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elfyhi chilicuil03:21
elfychilicuil: did you go any further with the forum issue yet?03:22
chilicuilelfy: hey elfi, not yet, I've comment it to the team though, we're still evaluating alternatives, thanks for the follow up =)03:24
elfyyou're welcome - not often I'm actually up when I see you join channel(s)03:25
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sil2100o/16:00
mvohi16:00
barry\o16:01
jodho/16:01
cyphermoxo/16:02
caribouo/16:02
mvosteve and I are in a call still16:02
barryah16:02
mvoshould end soon i hope16:02
jodhI'm in that call too :)16:02
mvooh, sorry16:02
mvoindeed16:02
* barry can start the meeting16:03
barry#startmeeting16:03
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mvothanks barry16:03
barrygive me a few moments folks...16:03
infinityo/16:04
barry#topic lightning round16:04
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barryecho $(shuf -e barry doko stgraber jodh bdmurray slangasek caribou infinity mvo sil2100 robru cyphermox)16:05
barrysil2100 caribou robru doko slangasek stgraber mvo barry jodh bdmurray infinity cyphermox16:05
barrysil2100: you're up!16:05
* cyphermox is starting to think shuf knows about him, and sorts 'cy' towards the end.16:05
sil2100Oh!16:05
sil2100I didn't expect that16:05
sil2100- Landing team work, silo coordination, preparing landing e-mails16:06
sil2100- Trying to debug/triage some of the strange CI Train problems sighted on Friday16:06
caribousil2100: I can start if you want16:06
sil2100- Promotion of the RC image for the ww07-2015 milestone16:06
sil2100- Documenting the ww07-2015 milestone on the reports page16:06
sil2100- Attending RTM status meetings16:06
sil2100- Tending the ww09-2015 milestone, coordinating landings and fixes16:06
sil2100- Experimenting with custom tarball creation for ubuntu-rtm mako * Poking around and learning about apparmor cache re-creation16:06
sil2100- Archive diff automated scripts * Implemented proper deep version differencing between archives * Made the binary -> source conversion more efficient16:06
sil2100- Improve error handling for commitlog generation16:06
sil2100- A short patch-pilot duty16:06
sil2100(done)16:06
caribouBugfix:16:06
sil2100hm, it pasted strangely16:06
caribou - Upload of Firmware assisted dump support for ppc64el to Vivid (LP: #1415562)16:06
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1415562 in linux (Ubuntu) "[Ubuntu 15.04] Support firmware assisted dump on ppc64le" [Medium,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/141556216:06
caribou- CUPS : SRU for bug #1352809 (-h override)16:06
ubottubug 1352809 in cups (Ubuntu Utopic) "/usr/bin/lp on Trusty using -h option doesn't work as expected" [Medium,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/135280916:06
caribou- rsyslog memory leak (LP: #1423586)16:06
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1423586 in rsyslog (Ubuntu Trusty) "Please backport memory leak fixes present up to 7.4.6" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/142358616:07
caribou - libvirtd lost floating IP16:07
caribouPrepare CTS sprint16:07
caribouWork on deja-dup FTBS (test needs fixing)16:07
caribou(done)16:07
robru* Train:16:07
robru  - ported test suite from nose to nose2 at barry's recommendation16:07
robru  - fixed a couple of unhandled exceptions in rare corner cases discovered in last weeks' build.py rewrite16:07
robru  - started a branch for pushing merged branches to LP at build time instead of publish time (but didn't land this yet)16:07
robru  - started generating full silo content diffs at build time16:07
robru  - in response to disk space crisis, added a cleanup step that deletes extra copies of built packages after they're no longer needed (eg, versions from distro are downloaded for diffing, and then those get left around taking up space; deleting them halves the silo disk usage after diffs are generated)16:07
robru  - discovered a case where two silos containing the same package were published at the same time; the usual check that prevents this failed due to a race condition, experimented with a branch to resolve this but it's incomplete.16:07
robru  - removed the mandatory 5 minute pause at the start of the watch phase; this has no effect on builds but speeds up WATCH_ONLY runs on already-built silos from 5 minutes to 20 seconds.16:07
robru  - merged watch_ppa.py into build.py because it no longer made sense for those modules to be separate (watch_ppa.py contained a lot of boilerplate that duplicated what was already handled better by the new build.py; merging them resulted in the watch_ppa.py logic taking up half as many lines of code with no feature regressions)16:07
robru  - streamlined a couple untested packagemanager.py functions and wrote tests for them16:07
robru  - modified build.py to start recording the revno of the branch it merges, and modified publisher.py to check these revnos and prevent publication if a branch contains a new, unbuilt revno.16:07
robru  - attempted running the test suite under py3 and started fixing the easiest of bugs, however there's a large class of unicode bugs I've yet to understand.16:07
barryrobru: \o/16:07
barryrobru: feel free to ping me about those16:08
barryi think doko is not here today16:09
barryslangasek: are you ready or should we come back to you?16:09
robrubarry: yeah I need to read about unicode, I do not understand it very well atall16:09
barryrobru: i have some excellent links and resources i'll pass along16:10
robrubarry: thanks16:10
barrylet's come back to slangasek16:10
sak51 minutes until the meeting16:10
barrystgraber: are you here today?16:10
mvorobru: very impressive list :)16:10
robrumvo: thanks ;-)16:10
barrylet's come back to stgraber, tho i'm not sure he's here today16:10
barrymvo: you're up if you want, or we can come back16:11
mvoclick:16:11
mvo- merge review feedback from barry, thanks!16:11
mvo- New click 0.4.37, mostly SDK fixes16:11
mvogrowisosfs:16:11
mvo- merge fix for blue-ray burning bts #713016 (LP: #113679) + SRU16:11
mvounattended-upgrades:16:11
mvo- Review/merge fix for #1422345 and upload new version (thanks Brian!)16:11
mvosnappy:16:11
ubottuLaunchpad bug 113679 in xorg-server (Ubuntu Dapper) "xorg freezes when running openoffice" [High,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/11367916:11
mvo- prepare new alpha3 with snappy-go as part of the release16:11
mvo- lots of features/fixes/improvements for snappy-go16:11
mvo  (include fixes to make the code go vet/go-lint clean)16:11
mvo- spec/implemented snappy config (with examples)16:11
mvo(done)16:11
mvoeh, thats not the right bugnumber16:11
slangasekbarry: right, hi, here now :)16:12
slangasekbut I have nothing written ;-D16:12
mvobug #1113367916:12
ubottuError: Launchpad bug 11133679 could not be found16:12
barryslangasek: no worries, we'll come back to you16:12
barryshort week due to usa holiday.16:12
barrysi: LP: #1421434.  LP: #1387719.  lots of testing for 3.0 release.  built 3.0 package for citrain; testing and debugging build failures.  started to look at the server code; filed one mp with more to come.  (server needs some changes to support si 3.0)16:12
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1421434 in Ubuntu system image "Ensure reactor listens for signals on the correct object path" [High,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/142143416:12
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1387719 in Ubuntu system image "Update useragent to contain the current channel name, device name and build id" [High,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/138771916:12
barryother: click reviews for mvo.  lots of discussion upstream and elsewhere about python zip file distributions (single-file executables).  investigated several tools.  began working with pex.16:12
barrydebuntu: debian bug 778708 (pex ITP)16:12
ubottuDebian bug 778708 in wnpp "ITP: python-pex -- library for generating Python executable zip files" [Wishlist,Open] http://bugs.debian.org/77870816:12
barry--done--16:12
mvohttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/dvd+rw-tools/+bug/111367916:12
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1113679 in dvd+rw-tools (Ubuntu Utopic) "Close session failed when burning 25gb blu-ray disc" [Undecided,In progress]16:12
mvobarry: \o/ for the reviews16:13
barrymvo: np!  ping me if you need more16:13
barryjodh: are you around today?16:13
mvobarry: there are still some open but no real rush16:13
jodh* snappy:16:13
jodh  - Reworked bug 1412737 after discovering the original code didn't work16:13
ubottubug 1412737 in snappy-ubuntu "snappy on grub systems should detect a broken boot and fall back to the other root partition on power cycling." [Critical,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/141273716:13
jodh    in a chroot:16:13
jodh    https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesodhunt/snappy/bug-1412737/+merge/24997616:13
jodh  - Wrote a "Snappy Image Tests" doc that documents the tests to run for16:13
jodh    a promotion candiate:16:13
jodh    https://docs.google.com/a/canonical.com/document/d/1R_Tw0N0QbEpjFeYf9XnVV8Gp8ldT2Ig0PO6MfR-kuSM/edit16:13
jodh  - Investigated an issue raised on #snappy (bug 1423529) that uncovered a couple of16:13
ubottubug 1423529 in snappy-ubuntu "writable partitions not fsck'd." [High,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/142352916:13
jodh    initramfs bugs. Tested fix and awaiting comments:16:13
jodh    https://code.launchpad.net/~jamesodhunt/ubuntu/vivid/initramfs-tools-ubuntu-core/bug-142352916:13
jodh  - Code reviews and MP prep.16:13
jodh  - Promotion candidate testing.16:13
jodh* misc:16:14
jodh  - perf review admin.16:14
jodh16:14
barrymvo: cool.  i'll take a look while my long friggin' tests are running :)16:14
mvobarry: hehe16:14
bdmurrayinvestigation into errors oops regarding event greenlets16:14
bdmurraysubmitted RT to have staging version of gunicorn updated16:14
bdmurraytested backport of gunicorn to precise in canonistack (good)16:14
bdmurraytested gunicorn update on staging / production version of daisy and errors FEs (good)16:14
bdmurrayreview of Error Tracker OOPS reports, setup exception handling for LP not returning JSON16:14
bdmurraypinged webops regarding kicking retracers16:14
bdmurrayfoundations bug triage16:14
bdmurraysubmitted git pull request to upstream unattended-upgrades fixing LP: #142234516:14
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1422345 in unattended-upgrades (Ubuntu) "stop being nice does not work" [High,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/142234516:14
bdmurrayuploaded unattended-upgrades fix for LP: #1422345 to T and U16:14
bdmurrayuploaded update-manager fix for LP: #142104416:14
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1421044 in update-manager (Ubuntu) "Too easy to accidentally restart computer when 'restart to complete update' box pop up" [High,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/142104416:14
bdmurrayuploaded a fix for ubuntu-release-upgrade KDE frontend bug (LP: #1423279)16:14
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1423279 in One Hundred Papercuts "[vivid] [proposed] syntax error while upgrading" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/142327916:14
bdmurraySRU verification of whoopsie Utopic fix for LP: #121740716:14
mvobdmurray: \o/ for the unattended-upgrades fix!16:14
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1217407 in whoopsie (Ubuntu Utopic) "whoopsie spams the log with "online" messages" [Low,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/121740716:14
bdmurraySRU verification of apport Utopic fix for LP: #108497916:14
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1084979 in apport (Ubuntu Utopic) "Submitting error report asks confounding questions" [Medium,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/108497916:14
bdmurrayrecreated and reported apport bug LP: #142338216:14
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1423382 in apport (Ubuntu) "unable to use apport to report a bug from point release Live CDs" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/142338216:14
bdmurraypinged cyphermox regarding merge proposal for bug LP: #132580116:14
ubottuLaunchpad bug 1325801 in Ubuntu CD Images "failed to boot from USB disk with error: gfxboot.c32: not a COM32R Image boot:" [Undecided,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/132580116:14
bdmurrayperformance review16:14
bdmurrayshort week due to Monday Holiday16:14
bdmurray✔ done16:15
infinityLast week:16:15
infinity - Was at Linaro Connect all week, good sessions, good conversations16:15
infinity - Got a new ARMv8 board to play with, when I find some "spare" time16:15
infinityThis week:16:15
infinity - Point release, point release, point release, point release!16:15
infinity - Some kernel SRU wrangling16:15
infinity - General SRU and AA reviews and maintenance16:15
infinity(done)16:15
cyphermox * partman-auto upload as per last week16:15
cyphermox * continued investigation on ppc64el bootloader installation issue.16:15
cyphermox * Patch pilot on Monday: grub-installer, live-build, resiprocate16:15
cyphermox * Fixed minor bug in network-manager-openconnect.16:15
cyphermox * Reviewed/looked into bug 1422924.16:15
cyphermox * Reviewed MP for usb-creator bug 132580116:15
ubottubug 1422924 in network-manager (Ubuntu) "Revert latest nm" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/142292416:15
ubottubug 1325801 in Ubuntu CD Images "failed to boot from USB disk with error: gfxboot.c32: not a COM32R Image boot:" [Undecided,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/132580116:15
cyphermox * Discussed debian-installer arm64 changes with dannf.16:16
cyphermox * Looked into bug 1422864 in ubiquity with infinity.16:16
cyphermox * SRU for installation-guide, efibootmgr.16:16
ubottubug 1422864 in ubiquity (Ubuntu Trusty) "14.04.2: UEFI: linux 3.13.0-45 downloaded during install" [Undecided,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/142286416:16
cyphermox * ubiquity: bug 1418105.16:16
ubottubug 1418105 in ubiquity (Ubuntu) "Trusty: testing .2 the oem session on i386 leaves the oem wifi password in place" [High,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/141810516:16
cyphermox * Reviewing mate-menu, mate-tweak for sponsoring.16:16
cyphermox(done)16:16
barryslangasek: ready?16:16
barrygoing once16:17
slangasek * short week due to holiday on Monday16:17
slangasek * very focused on snappy16:17
slangasek  * image promotion in progress for this week16:17
slangasek  * armhf device tarball generation has needed straightening out16:17
slangasek  * reviewing branch for grub failover handling16:17
slangasek  * looking at initramfs handling of partitions being mounted without fsck; looking to figure out how to do less in the initramfs16:17
slangasek * need to get nfs-utils systemdified today so we can make the switch to systemd by default16:17
slangasek * performance reviews!  If you haven't done your self-eval yet, do it yesterday!  If you haven't sent me your selections for 360 review, do that today!16:17
slangasekinfinity: speaking of last-minute switching to systemd, are you sending the announcement about Feature Freeze?16:17
slangasekoh, and (done)16:17
barrythanks16:18
infinityslangasek: I'm delaying feature freeze until I get all the features in that I want!16:18
cyphermoxnice plan16:18
infinityslangasek: (Yeah, I should send the email later tonight, after point release stuff is done)16:18
barryinfinity: yay!  i can sneak a few in too then16:18
robruinfinity: MOAR FEACHURES!16:18
barry#topic AOB16:18
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sil2100hah16:18
slangasekinfinity: ok, no hurry! ;)16:18
sil2100;)16:18
sil2100slangasek: what about the standing FFe?16:19
barrydoes anybody have anything else fun or interesting to discuss?16:19
sil2100slangasek: did you have a moment to comment?16:19
slangaseksil2100: I'll follow up on that discussion16:19
sil2100Ok, thanks :)16:19
slangasekAOB> do the performance review stuff ;)16:20
barryslangasek: at least the site isn't as horribly painful this time around :)16:20
barryokay, let's me this short!16:20
barry#endmeeting16:20
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jodhthanks!16:21
caribouthanks barry16:21
mvothanks16:21
dannfcyphermox, infinity : yeah - and i put out a MP for smoser's code to deal w/ the d-i/arm64 changes. i'll go ahead and push that unless there's an objection16:21
dannfoh crikey, missed infinity16:21
barrydannf: try #ubuntu-devel16:21
cyphermoxdannf: like I mentioned it looked fine but it would be good to have other eyeballs on it, some who've seen more of the arm64 stuff.16:22
dannfcyphermox: yeah, i'll ping infinity16:22
cyphermoxalright16:23
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hannieHello GunnarHj16:59
GunnarHjhannie: Hi!16:59
dsmythiesGunnarHj, hannie, Hi.17:00
hanniehey dsmythies I was just looking for dou or smy in the list :)17:00
GunnarHjHi dsmythies17:00
elfyhi :)17:02
elfy#startmeeting17:02
meetingologyMeeting started Thu Feb 19 17:02:40 2015 UTC.  The chair is elfy. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.17:02
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hanniehi elfy17:03
elfy#chair dholbach_17:03
meetingologyCurrent chairs: dholbach_ elfy17:03
dholbach_hiya17:03
elfy#topic CC Catchup with the Doc Team17:04
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dholbach_hello - how are you doing?17:04
elfynice to see you all :)17:04
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dholbachhow are things in the doc team?17:04
GunnarHjLow activity, unfortunately.17:05
dsmythiesO.K. I posted a pathetic litttle update on the agenda (albeit with less than 24 hours until now)17:05
hannieI was just reading the agenda update17:05
octoquadEvening :)17:05
dsmythiesGunnarHj, yes low activity.17:06
elfyseems rather a common comment for sure :)17:07
dsmythiesthere has been a spurt on xubuntu the last few days, and serverguide.17:07
elfyyea - I know about xubuntu :)17:07
dholbachhow do you organise most of your work? is it bug reports? or anything else?17:07
dsmythiesI mainly work of infastructure and behind the scenes stuff. I just do it.17:08
GunnarHjAs for the desktop guide: Mostly bug reports indeed.17:08
dsmythiesGunnarHj is usually aware of what I am up to.17:08
hannieToday is the string freeze?17:08
GunnarHjThe good news is that not much is happening with the Unity desktop right now.17:08
dholbachfeature freeze17:08
dholbachso you have a list of bugs people could start working on, if they wanted?17:09
dsmythiesToday is an arbitrary string freeze for point releases of the serverguide. both 12.04 and 14.0417:09
dholbachah ok17:09
GunnarHjdholbach: The bug list isn't very short either... But basically yes.17:09
GunnarHjs/short/long/17:10
dsmythiesbugs: yes, and Ian is picking away at some on the serverguide front.17:10
dholbachso that's some good news already - it looks like you're organised, even if you could do with more hands on deck17:10
elfycloud docs got added recently didn't it  - iirc17:11
dsmythiesIn the end we are over dependant on myself and GunnarHj17:11
dholbachyou mentioned that you would need server experts - did you get some help from the server team? or are you in touch with them?17:11
elfymmm - depending on people can be unfortunate - especially for those depended on17:12
dsmythiesSubject matter experts: Yes, Peter Matulis sends help requests to the server team list every cycle.17:12
GunnarHjRe desktop: I'd say we are on top of it right now. But I'm worrying about what's going to happen when the desktop changes significantly. This applies to both the official desktop guide and the Ubuntu manual.17:12
dholbachDo we have a feeling for how steep the learning curve is for new contributors to the docs team?17:13
dsmythiesCloud: Yes, after almost a year they have been added. We are happy with the two license apprroach, where the main license didn't chnage but canonical has NC on their stuff.17:14
elfyyea, I read that17:14
dholbach#chair YokoZar17:14
elfy#chair YokoZar17:14
meetingologyCurrent chairs: YokoZar dholbach_ elfy17:14
dsmythiesleasnring curve: Yes, it is steep. I think some give up after becoming overwhlemed17:14
elfyha :)17:14
dholbachdo you think it could help to have something like a training session to learn "how to fix your first docs bug" or something like that? or did you try that already?17:15
dsmythiesHowever, we have completley overhauled all the wiki pages , so at least they help rather than hinder now.17:15
GunnarHjRe learning curve: I'm not sure I agree with dsmythies on that. It's not rocket science. Anybody who really wants to contribute can do so.17:15
sakWhat are contributor finding overwhelming with the Docs team?17:15
dsmythiesThe extrodinary amount of time it takes to get anything done.17:16
elfyGunnarHj: well I know that I for one end up scratching my head a lot when I'm editing wiki's :)17:16
GunnarHjdsmythies: But it's a one time effort.17:16
dsmythiestraining: we did a big thing almost a year ago. Nobody came to it. I wouldn't do it again.17:17
sakdsmythies, how long does it usually take to write a wiki manual?17:17
dsmythiesBeats me, I don't work on the wiki.17:17
GunnarHjelfy: Ok.. Contributing to the official docs is slightly more complicated..ö17:17
elfy:)17:17
sakIs the official docs and the wiki the same of different? Just so I am clear on the two.17:18
sakor different17:18
dsmythies... other than I was heavily involved in the docs team pages overhaul17:18
elfyanyone thought of running a session at UOS?17:18
dsmythieswhat is UOS17:19
dholbachCould it help to try to separate the task of writing the content from bringing it into the right form/format?17:19
dholbachdsmythies, Ubuntu Online Summit17:19
elfydsmythies: the online summit17:19
wxlelfy: for docs?17:19
GunnarHjsak: They are to separate beasts. Any Ubuntu user can add stuff to the wiki, while only the dedicated team can commit to the official docs.17:20
GunnarHjs/to/two/17:20
elfywhy not - run a community track17:20
elfywxl: ^^17:20
sakThank you gunnarhj17:20
wxldholbach: you mean a wyswig editor? :-)17:21
wxlelfy: We should always have a community track!17:21
dsmythiesI do not understand "community track"17:21
elfydsmythies: track would be a session the doc team ran in UOS - talk about what you do, try and drum up some new blood17:22
dholbachwxl, I just thought a bit longer about the steep learning curve now and wondered if it would help to break up a task like "document how to do X" would be easier or had a better chance of getting done, if the task of writing up the content, ie detailing the instructions, etc. was separated from bringing it in the right form (Mallard or Docbook or moin format or whatever)17:22
dholbachthat way the learning curve was probably a bit less steep, because writing up the content AND bringing it into the right form AND using a merge proposal might be a bit hard for some17:23
wxldholbach: well, then you need a parser or something to make it reasonable, or a wyswig editor17:23
GunnarHjdholbach: Something worth considering, maybe. Simply encourage people to contribute content in some raw format...17:24
dholbachwxl, ok, I was thinking more of a more experienced member of the team who could help with massaging content into the right format :)17:24
octoquadAny plans for markdown, rst or textile support?17:24
wxldholbach: i've done it before with training people but it's a PAIN17:24
sakPerhaps and editor that converts the content into the right form?17:24
wxloctoquad: well, moin supports rst, but you add the rst IN the moin, which is stupid because people that don't know rst can't properly maintain it17:24
dsmythiesWe did some summit sessions over a few cycles, particulary when pleia2 was more involved.17:24
octoquadwxl, I see, I suppose better UI editing tools might help to structure the text for someone who doesn't know the raw markup17:25
elfydsmythies: ok - did it help at that time?17:25
hannieWe tried to let contributors write in raw format, but it was too much work for others to get it right, so we decided to stop it.17:25
dsmythiesplans for rst or whatever changes: thsi always comes up. It would be a ton of work and what people want to change to changes every quarter. I want not part of it.17:25
GunnarHjhannie: Ok..17:26
hannieI mean at The Ubuntu Manual17:26
wxloctoquad: true, true, personally i LOOOOOOATHE moin, but that's another storry17:26
wxli *REALLY* think we need to support markdown. it's largely becoming the de facto standard for lightweight markup17:26
dholbachmaybe it could be tried in a smaller scale17:26
octoquadperhaps, wiki content should be structured per cycle and cloned on a new cycle, with some type of inherentice of previous cycle text?17:26
dholbachjust to see if somebody would be willing to help with formatting17:27
octoquadcontent stays relevant per cycle17:27
wxlrst makes sense because it's the canonical python markup, but that doesn't mean anything. i mean, jeez, moin moin is in py and they don't support it :/17:27
octoquadand better UI tools to manage markdown.17:27
octoquads/markdown/markup17:27
wxli have strong feelings about markup languages. i MAY be interested in helping develop a ui tool17:28
dholbachconverting to a new system and build system is a very big investment17:28
wxlor at least the parser if soneone is more handy with front end17:28
sakwxl, what is rst?17:28
octoquadwxl, I'm keen as well17:28
wxlsak: reStucturedText17:28
dholbachsak, restructured text17:28
dsmythieselfy: Summit: Such things always create a stir, but then fades back to normal.17:28
sakI see, and its benefits?17:28
wxlsak: another lightweight markup language like moin moin, markdown, textile, etc. etc. etc.17:28
wxlsak: oh god, don't get started on the markup wars :)17:28
GunnarHjThe low activity problem tends to end up in endless discussions on markup languages. ;) The principal issue is the low interest in contributing, I'm afraid.17:29
saklol, we are having one now17:29
wxlsak: the one obvious benefit is that it's a python tool, so python supports it well17:29
octoquadGunnarHj, perhaps that's where the problem arises from?17:29
dsmythiesI agree with GunnarHj17:29
GunnarHjoctoquad: I doubt it.17:29
octoquadGunnarHj, if things were a lot easier you might get a bit more contributions17:29
wxlGunnarHj: we have a very enthusiastic new head of docs/wiki in lubuntu. he may be willing to help, but having clear details about what needs to be done would be helpful17:29
sakwxl, nice, something I am becoming familiar with17:30
elfyI just wonder if running a session would help - even if it only results in a couple of new contributors17:30
wxla session will always help17:30
wxlat worst you'll have some sort of presentation you can show to noobs17:30
dholbachespecially if it's going to be recorded, people can watch it later on again17:30
wxland they are17:30
elfythat for sure dholbach17:31
dsmythiesPlease note: I am not very IRC savy, and am having trouble keeping up.17:31
wxlat least given current technology17:31
elfydsmythies: that's ok :)17:31
GunnarHjI think there was a pretty good session for about a year ago which might be resued.17:31
dholbachcool17:31
wxlif no one in docs has experience with it, i'd be happy to help17:31
GunnarHjwxl: Thanks, noted. ;)17:32
saktraining session I have always found helpful. Takes out the guess work17:32
dholbachwould it help to help review the current "get involved" docs again to see how understandable they are for a newcomer? or is there anything else the CC could help with?17:32
wxldholbach: not a bad idea. i could find some fresh eyes to show them to17:32
elfyI'd happily run through those get involved docs17:32
dholbachsame here17:33
dholbachand probably others in ubuntu-community-team@lists.ubuntu.com :)17:33
wxlhehehe17:33
elfyyep17:33
GunnarHjSounds great. Looking forward to your feedback.17:33
dholbach:-)17:33
elfyGunnarHj dsmythies - anything else we could help you with?17:33
sakThe lubuntu QA getting stared wiki was well written. I can help overview the getting started docs page17:34
dholbachYokoZar, pleia2, mhall119, elfy, czajkowski: any more questions from you?17:34
GunnarHjThink it's ok for today. Thanks all!17:34
elfynot from me dholbach17:34
dholbachthanks a lot for your tireless work - I really appreciate it17:34
dsmythiesYes, O.K.17:34
wxlthanks everyone :)17:35
wxlactually17:35
sakI take the meeting is over?17:35
wxlGunnarHj dsmythies could one of you link me to the instructions on dealing with the manual formatting?17:35
dholbachmaybe we should start a discussion on the community team list too, just to see if we can come up with some more ideas to improve the situation17:35
elfyGunnarHj dsmythies - if one of you wants to point me at the 'start helping' page I'll start looking17:35
wxl(or bring it up on the community team list)17:35
dsmythiesjust a sec17:36
wxl((which might be better))17:36
GunnarHjWe'll get back on the list.17:36
wxlsounds good thanks17:36
dholbachthanks a lot17:36
dsmythieshttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation17:36
dsmythiesOh, or on list , per Gunnr17:37
dholbachelfy, are we meeting up with anyone else today?17:37
hanniehttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/DocumentationTeam/SystemDocumentation/UbuntuDesktopGuide17:37
elfydholbach: QA team17:38
dholbachah cool17:38
wxlhorray for QA team17:38
dholbachdo we have anyone here from our QA overlords?17:38
elfythanks dsmythies GunnarHj hannie17:39
dsmythiesYes, and thank you17:39
wxlwell, i'm not one of the overlords17:39
elfyand many thanks from me for what you all do :)17:39
GunnarHjnp; thank you!17:39
elfy#topic QA Team Catchup17:39
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elfyand I can be here with Xubuntu QA hat on too :)17:40
hanniebye17:40
dholbachthanks again17:40
YokoZarThank you17:40
wxl← lubuntu qa dewd17:40
wxlwhere's balloons ??17:41
dholbachwho else? balloons maybe?17:41
octoquad<- Ubuntu Gnome QA17:41
dholbachnice17:41
elfyhi octoquad :)17:41
octoquadhowdy elfy  :)17:41
wxloh wow octoquad you're like, what, one of three? XD17:41
elfyballoons should be here representing :D17:41
balloonsit's time already?17:41
octoquadwxl, huh? lol17:41
dholbachyes yes, it is17:41
elfyhey balloons - welcome :)17:41
wxloctoquad: nevermind :)17:42
dholbachhow are things in QA land? how are you all doing?17:42
* balloons screws head on for UTC time17:42
octoquadwxl, soz, you mean in the QA team17:42
wxli'm whooped after 14.04.217:42
wxlif infinity wasn't in my time zone, i would have killed myself by now XD17:42
balloonsqa land is doing well. We're anticipating unity8 on the desktop, and more phones in the wild on the touch side of the fence17:43
elfydholbach: well ... it's been tough getting people involved for us - but we got 94 testing reports for the trusty release today17:43
dholbachso we're mostly talking about release testing here?17:43
wxli just got a nexus 4, so i've started working on finding my way through the labryinth that is touch testing ;)17:44
wxli'm working on some t-shirts to encourage more involvement in lubuntu qa testing17:44
balloonselfy's correct on release testing. Trying to ensure it gets tested is getting harder17:44
wxli'm going to have a contest of some sort17:44
dholbachso when we're talking about QA efforts here, are we focusing mostly on release/image testing?17:44
elfymostly from my pov17:45
wxldholbach: well, that does tend to be a large amount of our focus, and is certainly of greatest importance17:45
wxlgenerally all other testing is "preventative"17:45
dholbachit is super important, of course17:45
dholbachelfy, you said that it was harder to get people involved - was that across the board across image/release testing?17:46
octoquad14.04.2 testing was pretty good compared to vivid for Ubuntu Gnome17:46
wxlthere were a PLETHORA of rebuilds in 14.04.217:47
wxlso while the final numbers may not show it, there certainly was a fair amount of testing17:47
elfydholbach: it has been, Xubuntu are running a bit if a drive with stickers and things :) http://xubuntu.org/news/help-the-community-with-testing-and-win-xubuntu-stickers/17:47
wxlincidentially xubuntu is who lubuntu is copying17:47
wxlbut we have t-shirts XD17:47
wxlkubuntu got no testing done17:47
elfywe will too - but not just yet17:47
elfyand books17:48
wxlnetboot got barely touched17:48
dholbachI think netboot was always harder to cover17:48
wxlserver got barely touched17:48
wxlupgrade got barely touched17:48
wxlother than that, most everyone got full testing done17:48
wxllubuntu in particular had a problem with alternates that will leave us without those images17:49
sakLots of images got barley touched it seems17:49
wxlrelease team will try to fix that after release17:49
balloonsthe altenate and ppc / netboot images are difficult17:49
wxlwe discussed getting rid of alternates but really can't justify netboot as a viable solution for several reasons17:49
octoquadwe had no upgrade path for 14.04.2 so nothing was tested17:49
wxlso there has been some discussion of making a text-only low resource front end to ubiquity17:50
balloonswhat's wrong with the debian installer?17:50
dholbachmaybe we should have another chat on the community team list about this too to see where we can get more folks signed up for testing17:50
balloonsor just wanting it to be the same?17:50
wxlballoons: sameness is a big goal in my mind, but the issue with this point releases seems to affect d-i in a way it doesn't affect ubiquity17:50
sakdholbach, that sounds like a a good idea17:51
wxli mean the attitude on the release team is that they don't want to support the red haired child, you know? :)17:51
balloonsone of the issues is that flavors and ubuntu are disconnected now on testing times. Ubuntu only does final beta image testing, while flavors do other milestones. But not all flavors do every milestone17:51
balloonsWe've definitely seen an overall drop in folks testing since we switched to this17:51
wxlballoons: yeah, i would say that the change to having the community handle release for early milestones was kind of a shock17:51
balloonsIn theory, rounding up folks do testing on the final beta image should be easier, but I think we've lost folks who would have done testing throughout the cycle and enjoyed it17:52
wxlagree17:52
elfyballoons: the forum team are still doing their thing - but hard to get them involved in trackers17:53
dholbachmaybe we can think of a good way together to round up folks again and get them involved in more regular testing activities17:53
wxlyeah if i have to see another mailing list message with a long story about testing that doesn't get reported on the trackers.. argh17:53
elfydholbach: not sure if you know, but there's an area on forum which is just for dev releases17:53
dholbachyep, I haven't been there for a while, but I know it exists :)17:54
dholbachmaybe it'd also make sense to try to find out where people read most of our announcements17:54
wxlmaybe we should get rid of early milestones altogether? i don't know.17:54
wxli might want to talk to our dev team about that17:55
elfywxl mmm17:55
elfywe're more likely to alpha for LTS17:55
balloonsI would be in favor of not testing images early.. I liked the switch to final beta only17:55
balloonsthe difficulty then is coordinating work and getting people using the release before then. As elfy said, the forums are one place people congregate to do this stuff. I'm sure there's more17:56
wxlballoons: but is there automated testing going on otherwise?17:56
elfyjenkins looked stopped the other day, I think jibel said something about starting that up17:56
balloonswxl, sure there is (although it recently had issues, so nothing is happening with ubiquity testing atm. It is being fixed)17:56
elfythat ^^17:56
octoquadfor vivid alpha 1 as an example it felt like it was an 14.10 image17:57
balloonsI am trying to get them to make those tests more visible as well, but they need to be online again :-)17:57
elfyballoons: :)17:57
wxlmaybe if flavors had guidance on dealing with automated testing, that might be a good transition17:57
wxli mean, i've heard mention of them, but that's about it17:57
elfyI did use to look at the ubiquity jenkins - used the rss fail feed17:57
wxloctoquad: yeah, kind of what i was thinking. they're a waste in a way.17:57
dholbachsounds like a good topic for a few sessions :)17:58
wxl+1 dholbach17:58
elfywxl: auto testing for us at least was a nightmare as balloons will attest I'm sure17:58
balloonsthe tracker is also a point of contention, and we have seen some success in trying to fix long standing issues. But they are still there17:58
wxlballoons: i'm sure you don't have anything else on your plate right? XD17:58
elfynot sure that's ever going to happen17:58
dholbachround up all QA experts and have a day of   Ubuntu  QA TV   :)17:58
wxlelfy: why for?17:58
balloonsautomated testing of flavors is difficult indeed. The older toolkits just don't lend themselves to it17:58
wxlah17:59
wxlbummer17:59
wxlis kubuntu doing automated testing?17:59
dholbachballoons, autopkgtest?17:59
dholbach(where applicable of course)17:59
balloonsif/when xubuntu is gtk3 it will be better. lubuntu is moving to qt and could definitely get UI tests17:59
balloonskubuntu as well could have a nice story, and I do believe they have a small suite17:59
balloonsdholbach, yes, autopkgtest for the older stuff is as far as you can go18:00
elfyit would certainly be awesome :)18:00
wxlballoons: if you can train me on doing the automated testing, i can work with our dev team as we continue to develop lxqt18:00
elfyballoons: oh - so different?18:00
* wxl spits in the general direction of gtk+18:00
balloonswxl, happy to. If you want to round up some folks from lubuntu who might be interested as well we can do some live hacking together on a lubuntu app18:00
dholbachnice... shall we discuss the possibility of a training event or some such on the community list? or other measures of getting people involved?18:00
elfyautopkg and autopilot differences - possibly we could use the former?18:01
wxlballoons: that'd be cool. propose a time and i'll see what i can do with the cat herding :)18:01
balloonselfy, gtk2 vs gtk3? yes, as you know gtk2 apps with xubuntu don't like to be introspected :-)18:01
elfyindeed :D18:01
wxlballoons: and i cna talk to kubuntu folks, too18:01
balloonsdholbach, we used to always attend the openweek sessions. Did those happen this time around?18:01
* wxl uses kubuntu at work, so18:01
balloonswxl, awesome, I'll propose something on the list18:02
wxlballoons: sounds great18:02
dholbachballoons, I don't know - we should talk about it on the list18:02
* balloons hopes someone is taking notes, lol18:02
wxlhahah18:02
dholbachI'll have a dinner at a friend's place to run to in a few - that's why I'm trying to push discussion to the list :)18:02
octoquadwhich list would that be?18:02
dholbachubuntu-community-team@lists.ubuntu.com could generate a bunch of ideas on how to get people involved18:03
octoquadta, I'll sign up now18:03
dholbacheeeeeexcellent18:03
dholbachis there anything you feel the Community Council could help with?18:03
elfywould be useful I think - not much point in using qa m/l as that's a captive audience already imo18:03
dholbachYokoZar, pleia2, mhall119, elfy, czajkowski: any more questions from you?18:03
balloonselfy, good point actually18:03
elfydholbach: nope - I'm quite up together on where QA is thanks18:04
balloonsdholbach, yes your ideas and input on the list discussions would be excellent18:04
balloonsthanks18:04
dsmythiesOn the bright side: I totally forgot to bring up the new launchpad servers were rolled out a few days ago, and the so very very very very annoying translations timeout issue seems to be solved. Bug 73600518:04
elfyI'll thank those of you others who do for your teams though - you do good work :)18:04
ubottubug 736005 in Launchpad itself "POFile:+translate timeouts" [Critical,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/73600518:04
balloonsyes, thanks for coming out as well and sharing your thoughts!18:05
dholbachyes!18:05
elfydsmythies: thanks :)18:05
dholbach:)18:05
elfydholbach: ok - well I'm good18:05
elfyYokoZar: anything from you18:05
dholbachthanks a lot everyone - thanks a lot for you hard work! over the last cycle's our QA has really come together - you've all made a tremendous difference18:05
balloonsdid sak make it?18:05
balloonsahh indeed18:06
sakMake it to the meeting balloons?18:06
balloonssak, yes, wanted to make sure you found us :-)18:06
balloonsthanks for coming18:06
wxloops phone18:06
wxli miss anythinbg else?18:06
wxlOH18:06
sakIt was a pleasure18:06
wxli remembered i wanted to say sometthing18:06
wxlthe switch to only having 2 days to officially test milestones was an interesting change, so i've been working hard to encourage more proactive testing18:07
wxlthat's something i'd suggest to others if they haven't figured that one out XD18:07
dholbachok cool18:08
dholbachthanks again everyone!18:08
elfydholbach: anything else?18:08
dholbachI have to run now! A dinner is waiting! :)18:08
elfy#endmeeting18:08
dholbachelfy, not from me18:08
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dholbachthanks a lot for running the meeting!18:08
wxlthanks all18:09
elfygot to run too :)18:09
dholbachtake care everyone! thanks!18:09
wxli'm off to work so have a good day :)18:09
elfythanks everyone18:09
balloonscheers18:09
sakSee you all on the next meeting18:09
elfyballoons: I'll catch you at some point re autopkg18:09
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balloonselfy, ohh right sure18:10
elfyha :p18:10
elfyyou sound like you're looking forward to it :D18:11
balloonselfy, the short version is it's package level testing, and honestly I'm not sure it makes sense for desktop apps. libraries are certainly testable at that stage and make sense18:11
elfyaah ok - I guess you'd have suggested it before if you thought it would help us18:11
balloonshowever, they are harder to do; only because the tests themselves can be written however you wish.18:12
balloonselfy, right. I think having covering for common gtk2 stuff is the most helpful in your case18:12
balloonsbut moving to gtk3 means honestly it makes more sense to work on those18:12
elfy:)18:12
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samgIts QA Meeting now?18:40
samgor did i miss it?18:40
MikaelaI think it might have been18:40
samgdammit18:41
samgmissed it it was about an hour ago18:41
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samgthanks18:42
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