15:30 <willcooke> #startmeeting Desktop Team Weekly Meeting 2017-02-21
15:30 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Feb 21 15:30:18 2017 UTC.  The chair is willcooke. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.
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15:30 <willcooke> I've got to go to a meeting in 30 mins, so would like to power through
15:30 <willcooke> hikiko, bad luck :(
15:30 <hikiko> willcooke: I did something unbelievable and I am reinstalling ubuntu :p fortunately I have home etc in another partition so it wont take long to have a working desktop
15:31 <willcooke> Roll Call: andyrock (hols), attente, desrt,  dgadomski, fjkong, flexiondotorg, happyaron (out), hikiko(out), laney, qengho, seb128, sweet5hark, themuso (out), tkamppeter, trevinho, robert_ancell (out)
15:31 <flexiondotorg> o/
15:31 * Sweet5hark is here with short report locked and loaded.
15:31 * qengho appreciates the order.
15:32 <desrt> hihi
15:32 <hikiko> i ran chown -R eleni:eleni on the OS device instead of my data device because I added an extra hd and the /dev/sd* names changed and I had it in fstab and totally forgot to check what is automounted
15:32 <willcooke> righty, let's kick off
15:33 <hikiko> so I had to reinstall the os and then I remembered that apt has some options to fix the permissions
15:33 <willcooke> #topic andyrock
15:33 <willcooke> I mostly worked on CR+mir. I wrote most of the needed classes but chromium still fails to render on mir. I m debugging the issue but by the end of the week I hope to have something more.
15:33 <willcooke> #topic attente
15:33 <attente> hi
15:33 <willcooke> Sorry for disturbing your holiday yesterday attente  :)
15:33 <attente> short week, holiday yesterday
15:33 <attente> no worries :)
15:33 <attente> apparmor dconf patch testing and discussion
15:33 <attente> working on a branch that adds apparmor support to desrt's dconf proxy, need to figure out how to test that properly...
15:33 <attente> (eof)
15:34 <willcooke> thanks attente
15:34 <willcooke> #topic desrt
15:34 <desrt> hey
15:34 <desrt> went over the apparmor work from attente last week
15:34 <desrt> had a meeting on it, it looks good
15:34 <desrt> but still working on the changes to make the proxy respond to notifications about changes in security policy, so probably will need to refactor that somewhat
15:34 <desrt> attente: let's meet again today, if you have some time
15:34 <desrt> eof.
15:34 <willcooke> cool, thanks desrt
15:34 <attente> desrt: sure
15:34 <willcooke> #topic dgadomski
15:35 <dgadomski> hey
15:35 <dgadomski> * verified bug #1550983
15:35 <dgadomski> * reported and fixed bug #1665018
15:35 <dgadomski> eof
15:35 <ubot5> bug 1550983 in One Hundred Papercuts "Fails to start with "Couldn't open libGL.so.1" (missing dependency?)" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1550983
15:35 <ubot5> bug 1665018 in cups (Ubuntu) "client tools ignore -h option without port number" [Medium,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1665018
15:35 <davmor2> seb128: crap it's worse than I thought it shows no apps at all in the apps scope only dash plugins, Let me do a standard install and see if that is the same
15:35 <willcooke> thanks dgadomski
15:35 <dgadomski> thanks
15:35 <willcooke> #topic FJKong
15:35 <FJKong> hey
15:35 <FJKong> bugs:
15:35 <FJKong> #1666430 merge open-vm-tools 10.1.0 from Debian unstable
15:35 <FJKong> #1666265 Screen will flash after press space bar when using sogou Input method
15:35 <FJKong> #1653852 Cannot activate Chinese input method for Qt app even in the devmode Edit
15:35 <FJKong> eof
15:36 <willcooke> thanks FJKong
15:36 <willcooke> #topic flexiondotorg
15:36 <flexiondotorg> Time appropriate greetings!
15:36 <flexiondotorg> - ISO testing for Ubuntu and Ubuntu MATE 16.04.2.
15:36 <flexiondotorg> - Assisted Ubuntu Kylin with their fork of MATE called UKUI.
15:36 <flexiondotorg> - Reduced forks from 20 to 7.
15:36 <flexiondotorg> - They are waiting on sponsorship for uploads if anyone can help them with that.
15:36 <flexiondotorg> - Debugging Indicator icons in snaps. Hugh thanks to _Trevinho!
15:36 <flexiondotorg> Huge Thanks, even.
15:36 <flexiondotorg> - Visit to ScreenCloud
15:36 <flexiondotorg> - Adding popularity/relevancy metrics to a sheet of ~400 Electron apps
15:36 <flexiondotorg> - Contacting the most popular Electron projects/products to start them on their snap journey.
15:37 <flexiondotorg> - Fix in progress for desktop helpers so snapped applications can create/remove auto-start entries.
15:37 <flexiondotorg> - Working with upstream electron-builder to add more complete snap support so we can target more projects.
15:37 <flexiondotorg> - Working on VMWare snaps, they requested help.
15:37 <flexiondotorg> 🎬
15:37 <willcooke> awesome, thanks flexiondotorg
15:37 <flexiondotorg> I'd like to here about Cr backend for Mir.
15:38 <willcooke> flexiondotorg, hook up with andyrock when he's back on Friday
15:38 <willcooke> also, you might want the "_" in the middle of the string somewhere rather than at the start to avoid pings
15:38 <flexiondotorg> Ah, OK.
15:38 <willcooke> #topic happyaron
15:38 <willcooke> 1. {spl,zfs}-linux are updated for Linux 4.9, and in sync with Debian now
15:38 <willcooke> 2. network-manager 1.4.4 to zesty
15:38 <willcooke> 3. network-manager/applet SRU verification work
15:38 <willcooke> 4. fcitx SRU verification
15:38 <willcooke> 5. help FJ with package merging stuff
15:38 <willcooke> 5. working on more automated zfs testing stuff atm
15:38 <willcooke> #topic hikiko
15:39 <hikiko> willcooke: if you have my bullets handy could you paste them?
15:39 <hikiko> sorry
15:40 <willcooke> hikiko, sure
15:40 <qengho> hikiko: Best to re-install. I don't think dpkg could help that much.
15:40 <hikiko> thank you
15:40 <willcooke> * problems in chromium-mir prerequisites:p
15:40 <willcooke> - updated from X to Z in my desktop to build chrome there, in the fast ssd (miral-shell runs on Z). Ended up doing a fresh OS installation due to several tl;dr packages, systemd and pebcak problems
15:40 <willcooke> - solved new problems in the fresh installation:
15:40 <willcooke> |--chromium needs more than 80GB space => the ssd where I build it doesn't have enough space for the OS and the chromium together
15:40 <willcooke> => had to free space in the hd and find the args that can accelerate the chromium build until I have the new ssd
15:40 <willcooke> |--workaround why the latest intel driver refused to see my hdmi monitor
15:40 <willcooke> |--replaced xserver with an older version (X,Y,Z have upgraded the xserver to a version that crashes when 2 wm ask for 2 displays => cannot use it for u7 development)
15:40 <willcooke> * chromium-development:
15:40 <willcooke> - learned the git basics
15:40 <willcooke> - fixed compile errors in chromium 3rd party libraries/examples/tests
15:40 <willcooke> - fixed 3rd party BUILD.gn files that expect the compiler to be clang and define stuff for clang only (I compile with gcc because clang experienced internal errors when something eg .h file was missing)
15:40 <willcooke> - I am currently working on SurfaceFactory, trying to continue andreas work, but I still haven't done/tested much because I fix other problems here and there (hopefully at the meeting time I've finished the compile of the other branches and I'll be able to test mine with them).
15:40 <willcooke> * lowgfx:
15:40 <willcooke> - currently working on that since everything else on my desktop is compiling and compiling and compiling... hopefully, I'll have pushed the final branches of that too before the time of the meeting today...
15:40 <willcooke> EOF
15:40 <willcooke> #topic Laney
15:40 <Laney> • Noticed that unity8 dropped off the zesty dailies - fixed that (by cowboying a MP that was already in progress, thanks S_aviq) & uploaded to xenial overlay per request
15:40 <Laney> • Some reviews / feedback for FJK
15:40 <qengho> I have patches that make g++ work, hikiko .
15:40 <Laney> ∘ pinged about the gnome-calculator sru to yakkety
15:40 <Laney> • Debian: gdk-pixbuf -> unstable
15:40 <Laney> • autopkgtest:
15:40 <Laney> ∘ Some package fixes
15:41 <Laney> ∘ infra fix for detecting a new type of systemd failure seen on the upstream tests (thanks p_itti)
15:41 <Laney> ∘ tried to get a discussion going upstream about how to handle the Testsuite-Restrictions stuff. Ian Jackson very kindly got my previous work in dpkg reverted
15:41 <Laney> ∘ some background investigations into kernel panic handling, need to figure out how to wire the console log back into autopkgtest so that it can be analysed for failure, working on that
15:41 <Laney> • release:
15:41 <Laney> ∘ some FFe reviews and discussions
15:41 <Laney> ∘ being alpha 2 runner: some ISO tracker wrangling, some nusakan wrangling, some proposed-migration wrangling. should be over to the flavours now until thursday
15:41 <Laney> • Look at fwupd for bug #1663548, submitted a PR to libsmbios for use-after-free fixes - need to test the proposed workaround in fwupd now
15:41 <ubot5> bug 1663548 in fwupd (Ubuntu) "fwupd crashed with SIGSEGV in _int_malloc()" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1663548
15:41 <Laney> 🏋️
15:41 <willcooke> :) thanks Laney
15:41 <willcooke> #topic qengho
15:41 <qengho> * Gave Cr 56 to #security for X, Y, Z upload.
15:41 <qengho> * Still working on earlier distros' symbols/linking problem for Cr. Discovered "c++filt"!
15:41 <qengho> * Apparmor profile updates for Cr.
15:41 <qengho> * One (1) National holiday.
15:41 <qengho> EOF
15:41 <willcooke> thanks qengho
15:41 <willcooke> #topic seb128
15:41 <Laney> s/alpha 2/beta 1/
15:41 <Laney> !!!!!!!
15:42 <Laney> carry on
15:42 <seb128> • worked some more on restoring the langpack builder service (the wrong key was being used still for ppa uploads), should be good for next export
15:42 <seb128> • some sponsoring and archive admin work
15:42 <seb128> • discussions/tweaks with did_rocks and Tre_vinho to the snap desktop common launcher to follow the runtime rename
15:42 <seb128> • reviewed another iteration of the geonames changes from albert
15:42 <seb128> </week>
15:42 <willcooke> thanks seb128
15:42 <willcooke> #topic Sweet5hark
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - precise backporting (finally)
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - much Munich PR support and aftermath: :/ but it was effective (and informative)
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - 5.3.0~rc3-0ubuntu3: fix autopkgtests for real
15:42 <Sweet5hark> EOF
15:42 <willcooke> BOOM!
15:42 <willcooke> thanks Sweet5hark
15:42 <willcooke> #topic TheMuso
15:42 <willcooke> * Merged alsa-utils and uploaded. Only bug fixes, but it was before feature freeze, so ALSA userspace 1.1.3 is what we have for zesty.
15:42 <willcooke> * Started looking at porting a suggested patch that Konrad pointed out for pulseaudio in xenial to help improve bluetooth matters there.
15:42 <willcooke> * More testing of an upstream patch to reduce if not elimate at-spi crashing under certain circumstances with Orca.
15:42 <willcooke> * Started making a list of things that I think should be addressed for 18.04.
15:42 <willcooke> #topic tkamppeter
15:42 <willcooke> welcome back tkamppeter :)
15:42 <tkamppeter> - cups-filters: Released 1.13.4 with reliability fixes for the PPD generator for driverless printing.
15:42 <tkamppeter> - Google Summer of Code 2017: Another video call interview with a student candidate.
15:42 <tkamppeter> - OpenPri nting Summit 2017: Started organizational stuff.
15:42 <tkamppeter> - Caught up on e-mail.
15:42 <tkamppeter> - Bugs.
15:43 <willcooke> thanks
15:43 <willcooke> #topic Trevinho
15:43 <Trevinho> · Attended Open Design Conference in Italy doing a Talk and Workshop about snap
15:43 <Trevinho> · Fixed indicator in vlc snap
15:43 <Trevinho> · Pull request on next-cloud client to build a snap (snapcraft.yaml included)
15:43 <Trevinho> · Fixed snapd-xdg-open to compile and work in trusty
15:43 <Trevinho> · Added screensaver methods to screen-inihibit control snap policy
15:43 <Trevinho> · Fixed unity7 snap policy to support custom indicator icon themes properly
15:43 <Trevinho> · Gnome platform part changes in desktop-helpers
15:43 <Trevinho> · SRU for sni-qt, appmenu-qt5, libappindicator to Xenial (indicator support in SNAP)
15:43 <Trevinho> · workaround for electron apps indicator support in snaps
15:43 <Trevinho> · Fixed XDG_RUNTIME_DIR usage in libappindicator for indicator dir
15:43 <Trevinho> · Fixed Ctrl+<KEY> when capslock is on in unity text entries (nux)
15:43 <Trevinho> · Fixed libappindicator issue causing dbus noise
15:43 <Trevinho> EOF
15:43 <willcooke> thanks Trevinho
15:43 <willcooke> #topic robert_ancell
15:44 <willcooke> - snap:// URL support SRUs
15:44 <willcooke> - snapd-glib assertion support
15:44 <willcooke> - LightDM user switching bug work (LP: #1656399)
15:44 <willcooke> - LightDM snap work.
15:44 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1656399 in lightdm (Ubuntu) "Unable to unlock session after suspend using lightdm-gtk-greeter." [Critical,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1656399
15:44 <willcooke> #topic AOB
15:44 <willcooke> Great week I think, thanks everyone.
15:44 <desrt> bye bye.
15:44 <jbicha> GNOME 3.24 (3.23.90) is in zesty with just a few exceptions. I want to discuss updating nautilus (LP: #1635988) and gnome-terminal (LP: #1666264)
15:44 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1635988 in nautilus (Ubuntu) "Update nautilus to 3.22" [Wishlist,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1635988
15:44 <ubot5> Launchpad bug 1666264 in vte2.91 (Ubuntu) "FFe: Update gnome-terminal to 3.24 and vte to 0.48" [Low,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1666264
15:44 <jbicha> so for nautilus, the main blocker is the interactive_search.patch which didn't work right after I tried to rebase it
15:44 <jbicha> seb128: csoriano said you were thinking about just letting the patch be dropped?
15:45 <willcooke> jbicha, now seems like a great time to do that.  Do you mind if I close the meeting now and then carry on with the conversation?
15:45 <FJKong> Laney: I fonud the reason, I choose old version to diff, so I re-upload diff, sorry
15:45 <willcooke> otherwise I will forget and the logs will be sad
15:45 <Laney> FJKong: cool, np
15:45 <jbicha> willcooke: sure, it can be post-meeting
15:45 <willcooke> thanks
15:45 <willcooke> #endmeeting