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cjwatsongood afternoon16:00
Keybukcjwatson: hey16:01
mvohello16:01
liwhi16:01
james_whello16:01
cjwatson#startmeeting16:02
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cjwatsondoko said he was unlikely to be able to make it16:02
dokoback and still living =)16:03
cjwatsonoh good16:03
liwTheMuso is probably asleep; we discussed the possiblity of a meeting and came to the conclusion there wouldn't be one16:03
cjwatsonah, I was too late, sorry16:03
cjwatsonso missing evand and vorlon (presumably vorlon is asleep too if he was in that conversation)16:04
* cjwatson prods Evan elsewhere16:04
liwno, just me and TheMuso16:04
slangasekhmm, didn't I see an email from robbiew saying the meeting was cancelled?16:04
liwslangasek, I got one from Google Calendar16:04
evandSorry, lost track of time.16:04
cjwatsonhe cancelled it on the calendar, but I sent out a separate mail16:04
liwcjwatson > Google Calendar16:05
cjwatsonit seems as though we ought to have a FF round-up in time to be able to do something about it ...16:05
slangasekhmm, oh16:05
Keybukcjwatson: but you didn't readd it to the calendar, so those people with alarms set wouldn't be alerted ;)16:05
cjwatsonI blame the lack of telepathic calendars16:05
cjwatsonok, so in my mail I asked for people to have a quick summary of what they were doing FF-wise that was potentially in trouble16:06
cjwatsonhow about I start16:06
cjwatsonmost of oem-config-server is done, and the parts that remain should be in time for FF (most significantly, a tasksel component)16:07
cjwatsonserver-pre-installation involves a lot of little bits, some of which have been agreed to be relatively unimportant and probably won't make it; the thing I'm pushing on hardest is support for manual package selection, on which I've made progress but haven't quite managed to get it to work, so at some risk16:08
cjwatsonI'm working on LVM by default for the server at the moment, which should be in time16:08
cjwatsonotherwise I may be able to help other folks out a bit16:09
cjwatson[end]16:09
cjwatsonevand: how about you?16:09
evandthe slideshow work has been deferred as Julian's team does not have the resources for it this cycle, I'm currently in the middle of the oem ID work, and should have that done tonight or tomorrow, and there's some little bits left on the ubiquity work that I'll be able to knock off in the few days we have left16:10
cjwatsonok, that was quick :)16:12
cjwatsonjames_w: yours mostly aren't FF-critical, but ...?16:12
james_wI like to try and have bzr-builddeb contain the code that is doing the lifting on package-import.ubuntu.com, but that is not required16:13
james_wthere probably aren't features needed to be added to get Debian branches available, so that should be safe16:13
james_wI do want to try and tackle a couple of usability things, but I'm not sure what the solution is, so they may have to wait until next cycle16:14
cjwatsonusability in bzr-builddeb, or elsewhere?16:14
james_wthe rest of the work is de-synced from FF I believe16:14
james_w(though I want to get the latest launchpadlib snapshot in, but that's not too much work)16:15
james_wcjwatson: yes, usability in bzr-builddeb16:15
james_wfor instance making it easy to supply "-v" when building a merge from Debian16:15
cjwatsonah, yes16:16
cjwatson(isn't that just a bug? ;-) )16:16
james_wthat's all from me I think16:17
cjwatsonok16:17
cjwatsonliw:16:17
liwI need some help from mvo to merge Computer Janitor and update-manager code bases, and someone to sponsor uploads, but that should be it16:18
liwI should be able to get all necessary changes in (just) in time for FF, unless I break my back further16:18
mvoyeah, sorry for that, I was not as helpful as I should be16:18
liw(end)16:18
liwmvo, you'll get more mail tonight :)16:18
cjwatsonbreaking backs considered a bad idea for making FF ...16:19
cjwatsonand now I'm reminded that I've been meaning to try out doko's PPA16:20
cjwatsondoko:16:20
dokocjwatson: for python?16:21
cjwatsonyep16:21
cjwatsonwant to play with 2.6 :)16:22
mvome too!16:22
mvo:)16:22
dokowell, upload of python2.6 will follow later today. will depreacate 2.4, so that the packages that we will rebuild don't increase in size16:22
doko2.5 still the default, until we rebuilt the extension modules for 2.5 and 2.6.16:22
dokothen switch to 2.6, before feature freeze16:23
cjwatsonI assume that people maintaining python applications should start playing with 2.6 ASAP16:23
dokoyes, but please let's rebuild the extensions first. should be done by the weekend16:24
cjwatsonok, weekend sounds fine by me - do you have time for the helper package changes discussed at the sprint before FF?16:25
slangasekI'm a bit worried that we're talking about switching the python default right before feature freeze when AFAICS python2.6 isn't even in the archive yet16:25
slangasekhas testing been done in PPA of rebuilding the extensions, to make sure that works, or are we going to have a pile of bugs to sort through right at FF?16:26
cjwatsonmy concern is sort of inverse, that unless we switch in this release we're going to have a harder time getting to python316:26
dokoI had done some rebuilds using 2.6. there are a few uploads needed to cope with new keywords, like 'with'. but it's not as invasive as the switch from 2.4 to 2.516:27
slangasekcjwatson: I concede to the bigger picture, then16:28
slangasekbut the sooner python2.6 is in, the happier I'll be16:28
cjwatson(python3 is still going to be a hugely complex switch of course, but I'd like to be able to go through and lint things with -3)16:29
cjwatsonok, we should continue16:31
cjwatsonmvo:16:31
mvopartner-repositories> policy draft almost ready and will go out to ubuntu-devel for discussion16:31
mvo(but should not really be a FF item)16:31
mvojaunty-backup> not a lot that I have done, but I will sponsor deja-dup into universe, its quite nice16:31
mvoapturl-add-repo> done, in the archive16:31
mvojaunty-codec-install> done and in the archive, may need a legal warning dialog in the same spirit as the old one (asked amanda about this)16:32
mvo(and seeded)16:32
mvoUX team wishes for update-manager, update-notifier> hopefully make it, bits are done, others are not16:32
mvo(end)16:32
cjwatsonUX == DX?16:32
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mvoyeah, whatever todays name is ;)16:32
ograupdate-effects ? :)16:32
cjwatsonI get confused16:32
mvothey want eg. update-manager to start automatically when updates are available16:32
mvoand not display notification bubbles/icons16:32
KeybukUX is Julian's team, DX is David Barth's team?16:33
mvoits not a big amount of work, but still stuff16:33
liwmvo, ugh16:33
cjwatsonhmm, interesting, I'd have to see the implementation of that ...16:33
cjwatsonI assume if you close it it gets out of the way16:33
liwI saw that in the new laptop in our house yesterday. With Windows. It ruined the movie.16:33
mvoliw: haha16:33
mvoI'm not convinced about it myself, but it will start unfocused so at least it does not jump in peoples faces16:33
* liw mumbles something about every interruption, even unfocused ones, costing fifteen minutes of time when in hack mode...16:35
* liw stops mumbling, this being off-topci16:35
mvoliw: there will be a gconf key to get back the old behaviour16:35
cjwatsonI think it's a valid objection, but maybe it would be better if mvo could supply a UX/DX/whatever contact to have the conversation with16:36
mvompt would be the person to talk to16:36
cjwatsonKeybuk:16:38
Keybukbefore FF I'd like to get upstream updates for udev, module-init-tools and util-linux-ng in16:39
Keybukobviously these all depend on upstream ;)16:39
Keybukalso would like to land the hwclock changes and the console changes (which still need testing)16:39
cjwatsonhappy to help with those if you have prototype work, since my system seems to have stopped crashing upon switching to console16:41
slangasekthe fix to make pm-utils not call hwclock is in, thanks to james_w - suspend/resume is a fair tick faster now :)16:42
Keybukit's not a long enough job to need help16:42
cjwatsonok16:42
cjwatsonI confess to the sin of offering help rather than Just Doing It16:42
cjwatsonslangasek:16:44
slangasekgood progress on hotkeys, I think everything that counts as "feature" work will be done on schedule - with a fair number of bug fixes we can follow up on after16:45
slangasekthe grub2 spec is well behind where it ought to be; I'm certainly going to try to make up the difference this week and next, but that could probably use some help, particularly on the installer side - though part of the problem is that I don't have the spec itself ready for review, so I need to get that done today/tomorrow :(16:46
slangasek(that's also a low-priority spec, so if it doesn't make it, that's unfortunate but not the end of the world)16:46
slangasekthe copyright format spec isn't FF material16:46
cjwatsonI can offer whatever help is needed on the installer side (of course grub-installer *should* already support grub2, it's just a switch to flip)16:46
slangasekand there's work to be done on the power management cleanup spec as well - hopefully I'll get a chance to dive into that this week too16:47
cjwatsonI agree that copyright format isn't FF material but would like to see it sooner rather than later, since other parts of Canonical are on our backs about that :-/16:47
slangasekindeed16:47
cjwatsonthe hotkeys stuff has been looking great, I can almost understand it now ;-)16:47
* slangasek grins16:47
slangasekI think there'll probably be an update to Samba 3.3 before FF; I need to discuss this with the server team though, but it does look like Debian unstable will move to the new upstream version soon16:48
slangasekthat's it for me, I think16:48
cjwatsonperhaps relevantly, debian-devel-announce suggests that lenny will release on Saturday16:48
cjwatsonso for a small number of packages that may be useful16:48
slangasekyep - that should restore a bit of balance to unstable :)16:49
cjwatsonmaking it live up to its name? :)16:49
cjwatsonthat's all from me, anyway - AOB?16:49
slangaseknot from this quarter :)16:52
cjwatsonguess not, thanks all and I'll let you get back to work :)16:52
cjwatson#endmeeting16:52
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slangasekthanks!16:52
mvothanks16:52
evandthanks!16:52
liwthanks16:52
davmor2Hi all :)16:57
pedro_hey hey hey16:58
bdmurrayhowdy16:58
* ara waves16:58
* charlie-tca waves16:58
henohey all!16:59
schwukhi heno16:59
jcozenshi.16:59
sbeattiehey17:00
pedro_hey charlie-tca, jcozens17:00
heno#startmeeting17:01
MootBotMeeting started at 11:01. The chair is heno.17:01
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henowelcome back everyone :)17:01
henoagenda as usual: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/Meetings17:02
heno* UbuntuBugDay resume17:02
henopedro_: ?17:02
pedro_Last week we ran the update-manager hug day  -> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/2009020517:03
pedro_Martin Mai (MrKanister on IRC) helped us with the organization since we were sprinting at Berlin so if you see him online give him a big hug17:03
pedro_the Hug Day hero was the awesome Michele Mangili (mangili on IRC) if you look to the page you'll see what i'm talking about17:04
henoindeed17:04
pedro_next hug day (tomorrow) is going to be based on the bugs without a package https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/2009021217:05
pedro_there's already people working on them ;-) so feel free to join us at any time17:05
henomangilimic is already out in front :)17:06
bdmurraypedro_: I'd like to put the no package bugs w/ attachments in the More Bugs section, alright?17:06
henothanks pedro (and mangilimic!)17:06
heno[TOPIC] hugday-tools call for testing17:07
MootBotNew Topic:  hugday-tools call for testing17:07
pedro_bdmurray: yes that's totally ok, feel free to add them17:07
arathat was a topic by thekorn, but he doesn't seem around17:08
arabut it is kind of related with ubuntu-qa-tools that I added, I could talk about it17:08
henoanyone know the LP URL or so?17:08
pedro_ah hugday-tools right, thekorn rewritten the hugday-tools in order to work with the new wiki format17:08
pedro_he was asking for testing, so tomorrow is the perfect day to test the tool *cof* *cof*17:09
pedro_I've added some documentation at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/Tools17:09
henogreat, thanks17:09
pedro_but it needs to be updated since it's now included on the ubuntu-qa-tools17:09
pedro_i'll do that after the meeting17:10
henoso let's jump to17:10
heno[TOPIC] New ubuntu-qa-tools package17:10
MootBotNew Topic:  New ubuntu-qa-tools package17:10
arathe project in lp ubuntu-qa-tools is now packaged and should be available in Jaunty anytime soon17:11
pedro_\o/ !17:11
davmor2Yay :)17:11
arait was approved by the sponsors and it is awating in the queue17:11
bdmurraysweet!17:12
arait will also include the new hugday tool by thekorn17:12
charlie-tcatools are in the repository already17:12
henothose who are attending other team meetings might mention it and ask if they use tools that might fit in there17:12
davmor2ara: looks to be in with the latest updates :)17:12
macoara: what's the hugday tool?17:12
macoer oh that nevermind17:12
charlie-tcaRead-me for hugday tool is /usr/share/doc/hugday-tool17:13
araplease, report any bugs in the ubuntu-qa-tools package in launchpad17:13
henothanks ara!17:13
heno[TOPIC] GlobalBugJam reminder17:14
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henoI don't see jorge online17:15
henoanyway here is more info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam17:15
henoI'll be heading to the London one17:15
henowho else is going to an event?17:16
davmor2I might be going to the birmingham one17:16
jcastroI am here sorry, was on a call17:16
macocharlie-tca: even after installing, that file doesn't exist, just for the record17:16
pedro_I'll be participating with the guys at Chile and i'll be online as well helping on #ubuntu-bugs17:16
henojcastro: sorry, my bad17:16
jcastroI'll be participating in detroit and online17:16
macoWashington, DC, we have one on Saturday17:17
maco(the 21st)17:17
pedro_there's a couple of sessions about how to run a bug jam so if you're interested :17:17
jcastrowe're up to ~26 teams signed up, if we can hit 30 teams that would be great17:17
pedro_February 13  at 1200 UTC with dholbach as the speaker17:17
pedro_and February 14 at 0000 UTC with jcastro17:18
jcastroyeah, those are the typical training sessions17:18
pedro_the sessions are taking place in #ubuntu-classroom17:18
henoGreat, looking forward to the GBJ :)17:19
heno[TOPIC] New GNOME desktop testing team17:19
MootBotNew Topic:  New GNOME desktop testing team17:19
araA new GNOME team was created a couple of days ago. It is focused on automated testing for the desktop17:20
arahttp://live.gnome.org/DesktopTesting17:20
MootBotLINK received:  http://live.gnome.org/DesktopTesting17:20
araA new SVN module is set up with the ubuntu-desktop-testing project, but without things specifically for Ubuntu (in this case called gnome-desktop-testing)17:21
arathere is also a mailing list: http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-testing-list17:21
araplease, join the mailing list if you're interested in making gnome a better desktop for linux (and ubuntu)17:22
macodoes KDE have a corrolary?17:22
henoa nice place to announce LDTP 1.5 :)17:22
henomaco: KDE is still a bit lacking in a11y infrastructure17:23
henowhich is what we use for automated testing17:23
macoLDTP?17:23
aramaco: I am afraid no, the at-spi layer (the accessiblity layer) will move to dbus any time soon (?) and then it would work17:23
henomaco: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-testing-list/2009-February/msg00002.html17:24
araLDTP is the testing framework that we are using in the ubuntu-desktop-testing project.  LDTP 1.5. was released a couple of days ago.17:24
araI packaged it for Ubuntu (to avoid debian version not reaching feature freeze) and it is now fully available in Jaunty17:25
henoara: is there a screecast that explains test automation?17:25
araheno: there isn't17:25
araheno: shall I add that to my todo list?17:25
henoI think there are some AI2 and accerciser ones, but not pure LDTP17:25
macoer...didnt mean to re-paste that17:26
henoara: for a start you could request one from the screecast team17:26
macooh i didnt. i scrolled. sorry17:26
heno(though realistically it might turn out better and sooner if you do it)17:26
davmor2just pick on popey :)17:27
henoright, I'll meet him next week17:28
henoara: can you post a request on the screen cast team page?17:28
arasure17:28
henothen I'll check with popey17:28
heno[TOPIC] Possible issues with menu systems in testcases - davmor217:29
MootBotNew Topic:  Possible issues with menu systems in testcases - davmor217:29
davmor2Right so with the wiki migration we've hit an issue involving the differing menu systems in the *buntu family.  Because none of them are the same you can't tell people to click on xmenu->ymenu->app to start an app17:30
macoer, the XDG stuff is generally the same17:30
davmor2So although OO.o is in Ubuntu, Kubuntu and netbook remix to access it they all use slightly different methods17:31
davmor2mid uses next to no menus at all17:32
arawould be includes and meta information enough?17:32
aralike #common- #ubuntu-17:32
macoin kde i open the kmenu, click applications, click office, and pick one. in gnome i open the applications menu, click office, and pick one17:32
henoI'm weary of making the wiki mark-up too complex17:33
henowe'll always run into quirks that we need to account for17:33
henocan we write a page for each of Kubuntu, UNR etc to explain the differences in that flavour17:34
macoand if you use the older gnome menu instead of the gnome menu bar, its exactly the same as using the kmenu17:34
maco(but not as pretty)17:34
henoone of the early 'test cases' for a Kubuntu could the be 'read this page'17:34
macoactually, gnome's old menu is the same as xfce's menu is the same as the old kmenu17:35
davmor2maco: but the differences need to be obvious to the read who is following the instructions so the difference become a pain in the arse17:36
macodavmor2: the names of the sections do not change from desktop to desktop17:36
macodavmor2: the only difference is whether you need to open the menu before you go to Applications or not17:36
davmor2maco: mid has no menu17:37
macothat can be fixed with "go to your main menu and click applications..."17:37
macodavmor2: fair enough. but for the other 3 they're the same17:37
davmor2heno: that's possible17:38
henodavmor2: ok, let's talk this through on the call tomorrow17:38
davmor2okay :)17:38
heno[TOPIC] regression review - sbeattie17:39
MootBotNew Topic:  regression review - sbeattie17:39
sbeattieA few things:17:39
sbeattieI updated the page at http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/regression/regression_tracker.html to use some of the lp css/js goo, so the tables are all sortable now.17:39
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pedro_nice!17:40
ogasawaraOooo, pretty17:40
sbeattiethe regression-potential bugs need a little bit of love17:40
davmor2very pretty17:40
araneat!17:40
sbeattieyeah, the layout's a bit wonky still, but it's an improvement.17:41
henonice :)17:41
sbeattieogasawara: is https://edge.bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/327431 on your radar? Looks like there may have been a regression in the last hardy update re wpa/hidden ssid/iwl3945.17:41
ubottuUbuntu bug 327431 in linux "iwl3945 cannot connect to hidden ssid WPA enterprise with Hardy 2.6.24-23 - Regression" [Undecided,New]17:41
sbeattieoh, I also added the assignee to that page so we could see if a bug's already on someone's radar.17:42
ogasawarasbeattie: thanks, hadn't seen it yet17:43
ogasawarasbeattie: I raised a couple regression at the kernel team meeting yesterday17:43
sbeattieyeah, I read scrollback, but I didn't see that particular issue mentioned.17:43
sbeattieIIRC, we'd agreed we'd start assigning regression bugs to the teams to get them on their radar, is that correct?17:45
henosbeattie: right17:45
henothe correct link is https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/327431 btw17:45
ubottuUbuntu bug 327431 in linux "iwl3945 cannot connect to hidden ssid WPA enterprise with Hardy 2.6.24-23 - Regression" [Undecided,New]17:45
henoboth seem to work for the bot but not FF (?)17:46
sbeattieheno: yeah, that was a manual fixup tyop on my part.17:46
sbeattieI'll walk through and assign bugs later today, may need some help figuring out which teams to assign to.17:47
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sbeattie(unless someone else would like to take that task)17:47
henosbeattie: ok, please set the importance and state of these too17:47
sbeattieokay.17:47
henobugs we touch should have those set17:47
henothanks17:48
henolet's do a lightning round table17:48
* heno starts17:48
henoI spent the past 4 days in London at the management sprint.17:48
henoHighlight is that the other engineering team leads committed to use the team-assignment lists to track their bugs.17:48
henoWe will aim to eventually move all Triaged bugs to those lists or to flag them as not a resource priority for Canonical.17:49
heno[done]17:49
henolet's each prepare a few round table points for these meetings17:50
henowe'd esp. like to hear from non-Canonical folks!17:50
henoanyone wish to add something at 0-minutes notice? ;)17:51
sbeattieheno: a couple of SRU items:17:51
sbeattiefirst, thanks to Rolf Leggewie (r0lf on launchpad) for doing a bunch of verifications, it's very much appreciated!17:51
sbeattiesecond: It'd be great if people with a Samsung NC10 Netbook, Dell Latitude D810 laptop, or the HSUPA modem found in Acer Aspire One could test the hal-info update in hardy-proposed.17:51
sbeattie[end]17:52
henorock r0lf!17:52
henodavmor2: do you have the Acer Aspire One?17:52
davmor2Yeap17:52
ogasawaraI want to give a shout out to michele mangili who's done an amazing job helping close out kernel bugs17:53
henosbeattie: can you walk davmor2 thought testing that SRU?17:53
sbeattieheh, sure. :-)17:53
henoany other topics?17:54
macocan i point out that if any of you have authored patches for ubuntu, its a good idea to check with upstream to see if they want them too?17:54
henothat's esp. true one bugs with upstream tasks17:55
henojcastro: do we have guidelines on doing that?17:56
henoI think we often leave it to the next sync17:56
henowhich may not be so useful for upstream17:56
macoi can say it works much better to send the patch to a -devel mailing list than to set it on a bugtracker17:56
henomaco: what upstreams do you have most experience with?17:57
heno(preferences often vary)17:57
macoheno: gnome and alsa. with gnome i've pinged maintainers on IRC to tell them "there's a patch here" but with alsa i cant find anyone on irc so the mailing list (which requires subscription) is what i used after waiting about 2 months of it being ignored on the bugtracker17:58
stgraberhello17:58
henoperhaps we should make it part of the patch sponsorship process?17:58
macoi think "new bug with patch" and "new bug" dont register any differently in inboxes, but a "live" notification of a patch from a human (not a bugtracker bot relaying things) helps speed things along17:59
macowhich is why jcastro wants us to get involved with communicating with upstream, right?18:00
henoindeed18:01
henospeaking of Gnome upstream :)18:02
henojcastro: can you speak with dhobach about whether we can fit upstreaming into the patch sponsorship process?18:03
henoany other topics?18:03
heno(briefly)18:03
james_wit's normally discussed as part of sponsorship18:04
henoso it's the non-sponsored patches that are slower to get upstream?18:05
henolet's wrap up18:05
bdmurraySpread the word about http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/needs-packaging/needs-packaging-popularity.html18:05
henonow with new bug-hotness hotness!18:06
heno#endmeeting18:06
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davmor2bye18:12
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