=== cody-somerville_ is now known as cody-somerville === Andre_Gondim is now known as Andre_Gondim-afk === fabrice_sp_ is now known as fabrice_sp [06:59] good morning :) [06:59] Let's get started then. [06:59] good morning to you [07:00] First, let's find out who's here. [07:00] Good morning [07:00] o/ [07:00] morning nixternal, persia [07:00] but I only can attend the first 15 minutes :-/ [07:00] Toadstool, geser soren awen jpds nhandler ? [07:00] o/ [07:00] \o [07:00] fabrice_sp, In that case, you go first (if we can finish in 15 minutes) [07:00] ok [07:01] #startmeeting [07:01] Meeting started at 02:01. The chair is dholbach. [07:01] Commands Available: [TOPIC], [IDEA], [ACTION], [AGREED], [LINK], [VOTE] [07:01] hi everyone [07:01] [TOPIC] Fabrice Coutadeur [07:01] New Topic: Fabrice Coutadeur [07:01] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FabriceCoutadeur/UniverseContributorApplication [07:01] good morning fabrice_sp - how are you doing? [07:01] good morning dholbach ! I'm doing fine, thanks :-) [07:01] and good morning everyone [07:02] fabrice_sp: in your application you say that the first contact with the Ubuntu community is not as smooth as it could be - do you have an example for that? [07:03] dholbach, I first came to the community to have dvdstyler integrated, and made the upload to REVU [07:03] and after that, I've been lost :-) [07:03] because it took too long to get it reviewed? [07:03] I didn't expect the package to take so long to be accepted [07:03] yes [07:03] now, I understand why (and my packaging is a lot better :-) [07:04] :) [07:04] Do you think the documentation or "the path to contributing" was clear enough? [07:04] Do you have any suggestions that could either improve the experience, or better set expecations? [07:04] also, I'm quite a hy guy, and never used irc before [07:04] weel, the previous documentation spoke about uploading new packages to revu as the first step [07:05] and oviously, it shouldn't be the first step [07:05] "hy"? [07:05] * persia suspects a dropped 's' [07:05] Ah. [07:05] yes, sorry [07:05] * soren is still waking up :) [07:05] my wireless keyboard drop some letters sometime [07:05] :-) [07:06] That's ok. My brain tends to do the same. Or insert new ones at random. It's very confusing. [07:06] fabrice_sp: So you'd say that we could do a better job at guiding new contributors towards learning packaging and probably work on some existing packages beforehand? [07:07] dholbach, yes. I also already helped in a non official way some people interested in packaging stuff [07:07] in private chatrooms, but for the moment, none is still around [07:08] I think that even with few experience, you can still help a lot [07:08] even in REVU :-) [07:08] fabrice_sp, You seem to use your PPA for backporting. Have you considered involvement with the backporters? [07:08] that is a very nice chunk of uploaded packages you have there fabrice_sp. One question, what happened with im-sdk and are you in the process of getting that fixed and reuploaded? [07:09] persia, yes. I also receive some request directly to my mailbox, that I try to upload [07:09] nixternal, it's failing because of debug packages [07:10] I opened another bug report for that, and assigned it to pkg-create-dbgsym package [07:10] in the meantime, I'm still trying to get it fixed (playing with debug compilation options) [07:11] fabrice_sp: groovy, great job on your packaging contributions and some really good testimonials as well [07:11] wow... good work [07:11] thanks :-) I've been a lot more active since I applied to u-c-d [07:11] fabrice_sp: I noticed :) [07:11] soren, geser, nixternal, persia: any more questions? [07:11] working also on python2.6 transition now [07:12] a lot more active than I have been, though dholbach has me working my fingers to the bone on other projects :p [07:12] dholbach: I am good [07:12] dholbach, :-) You sponsored a lot of my uploads :-) [07:12] Nope, I'm good. [07:12] no question from me [07:13] persia must have gone down for more sushi [07:13] fabrice_sp, You say you plan to work on packages "better if linked to Video edition". Could you share what that is? [07:13] I've not heard of it before. [07:13] No, I'm just a slow typist. [07:13] I mean, my first area of interest is video edition [07:14] so, that's why I have in my ppa dvbcut, dvdstyler, openmovieeditor, ... [07:14] Are they not in the official archives at all or do you just have fresher versions in your ppa? [07:14] but I've touching a lot of different packages lately, so it's really my first area of interest, but not the only one :-) [07:14] and he lives in one of my favorite places in the world too, madrid..so now I know where I can crash next time I am out there :p [07:14] soren, fresher versions, most of the time [07:15] fabrice_sp: Ok, cool. [07:15] I'm more curious about the nomenclature "video edition", but it's not important to my decision. [07:15] for Openmovieeditor, it's more ocmplicated as the new version requires a lot of new packages [07:15] persia: "video editing" maybe [07:15] dholbach, persia: yes [07:15] OK. [07:15] persia: good to go? [07:15] I mean converting old family videos to DVD's [07:16] dholbach, Yes. [07:16] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FabriceCoutadeur <- I wish I was that organized [07:16] [VOTE] Shall Fabrice Coutadeur become Contributing Developer? [07:16] Please vote on: Shall Fabrice Coutadeur become Contributing Developer?. [07:16] Public votes can be registered by saying +1/-1/+0 in the channel, private votes by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to MootBot [07:16] E.g. /msg MootBot +1 #ubuntu-meeting [07:16] +1 [07:16] +1 received from nixternal. 1 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 1 [07:16] +1 [07:16] +1 received from dholbach. 2 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 2 [07:16] +1 [07:16] +1 received from persia. 3 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 3 [07:16] +1 [07:16] +1 received from soren. 4 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 4 [07:16] psst, geser, your turn [07:16] +1 [07:16] +1 received from geser. 5 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 5 [07:16] hehe [07:16] how do I end the vote again? [07:16] #endvote [07:16] #endvote [07:16] [endvote] [07:17] wonder if I can go next? [07:17] [endvote] [07:17] Final result is 5 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 5 [07:17] congratulations fabrice_sp [07:17] rgreening: you are going last, we want it to be like 5am when it is your turn :p [07:17] :-) [07:17] congratulations and welcome fabrice_sp!!! [07:17] thanks to all! :-) [07:17] It is 5 am [07:17] no, thank you [07:17] [TOPIC] Roderick B. Greening [07:17] rgreening: is it? [07:17] New Topic: Roderick B. Greening [07:17] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/rgreening/DeveloperApplicationMOTU [07:17] morning all :) [07:18] * a|wen waves at rgreening [07:18] Is this the MC meeting? [07:18] cody-somerville: yes [07:18] cody-somerville, Yes. [07:18] o/ a|wen [07:18] Can I do an impromptu application for core-dev as I don't imagine I'll generally be aware at this hour again anytime soon? [07:18] damn, rgreening you messaged me too to put an indorsement on your wiki page...I apologize for totally forgetting [07:18] rgreening, You say you need to read more documentation. Could you share why you think you've read enough to be MOTU? [07:19] rgreening: almost every sponsor mentions the danger of over-committing - what do you think about that? [07:19] nixternal: thats ok, you can skip that and just + 1 me now [07:19] cody-somerville, No. Applications need a week discussion period before discussion. There's another meeting at 17UTC, which might work better for you? [07:19] s/discussion/consideration/2 [07:19] * Hobbsee_ cheers for rgreening [07:19] persia, Okay, great. [07:19] cody-somerville: could you please follow https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuDevelopers ? [07:19] MC: I can definitely endorse rgreening, even if he did keep me awake at UDS from snoring...totally awesome work he has done in Kubuntu and I believe some of it has gone upstream or is going upstream... [07:19] persia: one can NEVER read too much. I can attest that to the 100's of tech books i have [07:19] cody-somerville: it'll make it a bit easier for us to prepare, etc. [07:19] dholbach, I was just being facetious anyhow. No problem :) [07:20] dholbach: thats all in ref to UDS. I was quite the eager beaver. and that was also many months back [07:20] hahaha, that is funny, rgreening what did I say to you at UDS? :) [07:20] rgreening: ah, so you're not the eager beaver anymore? :) [07:21] dholbach: I now have a realistic view of things. this allows me to accept work that can be done [07:21] and not take on too much. [07:21] right nixternal [07:21] rgreening: how's the work on kpackagekit coming on? [07:22] good dholbach. I have been learning a lot on it. [07:22] totally awesome dholbach :) I finally don't have that annoying other k package thingy, I already forgot its name [07:22] I have a couple of patches already in [07:22] adept, that was it [07:23] rgreening: I know that glatzor did some work around handling debconf stuff and questions asked by the package installation process - does that work in kpackagekit already? [07:23] and dholbachworking on other patches now. also the new app-install spec was initiated by me with upstream [07:23] dholbach: that would be a back-end. should be immediately available to kpackagekit. I can certainly check with glatzor to verify [07:24] rgreening: well, some parts of it should be part of the front-end too, no? :) [07:24] dholbach: yes. correct. [07:25] not sure if it was integrated yet into 0.4. [07:25] ok [07:25] but it should be easy if it's not yet there. [07:25] the code for kpackagekit it really clean [07:26] rgreening, Two of your endorsers comment that they'd like to see more varied work, and you mention work with the server team as a future plan. What steps have you taken in that direction so far? [07:26] I have discussed woth ScottK on how to get more involved with the team. I have also jumped in the IRC channel for server to see what needs doing. [07:27] I have some ideas for UDS and next server release [07:27] to do with security packaging. thats an area I am really familiar with [07:27] And you also mention that you'd like to work more closely with the GNOME team. How is that progressing? [07:27] specifically firewalls. [07:28] well, glatzor and I have been colaborating with packagekit ideas (for Gnome/KDE). [07:29] I have also worked with some packagers of Gnome apps to help reduce unnecessary deps in packages. [07:30] did I miss anyones questions? [07:30] :) [07:31] soren, persia, nixternal, geser: any more questions? [07:31] I have also worked with fixing python 2.6 transition in some packages for ScottK [07:31] none here [07:31] no [07:31] Nope. [07:31] all set [07:32] [VOTE] Shall Roderick Greening join the MOTU team? [07:32] Please vote on: Shall Roderick Greening join the MOTU team?. [07:32] Public votes can be registered by saying +1/-1/+0 in the channel, private votes by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to MootBot [07:32] E.g. /msg MootBot +1 #ubuntu-meeting [07:33] +1 [07:33] +1 received from dholbach. 1 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 1 [07:33] +1 [07:33] +1 received from nixternal. 2 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 2 [07:33] +1 [07:33] +1 received from persia. 3 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 3 [07:33] +1 [07:33] +1 received from geser. 4 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 4 [07:33] 1+ [07:33] Heh. Whoops [07:33] +1 [07:33] +1 received from soren. 5 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 5 [07:33] hehe [07:33] lol [07:33] [endvote] [07:33] Final result is 5 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 5 [07:33] congratulations rgreening [07:33] and good night :-) [07:33] congrats and welcome rgreening !!! \o/ [07:33] ty. [07:33] :) [07:34] congrats rgreening! [07:34] and another kubuntu suckah bites the dust [07:34] gl a|wen [07:34] thx [07:34] [TOPIC] Jérémie Corbier [07:34] New Topic: Jérémie Corbier [07:34] hey Toadstool - how are you doing? [07:34] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2009-February/002030.html [07:34] woohoo Toadstool...welcome back :) [07:34] * rgreening sleeps for 2 hrs now.. before work. [07:34] nn rgreening [07:35] g'nite rgreening [07:35] hrmm, where did he go? [07:35] Toadstool: did you find your way back into the Ubuntu Development world easily? [07:37] * persia suspects Toadstool is otherwise occupied [07:38] let's wait another 2 minutes and then do a|wen first? [07:39] fine for me [07:39] :) [07:40] ok... Toadstool: we'll get back to you [07:40] [TOPIC] Andreas Wenning [07:40] New Topic: Andreas Wenning [07:40] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AndreasWenning/DeveloperApplication [07:41] hi! all around [07:41] How's Thailand? Are you in touch with any local group there? :) [07:42] it's good :) ... no sadly not; but i'm sure to "promoting" some (k)ubuntu whenever i can [07:44] * a|wen found an ubuntu sticker on one of the office doors of his department the other day [07:44] a|wen: how has the work been with the Security team? have you had the chance to work directly with them? [07:44] how comes that so many kubuntu developers are applying? doesn't ubuntu-desktop need any more devs or is kubuntu simply better at recruiting? [07:44] a|wen, You mention work on security updates. Have you had any involvement with MOTU SWAT? [07:44] geser, Probably just cyclical: it was the other way for quite a while. [07:45] geser: and lets not forget that 3 out of 7 MC members are also Kubuntu developers :) [07:45] it is an invasion I tell you [07:45] dholbach: not directly no ... until now i've simply been preparing an upload for the full stack and trying to get a sponsor [07:45] a|wen: I'm sure they're going to appreciate helping hands. :-) [07:46] jaunty, bzr qt3 , sourcepackage qt4=4.5.0-0maemo0mer1 [07:46] er, sorry [07:46] but i might try to get involved with motu swat soon ... i think security updates are very important to focus at [07:47] geser: they (we) are good at welcoming people in the kubuntu camp ... and the kde-packaging is streamlined (thx apachelogger) to easily get people to help; that has worked really good [07:47] I can also provide some endorsement on a|wen...he has done a tremendous job with helping on the KDE 4.x packages and helping out others as well in regards to packaging in #kubuntu-devel...he has been around a long time and always found a way to contribute substantially [07:48] a|wen: you said you're maintaining packages in debian itself too? [07:48] thx nixternal :) [07:48] a|wen, https://code.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cve-tracker might address part of your "What I like least in Ubuntu" concern. [07:48] heh, all this time I thought you were a MOTU already..then again, when you went for Kubuntu Member I thought you were already a member then as well [07:48] dholbach: correct ... i have python-uniconvertor (currently in ubuntu/main); and two apache modules [07:49] a|wen: Do you think we're doing a good job at working with Debian in general? [07:49] persia: uhh; i should look at that one and see, what that is [07:50] dholbach: in general yes, but everyone needs to be aware of it ... i'm very focused on sending patches upstream to debian, but we need all to be that [07:51] we'll all benefit for getting patches/changes/improvements to debian to cut down on the diff ... we also need to better to that with the current kde-packaging [07:51] a|wen: anything we could do to give it more visibility? [07:52] dholbach: adding it as part of the merge-process? (can't remember if it is already there) [07:53] I *think* it's mentioned there. [07:53] Anyway, I was just interested to hear the views from somebody who "lives in both worlds". [07:53] soren, geser, persia, nixternal: any more questions? [07:53] none here [07:54] dholbach: no, you'are doing the questioning great, you haven't unlearned anything in your MC absence time :) [07:54] dholbach: and as a sponsor we should remember asking if it is done ... i'm often asked by eg. ScottK if i remembered to send it upstream (luckily i often have) [07:54] dholbach: Yeah, what geser said :) [07:54] geser: :-) [07:55] a|wen: I guess you're going to bear that in mind, when doing sponsoring yourself? :) [07:55] I don't have any more questions. I've been quite impressed with the quality of changelog entries in the patches I've seen. [07:55] alright......... [07:55] dholbach: of course :) [07:55] [VOTE] Shall Andreas Wenning join the MOTU team? [07:55] Please vote on: Shall Andreas Wenning join the MOTU team?. [07:55] Public votes can be registered by saying +1/-1/+0 in the channel, private votes by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to MootBot [07:55] E.g. /msg MootBot +1 #ubuntu-meeting [07:55] +1 [07:55] +1 received from nixternal. 1 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 1 [07:55] +1 [07:55] +1 received from dholbach. 2 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 2 [07:55] +1 [07:55] +1 received from geser. 3 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 3 [07:55] +1 [07:55] +1 received from persia. 4 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 4 [07:55] +1 [07:55] +1 received from soren. 5 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 5 [07:55] [endvote] [07:55] Final result is 5 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 5 [07:56] congratulations and welcome a|wen!!! \o/ [07:56] congratulations a|wen! :) [07:56] Yay, more Danish MOTU's! [07:56] another kubuntu suckah bites the dust :p [07:56] thx everyone :) [07:56] And has Toadstool returned? [07:56] soren: yay! [07:56] nobody expects the Danish ... err.... :) [07:56] mmm, a danish...I am quite hungry actually :p [07:56] haha [07:56] nixternal: We /are/ tasty, aren't we? [07:56] err, not that kind of danish your perverts! [07:56] Oh. [07:57] * dholbach will cut that out of the meeting logs [07:57] :p [07:57] hahaha [07:57] Right. We've clearly lost cohesion. Let's call it done, and reconvene in a couple weeks. [07:57] I propose we do Toadstool's re-application over mail if he doesn't turn up by the end of the hour. [07:58] 2 minutes... [07:58] I thought we didn't want to do them over mail anymore. [07:58] persia: As a rule, we don't. Toadstool's appliaction is kind of special, though. [07:59] soren, Why is it any different than any other reapplication? [07:59] persia: I was thinking that it'd be nice if re-applications were unbureaucratic [07:59] persia: We've been through this :) [07:59] persia: Because it's a reapplication. [07:59] dholbach, It's not that, it's that I think we ought to do it one way or the other. Mixing them just seems wrong. [08:00] On a whim, yes. [08:00] This is a special instance, though. [08:00] Well, it's a rare instance, but I don't know why it's special, but I think I'm looking at a narrower thing than you (see above). [08:01] I'm not really opposed to doing them in our meetings, I was just thinking that Jérémie waited 3 weeks now and given that his skills are undoubted mail might be more convenient [08:01] did we grant the applicant the opportunity to process his application my mail if he can't make it to any meeting? [08:01] (or at least I don't doubt his skills given his involvement in Ubuntu before) [08:02] geser: yes, we said we are flexible :) [08:02] persia: Oh, right I see what you said now. I missed a "re" somewhere :) [08:02] Well, the other alternative would be to process in his absence. [08:03] I'm not that excited about that, because I think it's unfair if we have unanswered questions. [08:03] I agree, meeting to not ask questions is weird. :) [08:03] me too [08:03] On the other hand, I don't especially want to make him wait: I just think that if we switched from mail to meetings because we thought it was better, we should stick with that. [08:04] I also think it's unfair to expect some applicants to appear at meetings, and other applicants to be processed by mail. [08:04] I'm happy to make it an impromptu meeting then. I was just trying to avoid making him wait another 2 weeks. [08:04] That said, if we want to declare that reapplications only require declaration of intent and plans, and we just do it, I'm good with that, but let it be a precedent. [08:05] persia: Sounds reasonable. [08:05] alrighty all, I am going to bed...I shall talk to you later on today :) [08:05] night nixternal [08:05] g'nite [08:06] soren, geser, persia: so what's your favourite solution now? [08:06] * persia is unsure, but wants the chosen solution to not be "special". [08:07] When Toadstool shows up next, we can see if we can make quorum for an inpromptu meeting. [08:07] soren: +1 [08:07] As we've done that before, it wouldn't be a precedent. :-) [08:07] I'm not opposed. Will we extend that to any applicant, or just for reapplicants? [08:08] persia: we did it for Laney (I think) because of scheduling / timing problems 4 weeks ago [08:08] so it's more a "be flexible when necessary" instead of a new "special rule" [08:08] We did. Do we expect to keep doing that if there are issues with scheduling/timing? [08:09] persia: I think that's a reasonable thing to offer to others. [08:09] persia: We're all of course free to say that it's a bad time for us. [08:09] OK. That seems reasonable. [08:09] OK. :) [08:09] [TOPIC] AOB [08:09] New Topic: AOB [08:09] geser, soren, persia: anything from you? [08:10] So, if someone can't make a scheduled meeting, we will consider them for a possible ad-hoc meeting between the scheduled meeting and the next scheduled meeting. [08:10] And if any of us have dire concerns or strong praise, we'll annotate the applicant wiki page after the missed meeting. [08:10] Does that sound complete? [08:11] persia: Perfect. [08:11] The cases up until now were obvious: timezone confusion and dropping off the internet. [08:12] We didn't have the case yet where an applicant said "I flat out can't make any of those times". [08:12] Right. I'm essentially trying to establish a guideline that lets us reasonably say "yes" or "no" rather than "come to the next one". [08:13] I'm happy with what you said above [08:14] OK. That's three of us, which unfortunately isn't quorum. I'll bring it up at the next MC call, and if we have quorum, add it to the wiki page. [08:14] ok great [08:14] Is there any other business? [08:15] I guess not. [08:15] I'm happy to do the honours and update the agenda for next time. [08:15] See you in two weeks! :) [08:15] Thanks everybody [08:15] #endmeeting [08:15] Meeting finished at 03:15. [08:16] I'm happy with the proposed solution (ad-hoc meetings) [08:19] geser, Excellent. You save me having to remember the details :) I'll update the wiki page in a few hours. [08:19] thanks persia [08:22] guys I'm really really sorry, stuck in traffic for 2 hours :( [08:23] persia, soren, geser: still there? :) [08:23] * persia is still here [08:23] * geser has to leave now, will be back in around 3 hours if necessary [08:24] That means no quorum for at least three hours, unless someone else appears. [08:24] I'll show up next meeting then, no worries :) [08:24] my fault anyways, I should have left home earlier [08:24] sorry about the inconvenience [08:25] Toadstool: no worries - I'd be happy to make it an impromptu meeting later today if we can get quorum [08:26] dholbach: fine with me, just ping me if you do, thank you for the effort [08:26] * dholbach hugs Toadstool [08:26] * Toadstool hugs dholbach back [09:52] jpds, geser, persia, Toadstool: around? :) [09:52] yes :) [09:52] yep [09:52] present [09:53] * jpds waves. [09:53] super [09:53] #startmeeting [09:53] Meeting started at 04:53. The chair is dholbach. [09:53] Commands Available: [TOPIC], [IDEA], [ACTION], [AGREED], [LINK], [VOTE] [09:53] Did we lose soren in the interim? [09:53] This is an impromptu meeting to deal with the re-application of Toadstool aka Jérémie Corbier. [09:53] persia: I pinged him [09:53] first, I'd like to apologize and thank you all for showing up now :) [09:54] [TOPIC] Re-activation of Jérémie Corbier [09:54] New Topic: Re-activation of Jérémie Corbier [09:54] [LINK] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2009-February/002030.html [09:54] LINK received: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2009-February/002030.html [09:54] Toadstool, You mention that you've been following process change to some degree. What changed most while you were away? [09:55] that's quite a lot of things to talk about but mainly SRUs and ways the different freezes are handled I guess [09:56] I don't know the exact changes to be honest, but I know things changed and I also know where to look at on the mailing lists and on the wiki [09:56] Toadstool: is there anything that specifically interests you in the mobile world? [09:58] low level stuff, drivers, etc. but I have recently looked at how UIs are designed (Maemo, U Mobile, etc) and I think I am going to take a deeper look at that as well [09:59] I'm sure the Ubuntu Mobile people will be pleased to get to know you [09:59] for what is worth, I am working as a linux embedded software engineer, so I have a good understanding of how things work on a mobile device ;) [10:00] ah, I didn't know :) [10:00] jpds, geser: do you have any questions? [10:00] Toadstool, I'm also curious if you put anything in the sponsors queue while you were waiting to be MOTU again. [10:01] not yet, but I am currently working on putting the qc-usb driver into shape for Jaunty or Karmic [10:02] the package is ready, I just need to test it a little more [10:02] Oh, excellent! [10:02] * soren is around-ish [10:03] soren: questions? :) [10:03] None :) [10:04] None from me. [10:05] no questions from me either [10:05] persia: anything else from you? [10:05] Nope. [10:05] [VOTE] Shall Jérémie Corbier re-join the MOTU team? [10:05] Please vote on: Shall Jérémie Corbier re-join the MOTU team?. [10:05] Public votes can be registered by saying +1/-1/+0 in the channel, private votes by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to MootBot [10:05] E.g. /msg MootBot +1 #ubuntu-meeting [10:05] +1 [10:05] +1 received from dholbach. 1 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 1 [10:05] +1 [10:05] +1 received from persia. 2 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 2 [10:05] +1 [10:05] +1 received from jpds. 3 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 3 [10:06] +1 [10:06] +1 received from geser. 4 for, 0 against. 0 have abstained. Count is now 4 [10:06] [endvote] [10:06] Final result is 4 for, 0 against. 0 abstained. Total: 4 [10:06] +1 [10:06] aw.. [10:06] oops [10:06] sorry soren :) [10:06] That's +5! [10:06] I thought we had all already [10:06] yay! \o/ [10:06] congratulations Toadstool! [10:06] and welcome back! [10:06] thank you guys! [10:06] Welcome back Toadstool [10:07] soren: two seconds to slow or dholbach two seconds too fast [10:07] and thanks for your time, greatly appreciated [10:07] somebody wants to do the honours? [10:07] it's good to be back :) [10:07] * persia will do them if nobody else steps up, as dholbach already did several today [10:08] * persia looks for someone else [10:08] I can do it. [10:08] Excellent. [10:08] thanks a lot jpds [10:08] #endmeeting [10:08] Meeting finished at 05:08. [10:08] Thanks a lot everybody! [10:09] thanks again === davidm_ is now known as davidm === asac_ is now known as asac [14:00] hello [14:00] * lool waves [14:01] Howdy [14:01] afternoon [14:01] morning [14:02] * pgraner waves [14:04] mdz, lool, Riddell, sbeattie, Hobbsee: ping [14:04] slangasek: emailed you earlier [14:04] slangasek: 15:00 * lool waves [14:04] hi [14:04] mdz: ah, ok [14:06] #startmeeting [14:06] Meeting started at 09:06. The chair is slangasek. [14:06] Commands Available: [TOPIC], [IDEA], [ACTION], [AGREED], [LINK], [VOTE] [14:06] * slangasek waves back to lool, right :) [14:06] [TOPIC] outstanding actions [14:06] New Topic: outstanding actions [14:07] actually only two of these carried over [14:08] cjwatson: have you had a chance to prod anyone about helping with the Qt powerpc ICE? [14:09] unfortunately not, but I did (just today) ask IS to set up a jaunty chroot on davis, and with the aid of that I've reproduced the ICE just a few moments ago [14:09] so I'll put together the usual preprocessed source, with a minimal case if I can [14:09] ok [14:10] sorry I'm a bit late on that [14:10] it happens... :) [14:11] the other carry-over was bug #88746, on my list. Still haven't had the block of time to dig through that bug and turn it into something sensible [14:11] Launchpad bug 88746 in linux "ehci_hcd module causes I/O errors in USB 2.0 devices" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/88746 [14:12] since I haven't found the time for that, I'll happily give that over if someone else wants to volunteer to take it [14:12] otherwise I'll keep it on my list [14:12] kernel perhaps? [14:12] * rtg ducks [14:12] or did they explicitly ask for others to look at it? [14:13] they explicitly disclaimed responsibility for that morass of a bug report :) [14:13] cjwatson: its one of those enormous dogpile bugs. [14:13] rtg: oh, I know the feeling, believe me ... [14:14] well, nobody jumping up and down to take it, I'll keep it in my pile [14:15] btw, mdz sent me a couple of other items for the agenda which I'll insert at the end [14:15] The "surprize" items [14:15] [TOPIC] Future issues expected to impact the release [14:15] New Topic: Future issues expected to impact the release [14:15] Is that free floor? [14:16] i.e., anything in the pipeline from anyone's team that we need to be aware of? [14:16] desktop team still has 4, I'm afraid [14:16] pitti: go ahead [14:16] they are on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/ReleaseStatus, but the most important one is the potential update of -intel [14:16] currently we are leaning much towards "no" [14:17] but if testing shows that it works much better than the current one, without much regressions, we might consider it [14:17] given intel's recent problems with it's QA, we are kind of sitting between a rock and a hard place here [14:17] my impression is that -intel has been flakier than desirable this cycle [14:17] cjwatson: very much so [14:17] I'd like to mention that we're currently spending all our efforts getting imx51/babbage daily images in place; this is unfortunately bound to some problems: building RedBoot requires a cross toolchain, we'd like to avoid that in main but we need a redboot binary for the images; I'm still not done with the tool to generate RedBoot binary config partitions from scratch; VFP is blocked on having a new kernel on the buildds and porter box, but ... [14:18] it's so ironic that ATI cards which everyone hated a year or two ago are now almost working better than intel ones :/ [14:18] ... that's getting close [14:18] * slangasek nods to pitti. [14:18] pitti: ATI support for several Radeon controllers is still forthcoming. I'll get them done in time for Beta. [14:18] slangasek: so, I'm very conservative about this, but we should at least keep the option on the table [14:18] lool: why does it require a cross-toolchain? [14:18] pitti: right, understood [14:18] [LINK] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2009-03-13 [14:18] LINK received: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2009-03-13 [14:19] rtg: right, is that update (DRI for r6xx/r7xx) already committed, or are there problems with it? [14:19] slangasek: I don't have the specifics, NCommander has and I've asked him to write them down and we might get help from ARM folks who know RedBoot well to debug [14:19] * slangasek gets the agenda up, so the topics are less of a surprise :) [14:19] pitti: no, just couldn't get it done in time for A6. [14:19] slangasek: I wish we'd build with a native toolchain, but ECos upstream (used in RedBoot) doesn't support native builds but only arm-unknown-eabi ones [14:19] hrm, odd [14:19] In the meantime, NCommander proceeds to packaging a cross toolchain [14:19] rtg: that's fine [14:20] slangasek: I didn't work directly on this, but will hand you the details when I get them from NCommander [14:20] lool: understood, thanks [14:20] lool: the kernel team wouldn't mind a cross tool chain for testing kernel builds [14:20] rtg: it sounds like it's arm-cross-arm, not arm-cross-something-fast :) [14:21] rtg: I was working on a convenience one for this reason, but having one in main doesn't sound like a good idea [14:21] lool: something that worked on Jaunty would be fine with me [14:21] slangasek: We can discuss this particular topic into details if you like, but NCommander proposed an i386->arm toolchain to build an arch: all binary with the redboot as "data" in it; I'm not too hot though [14:22] lool: ah, ok [14:22] I think we don't need to cover the details here though, and that's currently the workaround solution, my personal preference is for a native build [14:22] that seems unnecessary to me; but we can talk about it after the meeting [14:22] [TOPIC] general feature update [14:22] New Topic: general feature update [14:22] It might be only needed in jaunty where we release these particular SD image with RedBoot, hopefully we wont need to include it in future images [14:23] desktop features> all specs done \o/ [14:23] I'm hoping there's nothing to discuss for this topic, but just in case :) anyone have features still coming in that we need to know about? [14:23] slangasek: Mark wants plymouth in jaunty [14:23] VFP patches [14:23] (just kidding) [14:23] pitti: :-) [14:23] heh :) [14:24] pitti: you had me going for a second [14:24] [TOPIC] Spot check on the status of ATI DRI patches [14:24] New Topic: Spot check on the status of ATI DRI patches [14:24] foundations is mostly ok, but we still have a few that need polishing [14:24] bah, it's just not the same on IRC, without seeing slangasek's boggled face IRL [14:24] slangasek: We expect to work until the last minute on imx51/babbage bug fixes, the kernel is quite rough and we're seeing some userspace issues [14:24] and there are a few extra-FF ones, like James' daily builds / dist. dev. work [14:24] slangasek: I'm curious about grub2 ... [14:24] oh, oops, one minute is too small a window - I thought jokes meant we were done ;) [14:24] new ATI xorg driver is in jaunty now [14:25] slangasek: I'll get ATI kernel patches in the next upload [14:26] cjwatson: I have email from evand saying that grub2 is only available for preseeding; is that how we want to ship it? [14:26] rtg: excellent, thanks :) [14:26] Oh and I'm happy to report UNR is in a good shape [14:27] slangasek: perhaps we should promote it to something you can select in expert mode [14:27] right, that sounds good to me [14:27] slangasek: which is how it is in Debian anyway [14:27] so that's just reverting a patch [14:28] [ACTION] slangasek to make grub2 available in installer expert mode [14:28] ACTION received: slangasek to make grub2 available in installer expert mode [14:28] cjwatson: besides that, I think we're already there code-wise [14:29] slangasek: lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/grub-installer/ubuntu r714 FWIW [14:29] [TOPIC] Hardware testing [14:29] New Topic: Hardware testing [14:29] cjwatson: ack, thanks [14:29] grub-pc will have to go in main for it to work [14:29] ah [14:29] err ... maybe [14:29] try it :) [14:29] will do. :) [14:30] hardware testing fell victim to the udev/partitioner races, I know [14:30] fader: have you had a chance to retry with server CD 20090311.1 yet? [14:31] fader: mdz also writes that he's expecting some reporting today; is that done / linked from somewhere? [14:31] cjwatson: It was supposed to happen overnight but there was a checkbox issue that prevented it. He's working on it now, so we should have a retest later today sometime. [14:31] fader: expecting an up-to-date test report for all operational hardware [14:31] fader: right, ok [14:31] Reporting is coming up now... schwuk was working on the report. It should be available in ~5 minutes. [14:32] fader: I started a bit late due to a doctor's appointment, so will be around a little more into the evening [14:32] in case that's useful [14:32] cjwatson: Great. I am in Montreal now and will be flying back to the US this evening but I think that's fairly late into your night anyway [14:32] definitely [14:32] So I will bug you if and when I can reproduce that issue. [14:33] ~5min - let's move on and fader can catch us up with the report when it's available [14:33] it's useful to know that you have a 50-75% reproduction rate, though; that will really speed things up [14:34] [TOPIC] Regressions [14:34] New Topic: Regressions [14:34] mdz asks if we know whether the regressions list is getting shorter or longer over time [14:34] robbiew: ISTR you had some conversations with QA about this? [14:35] hmmm [14:35] I don't have hard numbers, but the regressions-potential list looks about the same as the last time I looked at it [14:35] still only two bugs there that are obviously foundations (one of those unreproducible) [14:35] * robbiew recalls something...but pretty sure he didn't follow through :/ [14:35] * robbiew will follow up [14:35] yes, the count doesn't look much different to me [14:36] http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/complete-graphs/regression-potential/ [14:36] LINK received: http://people.ubuntu.com/~brian/complete-graphs/regression-potential/ [14:36] slangasek: I know mdz was interested in seeing new regressions for the week highlighted in this meeting [14:36] also other directories in there with obvious names [14:36] cjwatson: oh hey, nice [14:37] slangasek: as well as any that closed...basically tracking th incoming/closure rates [14:37] robbiew: ah, yes - that means having state somewhere telling us when bugs are marked as regressions [14:37] it's a little hard to follow the numbers there [14:37] which LP itself doesn't appear to give us :/ [14:37] since there's no "all open states" line [14:37] right [14:37] bdmurray: ^- would be useful [14:39] gut feel looks like up somewhat over the last month or two, but down from levels at the same point last release [14:39] [TOPIC] Beta testing [14:39] New Topic: Beta testing [14:40] mdz mentions that, as we've made some infrastructural changes this cycle, it would be useful to include a call for testing with pointers to test plans as part of the beta announcement [14:40] he gives hotkeys as an example [14:41] heh [14:41] based on the technical overview, presumably [14:41] are there others calls for testing we want to include in the beta announcement? [14:41] ext4 perhaps? [14:41] most of the new features we've implemented are probably candidates [14:41] I would tend to shy away from that one because we already know what the biggest ext4 issue is [14:42] and having broad testing is probably not going to get us actionable feedback? [14:42] (just "ext4 ate my files!") [14:42] boot speed? :P [14:42] "make sure your system still boots" [14:42] suspend/resume is another [14:43] upgrades on ATI hardware [14:43] (for the fglrx -> ati transitioning) [14:43] mdz: ack we are doing a CFT for beata on suspend resume [14:43] Frequency scaling? [14:43] lool: how is that new? [14:43] notifications [14:43] pitti: It's in kernel and relies on particular ordering of driver init [14:43] Kickstart LVM support [14:43] lool: oh, you mean test that it still works properly? [14:43] pitti: yes [14:43] update management [14:44] pgraner: is there a test plan written up in the wiki currently? Then I can link to it in the beta announcement, in addition to any CFT you guys do [14:44] pulse audio? [14:44] slangasek: Hey why don't you go over jaunty-changes for the last 6 months? [14:44] computer-janitor [14:44] slangasek: yes ogasawara can work with you on that [14:44] [ACTION] slangasek to get suspend/resume test plan from ogra [14:44] er [14:44] ACTION received: slangasek to get suspend/resume test plan from ogra [14:44] accessibility in installer / live CD (was busted, has been fixed) [14:44] will fix the action in post-production :-P [14:44] LVM by default on the server [14:45] lool: that sounds... inefficient [14:45] slangasek: that should be ogasawara [14:45] [ACTION] slangasek to get suspend/resume test plan from ogasawara, who is not interchangeable with ogra [14:45] ACTION received: slangasek to get suspend/resume test plan from ogasawara, who is not interchangeable with ogra [14:46] slangasek: :-) [14:46] well, if she takes over ARM enablement, i'm happy to write nifty plans :) [14:46] heh [14:46] slangasek: I was just kidding :) [14:46] * lool should include a :-P next time [14:46] ok, I think that gives me a good list to work with, thanks; I'll collate those suggestions and follow up with people individually for details as necessary [14:48] fader: does schwuk happen to have that report ready? [14:48] http://people.ubuntu.com/~fader/hw-testing/current.html [14:48] LINK received: http://people.ubuntu.com/~fader/hw-testing/current.html [14:48] He's adding in the notes about machines that are untested (i.e. RT tickets, status of hardware with issues) [14:49] I will update the report once that data is available [14:49] hm, details link is again needing login [14:49] ah, anticipating my question :) [14:49] slangasek: waiting for the right time :) [14:49] mine too [14:49] Details leads to the certification website; if you need a login please email me [14:49] three failures, all Kubuntu; is that a specific issue with Kubuntu or coincidence? [14:50] cjwatson: It's a coincidence... the report right now is showing only the most recently tested image. We're actually testing a *lot* more than you see here. My plan for the next iteration of this is to show all the various images as well [14:51] It just hasn't made it in yet as I've been struggling to make sure things get tested... now that that is slowly falling into place I can focus more on improving the data that we're sharing [14:51] (Or will be able to once the obvious laptop testing break is fixed, but cr3 is working on that) [14:52] that's it from me - anything else before we adjourn? [14:53] should a summary of the cert testing be rolled into http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/ogasawara/weatherreport.html now that it's more useful? [14:53] good idea [14:53] cjwatson: I'd be happy to work with ogasawara to get that in if you can tell me what would be useful to see there [14:54] fader: a pass/fail/untested count, plus a link to the full report [14:54] Are you looking for a full report on all hardware or just a simple status like pass/fail count? [14:54] slangasek: Great, I'll contact ogasawara about that and get that in there [14:54] I suspect a one-line summary kind of thing would fit better [14:55] [ACTION] fader to follow up with ogasawara about linking the HW cert report from the weather report [14:55] ACTION received: fader to follow up with ogasawara about linking the HW cert report from the weather report [14:55] perhaps X failed out of Y tested [14:55] ... right, as slangasek said but I was too dopey to read [14:55] Hehe [14:56] #endmeeting [14:56] Meeting finished at 09:56. [14:56] thanks everyone [14:56] thanks, all. :) === fader is now known as fader|lunch === thekorn_ is now known as thekorn === fader|lunch is now known as fader === rickspencer3 is now known as rickspencer3-afk === rickspencer3-afk is now known as rickspencer3 === Andre_Gondim is now known as Andre_Gondim-afk === Pricey is now known as EvilChild === cody-somerville_ is now known as cody-somerville [22:51] eh... nvm [22:52] sorry, wrong chan