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mhall119#startmeeting Ubuntu TV discussion18:01
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mhall119hi everybody, who is here for the Ubuntu TV meeting?18:02
jhodappmhall119, let's try now :)18:02
YoBoYhi mhall119, here but just to follow (not participating :p)18:03
pinguyYoBoY, same here. Would like to see how this is handled18:03
_danialjosejust to watch18:04
mhall119I'm going to give a few more minutes, I hope some of the TV community guys can make it18:04
jhodapphey tgm488318:04
tgm4883o/18:04
pinguyDoesn't seem like much work has been done to Ubuntu TV for awhile now: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntutv-dev-team/ubuntutv/trunk/files18:05
pinguyWould be nice to see how far it has come18:05
mhall119ok, I'm going to get started with some of the back story18:06
mhall119#topic History18:06
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tgm4883do we have more people here than normal?18:06
mhall119tgm4883: yeah, I put out a call for more discussion18:06
mhall119so, around this time last year Canonical debuted the Ubuntu TV at CES, and it was a pretty big hit18:07
mhall119at the time, the TV UI was based on the Unity 2D code18:07
mhall119which in early 2012 was still actively developed18:07
tgm4883quick correction, it was uds-P18:08
mhall119we opened up all of the source code that had been worked on, and recruited interested developers from the community to participate in it's development18:08
mhall119tgm4883: what was?18:08
tgm4883mhall119, oh wait, nm, I misread what you said18:08
tgm4883carry on18:08
mhall119ok18:08
mhall119so by this time last year the TV was open and we were getting great contributors like tgm4883 and bobweaver on board18:09
mhall119then, at UDS-Q, there was a decision made by the Unity team that actively developing 2 separate Unity codebases (2D and 3D) was too much18:10
mhall119and a big dicussion followed which ultimately resulted in Unity 3D being chosen18:10
mhall119I wasnt a part of those conversations, so I can't tell you what the arguments were either way18:11
mhall119so, with Unity 2D no longer being actively developed, we had to shift Ubuntu TV on to Nux and the Compiz plugin that powers Unity 3D18:11
mhall119and it wasn't long after that when the Canonical engineers who had been working on the multi-media functionality for the TV were also tasked with getting that same multi-media functionality working on the new Phone/Tablet codebase18:13
mhall119so for several months after we had started the transition to Unity 3D, we didn't have Canonical resources to help18:13
mhall119and despite a large amount of effort from bobweaver, porting it from Qt (which he was familiar with) to Nux (which he wasn't) was no simple task18:14
mhall119after months of this, those of us inside Canonical were frustrated that we couldn't contribute, and concerned that our absence was holding back to the community developers18:14
mhall119so jhodapp and I spent some time gathering up all the internal documentation about design and implementation details that we could, and worked to get approval to open them up to the community18:15
mhall119at this point, we were pretty much "throwing it over the wall", not because we wanted to, but because if we didn't it wouldn't get over the wall at all18:16
mr_manwhat does throwing it over the wall mean ?18:16
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mhall119mr_man: it's a common term for making something open source but not supporting the community around it18:17
mhall119like Google does with Android, or Sun/Oracle was known to do with their open source projects18:17
mr_mansounds like the last year18:17
mr_mancool so Ubuntu is droping the tv ?18:17
pinguymr_man, in-house code getting out to the public18:17
mhall119Now, even though the phone shell was being written in Qt/QML at this time, as far as everybody inside Canonical knew the future was still Unity 3D, and the expectation was that the phone shell would eventually be integrated into Unity 3D as well18:17
mhall119mr_man: no, this is the back story18:18
mhall119so for a long time we kept encouraging the community TV hackers to port to Unity 3D, because as far as *we* knew, that was the right direction to take it18:18
mr_manso you all got community members to do it ?18:18
mhall119mr_man: yes18:19
mr_manport to 3d ? that is or are you going to tell the to do that then change your mind 5 times18:19
mr_manwill is on board with this ?18:19
mhall119and while tgm4883 made good progress on a MythTV lens/scope that didn't depend on the UI toolkit, bobweaver was still struggling to make heads or tails of Nux and Compiz18:19
* tgm4883 encourages mr_man to hold his questions until the end of the history section18:19
mhall119mr_man: I'm explaining what happened, not what is going to happen18:19
mr_mansorry18:19
mr_manI thought that bobweaver quit because of many many reasons18:20
tgm4883perhaps we should open the second channel for questions?18:20
mhall119mr_man: I'll get to some of that in a bit18:20
mhall119finally, as the phone's releasing was approaching, the conversation inside Canonical went back to the Unity 2D vs. Unity 3D debate, and after proving how quickly and efficiently the Unity shell could be done in Qt/QML, the decision was reversed18:21
pinguya lack of communication seems to be the problem. You thought Unity 2d was dead so strating working on gettting Ubuntu TV working on Compiz, only to find out that up-stream was now using qt/Unity-2D.18:21
mhall119which put us in a difficult position, we weren't allowed to talk about the phone before it was announced, but we didn't want to waste developer's time either18:22
mr_manpinguy:  that is not true pm me if yyou want the truth18:22
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mhall119but we did discretely let bobweaver know that the debate had restarted, and there was a distinct possibility that Unity 2D, or at least a Qt/QML version of Unity, would become the new target18:23
bobweaverreally you did18:23
mhall119Which brings us to where we are now, we have an old Unity 2D codebase, some regretably wasted time and effort on Unity 3D porting, and a new Qt/QML foundating that we want to converge all of our devices around18:24
mhall119so, that's the history18:25
mhall119#topic Future18:25
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bobweavermaybe I should say my side of the history as it was me that wasted 3 months or more of programming18:25
pinguybobweaver, I think thats only fair18:26
mhall119so we wasted a lot of development time, and burned through a non-significant amount of developer good will, but we still want to see an Ubuntu TV, and we still want it to be a community project18:26
mhall119bobweaver: go ahead18:26
tgm4883#topic alternate history, community edition18:26
mhall119#topic more history18:26
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mhall119tgm4883: feel free to add your input as well18:27
bobweaverwhat really happened . after the last non virtual uds I was told o make nux I was also told that 3 times before then I was told back to 2d then back to this then back to that. It seems like there needs to be better leadership18:27
bobweaverso it was a flip flop falure18:27
jhodappbobweaver, nobody will argue with that point I think18:27
bobweavermeaning that I was lead along a fake road18:28
bobweaverthis is no one fault but mine18:28
bobweaverbut for the people in the future I do not want to see them have the same thing happen to them. so in other words you all need better leadership18:29
pinguybobweaver, was it ever at the back of your mind this may happen? Qt is really the only way to make apps fully cross platform. Compiz isn't really that great for this. From an outsider looking in. Ubuntu TV always seemed it was being made to work on many devices.18:29
bobweaverI knew that it was always going to be qt18:30
mhall119pinguy: sure, he was pushing us to just stick with Qt/QML the whole time18:30
mhall119he was a constant advocate for it18:30
bobweaverI fought that for months pinguy  the point is I do not want to see you all have something like this happen to the next bobweaver18:30
mhall119tgm4883: do you have anything you want to add?18:30
tgm4883just that I'm available for questions18:31
tgm4883oh18:31
bobweaverbtw I have ubunntu tv running on my nexus 718:31
mhall119really? that's awesome18:31
tgm4883and that for all the help i've asked for (testing wise), nobody has actually come though18:31
mhall119are we ready to talk about the future now?18:32
ogra_bobweaver, how is the signal reception ? :P18:33
bobweaverlisten you all are never going to get any where fighting about the code base. in this world it seems like it is about hardware and that is it. until the right people get the right tools it is not going to work18:33
pinguytgm4883, its a shame you didn't have that many testers. You probably could of done with the project being more open18:33
bobweaverwhy build something that is for the desktop when it is going on a tv18:33
bobweaverpeople have said that on the channel before18:33
tgm4883pinguy, the stuff I need testing doesn't have anything to do with the ubuntu tv code18:33
mhall119pinguy: the project was open, tgm4883 and bobweaver are both community contributors18:33
mhall119alright18:34
tgm4883so let me add a little here, what I actually am doing18:34
tgm4883I'm a Mythbuntu developer. What I bring to the table is the Ubuntu TV integration with a MythTV backend18:34
tgm4883This is done via Unity scopes, so it works on any platform that runs Unity18:34
bobweaverogra_:  I am using brodcom java drivers18:34
tgm4883The requests I've had for testing are 2 things18:35
tgm48831) Testing the scopes. This admittedly is a little more difficult, as it requires you to have a MythTV backend in your environment18:35
tgm48832) Testing of the MythTV backend quick start guide I wrote. This is far easier for people to test, as you can do it in a VM18:35
mhall119https://docs.google.com/document/d/19knOlqz8cV5_8VQ1tCvEd8tjEk6U50KsSOJCROR60o4/edit?usp=sharing18:36
tgm4883Ironically, the few people that have tested the scope have given me feedback. The people that said they would test the QSG haven't given me any feedback yet18:36
tgm4883Comments are open on the QSG, which is where I'm looking for them18:36
mhall119I'm guilty of that, it's still on my task list, but I've been quite behind lately18:37
bobweavertgm4883:  what is QSG?18:37
mhall119Quick Start Guide18:37
tgm4883Quick Start Guide18:37
mhall119the link I pasted above18:37
tgm4883The link above is the long version, that includes every screen in the backend setup18:37
tgm4883I would prefer to ship the smaller version, but it skips parts that aren't changed and may be more confusing18:37
tgm4883Short version https://docs.google.com/document/d/1eGJ8gGtRqFxQ8xVWlR6XgP6FAFJEVZ-Ntq_TT8XhWEs/edit?usp=sharing18:38
bobweavertgm4883:  I will read the guide and get back to you18:38
mhall119tgm4883: bobweaver: I'd like to start talking about where we go from here, since we only have 20 minutes left18:38
tgm4883ok18:38
tgm4883mhall119, sounds good18:38
mhall119#topic Future18:39
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mhall119alright, so now that everybody has the brief history of the TV project, I want to know how we progress from here18:39
mhall119we still want a TV formfactor of Unity, and we still (miraculously) have community interest in it18:39
bobweaverif it is going to be part of the phablet then you all should just tell them to do it they wrote the stuff to start with18:40
mhall119the goal is to have it all in one codebase18:41
mhall119which we're evidently calling "Unity Next"18:41
bobweaverI think that they are re-writing libunity no one can do anything till then18:41
mhall119which will start with the phablet code, and add in desktop and TV formfactors18:41
tgm4883I think "Unity Next" developers need to develop the interface18:41
bobweaverthat is a HUGE trouble that there not communicating between teams that is why I am out18:41
pinguyI hate to be the bad guy here, but Ubuntu TV is really only going to work with Ubuntu Touch. In the last 4 months XBMC has really come into its own.18:41
bobweaverwell that and many many other reasons18:41
tgm4883pinguy, Unity brings more to the table than XBMC18:42
bobweaverpinguy:  you wath live tv with xbmc ?18:42
pinguybobweaver, yes. It was part of the last release18:42
mhall119tgm4883: the "Unity Next" developers in Canonical have a short window to both polish the phablet UI for potential OEM partners, *and* port the desktop by 13.10 time-frame18:42
bobweaveralso manage all your apps18:42
pinguybobweaver, the android version also manages all of your apps18:43
tgm4883mhall119, it makes more sense for the Unity developers to develop the new layouts18:43
mhall119if we wait for Canonical developers to port the TV UI, it's going to take a while18:43
jhodappbobweaver, that's not true, it's just Qt5 and QML so what exactly do you think you need to wait on from the unity devs?18:43
bobweaverpinguy:  so then you should use it and stop telling people what they should or should not do. you know that I could have xbmc in the dash right18:44
bobweaverbecause there is qtmediahub18:44
mhall119tgm4883: they will be writing the code to support adding and switching to different formfacts, but I doubt they'll be able to port the TV UI unless we wait unti the end of this year18:44
bobweaverjhodapp:  they are re-writing unity18:44
bobweaverlibunity I should say18:44
mhall119and I really don't want to wait another year on this18:44
tgm4883This is OT, but XBMC doesn't have TV capabilities built in. They farm it out and use PVR backends (such as MythTV)18:44
mhall119bobweaver: yes, the libunity APIs are going to be changing, but the TV layout and what data it will need shouldn't be18:45
jhodappbobweaver, sure, but we have a phablet UI today right? what's the difference between having the TV UI today and getting it working, vs the phablet one that already works?18:45
bobweaverUmm... that is not possible it listens to libunity it uses nux all of that18:45
tgm4883Can't we just blow up the tablet interface and use that for TV?18:46
mhall119bobweaver: the converged codebase will all be on the same libunity API18:46
mhall119tgm4883: that would be a good place ot start I think18:46
bobweaverthe phablet is not using all the parts of unity also the main thing would be dconf-qt that right there is huge18:46
mhall119but the tablet is still geared to touch input18:46
jhodapptgm4883, yes, I think that's a good place to start too18:46
tgm4883mhall119, IMHO, the work that we need to do is ensure that you can control the interface via remote control18:46
bobweaveralso qx11info  as you all are making new server one can not do anything that is why I made into standalone app that runs on android18:46
mhall119ok, things are starting to fall apart into technical implementation here, I'd like to keep this more high-level18:47
tgm4883well, that and ensure you can use it from 10' away, but I think that is going to deal more with font sizes18:47
bobweavermhall119:  you ant tell people to waste there time that is not fair to them18:47
tgm4883mhall119, +118:47
bobweaverbottom line ^^18:47
mhall119so let's re-cap what we have and what we don't18:47
bobweaverspinning wheels in the mud just gets you more stuck18:48
mhall119we have the phablet codebase, we have a design spec for the TV interface, we have some existing Qt4/QML1 code that may or may not be reusable18:48
mhall119we don't have: Canonical resources devoted exclusively to porting TV to the new codebase18:48
bobweavermhall119:  have you looked at the code you can not use it18:48
mhall119bobweaver: I haven't but I'm not as technically proficient as you when it comes to code18:49
tgm4883mhall119, perhaps a better angle would be to list all the needs (even stuff currently done), then list what is done18:49
bobweaveresp because of the things that are happening with the server and libunity you are telling people to waste there time18:49
mhall119tgm4883: ok18:49
tgm4883eg. what is needed to ship something the community would deem "Ubuntu TV"18:49
mhall119* We need the converged Unity foundation to support multiple formfactors (Canonical resources are workign on this, it doesn't exist yet)18:50
bobweaverlibhbris ??18:50
mhall119* We need a stable set of APIs for building the interface (libunity, indicator services, hud services, etc)18:50
bobweaverer wrong place so sorry18:50
mhall119some of that exists, some doesn't18:50
bobweaverphablet has almost all that ^^18:50
mhall119Canonical resources have already been allocated to it18:50
mhall119bobweaver: on the surface yes, I don't know how much is mocked and how much is subject to change18:51
mhall119at the very least, the phablet's use of libunity is going to change when libunity changes18:51
tgm4883for lack of a better way to mark those, I'm going to put those as actions18:51
bobweaverbut you all are digging your selfs deeper until the things that I have stated change then nothing can be done. OH HOW I whis that I could have talked about this at UDS18:51
mhall119tgm4883: good idea18:51
mhall119#action * We need the converged Unity foundation to support multiple formfactors (Canonical resources are workign on this, it doesn't exist yet)18:52
meetingologyACTION: * We need the converged Unity foundation to support multiple formfactors (Canonical resources are workign on this, it doesn't exist yet)18:52
mhall119#action * We need a stable set of APIs for building the interface (libunity, indicator services, hud services, etc) Canonical resources are already allocated to this18:52
meetingologyACTION: * We need a stable set of APIs for building the interface (libunity, indicator services, hud services, etc) Canonical resources are already allocated to this18:52
bobweaveryou all need to know how this is going to work on mer18:52
bobweaverWoops I mean mir18:52
tgm4883IMO, it's way to early to think about mir18:53
mhall119#action we need to re-create the TV shell layout and components on top of Unity Next18:53
meetingologyACTION: we need to re-create the TV shell layout and components on top of Unity Next18:53
tgm4883mhall119, we need remote control functionality of Unity Next18:53
mhall119bobweaver: that's something that should be done in the common Unity Next code, there shouldn't be anything TV specific about it18:53
jhodapptgm4883, agreed18:53
bobweaverif that is action then you are going to need all the libs that are used some are not open as of yet18:53
tgm4883mhall119, I'm leaving you to add the actions so we don't duplicate them18:54
mhall119#action We need Remote control/navigation in the TV shell18:54
meetingologyACTION: We need Remote control/navigation in the TV shell18:54
bobweavermhall119:  what the heck are you talking about18:54
tgm4883mhall119, we need a TV backend18:54
bobweaverthat is bull18:54
mhall119*action We need to make sure that all of the libs necessary to write apps and the shell are available and open source18:54
bobweaverhow are you going to handle windowing how are you going to handle spread ect ect18:54
bobweaveralt+tab so many things18:54
jhodappbobweaver, don't get buried in the details for now18:55
mhall119*action we need to specify a data model for passing TV data between Scopes and the Shell18:55
bobweaverthis was all done on X before18:55
bobweaverwith qx11info18:55
mhall119#action We need to make sure that all of the libs necessary to write apps and the shell are available and open source18:55
meetingologyACTION: We need to make sure that all of the libs necessary to write apps and the shell are available and open source18:55
mhall119#action we need to specify a data model for passing TV data between Scopes and the Shell18:55
meetingologyACTION: we need to specify a data model for passing TV data between Scopes and the Shell18:55
bobweaverso if you are going to have all the things that the TV had then you are going to have to implant all that18:55
mhall119#action we need scopes that pull TV content from various backends and services that use the datamodel and new API18:56
meetingologyACTION: we need scopes that pull TV content from various backends and services that use the datamodel and new API18:56
bobweaverwhich I hear hush hush words that canonical is doing that18:56
mhall119bobweaver: doing what?18:56
bobweaverthere is no work for the community because canonical can change anything at any second giving the community the eff bomb18:56
mhall119bobweaver: that's what I'm actively working to change18:57
mhall119and jhodapp has been pushing for that to change too18:57
* jhodapp will back mhall119 on that18:57
bobweavermhall119:  good for you I am glade to see that18:57
mhall119so we're almost out of time, tgm4883 any more actions you want me to record?18:57
tgm4883nope18:58
bobweaverListen the only reason that I am hear is because I have to tell you all what happend to me and how you can NOT make it happen to the next me18:58
mhall119I'd like to end this by asking how you guys, on the community, want us in Canonical to work with you18:58
bobweaveryou know what you all can do stop laughing at people18:58
bobweavertake them for real18:58
mhall119bobweaver: none of us has been laughing at all about this18:59
jhodappbobweaver, come on man, that's not fair18:59
bobweaverlisten to them and dont clang them up to be just people make them part of the team18:59
bobweavermhall119:  should I take out the video of uds and saviq laughing ?18:59
bobweaverlife is not fair18:59
bobweaverlisten if you seee some like me again just tell them that they need to contact saviq and the other people that are too cool to show up to these meeting19:00
mhall119I certainly hope that didn't happen, but if it did I apologize on their behalf19:00
bobweavereven though they said that they would make it19:00
bobweavermember at the last real UDS19:00
mhall119bobweaver: Saviq doesn't work on TV anymore, he hasn't for some time19:00
mhall119neither does jhodapp really, he's here on his own volition19:01
bobweaverthat is not the point the point is these are the people that CONTROL things19:01
bobweaveryou must make them work with people19:01
mhall119bobweaver: no, they don't19:01
jhodappbobweaver, no that's not right19:01
bobweaverif they dont want to then this is doomed19:01
mhall119they've been yanked around and re-directed as much as you have (more probably)19:01
* jhodapp can attest to that19:01
bobweaverif you can not work together then what do you have19:01
bobweaver?>19:01
bobweaverpeople wasting there time19:02
mhall119alright, our time is up, if anybody has any other questions, concerns or comments, you can find us in #ubuntu-tv19:02
mhall119#endmeeting19:02
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bobweaverI am sure that they have been that is not what I am talking abou t19:02
bobweaveruntil you all are way more open in the community then this is doomed to fail if you all want the community to make this happen . that is what I am saying19:03
bobweaverer webchat dosent scroll down19:03
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