/srv/irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/06/18/#xubuntu-devel.txt

hobgoblinmorning - if anyone's awake - what should I file a usb not opening thunar against ? 04:38
hobgoblinnvm - google fu was weak in this one today :p04:40
hobgoblinwhile I think about it https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/ has got grandr on the list - shouldn't be there as it's not in the repos now05:17
astraljavahobgoblin: You could ping GridCube about it when he's present.05:42
hobgoblinokey doke05:42
Unit193I'm pretty sure he's aware.05:53
hobgoblinthat's alright then - just seems a bit daft to have it on there :)05:54
Unit193Aye, it's not an option really.05:54
ochosihobgoblin: yeah, i think it was discussed previously, removed it from the list now06:44
ochosimadnick: ping06:54
madnickochosi: pong07:04
madnickas for what you said yesterday07:04
madnickI've been reviewing the code 07:04
madnickI've just not implemented anything or uploaded a branch07:05
hobgoblinochosi: thanks :)07:06
ochosimadnick: ok, just wanted to get back to you on that07:07
madnickochosi: if i wanted to use bazar on this, could i?07:08
madnickDo I have any rights07:08
ochosii haven't created a team or anything yet, but we can quickly look into that now if you have time07:08
madnickokay awesome07:09
madnickMaybe we could just assign it to Xubuntu artwork?07:09
ochosiare you in that team?07:10
madnicki think so07:10
madnick1 sec07:10
madnickHm I seem to have been kicked off that team07:10
ochosithat must've been knome_'s spring cleaning07:11
madnickhow about xubuntu team?07:11
ochositoo many people in there07:11
madnicki see07:11
ochosibut actually i'm wondering whether i messed up something, because the /code page says that we host our code @ unity-greeter .)07:11
Unit193https://code.launchpad.net/~dr.madnick  should show all places you can upload.07:12
ochosiguess i should've pulled their code and then pushed it to our repo, will quickly inquire in #launchpad07:12
madnicki see07:12
madnickIm not sure where this belongs, seeing as plymouth stuff was decided to be "artwork", i think this should be aswell, the problem with seperating people who "do artwork" and others, is this hehe07:14
ochosiyeah, i agree07:14
ochosiare there any plans/blueprints for plymouth yet?07:14
madnickhttps://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/other-q-xubuntu-new-plymouth07:14
ochosi"Prepare refreshed drafts for the theme" > can they be found anywhere?07:15
madnickBut I have not been hearing anything specific this cycle, about the things that should be implemented07:15
ochosiok07:15
ochosii see07:15
madnickochosi: I'd say its the old one07:15
madnickRefreshing has not been done07:16
ochosiwell personally i think the circular progress-indicator would be nice07:16
madnickYeah07:16
ochosijust any kind of spinner07:16
madnickI think a general review of the code used for feedback should be done07:17
madnickCurrently we have a lot of "last minute" code07:17
ochosiyou mean feedback like "running fsck"?07:17
madnickyeah07:17
ochosihow many of those feedback scenarios are there?07:18
madnickAnd the most annoying aspect is the fact that testing plymouth stuff in a VM is almost impossible07:18
ochosimhm07:18
madnickochosi: there is fsck, cryptsetup, indicator, press X key07:18
madnicketc07:18
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ochosicould you make a (complete) list?07:18
ochosithen we could discuss each one of them07:19
ochosiideally create a spec in the wiki and link it to the roadmap07:19
madnickThat would not be useful, seeing as we do not implement all of them, we should instead review the possibilities 07:19
knomehmm, i can't remember droppint madnick off the art team07:19
knome*dropping07:19
madnickI don't remember being dropped either07:19
ochosiknome: tbh i think xubuntu-dev would be more appropriate for the lightdm engine/theme07:19
madnickNo mail07:20
knomeochosi, yeah, but that's problematic07:20
ochosiknome: i can also create a separate lp-team07:20
knomehmh, art is fine for that07:21
madnickochosi: http://paste.ubuntu.com/1046805/07:21
madnickthese are the possibilties07:22
knomeochosi, if you want to propose a new xubuntu LP team, add that to the meeting agenda07:22
madnickochosi: but those are just callbacks, the "messages" is what decides actions07:22
knomeochosi, i'm not sure if we need any new, rather drop the old ;)07:22
knomeochosi, we were thinking with pleia2 that maybe -marketing would work well, and we could drop -website then07:23
ochosimadnick: actually there is another greeter we could use/fork07:26
ochosimadnick: that one doesn't even use gnome-settings-daemon07:26
madnickokay?07:26
ochosiit's pantheon-greeter from the elementary project07:26
knomedon't confuse him (us)07:27
ochosi?07:27
knome;)07:27
knome"there's yet another..."07:27
madnickThe thing that is quite awesome with the unity-greeter is it comes complete with code for screenreader and virtual keyboard, aswell as other neat stuff07:27
knome^ that07:28
knome's ++07:28
ochosimadnick: yeah, not sure pantheon-greeter has that07:28
madnickhttp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~elementary-pantheon/pantheon-greeter/1.x/view/head:/src/indicators.vala07:29
madnickwould seem it likes gnome-settings-daemon07:29
ochosiyeah, weird. then maybe it's just bad packaging07:30
ochosihttp://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-06182012-093032am.php07:30
ochosiknome: i think i'm more or less done with the greybird-revamp07:30
knome:)07:31
ochosii even created a pixmap panel-background for the launcher-panel in case we won't use the compositor07:31
ochosinot sure you'll like it though :p07:31
knomeheh07:32
ochosihere it is: http://www.zimagez.com/zimage/screenshot-06182012-093211am.php07:32
knomei got to test that sometime07:32
ochosihaven't pushed the vast changes i did yesterday yet07:32
knomehmmh.07:32
ochosiwondering whether i can retrospectively split them up in smaller commits07:32
ochosinot really sure about that07:33
knomethat's not completely bad :)07:33
ochosi:)07:33
ochosiif the panel is on autohide, it looks a bit as if it would slide in underneath the wallpaper07:33
ochosibecause of the drop-shadow07:33
ochosipixmaps have the disadvantage that people have to change/modify them if they make the panel higher than the height of the pixmap (bg-repeat), but it's easy enough to change now in the panel-properties07:34
ochosimadnick: we could also try to convince robert_ancell to drop gnome-settings-daemon07:34
ochosimadnick: hehe, just realized i already tried that before07:41
knomeeh07:41
ochosi> Were not going to modify Unity greeter to support different use cases, 07:41
ochosi> as we want to be able to quickly adapt it in it's current form.  A 07:41
ochosi> forked version however shouldn't be too hard to keep in sync if you were 07:41
ochosi> willing to maintain it.07:41
madnickhehe07:44
madnickWell, lets just fork it07:44
ochosiyup07:45
ochosimadnick: if you apply to xubuntu-artwork lp-group i can approve you and then you can push to bzr07:48
ochosi(just changed the maintainer of xubuntu-greeter to xubuntu-artwork)07:49
knomeochosi, note that you an add people directly too07:51
ochositrue07:52
ochosimadnick: you've been added07:53
madnickTechnically I think I could add myself aswell :P I just need to get some login stuff07:53
madnickah thanks :)07:53
ochosinp07:53
ochosimadnick: if you could do an initial push now so that we have just the fork there, that'd be great. i just wanna make sure everything works07:55
madnickochosi: I do not have a suitable dev environment for that, I will need to setup a VM with the new images and get the tools, I will download the required things today07:56
ochosiah ok, in that case please ping me as soon as you've done that07:56
madnickwill do :)07:57
ochosik, thanks07:57
ochosi:)07:57
knomeastraljava, how was the QA meeting?10:11
knomeastraljava, i forgot that completely, but turned out i couldn't have made it anyway :)10:11
knomeastraljava, i quickly looked at backlog, was there something you needed to check from me?10:12
* knome reads the chanlogs10:15
hobgoblinI thought it went well 10:15
ochosiknome: there are meetings @ml10:15
knomeochosi, ?10:16
knomeochosi, "minutes" ?10:16
ochosimeeting minutes?10:16
knomeyou said "meetings" :D10:17
knomei'm lost.10:17
knomewhat meetings are on the ml?10:17
ochosiyeah, sry, i meant meeting minutes :)10:17
knomehmm.10:17
ochosi(i'm kinda focussing on something else right now)10:18
knomewhy did i miss that mail? BLAH10:18
knomewait...10:18
knomei haven't received it?10:18
knomeoh, hmm10:19
knomeweird10:19
knomethat's at my inbox10:19
knomeok, fixed10:20
knomeheh, "fix committed" on the bug GridCube pasted :)10:25
knomei suppose the buttons are coming this cycle, at least based on the discussions with stgraber :)10:26
astraljavaknome: It's the world's slowest meeting. Takes only a few years to complete.10:26
knomeyeah, i notice. :)10:26
knomemaybe using meetingology in a more relaxed way is not too bad10:26
knomei mean, just use #startmeeting, #topic and #info, and gathering the meeting minutes is a breeze10:27
astraljavaWell, I found I could not create strict topics, nor give out any precise info lines either, so didn't see a real reason for starting it properly either.10:28
astraljavaIt was more of a conversational meeting.10:28
knomehmm.10:30
knomeimo "failed" should be filed only if you weren't able to *finish* the test10:30
astraljavaYes. Why?10:31
knomeeven if something failed, just link the bugs, then mark as passed10:31
astraljavaHmm...10:31
knomebecause:10:31
knomeif you mark it as "failed", it looks like the xubuntu iso's are not ready for release10:31
knomebecause that's the stats people are looking at10:31
astraljavaIs there a case you're referring to?10:31
knomeastraljava, If anything failed, you mark the image as failed. If you didn't stumble upon anything unexpected, you'll mark it as Passed.10:32
knome^ from the meeting log10:32
astraljavaI think we might have a mixed understanding of 'releasable'.10:32
astraljavaAre you referring to "installation failed"?10:33
astraljavaReleasable to me covers a bit more than just "being able to install".10:33
knomeastraljava, only critical bugs should fail the image10:39
knomeastraljava, there will be bugs on releases anyway, those shouldn't stop us from releasing non-final milestones10:40
knomeastraljava, especially not alphas10:40
astraljava Yeah ok, maybe that needs a little bit refining. I'll remember that for the next meeting, and post corrections. Thanks!10:40
knomeastraljava, that's why there are the "bugs" and "critical bugs" sections in the QA tracker10:40
knomeastraljava, i've seen some tests with some really minor bugs marked as "failed"10:41
hobgoblinastraljava: so mine should be a pass with a bug - is that right? 10:41
knomeif those turn up, and the test pass rate is, say 50%, that isn't completely accurate10:41
astraljavahobgoblin: From the recent discussion, yeah I think that's how it is.10:41
hobgoblink - cool - so long as I know 10:41
knomehobgoblin, depends on the bug; if it's something that is seriously interfering from installing, it should be "bug", not "critical", and thus the test should not fail10:42
knomeastraljava, example; the terminal help doesn't open; should that be a "fail", just because there is that bug? :)10:42
hobgoblinknome: it was nothing like that 10:42
astraljavaknome: But we shouldn't be talking about "interfering from installing". That's different from being releasable.10:42
knomeastraljava, i think it would be meaningful to ask the QA team too what they think of this10:43
knomeastraljava, and what is generally the difference between a bug and a critical bug10:43
astraljavayeah I agree. This is a little too vague now.10:43
knomeyup. great :)10:43
knomei'll continue with the log10:43
hobgoblinknome: so if "hobgoblin, ..... it should be "bug", not "critical", and thus the test should not fail" what would be critical?  10:44
hobgoblincos I would expect something that stops you installing to be critical - logically speaking10:45
astraljavahobgoblin: That's what we have to specify.10:45
hobgoblinok :)10:45
astraljavahobgoblin: Depends.10:45
astraljavaIf we're talking about "being releasable", you wouldn't ship a product that's installable, but not usable, right?10:45
knomehobgoblin, well at least something that stops you from following the testcase; eg. if you are testing the "encrypted home", but can't encrypt home, the bug that prevents you to encrypt should be critical + fail the image10:45
knomeyes, "pass" should mean "the image is installable and usable"10:46
knomebut that doesn't mean the image can't have any bugs10:46
knome"fail" should be "the image is either not installable or not usable"10:46
hobgoblinok - I understand that 10:46
astraljavaTrue. If we're thinking about hobgoblin's case, then I don't know if I'd again switch sides. We need to clarify which steps are required to work, and which are just bonus.10:47
knomeastraljava, usb doesn't mount autmatically?10:47
knomeastraljava, if you can mount manually, it's a pass. if not, it's a fail.10:47
astraljavaIf the case says to try USB sticks, and you can't browse them, then is it a fail or pass?10:47
knomesee prev comment ^10:48
knomeor was it about mounting by default10:48
knomeor not being able to access at all generally10:48
astraljavaWell what fun is it being able to mount, if you can't browse?10:48
hobgoblinknome: it was in dmesg - not in thunar - in fact none of the other partitions that I would see in thnar normally are there - didn't bother trying to manually mount it 10:49
knomei suppose it boils down to "is the stick browseable on other systems" and "what's the filesystem"10:49
knomeif it is browseable, and the fs is FAT, i'd say it might be a fail10:49
astraljavaknome: Have fun trying to open that up in the testcase. :D10:49
knomeif it's not browseable, or the filesystem is NTFS, i'd say that's a pass10:49
knomejust use common sense.10:49
astraljavaYou're talking about plain users here. *smirk*10:50
knomei think there should be a way to mark "failed" tests "passed" by some "product admins" at a later stage10:50
knomeand the other way too10:50
knomewell that ^10:50
astraljavaknome: No, we don't need that. The results don't have to be used by cold numbers.10:50
knomei understood there's going to be some "product admins" anyway10:50
knomeor sth, ask stgraber :)10:51
hobgoblinI've got common sense - a usb that was used to install from should be bwoseable when you reboot after install in my opinion :)10:51
astraljavaOkay, well, I wouldn't mind, but it's not a pre-requisite IMHO.10:51
knomethe point was that there's going to be more granularity in the permissions10:51
hobgoblinas a plain user :)10:51
astraljavahobgoblin: I wasn't comparing you to a plain user. Sorry if that was confusing. :D10:51
knomeastraljava, yes, agreed in "cold numbers"10:51
hobgoblinlol10:51
knomeastraljava, but the -release list is getting those pass/fail percentages, so i'd rather get them right10:52
astraljavaknome: I'd like that very much. (re: granularity)10:52
astraljavaknome: Yeah ok, then it makes sense.10:52
knomeastraljava, so to say, those are not just for us10:52
astraljavaI have been a little out from the -release for this cycle. I'll try to do better.10:53
knomenp :)10:53
knomei've been out too, and while i've been in, there hasn't been anything10:53
knomethe things i refer to regarding QA tracker was discussed mostly last cycle with stgraber personally10:54
ochosiknome, pleia2: could one (or both) of you please proof-read my article on x.org?10:54
knomei can do later today10:54
* astraljava was scolded for missing the deadlines for the emails, too10:55
knomeastraljava, oh, oops. no, i didn't make changes to the Long document10:55
knomeastraljava, but i remember most of it anyway10:56
knomeastraljava, what should be left is not the big thing, the big thing is making it readable in addition10:56
astraljavaOkay, maybe I recall that incorrectly anyway. But I thought we started going through that, did we not?10:56
knomeyeah, we quickly did, but i didn't make any specific notes (except mental)10:56
astraljavaI just remember saying I was too tired at one point, and that we ought to switch to NHL '11 at that point. :D10:57
knomeyup!10:57
astraljavaRight, so if you remember anything at all, could you throw a draft somewhere, and we could go through it with the princess as well?10:57
ochosiknome, pleia2: btw, i consciously decided against including something like a "changelog", i think pictures speak louder than words anyway10:57
knomei can do that later too :)10:58
astraljavaSweet! Thanks. :)10:58
knomeochosi, looks fine, though i'd probably change the last <p> to either remove the "(if you know how)" or quickly paste the command11:18
knomeochosi, also, it's lacking your "the writer is"...11:18
ochosioh true, i forgot that we still add that manually11:19
knomeyup :P11:19
ochosii was also wondering whether i should try to structure the text more by formatting it11:21
ochosii mean adding <em> etc11:21
knomeif you want to emphasize some thing specifically, then maybe11:22
ochosior i could add headers11:22
knomethat works too11:22
ochosiknome: ok, updated11:25
knomeastraljava, sent my notes about the long test to you and pleia2 11:32
knomeochosi, make the "feedback" a separate <p> and <strong> it11:33
* astraljava kisses knome on the mouth11:35
knomeumm, eww11:36
knome:D11:36
ochosiknome: ok done. if you approve it, please press publish11:38
hobgoblinastraljava knome - if either of you are here = so is grub install failed - this is a fatal error - critical - not critical - and a fail regardless ?11:38
ochosibbl11:38
astraljavahobgoblin: That's a sure-fire fail, and very critical indeed.11:39
hobgoblinok - 'but' I did 'fiddle' with the install - did a entire disc install - but went to the partitioner and changed grub from sda to sdc - would that change your thinking?11:40
hobgoblinin my mind it's a fail still 11:41
astraljavaHmm... well if you're sure the system _should_ be able to boot from that, then yes. Have you checked the BIOS boot section?11:43
knomeochosi, btw, it's *Quantal*11:43
knomeochosi, fixed that though.11:44
knomeochosi, and publsihed11:44
knome-typo11:44
hobgoblinoh I know that it would normally be ok astraljava 11:44
astraljavaOk, yeah. You should mark the test as failed, and provide the bug report with grub messages attached (on the bug, not on the tracker).11:45
hobgoblink11:45
hobgoblinwhere do you get grub messages from - never had an install fail on me before lol11:46
astraljavahobgoblin: So how exactly does it fail, then? I'm sorry, I assumed that it fails to boot after grub was installed on another partition/drive.11:48
hobgoblinhang on - just found the next bit lol11:48
astraljavaUgh... going through an image _bit by bit_ is much more hardcore I could ever imagine myself doing testing. *smirk*11:49
hobgoblinfinished without installing grub - apport started mpw11:49
hobgoblinbah - it was my fail 11:51
hobgoblinbut at least I've seen an install fail now :)11:51
astraljavahttp://astraljava.kapsi.fi/fail-set-sail-for-fail1.jpg11:52
hobgoblinyep that works for me too :)(11:53
astraljavaLove that pic.11:53
hobgoblinso in future - don't tell the installer to install grub to somewhere it is set to do something to - extreme confusion ensues :)11:54
astraljavaYep, even that description confuses the konfutse out of me.11:54
hobgoblin:)11:54
hobgoblinconfused me - and I did it ... 11:54
hobgoblinso if you've done a bunch of tests - and you have the same bugs - should you put them against each test you did ?12:50
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madnickochosi: got the environment all setup, going to bed now :) 15:44
madnickIll be up in 12h15:44
ochosimadnick: ok, ttyl then16:07
ochosiknome: thanks for correction and publication then16:07
knomeochosi, np17:05
ochosipleia2: could you share today's post on x.org by me on g+? i mean i can do it via my own profile, but i think the "official" xubuntu channel would be better. if you do so, please change the last paragraph to "feedback is welcome _here_" instead of irc and ml :)17:05
ochosiknome: btw, currently i'm using the lower panel not as launcher, but as "dock", meaning i have my open windows there17:06
knomeochosi, aha17:06
ochosiknome: it's really nice, but otoh makes the top-panel almost useless ;)17:06
knomeochosi, i'm currently using a non-default, not-completely-conservative-layout too17:07
pleia2ochosi: yep17:07
ochosireminds me of the days when xubuntu had the gnome2-panel setup17:07
ochosipleia2: thanks a bunch!17:07
ochosiknome: what's your setup then?17:08
knomesec, upping a shot17:08
knomeochosi, http://temp.knome.fi/other/shot-panel-layout.png17:08
knomeochosi, both are 90% of the monitor width, non-hide17:08
knomeochosi, the top panel only has the window list17:08
knomeochosi, and the top panel expands automatically to 100% if needed (== if many windows open)17:09
ochosimhm17:09
ochosiactually xfce4.10 panel has quite a few nice feats17:09
knomeochosi, and both the panels have separators at both ends, bringing some visual "breathing space"17:09
ochosiyou should really pull latest greybird to tell me about the panel-style :)17:09
knomeheh17:09
ochosimhm, i noticed17:09
knomeoh, you noticed the top panel right-hand separator? ;]17:10
ochosibut actually i'm so happy about the new panel style that on second thought maybe don't tell me about it :)17:10
ochosihehe, yeah of course... :)17:10
knomeheh, maybe i should17:10
ochosianyway, off for dinner17:10
ochosittyl17:10
knomeba17:10
knomepleia2, hai17:10
knomepleia2, you prolly got my mail about the long testcase17:10
pleia2knome: yeah, I'll try to have a look at it tonight17:11
knomepleia2, yup, np; if you have questions though, feel free to ping17:11
pleia2thanks :)17:12
knomewell, i have much more time for these kinds of things now17:13
knomeas i put it to my friends;17:13
knomei, as the XPL, decide the direction of the project and about any new features/changes and janne, as the QA lead, makes sure the quality stays17:14
knome;)17:14
knome(that's not the serious reason)17:14
GridCubeknome: o/17:15
knomehey GridCube 17:22
GridCubewhen can we meet to talk? not today17:32
knomei discussed this with ochosi today, we need to schedule soon17:33
GridCubegood :) 17:34
ochosipleia2: one more thing, would you mind to change "GreyBird" to "Greybird"?17:39
pleia2ochosi: fixed, sorry :)17:40
ochosipleia2: np, thanks again!:)17:40
ochosipleia2: btw, i think i completely forgot about the xubuntu/ubuntu-women-stickers17:41
pleia2ochosi: yep you did!17:41
ochosipleia2: i wanted to order some from you, if you still have some17:41
pleia2I think I'll do a personal blog post about giving them away17:41
ochosisounds good17:41
pleia2yeah sure, just email me your address: lyz@ubuntu.com17:41
ochosiok, email me back your account details so i can send you some retribution17:41
ochosiok, sent17:43

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