15:31 <willcooke> #startmeeting Desktop Team Weekly Meeting - 2016-02-02 15:31 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Feb 2 15:31:31 2016 UTC. The chair is willcooke. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 15:31 <meetingology> 15:31 <meetingology> Available commands: action commands idea info link nick 15:31 <qengho> Dang! 15:32 <willcooke> Roll call: andyrock, attente, desrt, dgadomski, fjkong (out), happyaron, hikiko, laney (maybe out), larsu (maybe out), qengho, seb128, sweet5hark (out), themuso (out), tkamppeter, trevinho, robert_ancell (out) 15:32 <desrt> hello willcooke and fellow teammates! 15:33 <Trevinho> \o/ 15:33 <willcooke> looks like it's just us three :) 15:33 <attente> hi :) 15:33 <willcooke> 4 15:33 <desrt> hi attente. how's toronto? :) 15:33 <larsu> hi! 15:33 <andyrock> \o 15:33 <attente> desrt: you're missing out on the chinatown gang violence 15:33 <larsu> uh oh 15:33 <desrt> attente: ya... i saw that. 15:33 <desrt> toronto is going to hell. i'm staying in köln. 15:34 <willcooke> :D 15:34 <Texou> hi 15:34 <Texou> hi didrocks 15:34 <willcooke> Let's get this meeting started then 15:35 <willcooke> Texou, please hold on a little while, while we do a quick meeting 15:35 <alexarnaud> hi pepito ! 15:35 <willcooke> #topic andyrock 15:35 <andyrock> hey 15:35 <andyrock> I'm working on g-s launcher integration 15:35 <andyrock> should be done soooon! 15:35 <andyrock> \eof 15:36 <willcooke> thanks andyrock 15:36 <willcooke> #topic attente 15:36 <attente> hey, not much news besides fixing a lot of the patches at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756579 15:36 <attente> (eof) 15:36 <ubot5`> Gnome bug 756579 in Widget: GtkMenu "GTK should let GDK position menus" [Normal,New] 15:36 <willcooke> thanks attente 15:36 <willcooke> #topic desrt 15:36 <desrt> hi! just back from fosdem/hackfest 15:37 <desrt> the hackfest was not the _most_ productive one that i've had (due to an uncharacteristic bout of intense jetlag) but i managed to get some reviewing and small patches done, along with discussing crack ideas 15:37 <desrt> in particular, i got a chance to sync up with alex on dconf containersation issues (he is driving the effort to make gnome apps container-friendly) 15:38 <desrt> working now on finishing up some patches to fundamentally change how we do type utility macros in gobject -- g_typeof()... 15:38 <desrt> after that, i'm back to the gsettingsbackend work... it seems that really a lot of people are suddenly interested in this (for about three separate reasons) 15:38 <desrt> finally: i'm on CEST this week and next 15:38 <desrt> (eof) 15:39 <willcooke> thanks desrt 15:39 <willcooke> #topic dgadomski 15:39 <dgadomski> hey 15:39 <dgadomski> * fix to old and annoying bug 1337873 has been released! 15:39 <ubot5`> bug 1337873 in ifupdown (Debian) "ifupdown initialization problems caused by race condition" [Unknown,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1337873 15:39 <dgadomski> * backported fix and prepared debdiffs for SRU for bug 1538724 - completely preventing users from launching firefox in some configurations 15:39 <ubot5`> bug 1538724 in firefox (Ubuntu Wily) "GraphicsCriticalError: |[0][GFX1]: Unknown cairo format 3" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1538724 15:39 <dgadomski> eof 15:40 <willcooke> cool, thanks dgadomski 15:40 <dgadomski> thanks 15:40 <willcooke> #topic FJKong_ 15:40 <willcooke> sogou bug tracking 15:40 <willcooke> display garbled code reported by user. 15:40 <willcooke> cannot adjust order of candidate words. 15:40 <willcooke> record pinyin search video. 15:40 <willcooke> #topic happyaron 15:41 <willcooke> happyaron, please let me have your update by email 15:42 <willcooke> #topic hikiko 15:43 <seb128> lag? 15:43 <larsu> lug? 15:43 <seb128> log? 15:43 <larsu> leg? 15:43 <qengho> gal? 15:43 <Laney> lyg 15:43 <hikiko> fixed the last shadow issues and proposed for review (here's a demo with the shadow of a blob-shaped window that changes in real-time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LABxkCLVSUg), added the change for chrome-unstable we discussed on the meeting and my next task will be to transform the nux and unity components using the enhanced zoom plugin transformations eof 15:43 <hikiko> sorry guys :) 15:44 <larsu> hikiko: nice work! 15:44 <willcooke> thanks hikiko 15:44 <willcooke> #topic Laney 15:44 <willcooke> � SRUed gstreamer 1.6.3 point releases to wily - please test if you're 15:44 <willcooke> running wily 15:44 <willcooke> � Uploaded gvfs to D + U 15:44 <willcooke> � Fixed some tests to make gvfs migrate 15:44 <willcooke> � Worked with IS to get appstream.ubuntu.com deployed - currently doing 15:44 <willcooke> initial run 15:44 <willcooke> � FOSDEM 15:44 <willcooke> � Appstream sprint - fix icon handling code, work on charm/server, bug 15:44 <willcooke> fixes to extractor, some looking at gnome-software 15:44 <willcooke> ☬ 15:44 <desrt> lig. (see what i did there?) 15:44 <willcooke> #topic larsu 15:44 <larsu> git@github.com:larsu/appstream-dep11.git 15:45 <larsu> oops (wrong paste) 15:45 <larsu> my penultimate meeting :/ 15:45 <larsu> two hackfests and a fosdem 15:45 <larsu> gnome: a bit low on discussions, but did some glib work and talked to pwithnall about making glib log to the journal 15:45 <larsu> apstream: improve icon finding code of the appstream generator; test new stuff with gnome-software 15:45 <larsu> also managed some progress on geonames in between 15:45 <larsu> </larsu> 15:45 <willcooke> :) thanks larsu 15:45 <willcooke> #topic qengho 15:47 <willcooke> lag! 15:47 <seb128> seems like a recurrent one 15:47 <willcooke> he was here a minute ago 15:47 <seb128> it persists through weeks :p 15:47 <seb128> I've seen that somewhere... 15:47 <qengho> * Reviving no-shared-object Chromium on non-32-bit, if the builder has enough RAM. 15:47 <qengho> * Cr packaging for snapcraft2. 15:47 <qengho> * Other small tasks: zfs-related patches (grub) and 16.04 docs. tor middle-relay snap. 15:47 <qengho> * Away next week! 15:48 <qengho> EOF 15:48 <willcooke> thanks qengho, just fixed the calendar entry 15:49 <willcooke> #topic seb128 15:49 <seb128> hey 15:49 <seb128> • looked at wrong handling of day events in the indicator 15:49 <seb128> • went to fosdem for a day 15:49 <seb128> • catchup on things after travelling, trying to get a good idea of what's the status of the features for xenial and what we need to focus on 15:49 <seb128> • spent some time doing administrative work (trips booking&expenses, some hr issues) 15:49 <seb128> • looked a hidpi issues in the greeter 15:49 <seb128> • joined several discussions about current work & next cycle 15:49 <seb128> </week> 15:49 <willcooke> thanks seb128 15:50 <willcooke> seb128, that reminds me (even though it's written on a piece of paper in front of me...) 15:50 <willcooke> desktoppers, at the end of the meeting let's have a quick Feature Freeze review 15:50 <seb128> "discuss status of the features"? ;-) 15:50 <desrt> seb128: we're annoyed that you didn't say goodbye :p 15:50 <willcooke> #topic tkamppeter 15:51 <tkamppeter> - Phone: Checked and discussed how to submit the printing work. Waiting for willcooke and product management about dicesion. 15:51 <tkamppeter> - LSB: Looked into Debian's dropping of the set of LSB meta packages to allow running LSB (distribution-independent) binary packages on Debian and Ubuntu, leading to OpenPrinting printer driver packages not working any more, bug 1536353, re-introduction probably best and easiest solution. 15:51 <tkamppeter> - Foomatic: Thoughts about Foomatic's future. Gutenprint will remove their Foomatic/IJS driver flavor, removing the main scalability issue, will add Google Summer of Code project idea to create a way to generate a CUPS *.drv (PPD generator) file from the Foomatic data. 15:51 <ubot5`> bug 1536353 in system-config-printer (Ubuntu) "[regression] Printer drivers install is broken as lsb package is not available anymore" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1536353 15:51 <tkamppeter> - Bugs. 15:51 <willcooke> thanks tkamppeter 15:51 <willcooke> #topic Trevinho 15:51 <seb128> desrt, yeah, sorry, too many people at the beer event and then you were not at breakfast and I had to leave :-/ 15:52 <seb128> trreeeviiiiinho 15:52 <desrt> i saw him! 15:53 <larsu> in Köln? 15:53 <Trevinho> Oh 15:53 <Trevinho> · Some upstream work for libwnck 15:53 <Trevinho> · Work with kylin for some tunings 15:53 <Trevinho> · Reviews, reviews, reviews (compiz, unity)... 15:53 <Trevinho> · Attended FOSDEM 15:53 <Trevinho> 15:53 <willcooke> thanks Trevinho 15:53 <willcooke> #topic Status of features ahead of feature freeze 15:54 <willcooke> So we had a bit of a Gnome Software meeting yesterday to check on the status of the components 15:54 <willcooke> it's looking close, but things are moving 15:55 <willcooke> but, seb128 you have some concerns about others things which depend on pk1.0 15:55 <seb128> well, it just that nobody seems to really own that landing 15:56 <seb128> and I'm unsure how much testing we got from the different pieces 15:56 <seb128> like if removing aptdaemon is going to be smooth and work 15:57 <seb128> or if we are going to notice that britney hits n regressions and things get stucked until somebody fix language-selector or some kde app 15:57 <willcooke> is a sensible next step to send an email to the desktop mailing list? 15:58 <seb128> I'm not sure it's going to help 15:58 <seb128> we need somebody to own that landing, who go ahead with the update and file the aptdaemon removal and deals with britney issues and bugs 15:59 <willcooke> who can deal with that? volunteers please 16:00 <willcooke> seb128, would Robert be a suitable person? 16:00 <seb128> if we wants to do it 16:01 <seb128> he set up a ppa and did part of the job but he seems busy dealing with actual coding on g-s 16:01 <seb128> anyway I guess there is no point blocking the meeting on that 16:02 <willcooke> alright, I wil speak to Robert and let you know 16:02 <seb128> thanks 16:03 <willcooke> alright, next week then please everyone come with a list of the features you want to land in to 16.04 and the current status 16:03 <willcooke> I will send out an email to remind you all next Monday 16:03 <willcooke> qengho, you're off, but I think we're clear there anyway 16:04 <willcooke> #topic any other business 16:04 <willcooke> Please book your sprint travel 16:04 <larsu> will do! 16:04 <willcooke> :D 16:04 <attente> lol 16:05 <willcooke> oki, tough meeting this week gang 16:05 <attente> were there any really interesting talks at fosdem? 16:05 <larsu> attente: not really. Fosdem's mostly about meeting the people 16:06 <Laney> oh yeah 16:06 <larsu> I, for example, met Laney 16:06 <Laney> but we should all demand that companies don't claim copyright on our code done in work time 16:06 <Laney> that is one thing I learned at fosdem 16:06 <Laney> so go forth and do that 16:06 <larsu> isn't this what every company does 16:06 <seb128> trooooll day 16:07 <larsu> attente: sabdfl was there and gave a lightning talk, but I didn't make it there 16:07 <willcooke> let's end the meeting, but please carry on re FOSDEM 16:07 <willcooke> #endmeeting