15:31 #startmeeting 15:31 Meeting started Tue Dec 15 15:31:10 2015 UTC. The chair is seb128. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 15:31 15:31 Available commands: action commands idea info link nick 15:32 Roll call: andyrock, attente, desrt, dgadomski, didrocks, fjkong, happyaron, hikiko, laney, larsu (out), qengho, seb128, sweet5hark, themuso (out), tkamppeter, robert_ancell (out), willcooke (out) 15:32 hello second in command! 15:32 :-) 15:32 ok, let's get rolling 15:32 #topic andyrock 15:32 andyrock, hey 15:33 hey 15:34 so my week 15:34 * reviewed Trevinho's MP 15:34 * reviewing the patch proposed by a community guy to improve search and launch of application from the dash 15:35 \eow 15:35 I should finish the review today or maximum tomorrow 15:35 then I'll move to supporto "startup notification" in the dash 15:36 k 15:36 thanks andyrock 15:36 #topic attente 15:36 attente, hey 15:37 hi all 15:37 spent the week debugging and fixing the apparmor dconf and kernel patches which went stale due to upstream changes and submitted it to the mailing list, also think i might've found a kernel bug that should be easily fixable 15:37 revisiting the popup menu refactoring stuff in gtk 15:37 (eof) 15:37 attente: try to get in good with the kernel guys... i have a few more patches you can write when you're finished with these ones =) 15:37 desrt: apparmor related or ...? 15:38 inotify, etc. :) 15:38 attente, hide! 15:38 you know... simple stuff 15:38 *cough* 15:38 rofl. i guess not like the off-by-one error i found... 15:38 in security code? 15:38 rhashtable code 15:38 cute. 15:39 :-) 15:39 thanks attente! 15:39 thanks seb128! 15:39 I hope they are going to like the patches this time 15:39 next 15:39 #topic desrt 15:40 desrt, hey 15:40 hi 15:40 working on the dconf/gsettings stuff still 15:40 preparing a dconf release for today which will not break things 15:40 following that will be a glib release that will not break things (later in the week) 15:40 finger crossed! 15:40 after that, i think there is probably going to be some breakage 15:40 fingers even 15:40 haha 15:40 the gsettingsbackend interface is going to change in an incompatable way so there will need to be a lockstep upgrade between dconf and glib at some point 15:40 I see 15:41 i _may_ be able to preserve compatibility across the upgrade but i'm not sure it's worth it 15:41 "will" is a good word 15:41 considering this has always been considered a private interface and there is only one out-of-tree implementation of it 15:41 well, as long as you don't break anything existing users along the way... 15:41 it's only the backend interface that's changing 15:41 so ya... i'll sync up again when i know a bit more about exactly how it will go down 15:41 k 15:42 \end{week} 15:42 thanks desrt! 15:42 #topic dgadomski 15:42 dgadomski, hey 15:42 hey 15:42 Sorry, I don't have anything in particular to share this week. I was busy with non-desktop stuff. 15:42 thank you 15:42 no worry 15:42 thanks dgadomski 15:42 #topic didrocks 15:42 didrocks, hey :-) 15:42 hey! 15:42 Ubuntu Make: 15:42 - released Ubuntu Make 15.12 (features below). 15:42 - jetbrains changed its website breaking us. Consequently, adapt to new jetbrains' website (after some poking, they are using client-side javascript), so found their API rather and using this which should be more stable. Adapt medium tests assets for this as well, fake certificates, as all IDEs based on it. 15:42 - close the too many bugs opened (even after the fix) on this ^ :) 15:42 - merged an external contributor's update to Unity3D. Fixe medium tests to work with this. 15:42 - some cleanage on beautifulsoup warnings on xenial. 15:42 Misc: 15:42 - uploaded plymouth, and adapting all flavors community themes to it. Did some post-upload fixes. Still one flavor bug to fix (but know, understanding the issue). 15:43 - registering Google Code In tasks and spent quite some time mentoring. We had one fix on unity in for now, 2 are in a good progress state, some will need more work… 15:43 - worked on language support, fixup missing packages in some locales. 15:43 - some AA duties like reviewed geonames, promoting/demoting some packages 15:43 - MIR duties (a bunch of s390-related reviews + geonames) 15:43 . 15:43 good week didrocks! (as usual ;-) 15:43 thx ;) 15:44 thanks for the MIRs 15:44 MIR team is the best team 15:44 see the love :-) 15:44 ok, next 15:44 mir team? 15:44 that's Mir 15:45 desrt, the one that review things that go in main 15:45 (yw on the MIR, but more people would be very welcomed ;)) 15:45 #topic FJKong 15:45 seb128: i know ;) 15:45 FJKong, hey 15:45 heyu 15:45 hey 15:45 desrt, I see what you did :p 15:45 sogou IM bug tracking: 15:45 1 restart after changing font size. 15:45 it's not friday yet! 15:45 2 sometimes it will crash after system suspend. 15:45 3 prepare new feature plan for next release. 15:45 other: 15:45 4 trying building QtWebkit but not goes well. 15:45 eof] 15:45 what's the issue with qtwebkit? and why do you need to build it? 15:46 oh, I just want to try, for wechat 15:46 FJKong: I might be of assistance. 15:46 qengho: nice 15:47 let talk about it later 15:47 ok 15:47 I guess you can talk outside the meeting then 15:47 thanks FJKong 15:47 #topic happyaron 15:47 happyaron, hey? you sent me your summary so I guess not there ... 15:47 1. Yet another libpinyin transition. 15:47 2. OpenCC transition. 15:47 3. Update of fcitx family. 15:47 4. Working on the mozc issue with unity-greeter. 15:47 #topic hikiko 15:47 hikiko, hey 15:49 oh, she's off according to the week summary email 15:49 and willcooke didn't fwd me the status he got 15:49 so next I guess 15:49 #topic Laney 15:49 Laney, hey 15:49 hi 15:49 • short week & weird week - off friday & in london office thursday 15:49 • file gnome-calendar mir and document some issues to fix later 15:49 • upload new gtk 3 and gtk 2, massage tests until they go in 15:49 • massage for dbus too 15:49 • new libgdata 15:49 • uploads for bullet/gdal/stuff transition which in the end got traded off for a load of new uninstallables in the release, help fix some of those 15:49 • debug some s390x issues, fix some but mainly pass them over to my mentee xnox 15:49 • some fixes for mono transition, to debian and ubuntu 15:49 • start working on gstreamer 15:49 • some small fixes for geonames including LP project admin, found an LP bug while doing that 15:49 ☄ 15:50 * didrocks wonders if he shouldn't /nick dbus to get a massage from Laney 15:50 you want a massage? 15:50 haha 15:50 Ew. 15:50 from crucher?! 15:50 that can be arranged 15:50 step over to my private room 15:50 ahah :) 15:50 oh la la 15:50 * Laney puts some barry white on 15:50 ... 15:50 * didrocks escapes then 15:50 * Laney actually does do that 15:51 enjoy the music! :-) 15:51 thanks Laney 15:51 is this why we don't have sprints anymore? :) 15:51 * Laney is reminded of ally mcbeal 15:51 #topic larsu 15:52 who is watching his niece and not IRC, but he sent his update! 15:52 - modify the blurry-screenshot patch according to company's input 15:52 - help out with some issues noticed while doing the MIR for geonames 15:52 (thanks seb128) 15:52 - look into making the timezone popover in control center less jiggly 15:52 - look into apparent slowness of the popover on slower machines / hard 15:52 drives, but couldn't reproduce yet (reported by seb128) 15:52 - nautilus :/ 15:52 - reviews/bugs as usual 15:52 #topic qengho 15:52 qengho, hey 15:52 Hi hi. 15:52 Just one thing. 15:53 * Working on new upstream chromium release & xdg-utils 15:53 ah, I was going to ask about xdg-utils 15:53 saw that it still didn't get an upload 15:53 let us know when you need sponsoring review again 15:53 Yeah. It should be easy. I'll ask for sponsor tomorrow. 15:54 theeeeeere's no way they could have made two 15:54 Er, not upstream again. 15:54 Just my dist patches. 15:54 Laney, :-) 15:55 qengho, well, that's the one didrocks reviewed and asked you to rebase on the archive upload right? 15:55 or the debian update 15:55 Yes. 15:55 k 15:55 well, let us know when it's ready for a new review round 15:55 * qengho nods. 15:55 thanks qengho 15:56 #topic seb128 15:56 • reviewed, tweaked, uploaded geonames (thanks didrocks for the NEW review!) 15:56 • debugged a bit nautilus segfault issues/provided info upstream 15:56 • reviewed/landed unity-control-center use of the new geonames 15:56 • landed unity-settings-daemon fix from diwic 15:56 • travelled to London for a day for design meetings 15:56 • tested e-d-s oauth changes from 3.19, doesn't solve our issue 15:56 • restored g-s-d cursors plugin schemas to fix u-s-d corresponding code 15:56 • updated nautilus 15:56 • updated evolution-indicator to not use gtkhtml (deprecated and removed from Debian) 15:56 15:56 oh gtkhtml is gone for good! 15:56 yep! 15:56 nice :-) 15:56 evo using webkit now even for composing ;-) 15:57 my shotwell patches to port to wk2 got pushed 15:57 one less parser duplication in distro :) 15:57 ok, next is ... 15:57 #topic Sweet5hark1 15:57 (10 more to come ;)) 15:57 Sweet5hark1, hey! 15:57 going to look at the state of that again after holidays 15:58 Laney, oh, they did? I though it was an "inspiration" patch but not a fully working version? 15:58 it means shotwell has a new maintainer as well? 15:58 there were a few tweaks but seems like it was mostly ok 15:59 nah, just someone wanting to get stuff off webkit1 15:59 k 15:59 no Sweet5hark1 again I guess... 16:00 k, seems not 16:00 #topic tkamppeter 16:00 tkamppeter, hey 16:00 - cups-filters: Released 1.4.0 upstream with 16:00 - Support for Braille printers via CUPS 16:00 - Security fix in foomatic-rip 16:00 - cups-filters: Packaged and commited to Debian GIT repo. 16:00 - Committed fix for /etc/init/cups.override on the phone as merge proposal to lxc-android-config 16:00 - MIR for openjpeg (Ghostscript/Poppler) will be done by Security team end of January. 16:00 - Question: The Braille support in cups-filters needs liblouisutdml-bin which is in Universe (needs MIR and I do not know whether Security team has still a slot for 16.04) and perhaps more MIRs for dependencies. Should I separate Braill as optional binary package? Or should we do the MIRs? 16:01 - Bugs. 16:01 tkamppeter, is that a build-time requirement or only runtime? 16:03 ok, let's discuss that after the meeting 16:03 I don't know how much that feature is requested 16:04 but it's probably not something we need on the default installation/main 16:04 universe supported splitted out would probably be good enough 16:04 tkamppeter, thanks 16:04 #topic other topics? 16:04 (sorry I don't have status updates from others, willcooke didn't fwd me those) 16:04 seb128: /me 16:05 arg 16:05 sorry 16:05 np 16:05 #topic Trevinho 16:05 hey :-) 16:05 · Removed gconf backend from compiz 16:05 · Fixes in the nautilus-launcher integration. 16:05 · Fixed compiz build failure caused by new pkg-config handling of quotes in variables and xorg-gtest 16:05 · Finalized new landing of bamf, compiz, nux and unity 16:05 · Fixed nautilus folders handler desktop file to open folders in new windows 16:05 · Use filemanager *WithTimestamp operations 16:05 · Add kind of \"ref-counting\" to key actions, so that they can't be ungrabbed if there are multiple customers. 16:05 · Final revew of Kylin lockscreen shield and other contributions 16:05 · Muted some a11y warnings spamming the logs when opening quicklists 16:05 · Fixed misalignment of maximized scaled windows 16:05 · And last, but most important... Joined the Canonical Xmas party in London 16:05  16:05 (sorry I worked from the previous week list where you were on national holidays) 16:06 gconf removed from compiz \o/ 16:06 good joke 16:06 would chuckle at again 16:06 * Sweet5hark1 is late 16:07 * seb128 didn't get the joke (I think?) 16:07 thanks Trevinho 16:07 he escaped some quotes 16:07 ha! 16:07 he seems to know his public :p 16:08 now with compiz off the gconf list we are getting close from being able to ship the LTS without it on the iso 16:08 Sweet5hark1 promissed an updated libreoffice 16:09 libreoffice 5.1 has no gconf upstream. 16:09 apturl needs fixing 16:09 and aisleriot can be dropped I guess 16:09 I'm going to fix apturl 16:09 #topic Sweet5hark1 16:09 hey, since you are there, you might have an update? ;-) 16:10 - snappifying libreoffice: 16:10 - got a build finished with some hacks from hell 16:10 - some tests still fail, install not tested yet 16:10 - its still huge 16:10 EOF 16:10 thanks Sweet5hark1 16:11 since you mentioned 5.1 before, what's the status of that one? 16:11 when do you expect to see it landing in xenial? 16:11 next week ;P 16:12 seb128: as per upstream schedule https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleasePlan#5.1_release 16:12 seb128: we already have the current beta in the ppa for xenial 16:12 Sweet5hark1, well, our versions tracker shows that Debian has it in experimental 16:12 seb128 is allergic to red lines 16:13 seb128: do you want to dump a beta to xenial? 16:13 Ahchoo 16:13 please no 16:13 seb128: note that betas do not even have l10n 16:13 ricotz, why not? 16:13 the RC1 seems reasonable though 16:14 seb128, we just have beta 1 in the ppa 16:14 Sweet5hark1, I trust you, whenever you think is right 16:14 seb128: yeah. not yet ;) 16:14 anyway, no need to block the meeting on that dicussion 16:14 thanks Sweet5hark1 16:14 and this is kind of a critical element to use ;) 16:14 #topic other topics 16:14 ricotz, yeah, it's also an unstable distro 16:14 not a production one 16:15 we don't want to make things not work 16:15 but we also want early feedback and not being overconservative 16:15 last meeting of the year 16:15 happy holidays! 16:15 (I know, still there are reasons for it to be beta ;P) 16:15 indeed, I was going to say 16:15 who is there next week? 16:15 o/ 16:15 happy holidays everyone! 16:15 hohoho 16:16 here* 16:16 didrocks: you are? 16:16 yep 16:16 going to be quiet for you I think :) 16:16 seems so :) 16:16 * Laney will watch your webcam to make sure you are working 16:17 Laney: guess which finger am I showing up to you right now? :) 16:17 thumb 16:17 I am* 16:17 pointing upwards 16:17 sure sure :) 16:17 from hr.c.c there are not so many people off 16:17 many other didn't set it in the calendar or are not reading the meeting :) 16:17 the mail said assume everyone is off 16:17 robert&luke&laney&attente&sweetshark&willcooke&me 16:17 so I guess that at least means there is no meeting 16:18 right 16:18 no meeting 16:18 fascinating 16:18 but it seems half the team is still working 16:18 see you all next year :) 16:18 * Laney group hug 16:18 ok, let's wrap on that 16:18 #endmeeting