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robbiew\o/16:53
Pici\o16:53
evwith 7 minutes to spare16:53
robbiewev: lol16:53
jpdsEverybody paste what they want to say and read the logs later?16:53
robbiewscrew it now...see ya all in Orlando!!116:53
barryyay!16:54
evlol16:54
robbiewPici: any way to tell who +m the channel?16:55
evview the logs?16:55
Picirobbiew: My log says it was czajkowski16:55
czajkowskioh I did last night in the meeting16:56
czajkowskifeck my bad16:56
Picitsk tsk16:56
robbiewczajkowski: booo!16:56
robbiewlol16:56
czajkowskimakes it easier for voting16:56
robbiewczajkowski: yeah...but makes it hard to have discussions for meetings ;)16:57
* robbiew spent 10min talking to himself...trying to figure out why no one would respond16:57
czajkowskiyou're sorted now16:57
czajkowskimoving on nothing to see here. ...16:57
robbiewlol16:57
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mgariepymc19:51
highvoltage! GNU Midnight Commander is already running on this terminal. !19:54
ubottuError: I am only a bot, please don't think I'm intelligent :)19:54
* mhall119 is here19:59
highvoltageand just in time20:00
mhall119\o/20:00
mhall119not late today20:00
highvoltageyour NTP is working great this week :)20:00
highvoltageEdubuntu meeting time!20:00
highvoltageanyone else present?20:00
mgariepyi'm here20:00
highvoltageas usual, here's the meeting agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda20:00
highvoltageand just to keep everyone on their toes, here's the Natty Release Scedule https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule20:01
highvoltagefirst Alpha is all the way in December!20:01
highvoltageMonday we launched Edubuntu WebLive20:02
highvoltageit's been going quite well20:02
highvoltagehttp://edubuntu.org/2010-10-18/edubuntu-weblive20:02
mhall119where is that running?20:02
* stgraber waves20:03
highvoltage*lots* of people have been tweeting and denting about it20:03
highvoltageand we've had close to 2000 people who tried it out20:03
highvoltage(will probably hit that mark before the meeting is over)20:03
highvoltagemhall119: it's running on stgraber's server in germanny20:03
mhall119ok20:03
highvoltagethere's a japanese site that translated his blog wrong and said "it's being run by the German stgraber"20:03
stgraber;)20:03
mhall119lol20:04
highvoltageI also *finally* got around to adding the banner on our website20:04
alkisgHi all20:04
* Lns stumbles in20:04
highvoltageit's been on my todo list since before we launched the website20:04
highvoltagehttp://edubuntu.org/20:04
highvoltagehey alkisg and Lns20:04
Lnshi highvoltage =)20:04
highvoltagethey're simple and still need some work, but it's a start :)20:04
alkisgNice banner but the first slide is about 30 pixels low for me, cutting half of the bottom letters and showing some gray on top20:05
highvoltagealkisg: ouch! what's your resolution there?20:06
alkisgRight now 1920x108020:06
mhall119only one of the images looks like that for me20:06
alkisgThe other 2 are fine20:06
highvoltagemind mailing me a screenshot?20:06
highvoltage(both of you?)20:06
alkisghttp://imagebin.org/11944420:07
highvoltagealkisg: ah, that whitespace on the top certainly shouldn't be there, what version of Firefox is that?20:08
alkisgStock lucid20:08
mhall119http://imagebin.org/11944520:09
mhall119using chromium-browser from the repos20:09
alkisg3.6.10+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.120:09
highvoltageah, I think I know what happenned20:09
mhall119but they sure look nice20:09
highvoltage(one moment)20:10
bencrisford*waves*20:12
highvoltagealkisg, mhall119: could you perhaps refresh? perhaps ctrl+r?20:13
highvoltagehmm, stgraber says he can still reproduce it :-/20:13
highvoltageok I'll look at that after the meeting, that's really quite odd20:14
mhall119same result20:14
alkisgsame, both firefox + chromium-browser20:14
highvoltagethey both work fine here in firefox + chromium on maverick. just my luck :)20:15
mhall119strange that it's just the first20:15
mhall119almost makes me think it's a resolution issue or race condition20:16
stgraberfound the issue20:17
stgraberhighvoltage is fixing it ;)20:17
highvoltageand done20:17
mhall119confirmed fixed20:18
alkisgYup20:18
highvoltagesince we're fixing my broken stuff:20:19
highvoltageI did some documentation for LTSP Live and WebLive as well:20:19
highvoltagehttp://edubuntu.org/documentation/ltsp-live20:19
highvoltagehttp://edubuntu.org/documentation/weblive20:19
highvoltagemight be a good idea to give it a read over and check for mistakes. should be mostly fine though :)20:20
highvoltageit's kind of weird not seeing the Edubuntu website in the Ubuntu font on your screenshots :)20:21
highvoltageor at least on the one20:21
highvoltageI guess we should perhaps make that an embedded font20:21
highvoltagestgraber is working on getting natty on weblive20:22
highvoltagewill probably have something workable soon20:23
highvoltagebesides that I can't think of anything else to update on :)20:23
highvoltageoh, hi bencrisford :)20:23
mhall119highvoltage: do you think Canonical would be willing to do an AWS trial for Edubuntu like they did for ubuntu server on 10/10/10?20:24
highvoltagemhall119: I don't know, we're talking to Canonical towards the end of next week20:24
mhall119ok20:24
highvoltagewe'll probably also launch the edubuntu marketplace officially after that20:25
highvoltagehttp://edubuntu.org/marketplace20:25
mhall119highvoltage: as of right now, Zareason doesn't officially sell Qimo preloaded20:26
mhall119but it should be coming in the nearish future20:26
highvoltageI think Zareason currently has Linucity's description20:26
mhall119not quite, zareason's has more text20:27
highvoltagethat doesn't make it right ;)20:27
mhall119actually, I think they may have eachother's text20:27
highvoltageprobably20:27
mhall119zareason doesn't customize their installs with extra apps do they?20:27
highvoltageit's not a final page yet20:27
mhall119ok20:28
highvoltagemhall119: it's all just placeholder really, hence the big banner at the top with the big red border around it20:28
mhall119yeah, I did notice that ;)20:28
highvoltageshould we cancel next week's meeting?20:31
highvoltagewe'll mostly be in Orlando anyway20:31
mhall119yeah, I think we'll be talking about Edubuntu enough that week20:31
highvoltageindeed, I'm going to cancel next week's one then20:32
highvoltageso the next meeting will be 3 November20:32
highvoltageHedgemage said that this meeting time doesn't work for her, so I said she can choose a better time,  but I haven't heard anything back yet20:33
highvoltageoh and mgariepy found a new bug in menueditor as well :)20:35
highvoltage</random>20:35
highvoltageanything else for this meeting? everyone's a bit more quiet than usual today, perhaps the calm before the storm?20:36
mgariepywell i didn't, LP#66399420:37
mgariepy;)20:37
highvoltagewhoah, in terminator I can right click on that and clock on "Open Link"20:38
highvoltagethat's quite cool20:38
highvoltageanything else?20:39
mhall119UDS plans?20:39
highvoltagewe basically have our sessions divided as we discussed on the lists. they still need to be scheduled, that's currently in process20:40
mhall119jcastro is going to find an empty slow for a Qimo planning session, hopefully on Friday20:41
highvoltagewe'll have at least 3 formal sessions, and probably a lot more inbetween discussions and planning20:41
mhall119s/slow/slot/20:41
highvoltageok great, I'm going to blog about the Edubuntu sessions when the schedule is finalised (will probably happen on monday morning), so let me know when it is and I'll include that as well20:42
mhall119also, for those coming, Monday evening the Ubuntu Florida Team is hosting a pizza party: http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/242/detail/20:42
highvoltagesounds fun :)20:42
stgrabermhall119: I'll be there ;)20:43
stgrabermhall119: arriving in Orlando tomorrow at noon20:43
mhall119stgraber: oh wow, coming in early20:43
mhall119stgraber: also, thanks for the contribution20:43
stgrabermhall119: no problem20:44
mhall119we aren't asking for outside contributions (otherwise it wouldn't really be 'hosted' by us), but we appreciate them anyway20:44
stgraber2021 accounts created on weblive20:45
highvoltagewow, so it did pass 2000 during the meeting :)20:45
highvoltageok, I guess that's it for this meeting!20:51
highvoltagethanks to everyone!20:51
highvoltagemeeting adjourned! *GONG*20:51
stgrabersee you in Orlando for these of you attending UDS !20:51
jelmerbarry: Hi!20:59
jelmerbarry: Is there going to be a UDD stakeholders meeting today?20:59
barryjelmer: we should do one, even if it's short.  james_w won't be able to join us20:59
jelmeroh :-(21:00
* ajmitch is around but doesn't really have anything new to talk about21:00
* jelmer is just glad he has remembered there was a meeting this time.21:01
* ajmitch thought the next one was next week, actually 21:02
jelmerNext week is UDS21:02
ajmitchyes, I know you'll be discussing it in depth there21:03
* jelmer won't actually.. I'll be at the GitTogether next week21:04
* ajmitch won't be there but may try & participate remotely, if timezones favour it21:04
barrywe're still 55m away from start21:05
ajmitchdaylight saving time mucking me up again21:05
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barryhi udd folks, ready to start?22:00
barry#startmeeting22:00
MootBotMeeting started at 16:00. The chair is barry.22:00
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* slangasek waves22:00
barryhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment/2010102022:00
barry[LINK] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment/2010102022:00
MootBotLINK received:  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment/2010102022:00
pooliehi all22:01
barryhi slangasek, poolie, jelmer, ajmitch22:01
flacostehi22:01
barryhi flacoste22:01
barryjames_w sends his apologies22:02
flacostebarry: thumper should join22:02
barrythumper: hi22:02
jelmerhi22:02
thumperhi22:02
barrythe agenda link is: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributedDevelopment/2010102022:02
barry[TOPIC] action items22:03
MootBotNew Topic:  action items22:03
barry   * '''poolie to confirm charline to do user studies at UDS-N''' (ongoing)22:03
barry 22:03
pooliedone, i think22:03
pooliei see i have a new mail from her22:03
poolievery slow, nm22:04
poolielet's say that's done22:04
barrypoolie: thanks, i'm looking forward to that!22:04
barry   * '''poolie to organize a foyer poster''' (ongoing)22:04
barry 22:04
poolienot done yet, will do that today or tomorrow22:04
barrycool22:05
barry   * '''barry to start some sphinx docs to be well-integrated w/ wiki.u.c''' (ongoing)22:05
barry 22:05
barrynot done22:05
barrybut...22:05
barry   * '''barry to talk to dholbach about making sure udd is well advertised in pkg guide''' (ongoing)22:05
barry 22:05
barrywill do that at uds22:05
barry   * '''barry/poolie to write up job announcements; barry posts to python job board, james_w/slangasek posts to debian-jobs, ubuntu-devel''' (ongoing)22:06
barry 22:06
pooliei know you've sent it to python because we got lots of applicants22:06
barrypython jobs board post done.  poolie tells me we have some interesting candidates already22:06
pooliei haven't seen any from debian so i suspect that wasn't done22:06
pooliehowever we probably have a selection, so no more advertisement is needed atm22:06
barrynice22:06
poolieincidentally, i'm told that we'll soon have better recruiting management software22:07
pooliewhich should be nice for all involved22:07
barryindeed :)22:07
poolie(not hraspace :)22:07
barryi think we can mark this one done for now though, right?22:07
poolieyep22:07
barrythanks everyone22:07
barry[TOPIC] uds prep22:07
MootBotNew Topic:  uds prep22:07
barryi believe we have 3 sessions scheduled, so it probably makes sense to prep for them.  i plan on at least looking at that over the next two days22:08
slangasekpoolie: do you prefer that I not post it to debian-jobs then, given the tardiness?22:08
poolieslangasek: yes, better not too22:09
slangasekok22:09
pooliefeel free to post other job ads though :)22:09
barryprobably the most work will be for the user session.  i'll have to ping james_w about that tomorrow so we're on the same page.22:09
barrydoes anybody have any thoughts about prepping for the sessions?22:10
* ScottK reminds barry he's promised to sit down with me and watch my diff/patch method for porting clamav updates to all releases and see if UDD can help.22:11
barryScottK: right, thanks.  we're also going to sit down with mvo for his feedback22:11
barrythere is a "user feedback session" that this will probably be appropriate for, and i'll add action items to the blueprint for that22:12
barry[ACTION] barry to add ScottK and mvo feedback to uds session22:12
MootBotACTION received:  barry to add ScottK and mvo feedback to uds session22:12
ajmitchyou have a few usecases listed for the user feedback session?22:12
barryajmitch: i was going to work off of the udd wiki page use cases22:12
ScottKPlease don't distract ajmitch from fixing boost. ;-)22:13
barryone thing i'd really like to address is getting more reviews and sponsor landings from merge proposals22:13
pooliei guess all interested parties need to to subscribe to the sessions22:13
ajmitchScottK: I can sense your impatience :)22:13
poolieas in, how to get more reviews?22:13
ScottKMe?  Impatient?22:13
barrypoolie: well, right now mp's seem to be a black hole.  i don't think sponsors are tuned to looking at mps yet22:14
poolie:/ ok, that's a good thing to think about22:14
barryand since i can't sponsor, it's unclear in my mind what *should* be the workflow22:15
thumperbarry: when talking to people about this, can you try to gather work-flow information?22:15
thumperbarry: I'm keen to know how people do use MPs, and how they'd like to use them22:16
ajmitchthere are a few different workflows depending on what's being sponsored22:16
slangaseksolve the "bzr branches are too expensive to use for casual sponsoring, compared with downloading packages from y local mirror" problem?22:16
barrythumper: sure.  aren't you keen on hooking that up to build-from-branch? :)22:16
slangasek+m22:16
poolieso popping up one meta-level, we want22:16
poolie- to help people understand how to use what is there22:16
thumperbarry: I'm not sure I understand what you are suggesting22:17
poolie- to make sure we have a good triaged list of what's inadequate - either technically failing, or failing as process22:17
poolie- to recruit some people willing to try our solutions to the previous point22:17
poolieheh, so as far as actions:22:18
poolie- do we need more sessions?22:18
barryright now, i think "no"22:19
poolie- i propose we start a list thread to find problems and then carry that on at UDS22:19
poolie- if we want to go into them in detail i suggest we continue after the 'steering committee' bit of the meeting is over22:19
poolietherefore, done?22:19
barrypoolie: i like your list. for me it really comes down to having a complete, end-to-end story for devs and sponsors22:19
barrypoolie: thanks.  would you like to kick off that thread?22:20
pooliei will22:20
barrythanks!22:20
barry[ACTION] poolie to start list thread to find problems which can be carried on at UDS22:21
MootBotACTION received:  poolie to start list thread to find problems which can be carried on at UDS22:21
barryany other uds related comments?22:21
poolieno22:22
barry[TOPIC] top bug22:23
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barrybug 29527422:23
poolienice agenda item!22:23
ubottuLaunchpad bug 295274 in bzr-builddeb "merge-upstream shouldn't require --version when debian/watch is present" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/29527422:23
barryjames_w: and i are going to sprint on that at uds22:23
pooliethat would rock22:23
pooliecurrent top udd bugs for us: andrew is working on bug 65530722:24
ubottuLaunchpad bug 655307 in QBzr "using odt2txt to diff OOo documents" [Wishlist,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/65530722:24
barryindeed, both because i think it will eliminate a pain point (one which i witnessed first hand yesterday) and because it'll help get me acquainted with the code22:24
poolieor not22:24
pooliebug 65330722:24
slangasekbug 60339522:24
ubottuLaunchpad bug 653307 in Ubuntu Distributed Development "Import fails with missing referenced chk root keys" [Critical,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/65330722:24
ubottuLaunchpad bug 603395 in Bazaar "bzr commit in a heavyweight checkout does not propagate new tags" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/60339522:24
poolieheaven help us when we get to 7 or 8 digit bugs22:24
poolieslangasek: that's your nomination, 603395?22:24
barrywe'll have to start tinyurl'ing them22:24
pooliebarry: you know about pad.lv, right?22:25
pooliei guess it could fold them into base64 but .. shudder22:25
slangasekpoolie: it's the one that breaks every UDD merge I do unless I remember it beforehand; maybe I'm the only one running into it?22:25
barrypoolie: yeah, i was using the generic :)22:25
slangasekrather, it breaks the branches /after/ I've done a merge22:25
lifelessbarry: hi22:25
barrylifeless: hi22:25
lifelessbarry: I want you after this meeting :)22:25
poolieslangasek: i'll bump it up22:25
ajmitchmost people probably use bzr branch instead of checkout?22:26
barryslangasek: i'll add it to "top bugs".  i haven't hit it because i always branch22:26
barrylifeless: ooooohhhh :)22:26
slangasekbarry: am I wrong in thinking co is supposed to be cheaper than branch? maybe I should just be larting myself22:27
pooliea heavy checkout won't be much cheaper22:27
poolieits main effect is that commits synchronously update the master branch22:27
pooliea light checkout will be cheap to set up, but it has no local history  cache22:27
* slangasek nods22:28
slangasekso maybe it's just a bad habit of mine; but it has taken its toll on a number of the UDD branches to date22:28
barrythere is another problem that i always run into, but i haven't figured it out well enough to submit a bug report on.  it seems i always get weird merges in debian/changelog22:28
slangasekthat's the new dpkg-mergechangelogs, I think22:29
poolieslangasek: it should be reasonably easy22:29
barryslangasek: hmm, it *seems* like when i merge a branch, i don't get conflicts, but i get some maintainer lines just getting overwritten and other changelog sections moved way down in the file.22:30
pooliebarry: i think bzr builddeb has a hook that tries a smart merge of debian/changelog22:30
barrybut as i said, i need to find a good reproducible test case and understand what's happening better.  i'm usually in yak shaving mode at that point so haven't stepped back to figure out what's going on22:30
poolieit may not be as smart as it thinks22:30
slangasekbarry: bzr-bd calls dpkg-mergechangelogs, which is good, but doesn't mind when it rewrites the entire history of the changelog prior to the base revision, which is bad :)22:30
barryslangasek: ;)22:31
barrypoolie: gotcha22:31
barrynext time it happens, i'll at least get a bug reported22:31
* ajmitch used to have the entire changelog appearing as a conflict, so it's improved :)22:31
barryany other top bugs that are buggin' ya?22:31
slangasekso I think this is just a bug in bzr-bd needing to be smarter about which changelog entries it passes to dpkg-mergechangelogs for merging22:31
poolieon our side, the speedup to lp-serve, which should cut ~2 seconds off ssh connection time, is still winding its way through the lp development meatgrinder22:32
slangasekajmitch: you'd think it's an improvement, until you notice in the conflict-free diff that it's reordered all your history back to 1998 :)22:32
barryslangasek: gotcha, thanks, that's definitely helpful22:32
poolieit may be live next week22:32
barrypoolie: nice22:32
poolieour next devops-type change after that is to get the package-importer moved into being a LOSA-run and monitored service22:32
pooliei've seen people complaining about some particular package imports failing22:33
pooliewhich is actually a great sign that they care22:33
poolieso i hope we will find some time to work on that22:33
barryyep.  do you think it's possible to drive import failures to zero?22:33
ajmitchbarry: not really a bug, but is working with a package that uses a patch system going to be talked about at UDS?22:33
poolieone question: we're getting many questions from non-ubuntu bzr users about memory usage and large file handling22:33
pooliedoes anyone notice this as an issue in udd?22:33
barryajmitch: we can.  it's definitely one on my list22:33
slangasek"large file handling" - er, in the working tree or in the repository?22:34
poolieboth22:34
slangasekto me "large file" means "> 2GB", I've yet to run into such a file in UDD22:34
* barry has not22:34
pooliethe typical user complaint is "i'm doing game development and i have this multi-GB binary artwork asset"22:34
slangasekah, heh22:34
slangasekask the ubuntu-docs folks :)22:34
pooliek22:34
pooliei'm guessing the top performance thing for UDD would be network latency for branch/checkout/push?22:35
slangasekI think so22:35
* barry too22:35
ajmitchthose of us in NZ would readily agree :P22:35
thumper:)22:36
poolieany more top bug nominations?22:36
barrytbh, i'm not really affected by it ;)22:36
barry522:36
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slangasekno, not that one22:37
barry[TOPIC] aob22:37
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pooliei have one22:37
jampoolie: would that include wanting stacked branches/history horizons?22:37
slangasekbug 1 already gets enough attention ;)22:37
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1 in Ubuntu "Microsoft has a majority market share" [Critical,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/122:37
barryslangasek: :)22:37
pooliejam, i think at the moment plain roundtrips would be an easier place to start22:38
poolieeg the get_parent_map calls22:38
pooliebut anything, really22:38
jampoolie: (I'm wondering if this is initial checkout, or ongoing updates)22:38
poolieso i'm applying for an Ubuntu developer membership22:38
pooliehttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/MartinPool/DeveloperApplication22:38
barryoh, looms push/pull!22:38
ajmitchwhat's the state of working with debian packaging branches that are in git?22:38
pooliei should have done it ages ago, but here it is now22:38
poolieif people would like to endorse me i'd appreciate it22:39
poolieand thanks to barry for already doing so22:39
barrynp22:39
barryi'm confident you'll get ppu22:40
slangasekI maintain that having a documented, promulgated solution for UDD branch mirroring, including partial mirrors, is a key to making the workflow viable; lots of devs have local mirrors, and even with decent bandwidth waiting for a fresh download is too much downtime22:40
slangaseklocal package mirrors, that is22:40
jelmerajmitch: They can be used, but their history is diverged from the history of the package imports.22:41
pooliei think you're right22:41
slangasekpoolie: I think it's great that you're applying for dev membership, but I'm crap at writing endorsements for these things so hopefully your application doesn't hinge on me doing so22:41
ajmitchI'd agree there, being reliant on getting branches from 1 location at the moment is just a bit painful22:41
poolieslangasek: mind if i paste that?22:41
slangasekpoolie: uh... I don't mind :)22:41
pooliei think you've even sometimes handled my small patches to debian years ago22:42
barrybtw, jelmer perhaps: do you know, is there a lag between package upload and source package branch update? if so, what's the time frame?22:42
slangasekI can't recall but frankly am happy to assume that's the case :)22:42
pooliei wonder if we could have a eagerly caching proxy for connections to lp or something...22:42
pooliethere may be something cheap we can do22:43
poolieslangasek: do you recall if there's a bug for mirroring?22:43
jelmerbarry: Sorry, I don't know how often the package importer runs.22:43
barryk, np22:44
slangasekpoolie: I haven't opened one, shall I do so?22:44
pooliei'll have a look, open one, and subscribe you22:44
slangasekok, thanks22:44
barryanything else from the peanut gallery?22:45
barryin that case...22:46
barry#endmeeting22:46
MootBotMeeting finished at 16:46.22:46
slangasekcheers22:47
barrythanks everybody and hope to see you at uds22:47
* ajmitch had some rants/other info about branch mirror that should be put somewhere22:47
jamsee y'all next week22:47
slangasekajmitch: would be great if you would post those, it might be just the right catalyst for someone to pick up this topic and run with it22:49
ajmitchslangasek: just found it, was a very brief irc conversation with lifeless awhile ago22:49

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