14:30 <willcooke> #startmeeting Desktop Team Weekly Meeting - 2017-12-12 14:30 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Dec 12 14:30:17 2017 UTC. The chair is willcooke. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 14:30 <meetingology> 14:30 <meetingology> Available commands: action commands idea info link nick 14:30 <willcooke> Roll call: andyrock, dgadomski, didrocks (hols), duflu (out), jbicha, jamesh (out), jibel/heber, kenvandine, laney, oSoMoN, seb128, tkamppeter, trevinho, robert_ancell (out) 14:30 <jbicha> o/ 14:30 <oSoMoN> hey 14:30 <seb128> hey 14:30 <kenvandine> o/ 14:30 <heber> o/ 14:31 <jibel> hi o/ 14:32 <willcooke> Just give folks a few mins and we'll get started 14:32 <andyrock> o/ 14:32 <willcooke> Looks like we've got enough to get started then 14:32 <willcooke> #topic andyrock 14:33 <andyrock> 1. Updates udisks2 MP to add tests and a bunch of other stuff 14:33 <andyrock> 2. Trying to understand if it's possible to SRU py-macaroon-bakery deps as backporting is not an option 14:33 <andyrock> 3. Updated software-properties patch to take into accounts more errors 14:33 <andyrock> 4. eof 14:34 <willcooke> thanks andyrock 14:34 <willcooke> #topic dgadomski 14:34 <dgadomski> hey 14:34 <dgadomski> * fixed bug #1720627, verified the fix for xenial-artful 14:34 <dgadomski> eof 14:34 <ubot5`> bug 1720627 in sysstat (Ubuntu Artful) "Segfault when using docker and overlay2" [Medium,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1720627 14:34 <willcooke> thanks dgadomski 14:35 <willcooke> #topic jbicha 14:35 <jbicha> • Synced gnome-user-share but it's in universe until the mod-dnssd MIR is approved LP: #1731065 (Security is reluctant) 14:35 <ubot5`> Launchpad bug 1731065 in mod-dnssd (Ubuntu) "[MIR] mod-dnssd" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1731065 14:35 <jbicha> • Uploaded latest gparted with this notable change from Debian: LP: #1737248 14:35 <ubot5`> Launchpad bug 1737248 in gparted (Debian) "Do not use --enable-xhost-root" [Unknown,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1737248 14:35 <jbicha> • Uploaded vala 0.38 to experimental 14:35 <jbicha> • Proposed merging latest vino from Debian at the Community Hub 14:35 <jbicha> • Dropped USB seed & task 14:35 <jbicha> • Firefox 58 Beta in the PPA has dropped its gtk2 dependency 14:35 <jbicha> • Debian's Chromium switched to gtk3 after I filed a bug 14:35 <jbicha> • Filed bugs for gtk2 in main: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=gtk2-demotion 14:35 <jbicha> • Sponsored GunnarHJ's fixes for LP: #1704533 Thanks! 14:35 <ubot5`> Launchpad bug 1704533 in libgweather (Ubuntu Artful) "French language locale missing : Gnome-Weather" [High,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1704533 14:35 <jbicha> • New fonts-noto-color-emoji release with critical fixes for hamburger, beer, & cheese 14:35 <jbicha> 🍔 14:35 <willcooke> :)) 14:36 <willcooke> thanks jbicha 14:36 <willcooke> #topic jamesh 14:36 <willcooke> kenvandine, did you get an update from jamesh? 14:36 <kenvandine> nope 14:36 <kenvandine> i'll remind him 14:36 <seb128> :-/ 14:36 <willcooke> thanks kenvandine 14:37 <willcooke> #topic jibel / heber 14:37 <jibel> - Testing of the snap version of bluez 5.47 on Desktop. Pass rate is over 80% but there are still major limitations on desktop (does not autostart, hciconfig is failing, does not work without the Debian package installed) 14:37 <jibel> - Smoke test of the Firefox snap are automated. They use Selenium to run HTML5 support tests. 14:37 <jibel> - Updated of the Desktop KPIs for Bionic. 14:37 <jibel> - Performed SRU verification of xenial/gnome-software (3.20.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.7) and zesty/gnome-software (3.22.7-0ubuntu3.17.04.8) - Still have to wait a few days for the verification of bug 1716633 and check that there is no new error for these specific version of gnome-software. 14:37 <jibel> - Submitted autopilot-gtk snap PR to be able to introspect gnome snaps applications to add automated GUI tests. 14:37 <jibel> - Updating gedit snap to be introspected by autopilot-gtk 14:37 <jibel> EOF 14:37 <ubot5`> bug 1716633 in gnome-software (Ubuntu Zesty) "Installed, popular and featured snaps are loaded in parallel threads can crash" [High,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1716633 14:37 <willcooke> thanks jibel 14:38 <willcooke> #topic kenvandine 14:38 <kenvandine> * Debugging issues with snaps on wayland that are build with 16.04 proper, without the backports PPA. 14:38 <kenvandine> * Helped advocacy team with some snaps 14:38 <kenvandine> * Google Code-in mentoring 14:38 <kenvandine> - Responding to questions 14:38 <kenvandine> - Reviewed default apps in ubuntu-dock task and uploaded it to bionic 14:38 <kenvandine> - GNOME Weather translation task is done and submitted upstream now 14:38 <kenvandine> * Had my first LoCo Council meeting since being elected to the council, we had quite the backlog of LoCos to reverify. Looking forward to helping re-energize the LoCo teams. 14:38 <kenvandine> EOF 14:38 <willcooke> nice, thanks kenvandine 14:38 <willcooke> #topic Laney 14:38 <Laney> hi 14:38 <Laney> • autopkgtest: 14:38 <Laney> ∘ arm64 images got lost for lots of releases, hassle IS to get them back 14:38 <Laney> ∘ some poking regarding the kernel bug, think it's identified now & should be fixed soon 14:39 <Laney> • fixed a gnome-control-center upstream bug where the search provider wasn't translating its results 14:39 <Laney> • gstreamer 1.8.4 related updates 14:39 <Laney> • some more work on systemd session stuff, trying to update gnome-session/gnome-shell to find the right XDG session differently 14:39 <Laney> • got gnome-software branch for apt://packagename merged 14:39 <Laney> 🎅🏿 14:39 <willcooke> thanks Laney 14:39 <willcooke> #TOPIC oSoMoN 14:39 <oSoMoN> hey 14:39 <oSoMoN> (short week, was off two days last week) 14:39 <oSoMoN> • chromium 14:39 <oSoMoN> ∘ updated chromium beta to 63.0.3239.84 and updated snap in beta channel 14:39 <oSoMoN> ∘ updated chromium dev to 64.0.3282.14 and updated snap in edge channel 14:39 <oSoMoN> ∘ updated chromium stable to 63.0.3239.84 (all supported series + bionic-proposed), snap in candidate channel 14:39 <oSoMoN> ∘ looking into automating some of the validation tests I perform for new releases (they are time-consuming and tedious) 14:39 <oSoMoN> ∘ snap+nvidia issue investigation ongoing 14:39 <oSoMoN> • libreoffice 14:39 <oSoMoN> ∘ finally promoted 5.4.3 snap to stable channel 14:40 <oSoMoN> That's all folks 🐰 14:40 <willcooke> thanks oSoMoN, f_lexiondotorg has poke ev about the AWS nvidia stuff to see if that can be used, he'll reach out soon 14:40 <willcooke> #topic seb128 14:40 <oSoMoN> yes, I have a meeting scheduled with him in 30min 14:40 <willcooke> oSoMoN, great! 14:40 <seb128> • some more plannings work 14:40 <seb128> • discussed the changes for livepatch on xenial with andy_rock, needs to be SRUed rather than backported but that should be fine 14:40 <seb128> • incoming bugs review 14:40 <seb128> • investigated some of the "needs to we switched away from python2" desktopish reports 14:40 <seb128> • looked at the .config/.local dirs have wrong permission bugs raised by the security team 14:41 <seb128> • read a bit about n-m/resolved DNS handling, trying to understand the issue/patch blocking the n-m update 14:41 <seb128> • some sponsoring 14:41 <seb128> </week> 14:41 <willcooke> thanks seb128 14:41 <willcooke> brb 14:41 <willcooke> door 14:41 <willcooke> #topic tkamppeter 14:41 <tkamppeter> - cpdb-backend-cups, cpdb-backend-gcp: Prepared for Debian/Ubuntu packaging: Cleaned up build systems, use autotools for both, let backend executables go into common directory. 14:41 <tkamppeter> - cpdb-libs: Created new Debian package with 1.1.0, no response on proposed packaging from Debian. Seems that I have to go Ubuntu-only here. 14:41 <tkamppeter> - avahi: Still waiting for someone to sponsor my package with the localhost support (for IPP-over-USB) patch. Also no reaction from upstream (Trent Lloyd) yet (bug 1736757). 14:41 <tkamppeter> - systemd: No solution for UDEV-triggered printer setup not working yet (bug 1721839, https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/7109). 14:41 <tkamppeter> - Qt print dialog: Testing for upstream submission. 14:41 <ubot5`> bug 1736757 in avahi (Ubuntu) "[PATCH] Avahi does not support local-only services via the loopback interface" [High,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1736757 14:41 <tkamppeter> - Google Summer of Code 2018: ~100 student CVs collected from students of the best Indian universities. So we will have enough students to implement any project ideas, we only need to find enough mentors. 14:41 <ubot5`> bug 1721839 in systemd (Ubuntu) "Services asked for by UDEV do not get triggered" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1721839 14:41 <tkamppeter> - Bugs. 14:42 <willcooke> thanks tkamppeter 14:42 <tkamppeter> ubot5 does not treat GitHub Issues. 14:42 <willcooke> yeah, seems that way. Anyone know who operates it? 14:42 <willcooke> Well, something to look in to 14:43 <willcooke> #topic Trevinho 14:43 <seb128> oh 14:43 <seb128> he sent me his update 14:44 <seb128> · Short week due to the national holiday on 8th 14:44 <seb128> · Fixed bug causing shadow offset when using scale > 3 on gtk windows 14:44 <seb128> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791363 14:44 <ubot5`> Gnome bug 791363 in .General "Shadow vertical offset is wrong when scaling is > 2" [Normal,Resolved: fixed] 14:44 <seb128> · Gjs: throw more erros when using proto functions 14:44 <seb128> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/merge_requests/27 14:44 <seb128> · Gjs: use less strict erros in stable branch: 14:44 <seb128> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/merge_requests/28 14:44 <seb128> · Gjs: fix crash on some deallocated objects for gnome-3.26 14:44 <seb128> https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gjs/merge_requests/33 14:44 <seb128> · gnome-shell: fixed various JS issues (potential crashes): 14:44 <seb128> - don't access to destroyed dnd actor 14:44 <seb128> - don't close destroyed app menus 14:44 <seb128> - destroy WindowClone's only once 14:44 <seb128> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791233 14:44 <ubot5`> Gnome bug 791233 in general "Various Javascript errors in accessing deleted object properties" [Normal,New] 14:44 <seb128> 🎄 14:44 <willcooke> thanks seb128 14:45 <willcooke> #topic robert_ancell 14:45 <willcooke> - Working on guest session support 14:45 <willcooke> - Updated some forum.snapcraft.io threads about requested desktop features. 14:45 <willcooke> - Got CI working for LightDM and simple-scan 14:45 <willcooke> - simple-scan 3.27.3 release 14:45 <willcooke> #topic AOB 14:45 <willcooke> Anyone got anything else? 14:46 <willcooke> I'm off from Friday until 2nd week in Jan. Shall we skip weekly meetings until then, or seb128 kenvandine do you want to run them? 14:46 <kenvandine> i'm fine with helping run them 14:46 <seb128> same for next week, then I'm off as well 14:46 <kenvandine> at least next week :) 14:46 <kenvandine> ok, lets skip then 14:46 <jbicha> yeah, no need to have Christmas Tuesday meeting 14:46 <seb128> :p 14:47 <willcooke> kk, next meeting will be 9th Jan 14:47 * Laney kicks back 14:47 <willcooke> oki, if there's nothing else we can wrap, and I will head in to that London 14:47 <kenvandine> willcooke, have fun 14:47 <seb128> thanks, enjoy London! 14:47 <willcooke> #endmeeting