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* GrueMaster patently twiddles thumbs waiting for the meeting to start.16:03
ogra_patently or petanted ?16:04
ogra_lol16:04
ogra_*patented16:04
* rsalveti waves16:04
* ogra_ thinks a patent on thimb twiddling could make you rich :)16:04
ogra_*thumb16:05
ogra_sigh, i shouldnt type today16:05
* GrueMaster grabs big stick, goes poking upstairs.16:05
ogra_you really need two cans and a string between your office and his room16:05
GrueMasterNo, I need to wire his mattress with a remote cattle prod.16:06
ogra_LOL16:06
NCommander#startmeeting16:06
MootBotMeeting started at 10:06. The chair is NCommander.16:06
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ogra_thats clever, so you dont hear his shouting and screaming :)16:07
* davidm is present16:07
NCommanderNo real need to link to the discussion as theres oneitem16:07
NCommander[topic] Specs!16:07
MootBotNew Topic:  Specs!16:07
ogra_there is one ?16:07
ogra_ah16:07
* NCommander is not really sure what to discuss at this point which wasn't broughtup last week16:08
ogra_davidm, any news about the server stuff ?16:08
ogra_do we have any details, does the server team do most of them etc etc ?16:08
davidmIt will be a mix of us and server team16:09
davidmwe will be the arm side they have the server expertise16:09
davidmShould be interesting16:09
ogra_yeah, i was more intrested in... are there any specs yet ?16:09
ogra_:)16:09
davidmThere are16:09
davidmunder server16:10
GrueMasterI can dust off a few older systems to act as load generators.16:10
ogra_beyond that generic placeholder we currently have16:10
davidmserver-o-openstack16:10
ogra_openstack ?16:11
davidmThat has to be done on both x86 and arm16:11
ogra_hmm, intresting16:11
* ogra_ is just wearing the t-shirt ... 16:11
ogra_funnily i dont know more about openstack than that they make good shirts :)16:11
davidmI'll make a list don't have it handy now16:12
ogra_ok16:12
janimohello, sorry for the delay16:12
ogra_would be good to somehow have the team subscribed to them16:12
ogra_so we know where we have to go16:12
ogra_or at least make sure that in every arm relevant BOF at least one of us is present16:13
* ogra_ doesnt really have anything else16:14
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* NCommander is currently planning to sit on the server BOFs16:15
davidmI';ll  make sure to subscribe the team to all of them16:15
NCommanderis there anything we want to bring up pre-UDS?16:18
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NCommanderIf there is nothing else, I"m going to close the meeting16:19
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ogra_is there anything i need to bring since i come by car ?16:19
NCommanderogra_: yoruself ideally16:20
ogra_finish it !16:20
ogra_yeah, my car wont come without me, i'm sure16:20
NCommander#endmeeting16:20
ogra_:)16:20
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bdmurrayokay lets the bugsquad meeting started18:01
bdmurray#startmeeting18:01
MootBotMeeting started at 12:01. The chair is bdmurray.18:01
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bdmurray[TOPIC] Updates of action items from previous meeting18:02
MootBotNew Topic:  Updates of action items from previous meeting18:02
yofelo/18:02
bdmurrayyofel: do you have something?18:03
yofelnope, I wasn't assigned to anything last time18:03
bdmurrayokay18:03
bdmurraynigelb said he is still working on edit bugsquad headers to be similar or link to each other appropriately at the end of the last meeting18:04
bdmurraybdmurray email bugsquad regarding #ubuntu-bugs channel watchers18:04
bdmurrayAfter looking at #ubuntu-bugs channel logs I think we do a pretty good job of responding to people so did not do this.18:05
bdmurraybdmurray email bugsquad regarding making +karma more informative18:05
bdmurrayThat was done18:06
bdmurraymicahg to research available meeting times in #ubuntu-meeting18:06
hggdhdone also :-)18:06
bdmurraywell, that was clearly done because here we are!18:06
davidstrauss-nbIf I'd like to raise a topic, do I just use the [TOPIC] command?18:06
* davidstrauss-nb is new to bot-moderated meetings18:07
bdmurraydavidstrauss-nb: we have an open discussion section later in the meeting18:07
bdmurraydavidstrauss-nb: I'll change the topic throughout the meeting18:07
bdmurrayI've also put the next couple of bugsquad meetings on the fridge calendar18:07
bdmurraymicahg to add multiarch as an official bug tag18:08
bdmurraythat too was done18:08
bdmurray[TOPIC] Mentorship program discussion18:08
MootBotNew Topic:  Mentorship program discussion18:08
bdmurrayvish: Do you have any news or anything to discuss on that topic?18:09
vishoops!18:09
visho/18:09
hggdh:-)18:10
vishso, we have been having some progress recently..18:10
vishbut we are better than what we were 2 months ago18:10
vishsorry, forgot meeting :D18:10
bdmurrayvish: no problem18:11
vishany one else have any other Questions..?18:11
* hggdh will wait for UDS18:11
bdmurrayhggdh: is there something setup for mentorship and UDS?18:12
hggdhbdmurray: no, I was considering only informal chats18:12
bdmurrayah okay18:12
bdmurraymoving on18:13
bdmurray[TOPIC] New bug control members18:13
MootBotNew Topic:  New bug control members18:13
bdmurrayWe have no new members this week but one application to review although it may need some work18:13
hggdhyeah, from Bjoern, right?18:14
pedro_is that the latest from Bjoern?18:14
yofelRedSingularity is new to BC18:14
pedro_heh hggdh was faster18:14
hggdhat last...18:14
* vish has one concern about the hardware team application..18:14
bdmurrayyofel: that's right! was just trying to confirm18:15
bdmurraycongrats to RedSingularity!18:15
* hggdh approved RedSingularity, and did not remember :-(18:15
bdmurrayhggdh: did you send an announce e-mail regarding his joining?18:15
hggdhbdmurray: no, with all that was going on I forgot18:15
hggdhs/was/is/18:16
bdmurrayhggdh: no problem, can you do it this week?  If not I can.18:16
hggdhyes18:16
bdmurray[ACTION] hggdh to announce RedSingularity joining ubuntu-bugcontrol18:16
MootBotACTION received:  hggdh to announce RedSingularity joining ubuntu-bugcontrol18:16
hggdhvish: you have a concern, can you expand?18:16
vishhggdh: i dont think batch approving the hardware team is good, they will be touching every package18:17
vishnot just a certain subset18:17
vishright now, they already have 2 BC members18:17
yofelara said though that they'll review their own members18:17
vishright,18:17
hggdhand we will review their work18:18
ScottKThen it should be easy enough for them to get approved when they think they are ready.18:18
vishas I mention they already have 2 BC members, they can just +118:18
yofeltrue18:18
vishand when the new members grow in that team, their numbers will grow, which makes it easier for review18:18
hggdhI do not think they will, this would be gaming the resutls18:18
vishbatch approving is even worse ;)18:19
hggdhheh18:19
bdmurrayNot more so then adding the whole team18:19
vishatleast if the go through the BC process others can review the work18:19
hggdhvish: team approval was considered as an option, but we still retain control18:19
bdmurrayI think this topic, team mebership in bug control, really warrants a larger discussion at UDS18:20
yofelvish: then we need new evaluation criteria, as it stands now their applications is fine from our wiki point fo view on the matter18:20
hggdhin a certain sense the hardware team is upstream -- they are looking for future issues18:20
hggdhI would like, then, to propose we meet during UDS and rediscuss this18:20
vishyofel: from what i understand, the team process was when teams were handling their packages or a subset.. not whole Ubuntu18:21
hggdh(the process, not the HT itself)18:21
vishso maybe as bdmurray mentions this warrants a discussion or update of the wiki18:21
yofelhaving a specific subset isn't a criteria currently, +1 for UDS18:22
hggdh+118:22
vish+118:22
hggdhvish: be prepared to discuss during beer time also ;-)18:22
bdmurraySo how about I set up a blueprint in Launchpad and email bug control about it?18:22
vish;)18:22
hggdhgood idea18:22
bdmurrayI'll also email Ara since she has an opinion and a couple of other people I've talked to18:23
bdmurrayThen we can discuss it at UDS18:23
ScottKbdmurray: Would you please subscribe me to the spec.18:23
bdmurrayScottK: of course18:23
ScottKThanks.18:23
bdmurray[ACTION] bdmurray to draft a spec regarding criteria for (team) membership in ubuntu bug control18:24
MootBotACTION received:  bdmurray to draft a spec regarding criteria for (team) membership in ubuntu bug control18:24
bdmurray[ACTION] bdmurray to email bug control about spec regarding bug control membership18:24
MootBotACTION received:  bdmurray to email bug control about spec regarding bug control membership18:24
bdmurray[ACTION] bdmurray to subscribe ScottK to said specification18:25
MootBotACTION received:  bdmurray to subscribe ScottK to said specification18:25
bdmurrayare we all good there?18:25
hggdhand the rest of the gang?18:25
hggdh:-)18:25
bdmurrayhmm, I hope that's in the API now then ;-)18:25
yofeljust post a link to the bluepirint in the mail and we'll find it :P18:25
hggdhmeanwhile could we refrain from deciding about the team request? With UDS looming, it does not make sense to decide any way18:26
davidstrauss-nbbdmurray, I have to leave in 5 min. Should I just plan to come back in a future meeting?18:26
hggdh davidstrauss-nb: you can also add a topic on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BugSquad/Meeting (for future meetings)18:26
davidstrauss-nbhggdh, thanks18:26
bdmurraydavidstrauss-nb: well its now time for open discussions18:26
davidstrauss-nb:-)18:26
hggdhheh18:27
bdmurray[TOPIC] Open Discussions18:27
MootBotNew Topic:  Open Discussions18:27
hggdhdavidstrauss-nb: go ahead, please18:27
davidstrauss-nbSo, something happened yesterday on a bug I posted that I found no less than angering.18:27
davidstrauss-nbhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution/+bug/77584218:27
ubottuUbuntu bug 775842 in evolution (Ubuntu) "Evolution crashes when a user changes an account to IMAP+ and clicks OK before the preferences panel changes tabs" [Medium,Incomplete]18:27
davidstrauss-nbIt was marked as invalid in a sort of drive-by way18:28
davidstrauss-nbNot only does this sort of practice make little semantic sense (given the incomplete) option, it's also highly dismissive.18:28
davidstrauss-nbThird, it discourages anyone else from participating on the bug because it was preemptively judged "invalid."18:29
yofelhm18:29
ScottKI'd like to second davidstrauss-nb's concern.  While this might have made some vague sense before, now that we have automatic bug expiry, there's no reason not to use incomplete for this.18:29
hggdhthis needs review, I agree with ScottK18:29
pedro_the workflow needs to be reviewed then18:30
yofelit's true that this was the old policy, since apport can't attach crashes to existing bugs, so we usually just closed it and used the new one18:30
* vish actually finds that the comment has the reason why it was closed18:30
yofelthough I personally agree this should be Incomplete18:30
vish"a new bug report which can then dealt with more efficiently."18:30
pedro_although crash reports needs to be filed with apport or provide/attach a good backtrace18:30
hggdhbdmurray: can we use the same blueprint, expanding it for this?18:30
bdmurrayhggdh: no that's crazy18:31
pedro_specially for cases like this where the bug is not easy to reproduce18:31
yofelthen again, a crash bug without any crash information is completely useless, so this bug would've been closed anyway18:31
vishyofel: exactly!18:31
hggdhand I also agree with pedro_ : crash reports without a crash are -- by definition -- unusable18:31
ScottKThat doesn't make them invalid.18:31
bdmurraywell there are steps to recreate it if you happen to have an imap server available18:31
ScottKIt makes them incomplete.18:31
hggdhScottK: I did not disagree with you, I just pointed the issues.18:31
hggdhso we may need to change the SOP *and* the docs18:32
pedro_bdmurray, tried that already, that's why I asked for the backtrace or i would get the backtrace myself like in other reports18:32
davidstrauss-nbEven though apport can't attach to old bugs, "incomplete" is still a better classification. Then, the bug can either be (1) augmented with a crash report (2) marked as a dupe of an apport bug, or (3) allowed to expire18:32
vishthe problem here is maybe we can attach .crash files?18:32
vishlike as in, just $attach *.crash and it adds the info18:32
yofelvish: not really, the retracer has to run, and you can't really make the bug private anymore18:32
pedro_marked it as a duplicate of the newest sounds better to me18:33
bdmurraypedro_: oh, perhaps davidstrauss-nb would feel better if he knew that?18:33
davidstrauss-nbideally, apport would encourage you to mark any recent bugs you filed as a dupe of the apport bug18:33
visherr, meant "maybe we can't"18:33
hggdhdavidstrauss-nb: when we have a stacktrace, we can do that -- and we indeed do it18:34
davidstrauss-nbbdmurray, What frustrates me is having my trouble report called "invalid" when you're actually just looking for more info.18:34
yofeldavidstrauss-nb: doesn't make much sense having apport tell you that, we already do, and apport has no way of knowing that you already filed a bug about this issue18:34
ScottKIf it's marked incomplete instead of invalid, the worst thing that can happen is it goes away in 60 days.18:34
ScottKThat seems like a small price to pay to avoid the social cost of marking them invalid.18:35
hggdh+118:35
yofel+118:35
vishScottK: worse it not fixing the bug ;)18:35
vishs/it/is18:35
bdmurrayScottK: I find that kind of ironic since all kubuntu bugs end up getting marked invalid in launchpad18:35
ScottKvish: I don't understand how that relates.18:35
ScottKbdmurray: wontfix might be better for that.18:36
ScottKyofel: ^^^ ?18:36
vishScottK: simply closing the bug in 60 days, is not the worse thing :)18:36
ScottKvish: Right, but in comparison to marking it invalid.18:36
yofelhm... might be, requires BC rights of course then18:36
hggdhthere is the perceived impact -- ScottK is absolutely correct there18:36
yofelyeah, Invalid is hardly ideal in many cases18:37
davidstrauss-nbI have to head off, but ScottK was present for my rant yesterday in #launchpad and can reflect my thoughts here.18:37
davidstrauss-nb:-)18:37
vishmaybe we should be fixing this in apport; we can ask the user to apport-collect and if the APPNAME.crash is present it attaches files if not then apport closes the bug?18:38
yofelScottK: agreed with Won't Fix, we need to think what to do about non-BC triagers though (not that we have any currently)18:38
bdmurrayThe problem in my mind with closing Kubuntu bugs is it increases the possibility of duplicate bugs coming in because its hard to find closed bugs.18:39
yofelvish: hm, maybe making apport close the bug would be an option, attaching the CoreDump isn't18:40
yofelapport won't be able to dup the report though18:40
vishyofel: cant apport also set the bug to private?18:40
yofelvish: yes, but you have to remove all 'also notified' persons from the subscriber list then18:40
bdmurraythere are currently issues with transitioning bugs from public to private18:40
yofelas 'ubuntu-bugs' is always subscirbed making the bug pretty impossible to make private again18:41
vishhmm..18:41
yofelBC members can unsubscribe it though18:41
bdmurrayit's not just ubuntu-bugs though18:41
bdmurrayany structural subscriber stays subscribed18:41
bdmurraybut lets get back on topic18:41
vishyea, back to topic "pedro_ sucks" ;p18:42
vishwe need to update his version... pedro_2.018:42
bdmurrayI think the primary issue here is that invalidating bug reports does not make for a nice bug reporter experience18:42
ScottKAgreed.18:42
bdmurrayWith automatic bug expiration and the bug janitor we have ways to make this better18:43
bdmurraymarginally but still18:43
bdmurraySo we should review all bug workflows that result with an "Invalid" status and see if using "Incomplete" makes more sense18:44
hggdhyes18:44
yofelright18:44
vishbtw, does anyone know why Opinion status still exists?18:45
* vish thought it was a 3month experiment18:45
bdmurrayIs there anybody who can volunteer to review the bug workflows?18:46
hggdhI will do it -- as long as it is not time-critical (will take a few days)18:47
bdmurrayhggdh: okay thanks18:47
bdmurray[ACTION] hggdh to review all bug workflows that result with an "Invalid" status and see if using "Incomplete" makes more sense and email bugsquad regarding results18:48
MootBotACTION received:  hggdh to review all bug workflows that result with an "Invalid" status and see if using "Incomplete" makes more sense and email bugsquad regarding results18:48
bdmurrayvish: I'd check with deryck since he worked on that a fair bit18:48
vishok18:48
bdmurrayany other business?18:49
hggdhminimum we need to update the wiki, where it says opinion is temporary18:49
* hggdh is done18:49
* vish too , medium rare18:49
hggdhLOL18:50
yofeldo we have blueprints for the bugsquad already? Didn't find much on launchpad yet18:50
bdmurrayyofel: no, not really. is there something you had in mind?18:52
yofelnot aside the general roadmap discussions, was just wondering18:53
bdmurrayyofel: if you could set one up with some discussion ideas we can get it scheduled18:54
bdmurrayokay, thanks everyone!18:56
bdmurray#endmeeting18:56
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yofelI'll think about it, I'll ping you when I have something18:56
yofeland thanks for chairing  bdmurray :)18:56
bdmurrayyofel: thanks18:56
pittikees, mdz, Keybuk: TB meeting now?18:59
KeybukI think so19:00
pittiso cjwatson sent an apology, mdz and sabdfl don't seem to be online, kees doesn't respond, hmm19:04
KeybukI suspect at least some are in budapest being powerpointed to death?19:05
pittithe only thing on the ML that I can see is the status of Lubuntu, https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2011-April/000835.html19:05
pittigood point19:05
pittiKeybuk: hopefully Impressed, not Powerpointed, though :)19:05
pitti. o O { latex-beamer FTW }19:06
Keybukas I was saying to slangasek, I went to no-hands once19:06
Keybukaround the time I decided to look for other jobs and leave Canonical19:06
KeybukI'm not saying the two are related19:06
Keybukbut the inference is there19:06
* slangasek chuckles19:07
slangasekkees is among the powerpointed, fwiw19:07
pittiso, same time in a fortnight?19:08
Keybuksure19:09
pittiI updated https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoardAgenda19:10
* pitti waves good night then19:11
keesI was PDFed mostly21:14

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