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ZigndCan someone help me?01:09
ZigndHello01:13
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hobgoblinastraljava: any idea when the alpha2 is going to make an appearance ?08:44
astraljavaNope, but I'll ask soon-ish (meaning within a few hours).09:01
hobgoblinno hurry :)09:01
astraljavaWell, sort of. It's supposed to be released on Thursday. ;)10:19
astraljavaOh, but look! There they are. :)10:20
astraljavapleia2_: Had time to look into /Long, yet? I was planning to write my call for testing of Alpha-2 this evening, meaning anything from an hour to 10. :)11:52
astraljavapleia2_: I'll try to hack it a bit before I do, obviously, and ask for feedback from the channel before I send it out for the whole world to see, of course.11:53
astraljavapleia2_: But if you had any ideas, feel free to send my way.11:53
astraljavaThat ^^ of course goes for the rest of the bunch.11:53
astraljavaknome needn't bother. *smirk*11:54
hobgoblinastraljava: so - testing alpha2 - test against what for testcases ?12:01
astraljavahobgoblin: "Logical error: Unable to parse input."12:06
astraljavaOh, wait, that wasn't a response to my lines just above?12:07
hobgoblinwell I have the short one - is there a long one - which sounds decidedly dodgy12:07
hobgoblinoh sorry no lol - t'is a brand new question :)12:08
astraljavaWell we talked about it in Sunday's meeting, didn't we? It's under construction, still, and that's what I was really asking for, the feedback on how to modify it. I have ideas, and we have already discussed it with knome, for instance. But if someone wants some to send some input on it, still, then by all means, suggestions are welcome and will be considered while modifying.12:09
astraljavaHehe. "...if someone wants to send any input on it..."12:10
hobgoblinok - I have link to the old long one - you want feedback on that? 12:10
astraljavaYes, the in-progress one isn't online yet.12:10
hobgoblinok - well I'll do the alpha against that then 12:10
astraljavaErr... no, please.12:11
astraljavaWait until the /Long testcase is published.12:11
hobgoblinok - suits me :)12:11
astraljavaIt'll change, quite drastically, so we don't want data to be skewed by the outdated cases.12:12
hobgoblinyep - understand12:12
astraljavaThanks. So, if you have time, instead of testing just yet, please read the old Long case, and tell me your thoughts on it by your understanding of what we have talked about QA in the past few meetings and discussions on this channel.12:13
hobgoblinokey doke 12:13
astraljavaThoughts meaning what you'd like to remove/add/alter.12:13
astraljavaOh, one more thing.12:14
astraljavaWhen you read it, try to keep in mind that the /Short case is a prerequirement.12:14
hobgoblinyep - understood 12:14
astraljavaSo a person doing that ought to have done /Short already.12:14
astraljavaWon't guide you further, I wanna see how well we've managed to get our ideas through to the "new" people. :)12:15
hobgoblinso is the basic plan - boot with live - do the short then the long - then install - then do them again? 12:15
astraljavaI'd at least do the /Long only after installing, but wait a second, I'm not very level-headed at the moment (due to work, not mind-altering substances). *smirk*12:16
astraljavaYeah, I'd add /Long as a direct continuation to the /Short, meaning it's Post-Install already at that point.12:18
hobgoblinyep - ok - so boot - short - install - long 12:18
hobgoblinthat makes sense12:18
astraljavaWell part of /Short already has Post-Install items, so the correct order would be Load - Short (including install + post-install) - Long.12:19
hobgoblinok 12:20
hobgoblinI'll read and write then for an hour or so :)12:20
astraljavaA *huge* thank-you!12:20
hobgoblin:)12:21
astraljavaI know we talked about the mandatory - run-once thingie earlier, but I can't remember the outcome to that discussion, nor where we had it even. There may be changes coming to those, but let's have the alphas as they are, now. We can change for betas, then.12:21
* hobgoblin needs to find out how to delete wiki's I did the hardware one in the wrong place to start with ... should have had one more cuppa12:21
astraljavahobgoblin: Why is it in a wrong place?12:22
astraljavaochosi: Sorry, my man, I forgot you had pinged me! Wassup?12:23
hobgoblinI did the first one in /testing/short/hardwareprofile ... there's the real one in /testing12:23
astraljavaAhh... but you linked to the correct one on here, so it's cool. :)12:23
hobgoblinyea :) eventually 12:24
ochosiastraljava: i wanted to ask you how the weekend went display-dialog wise :)13:05
hobgoblinastraljava: to me the long one look ok - the only things I would mention is 'ipod' should that be 'ipod' or some  usb player, hibernate I thought was not set up now 13:06
hobgoblinpersonally I test arandr and multiple screens - but that's just for me 13:07
* ochosi sometimes wonders whether we should switch to faenza as icon-theme...13:08
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astraljavaochosi: Badly. Some schedule-pressing work took over, so I didn't get to it. Sorry...13:35
astraljavahobgoblin: Thanks for the feedback, I'll keep that in mind while re-doing the case.13:36
ochosiastraljava: okay, no problem. if we re-schedule, what would be a realistic date?13:36
astraljavaAlternate seems to be having a re-spin.13:36
astraljavaochosi: This coming Sunday looks promising, for the other work's deadline is Saturday. :)13:37
ochosiastraljava: ok :)13:38
ochosiastraljava: keeping my fingers crossed then13:38
ochosiastraljava: all in all we should probably set some kind of deadline for it, it also needs some testing and packaging and all, and iirc ubuntu's deadlines have become shorter...13:39
astraljavaochosi: August 23rd13:45
astraljavaBeta13:46
astraljava FeatureFreeze13:46
astraljavagrr13:46
astraljavaBut plenty of time, still.13:46
astraljavaStupid HTML, can't the world live in plain text?!13:46
ochosiastraljava: yeah, but "plenty of time" quickly converts into "time's up!"13:50
astraljavaOh, don't I know it. :)13:51
astraljavaBut there's a few deadlines I can still not keep. :)13:51
ochosisure ;)13:52
astraljavaBut if we seriously set a deadline, how about 8th of July? Then it'd mean I'd have one full week worth of time that I can actually, really, dedicate to these issues.14:04
astraljavaweek's*14:04
ochosiastraljava: yeah, fine with me14:05
ochosiastraljava: do you wanna write it down somewhere so we can follow up on it?14:06
astraljavaI don't know where to. Other than my own TODO list manager.14:06
ochosi:}14:06
ochosiblueprint or meeting-agenda?14:07
astraljavaBlueprints don't seem to have ETAs for work items, do they? But sure, next meeting agenda should have a point about it. When is the next meeting, btw.?14:08
astraljavaTomorrow?!14:09
astraljavaBut... but... how?!14:09
astraljavaAhh... yes, I remember now. I remember how it started. It's the milestone week,14:10
ochosii thought we'd do bi-weekly meetings14:10
ochosibut this week was an exception14:10
astraljava(bonus points for anyone who recognizes that line)14:10
ochosiso yeah, tomorrow should be a meeting14:10
astraljavaYeah, actually last week's was the exception.14:10
* astraljava makes a mental note for checking the action points tonight14:11
ochosiok, true14:11
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pleia2astraljava: no, didn't get a chance to look through it all, sorry :\16:10
pleia2astraljava: are /Long test things to count toward pass/fail? and if we have failures, do we not release alpha2?16:48
* pleia2 sends of /Long feedback and gets back to work17:23
xubuntu322greetings from a dev of another distro17:48
xubuntu322having installed Xubuntu today for a family member, there were some points I found lacking17:48
xubuntu322if you'd like to discuss them, I posted the feedback to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=1205581217:49
pleia2xubuntu322: might be a better discussion for the mailing list so folks can reply when they're available (busy week here with alpha2 on Thursday)17:51
pleia2as to some of the failures you're seeing during install, can you submit bugs so the devs can investigate?17:52
xubuntu322pleia2: nothing failed visibly, only a ton of failures were logged in the (hidden by default) log17:52
xubuntu322the installed system works as intended, as far as I can tell17:53
pleia2xubuntu322: right, do you have a way to save that log so you can submit the bugs?17:53
xubuntu322let me check whether the installer left it on the HD17:53
Sysithere's a button to not connect to internet during installation, at least when opening installer after "try xubuntu without installing"17:53
ochosixubuntu322: just curious, what distro?17:54
Sysibutton being network managment applet17:54
xubuntu322ochosi: tinycore17:54
GridCubeoh tinycore is awesome :D17:54
xubuntu322Sysi: I went directly to the installer17:54
ochosixubuntu322: problem is that much of what you describe actually has to do with ubiquity (the installer) and therefore ubuntu, not xubuntu17:56
ochosixubuntu322: we just use that system, and we don't have enough devs to "cook our own soup"17:57
ochosixubuntu322: mostly the "WM crashed" bug is ours, we know about it but haven't fixed it yet (looking at you, astraljava :) )17:57
davmor2xubuntu322: there is still a networking applet at the top in the bar that you can just select disconnect from the network, and there should be 2 check boxes one for restricted and one for updates you would need to uncheck both17:58
astraljavaochosi: Oh? Am I supposed to fix a window manager crashing bug?18:01
ochosiastraljava: no, that's the bug about the compositor being switched "on" in ubiquity/installer18:02
astraljavaRight.18:02
xubuntu322davmor2: there was no top bar, see the "WM crashed" :)18:04
ochosidavmor2: yes, in the direct-install mode there is no panel :( (at least not in xubuntu, i think that's another thing we could fix)18:05
ochosibbl18:05
davmor2xubuntu322: ah that explains it then sorry18:05
xubuntu322ok, I tarballed up the whole /var/log dir from that machine18:06
xubuntu322which logs are from the installer?18:06
xubuntu322the installer/ dir does not have the relevant log18:07
pleia2probably want to look in syslog18:08
pleia2and as ochosi said, most bugs will go against the ubiquity package18:09
davmor2xubuntu322: if you are on that machine you can do ubuntu-bug ubiquity and that should upload all the required files to fix a fault note the should I've not needed to do that for a while :)18:10
xubuntu322davmor2: already packed it up, sorry18:10
davmor2xubuntu322: no worries then 18:11
xubuntu322the full log was nowhere to be found18:19
xubuntu322but at least parts of the warnings I was were from dpkg, a ton of "dpkg: regarding .../libpcre3_8.12-4_amd64.deb containing libpcre3, pre-dependency problem"18:19
xubuntu322so it appears a cosmetic issue in dpkg/ubiquity interaction18:19
davmor2xubuntu322: /var/log/installer/sys.log maybe or something like that 18:22
xubuntu322ls installer/18:23
xubuntu322initial-status.gz  media-info18:23
davmor2davmor2@boromir:~$ ls /var/log/installer/18:24
davmor2casper.log  debug  initial-status.gz  media-info  partman  syslog  version18:24
xubuntu322I don't have those? Are they perhaps removed after X successful boots, etc?18:24
davmor2might be part of the crash maybe18:24
davmor2xubuntu322: nope they stay18:25
xubuntu322the installer completed successfully, and the ext4 fs did not sound a warning on the first boot18:25
xubuntu322https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubiquity/ - ubiquity doesn't seem to accept bug reports?18:32
GridCubexubuntu322: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug/?no-redirect18:42
GridCubeand report it against ubiquity when it asks18:42
ochosisome brainfood for all who think that audio-players should manage podcasts and streams as well: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/apple-podcasts-app/19:49
ochosi(this is basically apple saying: our music app wasn't good enough in making podcasts etc accessible, and to my experience that is true)19:50
Unit193So... Because Apple does it it must be true? ;P19:52
pleia2he didn't say that19:53
pleia2just something to consider19:53
Unit193:D19:54
ochosii'm wondering how long until they cut itunes open and replace it with slimmer, more one-task-oriented apps19:54
pleia2btw, reported after our QA meeting: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-qa-website/+bug/101720723:07
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1017207 in Ubuntu QA Website "Clarify what a "URL to the hardware profile" is in tracker" [Undecided,New]23:07
pleia2so it looks like they're planning on linking it up with UF23:07
pleia2started a draft on the site for alpha2 notes23:36

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