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loolheya16:01
mvohello16:01
barryhiya16:01
cjwatsonafternoon16:01
cjwatson#startmeeting16:01
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cjwatsonlet me just quickly create an agenda ...16:02
evhi16:02
james_whi16:03
tremoluxhey16:03
cjwatsonthis also gives my bug list script a little more time to run16:04
doko__hi16:05
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* slangasek waves16:06
cjwatsonright16:06
cjwatson[LINK] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2010/032416:07
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cjwatsonKeybuk: here?16:07
cjwatson>>> print ', '.join(order)16:07
cjwatsonmvo, slangasek, ev, tremolux, lool, doko, cjwatson, james_w, Keybuk, barry16:07
mvoworked on software-center and upgrade issues (update-manager), buried ratings&reviews for lucid, will work on upgrade bugs, beta-2 items16:07
mvo(done)16:07
slangasekworked on: beta16:08
cjwatson[TOPIC] Lightning round16:08
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cjwatson(whoops)16:08
evoh I see how it is16:08
ev;)16:08
slangasekworking on: UbuntuSpec:foundations-lucid-supportable-binaries16:08
slangasek(done)16:08
Keybukcjwatson: nope, I'm other there -->16:08
evfixed quite a few beta-2 bugs, working on getting the rest sorted and the last oem-config work item finished, landing branches now that all my freeze exceptions have been granted (thanks pitti!)16:08
ev(done)16:08
tremoluxContinue Software Center bug fixes and triage, other tasks as needed.16:09
tremolux(done)16:09
loolFixed small build issues in qemu-maemo and packaged it in my PPA (Beagle and N900 support!); worked on a cross-compilation presentation16:09
lool(done)16:09
dokosorry16:10
doko* packages for final python releases16:10
doko* llvm prerelease pacakges16:10
doko* minor toolchain updates16:10
doko* python bug triage16:10
doko(done)16:10
cjwatsondone: helped with beta-1 plymouth/upstart confusion, let's have no more of this :-); grub lvm/raid fixups, localisation fixes, various upgrade fixes; fairly serious bug catchup; filed FFe request for ntfs-3g16:10
cjwatsontodo: figure out why my raid test system can't get past the initramfs; look at raising grub-installer MBR question priority again in d-i; more partitioning cleanup16:10
cjwatson--16:10
KeybukLast week I was mostly fixing the Plymouth bugs that stopped us releasing Beta 1 on time.16:11
KeybukThis week I've been mostly introducing new Plymouth bugs that will stop us releasing Beta 2 on time.16:11
Keybuk--16:11
barrycompleted computer janitor refactoring; branch landed; FFe submitted; bug triage.  worked a little bit on ratings and reviews; officially deferred until 10.10. pep 3147; more test fixing and mailing list discussions; pep updated. upgraded main dev box to lucid \o/.  update manager bug 132311; tracker discussion; bug triage.  little bit of work on launchpad mailing lists. lazr.enum packaging for universe; b16:11
ubottuLaunchpad bug 132311 in update-manager "update-manager should remove more old kernels" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/13231116:11
slangasekKeybuk: not funny :P16:12
james_wWorking on Launchpad to get some things we need for UDD to progress, as well as sponsoring, archive admin etc. Plan for more of the same, but hope to wrap up this first set of LP branches soon.16:12
james_w--16:12
Keybukslangasek: I'm not the one who introduced a broken patch to Plymouth *at the very last minute*16:13
Keybuk:D16:13
slangasekKeybuk: it was only lightly broken :)16:13
Keybuksuuure, what's a segfault between friends? :p16:14
slangasekhrm?16:14
Keybukanyway, banter aside, let's let cjwatson get on with the meeting <g>16:14
cjwatsonlike I say, I'm desperately hoping my script will finish in time :)16:14
cjwatson[TOPIC] Outstanding actions from last meeting16:15
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cjwatsoncjwatson to spec out requirements for launchpadlib bug report script16:15
cjwatsonrequirement is "add assignee column to the reports we're using"16:15
cjwatsonbarry to implement script16:15
slangasekKeybuk: that patch didn't cause any segfaults that I've seen, only a mountall assert?  (The fix for which is in bzr and I'd like to upload - is the branch in a state that I can do so?)16:15
cjwatsonsince I only produced the requirement today, I decided to do it myself ;-)16:15
barrycjwatson: is there anything more to hack on or are you happy enough with your script?16:16
Keybukslangasek: NO!!!!!!!!16:16
slangasekKeybuk: ok, when will it be?16:16
Keybukslangasek: you know how ever time I say "oh, by this evening" it takes another day?16:16
cjwatsonbarry: the main bit that's being a right pain is that I can't see any way to query by targeted (NOT nominated) series in the API16:16
cjwatsonbarry: so I'm having to do a larger search and then trim it down by iterating over all bug tasks, which is painfully slow16:17
Keybukslangasek: I thought I'd upload it yesterday ... a day later and I'm still trying to fix the bug that stops plymouth working at all <g>16:17
cjwatsonand I think the results are still wrong16:17
slangasekKeybuk: heh16:17
cjwatsonso, yeah, I could use some iterative help16:17
barrycjwatson: hmm.  i don't know off hand, but i can ask on #launchpad-dev.  why don't you push a +junk branch so we can collaborate on it?16:17
cjwatsonbarry: yup - will do that after the meeting16:17
barrycool16:18
cjwatson[TOPIC] Outstanding feature freeze exceptions16:18
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cjwatsonfrom last week:16:18
cjwatson16:11 <mvo> python-apt was pending last I checked16:18
cjwatson16:11 <barry> cjwatson: not yet, but c-j is coming16:18
cjwatson16:11 <mvo> ratings&reviews is also still in limbo :(16:18
cjwatson16:11 <cjwatson> ntfs-3g still, I guess, need to find time to look at that16:18
mvopython-apt got granted and is uploaded16:18
barryR&R is deferred for sure16:19
barryFFE for c-j is submitted but i've heard nothing about it since16:19
* mvo waves r&r goodbye for lucid16:19
cjwatsonpitti granted ntfs-3g and I'll upload that today16:19
evwaiting for a comment on ubiquity timezone changes: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/53815616:19
ubottuUbuntu bug 538156 in ubiquity "Freeze exception request: remove the seconds from the time zone map time" [Undecided,New]16:19
mvoI would like to support the c-j dbus branch strongly because the current code is a mess of thread deadlocks that the dbus branch makes go away16:19
Keybukc-j dbus branch?16:20
Keybukoh, computer-janitor16:20
Keybuktook brain a while to expand that16:20
barry:)16:20
Keybukslangasek: I'd like a FFe for a D-Bus update itself16:20
cjwatsonI'm OK with the ubiquity timezone page change16:21
cjwatson(as an installer hacker not a release team bod)16:21
evcjwatson: thanks, landing16:21
evoh, damn :)16:21
cjwatsoncommented on the bug though16:21
slangasekKeybuk: that sounds like an unlikely candidate for getting an exception, what's the need?16:22
Keybukslangasek: it stops the hang with multi-threaded D-Bus apps like evo16:22
barryKeybuk: oh, i'd like to see that!16:23
barrythat maybe was ambiguous.  s/see/have/ :)16:23
slangasekKeybuk: and we can't take the bugfix without new features? :)16:23
Keybukslangasek: I don't have the time to backport just the bug fix16:23
Keybukbut if others do, sure16:23
Keybukthere aren't any new features though16:23
slangasekok; file the FFe and I'll have a look16:24
Keybukjust new other bug fixes16:24
slangaseker - then it doesn't need an FFe16:24
KeybukD-Bus 1.2.x is fully in maintenance mode16:24
Keybukoh, I thought I needed an FFe to sneeze nowadays :p16:24
slangasekonly because when you sneeze, people's machines fall over16:24
slangasek:)16:24
cjwatson[TOPIC] Milestoned bugs16:24
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Keybuknot my fault people let me use computers ;)16:24
cjwatsonso as I said, I've been trying to produce a more useful view of this, but running into a few problems.  At the moment the list I have is of bugs milestoned to beta-2, but it doesn't take targeting into account properly, which is annoying16:25
cjwatsonbut maybe http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/task-assignments/ubuntu-10.04-beta-2.html is useful anyway16:25
cjwatsonso that has upstart bug 531494 which I'm guessing is still a catfight between Keybuk and smoser?16:26
ubottuLaunchpad bug 531494 in upstart "cloud-init job sometimes not running in cloud images without ramdisk" [Critical,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53149416:26
cjwatsonbug 522910 - mvo?16:26
ubottuLaunchpad bug 522910 in update-manager "hardy installation fails to take direct route to lucid" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/52291016:26
cjwatson(or barry?)16:26
Keybukcjwatson: it's not a catfight ;)16:26
cjwatsonbug 52787016:26
ubottuLaunchpad bug 527870 in update-manager "karmic -> lucid CDROM only upgrade fails" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/52787016:26
cjwatsonbug 53700716:27
Keybuksmoser has helpfully set up a machine hung in that state and given me ssh access to it16:27
ubottuLaunchpad bug 537007 in ubiquity "flash-kernel fails hard when network access fails" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53700716:27
barryi can take some u-m bugs since i'm wading into that code now anyway16:27
cjwatsonbug 53812916:27
KeybukI'm unhelpfully been fixing my own release critical bugs first <g>16:27
ubottuLaunchpad bug 538129 in software-center "UI freeze exception: Remove stars and reference to non-existent "reviews"" [High,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53812916:27
Keybuk(before helping the server team with theirs)16:27
cjwatsonbug 539324 (that's mine, just forgot to assign)16:27
ubottuLaunchpad bug 539324 in debian-installer "Setting up swap fails when setting lvm+encryption" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53932416:27
barrymy c-j fix committed bugs will go to fix released when the ffe is accepted and the update lands16:27
cjwatsonbug 539710 - ev, you were in that code recently?16:27
ubottuLaunchpad bug 539710 in ubiquity "OEM Lucid installation - configuring system for a new user - error occurring installing new packages" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53971016:27
cjwatsonbug 53982716:27
ubottuLaunchpad bug 539827 in ubiquity "ubiquity crashes after clicking "try ubuntu"" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53982716:27
mvocjwatson: sorry, I have not looked at those two u-m bugs, but I will16:27
cjwatsonbug 53447316:27
ubottuLaunchpad bug 534473 in ubiquity "Wrong CD device used when installed from a Cruzer Micro." [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/53447316:27
ev539827 scares me16:28
cjwatsonbug 540686 - this is a weirdo upgrade bug, I'm not quite sure what's going on with it16:28
ubottuLaunchpad bug 540686 in initramfs-tools "update-initramfs fails in mkinitramfs with "cpio: ./different/files: Cannot stat: No such file or directory"" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/54068616:28
evI'm not sure what on earth could be causing it, but I'll keep at it16:28
dokocjwatson: the status column doesn't seem to be up to date16:28
cjwatsonbug 38609916:28
ubottuLaunchpad bug 386099 in ubuntu-release-notes "Kubuntu Netbook OEM install does not create a 'prepare for shipping' icon" [High,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/38609916:28
ev539710> indeed, it's at the top of my list16:28
barryi'll take 522910 to at least see if i can do something about it16:28
cjwatsonand I'll stop there for the moment since you can look at the unassigned list for yourselves16:28
cjwatsondoko: it's a statically generated page - my cleverness is limited16:28
cjwatsondoko: and the script takes tens of minutes to run, and is currently a bit broken16:29
RiddellI was planning on doing the Kubuntu Netbook OEM icon bug, it's not hard16:29
mvocjwatson: if you could comment #540252 that would be nice, its sort-of releated to the initramfs failure16:29
cjwatsonRiddell: if you could tackle or get somebody to tackle bug 540202, that would be good too16:29
ubottuLaunchpad bug 540202 in ubiquity "kubuntu ubiquity shows ${RELEASE} briefly at start" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/54020216:29
Keybukhuh16:30
cjwatsonslangasek: when barry and I polish this list up a bit more, will it be of use to you?16:30
Keybukthere's an "LVM" bug assigned to me16:30
Riddellcjwatson: yes, that's on my targets too16:30
Keybukbug #52766616:30
ubottuLaunchpad bug 527666 in mountall "multiple LVM volumes not mounted in Lucid" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/52766616:30
cjwatsonmvo: ok16:30
slangasek540686> a similar bug was already fixed in module-init-tools, but I wonder if that isn't ultimately an initramfs-tools bug for not sanitizing the input to cpio; a similar bug was just reported in Debian, and in that case the dangling symlink was user-provided :)16:33
slangasekcjwatson: yes :)16:33
Keybukinitramfs-tools is where bugs go to die16:33
evlol16:33
cjwatsonslangasek: I think for the lucid list we would also like to limit it to tasks that aren't milestoned for the current milestone - do you agree?16:34
slangasekinitramfs-tools is a roach motel?16:34
slangasekcjwatson: makes sense16:34
Keybukthe other trouble is that initramfs-tools tends to collect bugs that aren't really its fault16:34
Keybuklike if all bugs were filed on dpkg because that was what installed things16:34
cjwatsonKeybuk: ... they are16:34
cjwatsonoh, sometimes they're filed on debconf because that's what asks you questions16:35
mvoor update-manager because that is on the screen16:35
cjwatsonslangasek: we could at least work around it by sanitising the input, even if that might be too big a hammer16:36
cjwatson[TOPIC] Targeted bugs16:36
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cjwatsonwithout a list of what's in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs and not in the milestone list, this remains tricky, but there are a couple of bugs that caught my eye16:36
cjwatsonbug 445852 is nasty - does anyone know what's going on here well enough to attack it?16:36
ubottuLaunchpad bug 445852 in libatasmart "devkit-disks-probe-ata-smart causes HSM Violations on SSD, and potential hardware death" [Unknown,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/44585216:37
Keybukerr, isn't that -desktop16:37
cjwatsonand bug 426027, Keybuk, are we planning a new version of util-linux?16:37
ubottuLaunchpad bug 426027 in util-linux "/dev/disk/by-uuid doesn't exist in karmic kernels" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/42602716:37
Keybukpitti maintains udisks16:37
cjwatsonKeybuk: yeah, but it isn't a udisks bug as such16:37
Keybukcjwatson: there is no new version of util-linux?16:37
Keybukcjwatson: it's a libatasmart bug, which is only used by udisks and packaged by pitti?16:37
cjwatsonah, I didn't realise its use was that limited16:38
cjwatsonKeybuk: the bug implies (and I've only skimmed it) that a newer upstream version fixes it16:38
cjwatsonpossibly a git checkout or something16:38
Keybuksince we're using the newest, shiniest, util-linux version16:38
Keybukthat happens to also be GIT HEAD16:39
Keybukthey lie16:39
cjwatsonok16:39
Keybukoh, wait16:39
Keybukthat bug is talking about KARMIC16:39
Keybukwe obviously have newer in Lucid16:39
cjwatsonshould the lucid task simply be closed?16:39
Keybukslangasek: you opened the lucid task16:39
cjwatsonKeybuk: on 2009-10-3016:40
Keybukdid you have any reason for that?  I can't find any mention of lucid in the bug16:40
cjwatsonlucid was kind of new then, it was just carry-over from karmic16:40
Keybukah16:40
Keybukquite right16:40
KeybukI shall mark Fix Released in karmic16:40
Keybukerr in LUCID16:40
cjwatsonI'm also a bit scared that bug 417757 has come back like a bad smell16:40
ubottuLaunchpad bug 417757 in eglibc "[karmic regression] all network apps / browsers suffer from multi-second delays by default due to IPv6 DNS lookups" [High,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/41775716:40
cjwatsonwe've fixed this twice already by my count16:41
cjwatsondoko: are you on top of that?16:41
dokothe "fix" is applied in the package16:41
dokocjwatson: yes, will lok at it this week16:42
slangasekis it?  the lucid task was reopened distinctly on that one16:42
cjwatsonit's one of those dogpile bugs, so I could well believe that the current issue has nothing to do with the original one, but16:42
slangasek(by pitti, not by $drive_by_commenter)16:43
slangasekdoko: if you think it's fixed, I can re-run my test for lucid that I did for karmic16:43
cjwatsonone of the trailing comments claims to still have problems with lucid beta-116:44
Keybukour users have many problems, not all of them with Ubuntu16:44
dokoslangasek: if you can do this faster than me, would be nice ...16:44
cjwatsonBTW, the reason we dropped Tollef's patch was that upstream's changes were supposed to supersede it16:44
cjwatsonat least that's my memory from the last go-around on this16:44
dokoyes, that's what I remember too16:46
cjwatsonlooks like comparing very closely against FC12 wouldn't go amiss, if we haven't already :)16:47
cjwatsonok16:47
cjwatson[TOPIC] Good news16:47
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cjwatson(skipping a bit)16:47
slangasekNumber of days without a world-breaking plymouth upload on the job site: 1216:48
slangasek;)16:48
Keybuk12?!16:48
loolhaha16:48
loolslangasek: *hours* you mean16:48
KeybukI don't think we've even gone 7 surely16:48
KeybukI remember plymouth uploads in the small hours last week for beta16:48
slangasekKeybuk: ah, but those were world-*fixing* :)16:48
mvoupgrade feedback is overall pretty positive16:48
mvo(modulo button order change)16:49
cjwatsonwith a bit of outside help, Keybuk and I figured out that we have a decent chance of being able to use efifb as a boot framebuffer in lucid+1, fixing lots of issues along the way16:49
cjwatson(it's a BAD IDEA in lucid given the kernel)16:49
slangasekneat :)16:49
Keybukit's very sexy if you build a mainline with lucid's config though16:49
KeybukI tried it last night16:49
KeybukI made grub go purple with the ubuntu logo16:49
Keybukand the mode stayed set, and the screen did not get cleared16:49
Keybukand plymouth drew more on it and animated16:50
cjwatsonrocking16:50
Keybukit was very awesome16:50
* cjwatson wonders if we could persuade design that, with this, a one-second delay in grub isn't so bad after all16:50
* cjwatson fed up of not being able to get at the grub menu in kvm :)16:51
slangasekcjwatson: in grub2, you can't pass vga= at all anymore?  so if you want to specify a video mode, you *have* to use gfx_payload=keep and trigger efifb?16:51
cjwatsonslangasek: you can if you use linux16/initrd1616:51
slangasekah16:51
cjwatsonbut yeah, it's rocky right now16:51
cjwatsonefifb would be a lot easier in many ways, even though it's Different16:51
* slangasek files that rune away for future interactions16:52
cjwatson[TOPIC] AOB16:52
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slangasekI saw a bug comment this week from someone who said "I got my video mode working just fine, just remove vesafb from the blacklist in /etc and edit these three other config files..."16:52
dokoare the rebuild tests running? besides the ones lucas did make16:53
Keybukvga= gets picked up by the initramfs too16:53
cjwatsonslangasek: yeeeees.  uh, it depends16:53
Keybukthe efifb problem, for the record, is that the switch into a real kms framebuffer is a bit rocky16:53
Keybukslangasek: I tend to recommend people do that16:53
cjwatsondoko: oh, bugger, I keep forgetting.  why don't we get you into ubuntu-archive as agreed and you can do it :)16:54
Keybukwith the big BUT YOU MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO RESUME FROM SUSPEND above it16:54
mvocjwatson: what is a good place for maitenance check lucid.hints file ? ~ubuntu-archive too?16:54
slangasekKeybuk: my understanding from cjwatson was that the kernel never *sees* the vga= because grub2 filters it magically when using the 32-bit boot protocol16:54
cjwatsonmvo: is it worth putting it in the seeds?16:55
cjwatsonvga= is a bit weird16:55
Keybukslangasek: oh, dunno about that ;)16:55
cjwatsonit was always interpreted by the boot loader, and shoved into the boot parameters structure that the kernel gets from the boot loader16:55
cjwatsonit was never passed as an ordinary command line option, really16:55
mvocjwatson: not sure, kees asked for a special override file (this is how I implemented it currently). its outside the seeds currently16:55
cjwatsonthe bit of the kernel that interprets it is in the 16-to-32-bit bring-up code16:55
cjwatsonmvo: I think the seeds would be best if that's doable, but failing that I think maybe something that ubuntu-core-dev can write to16:56
dokocjwatson: I'm fine with it, would you mind give some help for the first run?16:56
cjwatsondoko: certainly16:57
mvocjwatson: thanks, that is fine with me, I will update my code for this and talk to kees if/how to put it into the seeds16:57
cjwatsonI needed help from bigjools, it's not the sort of thing you can figure out from scratch even if you're already used to running the archive :(16:57
cjwatsondoko: first thing tomorrow?16:57
cjwatsondoko: oh, wait, I don't start until 11:30 London time on Thursdays, so after that16:57
cjwatsonok, please send me your activity reports if you haven't already, and I'll put them in the wiki16:58
cjwatson#endmeeting16:58
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dokocjwatson: sounds fine16:58
tremoluxsee ya's, good day all16:59
mvothanks16:59
evthanks17:00
slangasekthanks, all!17:00
james_wthanks17:01
* fader_ waves.17:01
* ara waves17:01
fader_marjo has a scheduling conflict so he's asked me to kick off the QA meeting today17:01
* sbeattie waves17:01
fader_So without further ado...17:01
fader_#startmeeting17:02
MootBotMeeting started at 12:02. The chair is fader_.17:02
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fader_Agenda:17:02
fader_    * SRU testing -- sbeattie (Steve Beattie)17:02
fader_    * Bug Day status -- pvillavi17:02
fader_    * Upgrade Jams -- ara17:02
fader_[TOPIC] SRU testing (sbeattie)17:02
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sbeattieSRU Activity report for the past week (since 2010-03-17):17:02
sbeattie* karmic: 8 new packages in -proposed (devicekit-disks, gst-plugins-bad0.10, language-packs, linux-firmware-nonfree, lupin, mountall, packagekit, papyon) and 4 packages pushed to -updates (app-install-data-partner, landscape-client, linux, samba)17:02
sbeattie* jaunty: 0 new packages in -proposed and 2 packages pushed to -updates (landscape-client, linux)17:02
sbeattie* intrepid: 0 new packages in -proposed and 2 package pushed to -updates (landscape-client, linux)17:02
sbeattie* hardy: 0 new packages in -proposed and 2 package pushed to -updates (kdepim, linux)17:02
sbeattie* dapper: no SRU activity17:02
sbeattieThanks to Douglas Mackay, timroll, David Tombs, Sören Wegener, Alessio Treglia, Derek Simkowiak, Onkar Shinde, AG, Ricardo Sanchez, Andreas Wenning, and Besterino for testing SRUs this week.17:02
fader_No SRUs for dapper... all the bugs must have been worked out by now :)17:03
sbeattieThere's a bit of a buildup of SRUs for karmic, so if people are looking for things to do, that'd be a great place to start.17:03
pedro_anything that might need more attention (help) there ?17:04
pedro_the queue is quite big compared to previous week17:04
sbeattiewell, a new linux kernel just popped in this morning, I think.17:05
sbeattiethat made the queue appear a bit larger.17:06
pedro_ah ok, thanks sbeattie17:07
sbeattiepedro_: clearing out some of the ones that have been languishing for a while would be great.17:07
sbeattieAny other SRU questions?17:07
fader_Doesn't seem like it... thanks, sbeattie!17:08
fader_[TOPIC] Bug Day status (pedro_)17:08
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pedro_On Thursday 18th we had a bug day based on Gwibber, yes the microblogging app17:08
pedro_you can have a look at the progress of that day on the graph at : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/2010031817:09
arathe micro blogging application, with macro start up times17:09
pedro_~84 bugs were triaged that day, Thanks a lot to our hug days heroes:  vish, kamusin, c-korn, Boniek, fle and bananeweizen17:09
fader_ara: Heh :)17:09
pedro_heh17:09
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pedro_thanks also to kenvandine for looking into the bugs we triaged and raised that day17:10
pedro_Tomorrow we're having a bug day for all the translators in our lovely Ubuntu project, the target is the ubuntu-translators project17:10
pedro_there's plenty of bugs to be triaged: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/2010032517:11
pedro_so if you have some time and want to learn a bit more about bug triage and translations join us, we'll be glad to help you out to start17:11
fader_Any bug day questions or comments?17:12
fader_Doesn't seem like it.  Thanks, pedro_17:13
pedro_my pleasure ;-)17:13
fader_:)17:13
fader_[TOPIC] Upgrade Jams (ara)17:13
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araAs you may already know, this weekend is the Ubuntu Global Jam17:13
ara[LINK] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam17:13
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araas part of the UGJ we are asking people to upgrade to Lucid and report back17:14
ara[LINK] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Jams/Upgrade17:14
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araanyone is going to an UGJ this weekend?17:14
fader_Unfortunately I have plans this weekend, but maybe I can find one to drop in on.  I heard the last jam was really incredible!17:14
bladernr_+1 fader_ ... I have had my weekend planned out for me :(17:15
arawell, I will be sending a reminder to the ubuntu-qa list to see if any of our members can help out people upgrading during the jam17:15
pedro_I'm going to one here in Chile, the local community is organizing one so i'll be there17:15
fader_pedro_: Awesome!  Take lots of pictures ! :)17:15
arapedro_, nice! tell people to upgrade to lucid! :D17:15
pedro_fader_, ara sure! will do both tasks ;-)17:16
fader_Thanks, ara!17:16
fader_[TOPIC] Any other business?17:16
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fader_Going once...17:17
fader_Going twice...17:18
fader_Looks like that's it.  Thanks, everyone!17:18
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highvoltage * Edubuntu meeting in 4 minutes18:56
highvoltageGood evening!19:00
Lnshellooooo19:00
* stgraber waves19:01
highvoltagelet's give everyone a minute or so to check in19:01
highvoltageAgenda is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda19:01
highvoltageanything else that should be added?19:01
stgraberdoc day ?19:02
Lnswindow control button placement in 10.04? ;)19:02
highvoltageright!19:02
highvoltageok updated (that is, when the page finishes saving)19:03
stgraberLns: heh :) we have alternative themes to deal with that ;) personaly I'm getting used to having them on the left side19:03
Lnsstgraber: =) true true, i keep forgetting its just in a theme19:03
highvoltagelet's start with that, I had lots of mixed feelings abou tit19:03
highvoltage*about it19:04
highvoltageso earlier this week I updated the artwork packages so that we use the light theme19:04
highvoltagestgraber and I talked about it on jabber where he suggested it19:04
highvoltageI wasn't sure whether we should do it since *many* schools have mixed environments, and having different button positions may be a bit weird for some users19:05
alkisgHi all19:05
LnsPersonally I just think it's unnecessary, period19:05
highvoltageI've tried the light (radiance) theme though and it works *really* well for Ubuntu, it matches our colours very well19:05
highvoltageespecially the red highlight around text field entries19:06
highvoltagewe also keep a little closer to ubuntu, but I think it's a mild benefit.19:06
highvoltageI'm jumping around a bit here, so apologies for being a bit ADHD, but tonight I got the Edubuntu Options dialog working, it pops up near the end of the installation process and asks whether you'd like to install LTSP and/or the Netbook Remix packages19:07
stgraberyep, here I'm running Ambiance (dark one), it's let me reduce my backlight quite a bit and proved very usable. I'd still keep the old one around though and make sure Window borders are restored correctly when switching back to the old one19:07
highvoltagewe *could* add an option for "Legacy Window Positions" there19:08
stgraberhighvoltage: I'm setting up a test environment here in our libvirt cluster, I'll try to give you acces to that later on, might be useful for debugging ;)19:08
highvoltagealthough when you do move the buttons to their old positions it also breaks the theme, so I'm not sure whether that would be a good idea.19:08
LnsFor default install, it's going to confuse a LOT of people, especially the ones we're targeting - non-techie educational types19:09
highvoltagestgraber: thanks, it should also be a lot faster than my virtualbox setup :)19:09
highvoltagewhat we could perhaps do, is have the option for "Legacy Theming". that could use the Human metacity theme and restore the old window buttons19:10
Lnshighvoltage: that's available through appearance menu anyway right?19:10
highvoltageLns: unfortunately not. you can set the Metacity theme, but not the window action positions19:11
* mhall119 is late19:11
Lnswoah, i thought the position was tied to the theme..19:11
highvoltageLns: nope, the buttons will be on the left regardless of the theme19:11
Lnsk19:11
Lnswell anyway my vote is 'no' but that's just me :)19:12
stgraberthat's actually a one-line gconf command to switch it19:12
highvoltageok, so we should leave it out of the edubuntu-conf script?19:12
stgraberyeah but I'd make the gconf options of our old themes hardcode the old order19:13
stgraberso if someone switch to one of the old ones, the order will be reverted19:13
stgraber(that's similar to the change I made to enable the icons in the menu)19:14
highvoltagestgraber: you can do that in a theme?19:14
stgraberhighvoltage: sure, each theme comes with its set of gconf keys19:14
mhall119didn't know that19:15
stgraberah no, my mistake ;)19:15
stgraberit seemed that way in the packaging19:15
stgraberactually what we seem to have in edubuntu-artwork is a debconf question that asks for default/plain/young19:15
highvoltagepity, that would've been nice19:15
stgraberand depending on that applies different gconf keys19:16
stgraberhighvoltage: debian/gconf/*19:16
highvoltageyes, I don't think that works with the ubiquity installer anymore19:16
stgraberindeed19:17
highvoltageso... perhaps there should be a dialog that asks which default theme should be used, and then have default/plain/young/legacy19:17
LnsI like that option since it ties into what we had discussed before about themes for different ages/schools19:17
highvoltageperhaps for lucid+1 we could make it default/plain/qimo/legacy19:17
stgraberit's just too bad we are that late in the cycle, otherwise we could have done a nice gtk window showing the new and old themes and asking which one should be the default19:18
stgrabernew one would have the controls on the left, old ones on the right19:18
highvoltagestgraber: I was thinking the same thing!19:18
Lnsthat would be so cool19:18
stgraberwe can probably make the tool for that and have it in the edubuntu-dev PPA but that won't be in for Lucid19:18
stgraberthough it most definitely needs to be properly advertised and be in for Lucid+119:19
highvoltage*nod*19:19
Lns+1 for lucid+119:19
Lnshehe19:19
highvoltagewell all the themes will be installed, we should just have a section on the website telling administrators how to change the theme if they'd like to do so post-installation19:19
nixternalhola19:19
highvoltage(rather than re-installing from scratch just to get the theme)19:20
highvoltagehowdy nixternal19:20
nixternalI was writing some docs in the background trying to make freeze for &kubuntu;19:20
highvoltagenixternal: make freeze?19:20
highvoltageoh I see19:20
nixternalstring freeze :/19:20
highvoltageok all above is noted19:21
highvoltageI leared all about plymouth this week, we have our basic theming done, can fine-tune it a bit when the Logos come19:22
highvoltagean issue we'll have to live with is that some computers where KMS isn't supported will show an Ubuntu splash screen19:22
* stgraber tests LTSP live ;)19:22
highvoltagethat we can only have fixed for Lucid+1 as well19:23
highvoltageI guess that's it for artwork? Anything else?19:23
highvoltage(I always feel like I'm typing *way* too much in these meetings :) )19:24
highvoltageok on to technical then19:24
highvoltageas stgraber pointed out, we do have LTSP live now!19:25
highvoltageit doesn't work in today's build but it will after the next ltsp package release.19:25
highvoltageit only requires two steps currently. 1. set up a NIC, 2. run ltsp-livecd19:25
nixternalhighvoltage: I need to learn plymouth as well, was it easy?19:26
highvoltageltsp-livecd takes about a minute to run from the livecd on my virtualmachine, so it doesn't take long at all to get a demo ltsp server going with a livecd19:26
LnsThat is pretty neat!19:27
highvoltagenixternal: it's simpler than usplash, you don't have to compile anything, there are some tricks with getting the colours right. it doesn't use alternatives yet so you use plymouth itself to handle the symlinks19:27
highvoltagenixternal: give me a ping when you want to work on it and I'll tell you everything I know about it19:27
alkisgDid anyone try ltsp-livecd in a real hardware? Is the speed bearable?19:28
stgraberalkisg: currently I have it on our development network, so that's a quad-opteron + 8GB of RAM but it's mapped to a physical VLAN so I'll be able to test on real hardware19:29
highvoltagealkisg: I booted 2 thin clients from the vm and it was quite bearable, the catch is of course that I booted from an ISO and not from a disc19:29
alkisgThat's not too uncommon, though19:29
LnsI can try it out once i get the image downloaded19:29
Lnsanyone have the quick link for meh? :)19:29
stgraberhttp://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/dvd/current/lucid-dvd-i386.iso19:30
stgraberif I remember well19:30
highvoltageLns: yes download that so long, and then when the new build is done with the newer ltsp packages then you can just rsync to the latest version19:30
Lnscool19:31
Lnsty!19:31
highvoltageok so about edubuntu-conf. that's a little script that pops up a dialog in ubiquity that asks whether you want to install the netbook remix and LTSP19:32
highvoltageit didn't work for me before (the experimental pop-ups), but for some reason it works fine now19:32
highvoltageI think I might have had too little ram assigned to my VM before19:32
highvoltagewe should have that working fine by the end of the week as well, so next week we'll need all the testing we can get19:33
stgraberplease note that next week we'll be in beta2 freeze with beta due the 8th IIRC19:34
highvoltagestgraber: we can still make bug fixes right?19:35
nixternalhighvoltage: groovy, thanks19:35
stgraberhighvoltage: sure but package will have to be accepted one by one by the release team19:36
stgrabernot much of a problem though19:36
highvoltageok we'll just have to sort out any problems as far as possible this week still19:36
stgraberyep19:36
highvoltage(which I agree shouldn't be too much of a problem)19:36
stgraberthough I'm very confident we'll meet our roadmap19:37
highvoltagealthough that logo we're waiting on is becomming a bit of a problem in terms of artwork19:37
stgraberwhich is probably a first in Edubuntu's history ;)19:37
highvoltagestgraber: :)19:37
stgraberalso, I uploaded LTSP 5.2.1 and LDM 2.1.119:38
stgraberwhich after 2 additional uploads now work correctly19:39
highvoltagepity sbalneav couldn't make the meeting, I'm sure he wouldn't wanted to discuss doc day19:39
stgraberthanks to alkisg for the testing ;)19:39
highvoltagestgraber: heh19:39
highvoltagealkisg to the rescue as always19:39
stgraberit was also the occasion to switch off compression for our squashfs19:39
alkisg:)19:39
stgraberthat should hopefully make all these kernel panics and squashfs errors at boot time vanish19:39
highvoltagestgraber: that's mostly for fixing plymouth issues right?19:39
stgraberyeah, that also contains the fixes for plymouth19:39
stgraberand for VT switching19:40
highvoltagedo you happen to remember how much bigger it makes the image?19:40
stgrabermy test thin client here boots in between 10s and 15s without a flicker19:40
stgraberhang on a sec, I have both images here19:40
Lnswait what, turn off compression for squashfs image?19:40
stgraber217M compressed, 522M for uncompressed19:40
stgraberchroot is over 600M on the disk19:41
stgraberLns: equivalent of ltsp-update-image -n19:41
highvoltageshew.19:41
Lnsthat doesn't affect network transfer right?19:41
highvoltageLns: yep it does19:41
Lnsso..its slower?19:41
stgraberLns: it does take a little more bandwidth at boot time, though you're free to comment that option in /etc/ltsp/ltsp-update-image.conf19:41
highvoltageLns: although it should mostly for booting19:41
Lnsoh ok19:41
Lnscool19:41
stgraberLns: it takes less CPU but a bit more data have to be sent19:41
Lnsnice19:42
Lnsand building would be much faster i'm sure19:42
stgraberyes19:42
stgrabera few secs vs a few mins19:42
stgraberin some cases19:42
stgraber(like fat clients)19:42
alkisgstgraber: I wonder if the compression problems were due to multiple processors being used for the compression... and if we forced squashfs to use only one, they'd go away...19:42
stgraberthat'll unfortunately make our DVD image 200MB bigger though19:42
stgraberalkisg: I tried all combinations of all mksquashfs flags without much success unfortunately :(19:43
alkisgUgh19:43
Lnsvery nice :)19:43
stgraberalkisg: I have thin clients that'll always boot fine with a compressed squashfs and some others that'll always crash or panic19:43
stgraberalkisg: seems to depend on the network card, network trafic, CPU usage or something19:43
highvoltagestgraber: I'm interested what it would do with low compression19:43
Lnsthat's interesting issue19:44
highvoltage(or small block size, at least)19:44
stgraberI'd personaly bet on some kind of network issue as it doesn't seem to affect the LiveCDs and these are using compressed squashfs19:44
highvoltageimho having a little bit of compression would be nice if possible19:44
alkisgmaybe nbd client is losing some packets while trying to decompress...19:44
stgraberhighvoltage: with squashfs you can't exactly choose the level of compression, you can just choose what you want compressed19:45
stgraberhighvoltage: and that's what I tested with all the combinations I could think of with some working slightly better than others19:46
stgraberbut none where my test thin client could boot 10 times in a row without kernel panic19:46
stgraberonly uncompressed gave me a whole night of reboot without crashes19:46
stgraberbut we should make sure that the procedure to turn compression back on is easily available on the wiki19:46
stgraberit's a single line to comment in the configuration file19:47
stgraberand if their thin clients work fine with compressed squashfs, then they should definitely use it (as it reduces the network trafic quite a bit)19:47
highvoltageok, let's move on19:47
highvoltageany other technical issues?19:47
highvoltageI spoke to Hedgemadge earlier today about the website, biggest blockers there is basically the logo, which isn't really all that big anyway19:49
highvoltagewe should have the website she and dhillion-v10 worked on up well before release at least19:49
stgraberhas the theme been updated to reflect the new colors ?19:50
highvoltagenot yet, the theme I last saw was quite basic19:50
highvoltageI was thinking today of drawing up a bit of an Edubuntu branding guide, similar to the Ubuntu one on the wiki19:51
highvoltageI think we could also include the different desktop themes there and gather some wider input19:52
highvoltageit would most probably be too late to make actual changes by the time we've gathered input, but it would make decisions easier for M19:54
stgraber+119:54
highvoltageyay, someone else is alive :)19:55
alkisg:)19:55
highvoltageok when I have that done I'll send the link out to the mailing list so that everyone knows about it19:55
highvoltageshould we discuss doc day on #edubuntu when sbalneav is around?19:55
stgraberyep19:56
highvoltageI think he might want to host it, unless anyone else feels compelled to :)19:56
stgraberwe should schedule it after we have the artwork done19:56
stgraberor we'll have issues with screenshots and similar stuff due to the final logo not being there yet and remaining artwork changes19:56
highvoltagewe could probably do a website day too the week after next week19:56
highvoltageok19:57
highvoltageI can't think of anything else19:57
stgrabernothing to add here19:58
highvoltageok, that's that then. thanks for joining everyone, seems like we snugly fit it into an hour :)19:59
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