For archives of previous meetings, please see DevelTeamMeetings.

Apologies

• Matthias Klose (doko) - medical appointment
• Michael Vogt (mvo) - on leave

• Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) - at LinuxTag

Agenda

1. Roll call
   • Apologies
   • Introduce new starters (if any)
2. Review agenda
   • Review activity reports
   • Propose additional items
   • Accept agenda
   • (Keybuk) Gutsy Sprint
   • (tfheen) Release management, Tribe 1 is coming up, but who is doing release management for this release?

   • (doko, tfheen) possible GCC 4.1 -> GCC 4.2 transition

3. Release readiness update
4. Other business

New Starters

• Evan Dandrea (evand) - installer
• Søren Hansen (shawarma) - serrver

Activity Reports

Adilson Oliveira (adilson)

• Continuing work on bringing in Hildon/Maemo components.
• Preparing and updatating UME TODO list.
• Conference calls with Intel and Nokia.

Alexander Sack (asac)

• updating firefox trunk bzr repo to build against latest CVS
• firefox security update preparations
  • cleaning up and reorganizing local git repo in order to make rebase against updated upstream versions more convenient
  • rebase and merging of firefox 2.0.0.4 security/stability update; tricky merge was the gnome mime handling patch for bugzilla bug 273524 which was overlayed by upstream landing of mime-mailcap handling fix for bug 373955; proposed updated patch now forwarded to debian maintainer for discussion.
• acquire basic understanding on network-manager and dbus code (-paths)
• motu student mentoring and sponsoring
• processing firefox bugs in Needs Info/mt-confirm state
• discuss refinement and options to improve automisation of mozilla bug workflow
• looking at minimo and a bit mozilla gfx/gtk and xul code reading for (future) mobile discussion.

Ben Collins (BenC)

General:

• Kernel Team meeting
• Discussion of LTS kernel update issues

Kernel:

• Merged more patches from feisty to gutsy.
• Upload of 2.6.22-rc3 based kernel (2.6.22-6.12)
• Bug work, filing upstream bugs and following up with upstream devs

Brian Murray (bdmurray)

Bug triaging:

• assigned packages to some bugs that had none i.e. were just filed against Ubuntu
• looking at openoffice.org bugs
• tagging openoffice.org bugs based on application
• reading through bug mailing list and triaging bugs
• Hug Day participation

Bug helper:

• Bug hunting via bughelper
• created multiple clue files

Other:

• sru verification of 113508
• improved per package bug stats script
• created wiki page with list of activities for Hug Day on May 30th
• ubuntu membership

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Packaging

• Package merges/syncs: appres, beforelight, bitmap, xorg-sgml-doctools, xorg-docs
• Made xorg packaging checklist

Testing / Bugs

• Bug triage

• Assisted cr3 & jbailey with Feisty xrandr rotation issue

• Updated test hardware
• Further testing of displayconfig-gtk on various hardware
• Gathered pcitable info for glatzor
• Filled in upstreams for some xorg pkgs in LP

Specs

• Updated specs
• Enhancements to xorg 7.3 package version matrix

  • http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Xorg/versions_current.html

Misc

• Memorial Day holiday (Monday)
• Expense report for UDS

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)

MOTU

• blogged about needing more mentors
• motu mentoring
• MOTU Documentation
• marked bugs as packaging/bitesize/mentoring
• MOTU meeting
• reviews

• announced MOTU Q&A sessions

• announced universe hug day
• started MOTU/Recipes

Bugs:

• bug triage
• HUG DAY

Bug Tools

• bughelper patch review
• worked on buglog

Community

• CC meeting
• derivative team planning

Misc

• Status Update meeting
• glade merge
• empathy update

Evan Dandrea (evand)

• Started Tuesday, May 29th.
• Finished drafting ubiquity-oem, migration-assistant, and
• migration-assistant-kubuntu.
• Familiarized myself with some of the d-i merges.
• Tested d-i daily builds.
• Tried my hand at merging aMule.

Fabio Di Nitto (fabbione)

Off Sick

Henrik Omma (heno)

• WinFOSS upload for Gutsy
• Screening interview
• GSoC mentoring, incl. weekly skype meeting
• Attended Orca community meeting
• Specs - drafting complete, need review
• ISO test tracker: looking good for the first tribe release:

  • https://isotesting.stgraber.org/

Ian Jackson (iwj)

Done:

• Last week I was on holiday to move house (this is mostly done but my house fileserver died) and Monday was a public holiday in England.
• This week so far I've:
  • double-checked my specs;
  • done the dpkg merge (which was a bit of a PITA really but should hopefully be easier next time as I expect Debian to take many of our patches now that etch is out);
  • caught up on email.

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Done:

• KDE 3.5.7 packaging
• e-mail backlog catchup
• merges

Todo:

• qt 4.3 packaging
• finish merges
• KOffice 1.6.3
• kde-system-settings spec

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

Done:

• Monday was Pentacost holiday in DE-land, so only 4 days
• UME mockups: Software keyboard, IM client, more work on media player
• UME fakes, icons for marketing presentation
• Kubuntu banner finished; Kubuntu advert almost finished
• Edubuntu web design 1st round finished
• Started creating "example-theme" and documentation for community artists

Kyle McMartin (kylem)

General:

• updated mesa to 6.5.3
• fallout from mesa 6.5.3 update, needed to update xserver
• testing intel i965gm with updated mesa

Misc:

• sorting receipts to file expenses from us tour
• calling shipping company about wayward sun t2000 box
• finally found and received

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Done:

• Merges: all done except for laptop-mode-tools, will do tomorrow
• Other stuff done that week:

  • huge effort on NEW, got binary NEW down to 0 and source new down to < 20 on Friday; continuing efforts

  • various bug fixes to get packages building and the archive more consistent

Specs:

• bzr-best-practices: needs some more details, will finish tomorrow
• apport-better-retracing: implemented complete library installation with Contents.gz (point 1), fixed ddeb-retriever to cope with multiple Ubuntu releases and fetch ddebs from pockets
• rest are pending-approval and not yet started

Mathias Gug (mathiaz)

Apparmor integration:

• work on command line administration tools : improve apparmor_status script (in cooperation with upstream).
• look into logging/auditing/reporting infrastructure for apparmor.

• edit specs: AppArmorGutsy is the short term plan for gutsy.

  • SecurityAdminTool is for long term.

• update AppArmor user guide (UsingAppArmor on w.u.c)

• debug profiles.
• package updated profiles : sent to kees, who approved and uploaded it to universe.

MOTU:

• started to do some packaging for apparmor.

Ubuntu server team :

• work on specs: UbuntuEasyBusinessServer.

Matthias Klose (doko)

• package syncs and merges (all uploaded except OOo)
• toolchain update to include the C++ visibility backports
• go on with the OOo packages
• start g77/gfortran package transitions (refblas, lapack)
• go back to python-subversion failures (feisty, python2.4)
• Fri 25, sick leave
• Mon 28, bank holiday

Michael Vogt (mvo)

On Leave

Phillip Lougher (pkl)

Kernel:

• Bug triage
• Followed post-feisty kernel upload feedback
• Started new kernel release, and integrated the current outstanding patches
• kernel team meeting

Mobile:

• Some work on ububtu-mobile, mainly Unionfs 2.0 status, and ODF (On disk format) investigation
• Learning about and playing with Bazaar
• Looking through current LiveCD build script
• ubuntu-mobile conference call

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

(monday was an holiday, I was on vac tuesday)

• desktop bugs triage
• extra specs writing
• desktop merges with Debian and updates
• looked at some GTK changes for Ubuntu Mobile
• some bugs fixing
• archive admin work

Søren Hansen (shawarma)

Started on May 28th. \o/

Administrativia

• Subscribe to mailing lists, add myself to the wiki, define working hours, etc.

Bugs

• Went through the server seeds identifying packages we should handle.
• Apache bug squashing (nothing uploaded as I want to go over my changes with the maintainers first and also crunch a larger chunk of the bugs)

UbuntuEasyBusinessServerSpec

• Split up into "File/Print server" and "everything else" (new spec: UbuntuEasyFilePrintServer)

• Set up virtual environment for testing existing solutions (vmware hates my Gutsy installation)

• Initial testing of eBox. It's shiny, it's functional, and upstream seems eager. I need to figure out how much work it's going to be to get it to do what we want it to. I also need to take a closer look at Conga.

Misc

• Mentoring a new MOTU padawan working on a PHP/MySQL application.
• Trying to be helpful on mailing lists and IRC.

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Done:

• Packaged CUPS Driver Development Kit (cupsddk, www.cups.org), will get uploaded into Universe today and tomorrow. Not (yet) available at Debian.
• Adapted dependencies of HPIJS package (source: HPLIP) to the new grand unified Ghostscript (package: ghostscript).
• Answered bug reports.

Tim Gardner (rtg)

General:

• Continued work on frequency broker as time allows.
• 3 days holiday.

Kernel:

• Feisty Atheros security update.
• Researched Edgy/Dapper security update for Atheros.

Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)

Done:

• - Mobile packaging, including getting more components into the archive. - Conference calls with Nokia and Intel - More mentoring of Adilson

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