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Present

• Rick Spencer (rickspencer3) - chair
• Alexander Sack (asac)

• Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

• Bryce Harrington (bryce)
• Chris Cheney (calc)
• Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)
• Martin Pitt (pitti)
• Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Apologies

Agenda

• Outstanding actions from last meeting

• Dx Integration
• Meeting Time
• OLS Integration
• Review activity reports

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Actions from this meeting

Dx integration

Review components and timelines

Meeting time

Do we need to change the meeting time from 16:30am on Tuesday?

Specs

Status of our specs

Discuss/set 9.04 priorities

OLS Integration

Activity reports

Alexander Sack (asac)

UDS

• various fruitful mozilla discussions with upstream and community on
  • how we can "better work together"; the idea of making ubuntu builds more 1st-tier for mozilla was discussed and various other things
• network-manager sessions
• conduced two mozilla workshops
• met chromium developers
• visited mozilla office and had a lengthy discussions with mconnor

mozilla security/maintenance

• release 1.8.0 backport patchset and tarballs for ffox 2.0.0.19/20 release

  • http://people.ubuntu.com/~asac/mozilla-security/1.8.1.19/

• firefox, thunderbird security updates for all supported ubuntu
  • releases
  • re-audited all not-yet-committed 1.8.0 branch backport patches and
    • matched them with all upstream MFSAs; two patches require a closer look.
• stay on top of 1.9 commits now that 1.8 is EOL
  • triaged all 1.9 security patches landed since last release and
    • backported two also needed on our branches.
• train a debian security team member on how to prepare icedove
  • security updates - hopefully this will pay off soon.

mozilla upstream

• submitted RFC patch for mozilla bug 462745 [mozTXTToHTMLConv]
  • trailing '-' character not included in linkified URL
• fixed and submitted patch for mozilla bug 471359 - trunk build
  • broken with "libxul.so: hidden symbol
• evaluated and spotted an issue with how we construct upstream
  • extension blocklist URL (see mozilla bug 469760)
• worked and discussed with Michael Ventnor at UDS on libnotify patch
  • for mozilla; next: getting upstream review and committing; then backporting to branches and packages.

network-manager

• verified and drove all NM related SRUs into -updates
• prepared 0.7 final packages, and uploaded them to ~network-manager
  • team PPA; asked for testing of outstanding bugs. Feedback is positive. However, intrepid SRU seems unlikely due to ABI breakage
• network-manager hardy (0.6) SRU for LP: #203016 - "Memory Leak in

  • NetworkManager"

• bug triage

Arne Goetje (ArneGoetje)

• Travel preparations and traveling to UDS / FOSSCamp
• FOSSCamp / UDS (Dec 5 - Dec 12)
• Spec drafting

  • https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/font-selector

https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/jaunty-language-selector-improvements

• https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ibus-improvement

• Vacation (Dec 17 - Dec 22)
• CJK-Unifonts: checking in 200 new glyphs for the UKai font
• Managing the Rosetta import queue for Jaunty and approving lots of

templates

• Flight booking for Distro Sprint (Feb 2 - Feb 6)
• Year end vacation (Dec 25 - Jan 2)
• cleaning up my bug mail folder
• installing clean Hardy Ubuntu and Kubuntu VMs in order to test

language packs for the upcoming 8.04.2 release

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

* Short week due to holidays * Triaging of responses to -intel re-test email sent pre-holiday * Triaging/upstreaming of xkeyboard-config bugs * Debugged -ati EXA patch posted before vacation * Debugged alsa-driver issue on Intel audio; proposed a patch * Debugged irritating mouse cursor flicker in firefox (#312353) * Reviewed status of -ati/-radeonhd development work, particularly

• around ATI r6xx chipsets

* Reorganized test hardware, migrated to new desktop system * Catching up on email from over holidays

Chris Cheney (calc)

* FOSSCamp/UDS - Dec 4 - Dec 12 * Off work - Dec 22 - Jan 2 * uploaded openoffice.org 3.0.0-6ubuntu1 to jaunty * uploaded openoffice.org-l10n 3.0.0-6ubuntu1 to jaunty * uploaded openoffice.org 3.0.0-6ubuntu0intrepid1 to ppa * uploaded openoffice.org-l10n 3.0.0-6ubuntu0intrepid1 to ppa * uploaded openoffice.org 3.0.0-6ubuntu0hardy1 to ppa * uploaded openoffice.org-l10n 3.0.0-6ubuntu0hardy1 to ppa * wrote MIRs for new packages needed by OOo * converted many java packages for default-java needed for MIRs for new OOo * wrote jaunty OOo blueprint * OOo release status meetings * contacted Sun about potential for splitting language support into separate module * performance review meeting * lots of bug triage

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

• Up to 19th December, Holiday, FOSSCamp and UDS
• 22 - 24th December, catchup with e-mail, updating automoc
• 5th January, jury service, catchup with e-mail, final KDE merges

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Drafted blueprints:

• integration-best-practice: Review; signed off by Matt, Scott, Colin, David; waiting for feedback from Steve and Elliot
• apport-retracer-maintenance: Approved
• jaunty-gnome-help-langpacks: no conclusion reached at UDS, asked Celso and Adam about a possible alternate approach

Assigned blueprints:

• gpm-and-device-kit-power: devicekit and devicekit-power are in jaunty universe, my part is done; I'm waiting for Scott to upload udev 130, after that I can update the packages to the latest upstream version
• apport-retracer-maintenance: not started yet

Currently open stable/milestoned bugs: all done

Merges: all done

Non-chores work done:

• Attended Desktop Experience sprint, FOSSCamp, UDS
• Reviewed specs from desktop team; many are still in "draft" state, please get them ready ASAP
• Got apport working on Jaunty again, and fixed some regressions; found a Python regression along the way (bug filed), worked around it
• [holiday pet project] packaged calibre, a comprehensive e-book conversion and library management app; in NEW queue now

Sponsoring:

• > 10 packages during UDS, didn't keep track of it

• cairo, gcalctool, gksu, landscape-client, xpdf, poppler

Plan for the next two weeks:

• Set up apport retracers for Jaunty, and enable apport by default again
• Implement apport-retracer-maintenance
• Work on pet bug #123025: "stop shipping static gconf translations, use gettext at runtime", since this requires lots of package rebuilds and thus should come first

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

Weekly report

* GNOME 2.25.3 updates started before UDS

* catching up on mails, bug mails, etc after holidays

* UDS: lot of discussion with random people and some interesting sessions

Next weeks:

GNOME 2.25.4 is due this week, lot of updates, that and the bug triage and holidays catching up will probably keep me busy for the 2 next weeks

Rick Spencer (rickspencer3)

Sprint/FossCamp/UDS

• Attended Dx spring and Fosscamp
• Attended desktop sessions
• Discussed blueprints
• One on one's with teammates, etc...

Planning

• Created Desktop team roadmap draft
• Identified dependencies and created tracking tables for Canonical team integration

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