team's radar, then you need to target it to intrepid as well16:43
bryce_hi16:43
asacgood. so i understood correctly.16:43
cjwatsonhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/RCBugTargetting16:44
bryce_cjwatson: yes x-kit is in main, and the g-c-c changes are pushed16:44
cjwatsonbryce_: thanks, great16:45
cjwatsonasac: is bug 256054 not release-critical?16:45
ubottuLaunchpad bug 256054 in network-manager "[intrepid] new 0.7 branch ignores /etc/network/interfaces" [Unknown,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/25605416:45
cjwatson(it's High)16:45
cjwatsoncalc: do you regard the high-priority openoffice.org bugs as release-critical?16:45
asaccjwatson: it is release critical. but not for alpha-6.16:46
cjwatsonasac: it should be nominated for intrepid, then16:46
asacok done16:46
calccjwatson: i milestone the bugs i want to make sure are fixed for the release16:47
calccjwatson: if i don't know when they will be fixed for certain i generally make them for beta or final release16:47
cjwatsonhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/RCBugTargetting -> "To indicate that a bug should be fixed prior to the final release, the bug should be nominated using the "nominate for release" option in Launchpad. Use of milestone targeting is not required except in cases where delivery of the bugfix is relevant to the success of the milestone release"16:47
cjwatsonyou can certainly use milestone targeting to indicate an "intention", as the next section down says16:48
calcok16:48
cjwatsoncalc: anyway, no need to hash it out here, please review that page and make sure you're in line with what the release team is generally expecting people to do; that will let us work with you more effectively16:49
calcok16:49
bryce_thanks for updating 267682; I'd marked it just so I wouldn't forget, but yes it's a release critical bug16:50
cjwatsonbryce_: are you going to work on 267682 some more? it has no assignee at the moment, and it seems to need some detailed analysis16:50
cjwatsonjinx16:50
bryce_ah, timo is taking it; I'll assign to him16:50
cjwatsonbryce_: you said last week that 185311 was likely no longer to be relevant with the Java fix, but it's still on the RC list ...?16:52
bryce_the issue as I understand it is that evdev is getting confused about whether the keys are mouse or keyboard events16:52
* cjwatson reads the tail-end of that bug16:52
bryce_cjwatson: apparently there's still a vocal minority with non-java proprietary apps that are affected by it16:53
bryce_cjwatson: I've talked with upstream and a real fix doesn't look likely to come any time soon16:54
bryce_cjwatson: I'm not entirely sure how to handle this; ripping out libxcb in hardy seems pretty drastic, but presumably there's no other way to fix things for random proprietary apps16:56
cjwatsonI've followed up asking whether export LIBXCB_ALLOW_SLOPPY_LOCK=1 works16:56
bryce_ok, although actually I believe that's set as default now16:57
cjwatsonhmm, yes16:57
bryce_yeah the detail I've gotten on the level of troubleshooting done has been a bit disappointing16:57
bryce_but lately some folks have posted test cases and such, which I think will make it easier16:58
cjwatsonok, we can't process it here, but I agree it still needs to be release-critical if only because it should end up on the release notes if we can't fix it16:58
cjwatson251640 is still on my plate to do something about16:59
cjwatsonas is 262451, although I think that's probably no longer release-critical since the ufw bug that triggered it has been fixed16:59
cjwatsonand that's most of the >=high bugs on our list16:59
cjwatsonsponsorship queue16:59
cjwatsonthis week I have done: minicom 111021 (bounced); cron 118168 (bounced); gtk-sharp2 254855 (uploaded, forwarded to Debian)17:00
cjwatsonother uploaders?17:00
asacmy queue size has been zero throughout the whole week17:01
* TheMuso has processed accessibility stack updates that were pending for GNOME.17:01
slangasekI have linux-wlan-ng to close out today; otherwise my queue is empty17:01
* evand has slipped on processing his queue17:01
calcmy queue is empty or was when i looked yesterday17:01
calcyep empty17:02
cjwatsonI'd just like to clarify that the new world order is that you won't get things assigned to you17:03
cjwatsonso you will not necessarily have your own queue17:03
cjwatsonwe've asked for everyone to do an hour a week, which may well include going and looking for unassigned items on http://people.ubuntu.com/~dholbach/sponsoring/ and dealing with those17:04
calcoh ok17:04
* calc had been wondering why nothing new got assigned to him17:04
cjwatsonright, the problem with that was that if somebody missed it then they had a lock on it and nobody else would look at it17:04
cjwatsonafter a while, this accumulated into a big queue that wasn't getting processed17:05
bryce_I did some time on sponsor queue work yesterday17:05
bryce_here's a bookmarkable search to get the Ubuntu sponsor queue - http://tinyurl.com/63cfxt17:06
cjwatsonI find http://people.ubuntu.com/~dholbach/sponsoring/ pretty good; is it missing something?17:07
bryce_well, it's good, although you can't sort/filter it down like in LP17:08
dholbachbryce_: I could add that, should be easy17:08
dholbachI'll take a look at it tomorrow17:08
dokoabout bug 243130. not sure how to fix this properly. that would require an update of the config files on upgrade17:09
ubottuLaunchpad bug 243130 in fontconfig ""/etc/fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf", line 17: invalid constant used : lcdfilterlegacy" [Low,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/24313017:09
dokothe parameter name did change (upstream did choose another one when implementing this)17:09
cjwatsonthese are conffiles, aren't they?17:10
dokoyes17:11
cjwatsonwhile it violates the letter of policy, we *could* say that if the conffile has been changed locally and is known to be wrong now then we can get away with changing it in a maintainer script17:11
cjwatsonhowever, it seems like it would be simpler just to add a tiny bit of compatibility code in fontconfig to support our old parameter name17:12
asacdoko: this is because we patched it in ubuntu before upstream applied something?17:12
dokoyes17:12
asacright i wanted to suggest compatibility code for one cycle17:12
asacwith a warning17:12
cjwatsonthat's what I've done in openssh, and IMO it's just what you get to deal with if you introduce new parameter names before upstream17:12
cjwatsonI'd suggest maintaining it forever17:12
cjwatsonthe old configuration files won't go away, and people won't see the warnings17:12
asacthats ok too17:13
dokohmm, ok, will have a look then17:13
asac(but upstream might introduce a conflicting constant at some point)17:13
cjwatsonthat sort of compatibility is usually really easy to maintain, IME - just a single added line or similar17:13
dokoI assume editing the file where we ourself did use the parameter is ok as well?17:13
cjwatsonanyway, you could consider the maintainer script approach, but it would require extreme care17:13
cjwatsonediting which file?17:13
doko /etc/fonts/conf.d/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf and /etc/fonts/conf.avail/53-monospace-lcd-filter.conf17:14
asacdoko: so editing == maintainerscript?17:14
cjwatsonright, that's the "you might be able to get away with changing a conffile in the maintainer script if it was already changed locally" thing17:15
* TheMuso asks whether there is anything else he needs to be around for... I think we are over time, and I'd like to get to bed. :)17:15
cjwatsonI'd personally say that that's a lot *more* effort than maintaining compatibility with the old option name17:15
cjwatsontesting all the cases is really hard17:15
cjwatsonTheMuso: I think we're more or less done17:15
dokook17:16
cjwatsonlet's move further fontconfig discussion to #-devel; thanks all17:16
cjwatsonadjourned17:16
asacthanks17:16
evandthanks17:16
TheMusothanks.17:16
* TheMuso crashes.17:16
calcthanks17:16
cjwatson(no time for AOB, bring it up on the list :-))17:16
ArneGoetjethanks17:16
liwthanks17:16
slangasekthanks17:17
bryce_thanks17:17
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davmor2Hello Everybody18:00
ara_hi!18:00
henohey!18:00
bdmurrayhello18:00
* cgregan waves18:00
* ogasawara waves18:00
pedro_hey hey!18:01
sbeattiehey18:02
henoI've pinged a few people, let's start18:03
heno#startmeeting18:03
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schwukHi all18:03
LaserJockhi everybody18:04
henoI didn't see any agenda items, but I've just added some ... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings18:04
henoFirst let's do a quick round-table of what QA work everyone has been up to this week18:05
heno[TOPIC] Round table18:05
MootBotNew Topic:  Round table18:05
ara_ok, I'll start18:06
henoschwuk and I had a 2-day sprint where we talked about the certification site and reporting from test runs18:06
* stgraber waves18:06
ara_or not :)18:06
henoara_: go ahead18:06
LaserJockara_: alphabetical order? :-)18:06
henoschwuk: can you give a a summary after that?18:07
ara_ok, last week I have following LDTP 1.3 Feature Freeze exception18:07
ara_and it was finally accepted18:07
schwukheno: sure18:07
ara_therefore Intrepid will be released with version 1.3 of LDTP which includes a lot of good bug fixes18:07
ara_apart of that I have been preparing some PPAs (already in my archive) for the testing library and the desktop tests18:08
ara_you can download them now if you want to give them a try18:08
ara_as part of the UDW I gave a session on Thursday about the desktop testing library and how to use it18:09
ara_alpha 5 testing occupied also some time18:09
ara_schwuk: you can go now if you want18:10
schwukara_: thanks18:10
schwukAs heno  said we had a 2-day sprint covering a few topics18:10
mark_This isn't seamonkey :/18:11
schwukThe primary focus was reporting of the data collected by the checkbox tool, and how we can present/expose it.18:11
cr3schwuk: fyi, a submission can now consist of >40K results :)18:12
schwukWe also discussed enchancements to checkbox, and encouraging participation in isotesting, especially for milestone testing.18:12
schwukcr3: can or does?18:12
cr3schwuk: fyi2, including disk information has been committed :)18:12
cr3schwuk: does, see today's build results18:12
henobut we urgently need to get those results reported in some form18:13
schwukToday I've been recovering from the long drive :), getting some testing hardware setup and the first cut of summary reports as discussed during the sprint.18:13
henobecause X pass Y fail means nothing to observers18:13
henoI sent a summary to the list just now, but it needs more detail18:14
henoyou can look at the source code of the tests but that's inconvenient :)18:14
schwukheno: which is why we need to make them more visible/pretty18:15
henoschwuk: yep - WIP18:15
cr3heno: I was planning to add debugging information to each test so that a bug could be reported from a failure, but I was waiting for Launchpad integration beforehand. Adding debugging information is pretty easy though, so we might want to bump the priority.18:15
henoWe'll report back to the list as soon as we have something readable18:16
henocr3: it's too early to look at automated bug reporting18:16
henook, let's move along18:17
henocr3 - roundtable blurb?18:17
cr3heno: well, if we introduce debugging information before Launchpad integration, that would imply manual bug reporting... but at least we'd have all the necessary information18:17
cr3heno: sure18:17
heno(actually we should prepare these ahead of time if we want this as a regular feature)18:18
cr31. client side queue has been completed in order to support larger submissions, such as the resulting >40K tests from: ltp, lsp and autotest.18:18
davmor2heno: could be for once a fornight18:18
cr32. various bugs fixed, such as loging in to certification.canonical.com, queue problems, third party test parsing.18:19
henook, thanks18:19
henobdmurray: ?18:19
cr33. created production and staging branches for the certification website. the production code is currently online and shared by a single user on the server. staging is almost there.18:19
cr34. worked on alpha-5 testing which has been failing to netinstall because of a bug in dpkg, tried to workaround by reverting to the version from alpha-4 but that didn't work.18:20
bdmurrayI blogged about the needs-packaging reviewer script and set it up as a cronjob on people.ubuntu.com18:20
cr34.1. attempted to workaround alpha-5 problems by testing daily current from today but there's now a problem with dependencies in landscape-client18:21
cr35. currently working on reporting installation failures which are not being reporting, only successful installations are being reported18:21
henothe landscape issue is currently being discussed in u-devel18:21
bdmurrayAdditionally, I need some more tweaking of the xorg validation py-lp-b script and went through a ton of xorg related bugs and validated their configs18:21
bdmurrays/need/did/18:22
cr3heno: I thought there was some automated script during the build process to detect dependency issues18:22
davmor2cr3: http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/livefs-build-logs/intrepid/18:22
henobdmurray, ogasawara: any further feedback on the package pages?18:23
davmor2cr3 go to ubuntu and then latest18:23
bdmurrayheno: other than our own not much afaik18:23
ogasawaraheno: I've only seen a note mdz posted18:24
cr3davmor2: only for livecd?18:24
henoI might need some more pimping :)18:24
henoogasawara: any news?18:24
cr3schwuk: by the way, I'll be sending an email with details from the production server once completed18:25
ogasawaraheno:  I'm planning on making some improvements to the pkg pages per the feature requests so I'll send some more email18:25
ogasawaraheno:  re roundtable - I've just mainly been continuing to follow up with the 2.6.27 feedback from the call for testing as well as Alpha5 - final decision should be made this week re 2.6.2718:25
davmor2cr3: there are 2 places for alt http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/daily/current/ report.html which show up most but not all and http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/cd-build-logs/ubuntu/intrepid/ but good luck with that one it's all gibberish to me :)18:26
sbeattieogasawara: does it look like we'll stick with 2.6.27?18:27
henoogasawara: thanks - hopefully we can get some more automated HW testing in before that18:27
ogasawarasbeattie: yup, it's looking like we'll go with 2.6.27 barring anything major showing up between now and the 14th18:28
cr3davmor2: those reports are very interesting, thanks so much for the heads up18:28
henosbeattie: your turn :) I know you've been busy with partner QA18:28
henowe are trying to tigten the raise the quality of the partner packages a bit18:29
sbeattieYeah, I've mostly been diverted with some QA on partner packages, and the process around that.18:30
sbeattieDid iso testing last week as well, and in the background have been trying to write the regression tracking scripts.18:30
henosbeattie: I sent an email to the list about the regression testing18:30
henoplease just reply to that when you have something up18:31
sbeattieheno: yep, very nice, thanks. When I get the script beaten into shape, will followup.18:31
henook, I've expanded https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/RegressionTracking a bit18:31
henopedro_: ?18:31
pedro_well I've mostly doing a lot of triage as always  and ISO testing18:32
pedro_I've also working with jcastro on revamping the Bugs/* pages18:32
pedro_so far: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs18:32
pedro_would be nice if you can give us some feedback on that ;-)18:32
henooooh, nice!18:32
pedro_I've also noticed that a couple of the QA headers page aren't too hot18:33
pedro_so i did a mockup for example for the bugsquad one18:33
davmor2ooohhhh pretty18:33
pedro_https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PedroVillavicencio/test18:33
pedro_what do you guys think about that?18:33
pedro_do you want me to revamp the QA header also? ;-)18:33
henothat looks great!18:33
jcastroI think it all looks awesome18:33
* pedro_ is a wiki guy for this week18:33
henoyes please :)18:34
pedro_alright will do that then, and yep that's all from me, yesterday was on leave so that's all ;-)18:34
sbeattiepedro_: +1, that's great!18:34
pedro_sbeattie: glad you like it!18:34
LaserJockpedro_: very nice18:34
henoanyone else want to report anything? stgraber, LaserJock, davmor2, jcastro ?18:35
pedro_so if you think we're missing a link or something just add them to the header ;-)18:35
LaserJockI've been doing a little Edubuntu QA lately and mostly working on my PhD18:35
jcastroheno: we're almost done with the first cut of the +upstreamreport18:35
jcastrolikely next week I will ask for some feedback from bug people18:35
LaserJockbut this coming week I intend to work on SRU scripts18:35
cr3I'd like to put my head on the line by saying that checkbox 0.2 better be in intrepid before next meeting :)18:35
ogasawaraschwuk: re the test reports.  let me know when you've got something, I'd be happy to review and try to get the kernel team to review as well.  or you can just send us all an email.18:36
davmor2I've add this wiki page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/CDBuildQuickTest cr3 ara may interest you.   It's just a rough but the idea is 2 quick checks will normally tell you if the daily build will install or not18:36
cr3LaserJock: SRU scripts? what do those do?18:36
henocr3: we should really get these things in before FF for next cycle18:36
ara_davmor2: that's so good18:38
cr3davmor2: bookmarked :)18:38
davmor2Thank cjwatson for the info I just put it down for us :)18:38
henodavmor2: that looks great. We should parse those sources for the weather report, or so18:39
henoogasawara: ^ ?18:39
stgraberheno: not much my side, Brainstorm will soon have a big update that I'm currently testing. The problem is that it requires Hardy and our server is currently on Dapper, a RT ticket has been opened.18:39
cr3heno: I'll probably want that information when I probe cdimage18:39
ogasawaraheno:  I'll take a look18:39
cr3fyi, I'm only probing archive and only have stubs for cdimage18:39
henook, let's close the round table session, thanks everyone!18:40
davmor2Wubi is nackered I confirmed today :( https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/26812318:40
ubottuLaunchpad bug 268123 in wubi "Intrepid: Wubi fails to mount sda1" [High,Confirmed]18:40
henoWe've talked about test reporting18:40
heno[TOPIC] Release meeting report18:40
MootBotNew Topic:  Release meeting report18:40
henoMost Fridays there is a release meeting on IRC18:40
henothe QA team should prepare a brief status report for that18:41
LaserJockcr3: generating http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/sru/todo.html and http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/sru/qa.html18:41
LaserJockcr3: sbeattie and I share code18:41
henoitems to include: * serious bugs we've found, not yet on the milestone list18:42
heno* the state of our testing infrastructure - including blocking bugs for automation, kvm, etc18:42
henothese may not be blockers for the release as such, but  makes testing difficult18:43
henoWhat else should we include?18:43
sbeattie* new regressions (of some minimum threshold of importance?)18:44
sbeattie* iso testing results18:44
davmor2next week I'll start back on smoke testing pre-release could be fun to add those results :)18:45
henoiso results> should  be a review of iso-tagged bugs and the smoke testing18:45
henoyep :)18:45
henosbeattie: can you set up a wiki page structure for this?18:45
sbeattieheno: sure18:46
henoI would guess a root page for these guidelines/template and sub pages for individual report instances18:46
LaserJockwould basic bug stats relevant to release be a good idea?18:46
henoLaserJock: I think so - I should we slice it though? we often don't know what release a bug is for automatically18:47
henowe could use apport data and then add an 'unknown' category for unparseable bugs filed after a certain date18:48
LaserJockcan you use /ubuntu/<release>/+bugs lists?18:49
henoI think we want to highlight bugs not already on that list18:49
davmor2Would it be useful to highlight regressions in hardy too?18:51
henodavmor2: from hardy you mean?18:51
ara__I am back, sorry, my connection went down18:51
henothe release meetings are focused on intrepid atm18:52
davmor2heno: no I mean in updates to hardy18:52
sbeattieLaserJock: that list is a small subset of the actual bugs contained within the development branch.18:52
henothat would be more appropriate around the next hardy point release18:52
davmor2okay18:52
henodavmor2: see my ml post about tracking these generally though18:53
davmor2seen it interesting :)18:53
LaserJockwell, I don't know what all they want for stats, I was just thinking they'd be interested in some :-)18:53
henoregressions in updates are arguably among the worst bugs we have18:53
LaserJockprobably need to ask them18:53
henoright. sbeattie please post a note to the list when you have a page up and we can all add ideas18:54
sbeattieheno: noted.18:54
henoand then we can ask for feedback at the meeting18:54
henoany other business?18:55
henowe have about 5 min.18:55
bdmurrayWhen I was looking at bug with xorg.conf files I thought it might be useful to tags bugs w/o a package that have an attachment as has-attachment or something.  Thoughts?18:56
sbeattiebdmurray: can you just report the attachment in your no-package report?18:56
henoI agree that would be tidier18:57
bdmurraysbeattie: yes, I could do that instead.  I thought having them searchable in launchpad would be useful though.  It almost seems like one should be able to search for bugs w/ attachments in lp itself.18:57
sbeattiebdmurray: hrm, it already lets you search for bugs with patches attached, I wonder why not attachments in general?18:59
bdmurraysbeattie: indeed18:59
henofile an LP bug :)19:00
bdmurraythat was my though too, but in the interim we could do something19:00
bdmurrayand I think that something would be most useful for hinting w/ bugs w/o a package19:00
henolet's wrap up19:00
heno#endmeeting19:00
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henoThanks everyone!19:01
davmor2Bye Everybody19:01
ara__bye!19:01
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