14:30 <jibel> #startmeeting Desktop Team Weekly Meeting - 2018-03-20 14:30 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Mar 20 14:30:52 2018 UTC. The chair is jibel. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 14:30 <meetingology> 14:30 <meetingology> Available commands: action commands idea info link nick 14:31 <jibel> Roll call: andyrock, dgadomski, didrocks, duflu (out), jbicha, jamesh (out), jibel/heber, kenvandine, laney, oSoMoN, seb128, tkamppeter, trevinho, robert_ancell (out) 14:31 <Trevinho> \o 14:31 <oSoMoN> o/ 14:32 <jibel> #topic andyrock 14:32 <andyrock> o/ 14:32 <andyrock> hey hey 14:32 <jibel> just on time 14:32 <andyrock> Unity7: 14:32 <andyrock> - Fix memory leak in UserAuthenticatorPam::AuthenticateStart. 14:32 <andyrock> Gnome-Control-Center: 14:32 <andyrock> - Fix for (LP Bug #1754651: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/1754651) 14:32 <andyrock> Livepatch: 14:32 <andyrock> - MP to add a "enable canonical-livepatch" switch in software-properties-gtk 14:32 <andyrock> - Fixing MP after reviews 14:32 <ubot5`> Ubuntu bug 1754651 in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) "gnome-control-center windows remains open after using the launch-panel/online-accounts/add "API"" [Medium,Fix released] 14:32 <didrocks> andyrock: it's good for a second review? 14:32 <andyrock> - Some work on the login-dialog for gnome-software 14:32 <heber> o/ 14:33 <andyrock> didrocks: not yet 14:33 <didrocks> k, just ping me :) 14:33 <andyrock> I'll ping you in few seconds 14:33 <andyrock> :D 14:33 <andyrock> eow 14:33 <jibel> Thanks andyrock 14:33 <jibel> #topic dgadomski 14:33 <dgadomski_> hey 14:33 <dgadomski_> only 1 thing this time: submitted a merge request for bug #1749289, I'd appreciate anybody taking a look before bionic release 14:34 <ubot5`> bug 1749289 in oem-config (Ubuntu) "Installer stops after pressing Cancel on Select a language screen during OEM install" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1749289 14:34 <dgadomski_> eof 14:34 <jibel> thanks dgadomski_ 14:34 <dgadomski_> thanks 14:34 <jibel> #topic didrocks 14:34 <didrocks> Telemetry: 14:34 <didrocks> - More discussions and tested latest changes after review in ubiquity: ttps://code.launchpad.net/~didrocks/ubiquity/intall-metrics/+merge/341229 14:34 <didrocks> - Started the reporting tool project and add many tests to it: https://github.com/Ubuntu/ubuntu-report. Done functionnally, adding more tests and instrumentations. 14:34 <didrocks> Communitheme: 14:34 <didrocks> - switch to bionic and rebase Shell theme on 3.27.92: https://github.com/Ubuntu/gnome-shell-communitheme/pull/77 14:34 <didrocks> - switch gtk theme and session packages to bionic as well 14:35 <didrocks> - general talks and monitoring 14:35 <didrocks> Misc: 14:35 <didrocks> - filed up upstream contributions on doc for ubucon 14:35 <didrocks> - minimal install PR reviews 14:35 <didrocks> eow 14:35 <jibel> didrocks, thanks! 14:35 <jibel> #topic duflu 14:36 <jibel> * Screen corruption when logging into Xorg sessions (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1753776) 14:36 <ubot5`> Ubuntu bug 1753776 in mesa (Ubuntu) "Graphics corruption just before login animation to Xorg sessions (Intel gen9 GPUs only)" [Medium,Triaged] 14:36 <jibel> - Finally bisected the problem (it's indeed a regression in Mesa 18.0.0). 14:36 <jibel> - Notified upstream, but they think it *should work* so "we" need to investigate potential kernel fixes. 14:36 <jibel> - I will report on kernel investigations next week :S 14:36 <jibel> * Gnome Shell performance (very little change this week, but this is the status) 14:36 <jibel> - Affecting Xorg sessions: 14:36 <jibel> . Switched focus to the next major CPU issue affecting Xorg sessions (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1750197). 14:36 <ubot5`> Ubuntu bug 1750197 in mutter (Ubuntu) "App drawer animation causes heavy CPU spikes in Wayland & Xorg" [Medium,Confirmed] 14:36 <jibel> . Clock smoothness: Still awaiting review (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/26) 14:36 <jibel> - Affecting only Wayland sessions (also no progress, no reviews, this week) 14:36 <jibel> . Unblock rendering from behind monitor flipping: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/25 14:36 <jibel> . Simplify and clean up: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/merge_requests/29 14:36 <jibel> * Synaptics touchpad settings missing (https://launchpad.net/bugs/1686081): 14:36 <ubot5`> Ubuntu bug 1686081 in gtk+3.0 (Ubuntu) "If -synaptics is installed, GNOME Mouse & Touchpad Settings doesn't work" [Medium,In progress] 14:36 <jibel> - Completed a couple of rounds of distro patches for mutter+gnome-control-center and awaiting review/sponsorship. 14:36 <jibel> - Completed a couple of versions of fixes for a related gtk bug: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/merge_requests/65 14:36 <jibel> - Bionic fixes released! (not including GTK but we work around that) 14:37 <jibel> * Daily bug management across gnome-shell, mutter, gdm3, ubuntu-themes, bluez, pulseaudio, dkms, wayland, totem, mpv, libinput. 14:37 <jibel> - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRDHPxGBHqM6XkT_S8ggtYfD0xchKSUD_z9PopNVE3G1rU05fVSnxDGcDsEstl7gu7N-tzCU6mLUp2V/pubchart?oid=254968654&format=interactive 14:37 <jibel> Thanks duflu 14:38 <jibel> #topic jbicha 14:38 <jbicha> • Lots of GNOME 3.28.0 packaging with darkxst 14:38 <jbicha> • Completed most of the GNOME 3.28 transitions in Debian 14:38 <jbicha> • Debian GNOME has converted all but a few deprecated packages to git 14:38 <jbicha> (smcv converted several this week that failed with our earlier conversion scripts) 14:38 <jbicha> • Sponsored stuff like https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/1:3.28.0-0ubuntu1 14:38 <jbicha> • Fixed (in Debian & Ubuntu) icon conflict issue with gnome-control-center & the old gnome-icon-theme https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/issues/3 14:38 <jbicha> • Cherry-picked fix for LP: #1750702 14:38 <ubot5`> Launchpad bug 1750702 in gegl (Ubuntu) "gegl build failure on armhf" [High,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1750702 14:38 <jbicha> • Updated webkit2gtk for Debian 9.4 and blogged it 14:38 <jbicha> • Dropped ulimit from deja-dup/bionic's autostart file to fix heavily reported crash with webkit2gtk 2.20 (LP: #1751460) 14:38 <ubot5`> Launchpad bug 1751460 in webkit2gtk (Ubuntu Bionic) "[regression] deja-dup-monitor crashed with SIGSEGV in Gigacage::<lambda()>::operator()" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1751460 14:38 <jbicha> • Helped deal with fallout from Debian bug 892956 (bug title is opinionated ;) ) 14:38 <ubot5`> Debian bug 892956 in meson "meson creates bogus pkgconfig files" [Grave,Open] http://bugs.debian.org/892956 14:38 <jbicha> 🍀 14:38 <ahasenack> willcooke: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105407 updated 14:38 <ubot5`> Freedesktop bug 105407 in libinput "Xorg assertion failure: Xorg: ../src/evdev-mt-touchpad-tap.c:1002: tp_tap_handle_state: Assertion `tp->tap.nfingers_down > 0' failed." [Normal,Resolved: worksforme] 14:38 <ahasenack> shall I reopen it? 14:39 <jibel> jbicha, ^^ is that to bring us luck for the release or the end of your report? ;) 14:39 <jbicha> end of report :) 14:39 <jibel> jbicha, Great! Thank you 14:39 <jibel> #topic jibel/heber 14:39 <jibel> - Analysis of snap crash reports in errors.u.c, discovered that snapd uses its own reporting system that does not honour the automated reporting setting and spams errors.u.c when it fails to initialize a snap and reproduced the problem with MATE and Budgie. 14:39 <jibel> - https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snapd-ignores-whoopsie-setting-to-upload-crash-reports/4463 14:39 <jibel> - https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/snapd-tries-to-report-crashes-and-restarts-indefinitely/4480 14:40 <jibel> - Proposed to add more fields to the automated reports to make the reports useful. 14:40 <jibel> - https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/add-more-information-to-automatically-generated-crash-reports/4475 14:40 <jibel> - Reviewed and merged telemetry MP 14:41 <jibel> - Bootspeed: 14:41 <jibel> - Proposed to delay the start up of gnome-software and evolution-calendar to speed up session start up time. 14:41 <jibel> - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-software/+bug/1756379 14:41 <ubot5`> Ubuntu bug 1756379 in gnome-software (Ubuntu) "Delay start of gnome-software service" [Undecided,New] 14:41 <jibel> - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/+bug/1756389 14:41 <ubot5`> Ubuntu bug 1756389 in evolution-data-server (Ubuntu) "Delay startup of evolution-calendar-factory" [Undecided,New] 14:41 <jibel> - Measured the impact of preseeding snap package on boot time of the live session and published https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/impact-of-preseeded-snap-packages-on-boot-time-of-the-live-session/4583 14:41 <jibel> - Triaged various installer and upgrade bugs. 14:41 <jibel> - Ubuntu Bionic fails to install over nfs 14:41 <jibel> - Test screen rotation on 18.10 14:41 <jibel> - Analyse bluez tests to migrate to desktop if possible 14:41 <jibel> eow 14:41 <tamayox> Hi there 14:41 <jibel> #topic kenvandine 14:41 <tamayox> I'm having a problem with my USB flash drive: Everytime I pass data to it, it gets corrupted. I've tried other USB drives and the result is the same. Any ideas? 14:41 <kenvandine> * Created desktop helpers branch which builds in the LDPRELOAD of bindtextdomain and made it iterate multiple paths looking for translations. I still need to do some testing before submitting a PR. 14:41 <kenvandine> * Fixed color emojis using the gnome-3-26-1604 platform snap running on bionic. https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-platform-snap/+bug/1753146 14:41 <kenvandine> * Created https://gitlab.gnome.org/Ubuntu/gnome-3-28-1804-sdk as the source for the build snap that'll be used for building GNOME 3.28 snaps 14:42 <ubot5`> Ubuntu bug 1753146 in gnome-characters (Ubuntu Bionic) "Characters Snap doesn't have color emoji" [High,Fix released] 14:42 <tamayox> Thank you 14:42 <jibel> tamayox, we are in the middle of a meeting, can you ask again when it's over? 14:42 <kenvandine> EOF 14:42 <tamayox> jibel: Yeah, no problem 14:42 <jibel> thanks kenvandine 14:42 <jibel> #topic laney 14:43 <Laney> • gstreamer updates, final releases to do now 14:43 <Laney> • autopkgtest - some maintenance of the github side, fix for gpg dropping off the minimal installation, re-deploy armhf with improved(?) network config, discuss resource constraints with IS 14:43 <Laney> • merged Gunnar's work in g-c-c, submitted part of it upstream 14:43 <Laney> • hi didrocks 14:43 <Laney> • applied for gnome foundation 14:43 <Laney> • updated gvfs, debugged tests a bit with a_hasenack, he is following up with upstream (thanks!) 14:43 <Laney> • fixed glib2.0 autopkgtest failure, not uploaded yet 14:43 <Laney> 🤠 14:43 <Laney> * just made a big mess with my tea 14:43 <Laney> brbrbrb 14:45 <jibel> Laney, anything else for this meeting or you're cleaning up your mess? 14:46 <jibel> okay, we'll be back to Laney once he's done with his tea 14:46 <jibel> #topic oSoMoN 14:46 <oSoMoN> hey there 14:46 <Laney> hi, i was done 14:46 <Laney> was just a post cowboy mess update 14:47 <oSoMoN> • firefox 14:47 <oSoMoN> ∘ briefly looked into issue reported with firefox snap and Chinese IME (https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/how-to-input-chinese-in-snap-firefox/4576) 14:47 <oSoMoN> • chromium 14:47 <oSoMoN> ∘ updated packaging documentation for Ubuntu upstream (https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/970464) 14:47 <oSoMoN> • libreoffice 14:47 <oSoMoN> ∘ promoted 6.0.2 snap to the stable channel 14:47 <oSoMoN> ∘ created https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Process/Merges/TestPlans/libreoffice 14:47 <oSoMoN> ∘ backported debian fix for bug #1738821 14:47 <ubot5`> bug 1738821 in libreoffice (Ubuntu) "Appstream data points to libreoffice-common" [Medium,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1738821 14:47 <oSoMoN> ∘ played with a libreoffice.filebug command similar to ubuntu-bug (https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/ubuntu-bug-for-snaps/4445/4) 14:47 <oSoMoN> ∘ at the request of the server team that wants to demote tomcat8 to universe, started conversation with stakeholders to see if libreoffice-base can be demoted too 14:47 <oSoMoN> ∘ filed MIRs for fonts-liberation2 (bug #1757142) and for fonts-hosny-amiri (bug #1757148) 14:47 <ubot5`> bug 1757142 in fonts-liberation2 (Ubuntu) "[MIR] fonts-liberation2" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1757142 14:47 <ubot5`> bug 1757148 in fonts-hosny-amiri (Ubuntu) "[MIR] fonts-hosny-amiri" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1757148 14:47 <oSoMoN> • snaps 14:47 <oSoMoN> ∘ confirmed and fixed evince snap not opening comic book files (https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/evince-snap-does-not-open-comic-book-file-cbr-while-deb-does-so/4523) 14:47 <oSoMoN> • other 14:47 <oSoMoN> ∘ filed and fixed bug #1757121 14:47 <ubot5`> bug 1757121 in libappindicator (Ubuntu) "libappindicator FTBFS on bionic" [Undecided,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1757121 14:47 <oSoMoN> ∘ looking into bug #1757009 (per request from upstream chromium) 14:47 <ubot5`> bug 1757009 in libappindicator (Ubuntu) "libappindicator3 not multilib aware, amd64 and i386 versions conflict" [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1757009 14:47 <oSoMoN> 🦉 14:48 <oSoMoN> (no tea, no mess) 14:48 <jibel> oSoMoN, anything else? 14:48 <oSoMoN> I'm done 14:48 <jibel> Good, thanks oSoMoN ! 14:48 <jibel> #topic seb128 14:48 <jibel> seb is out for the week and no update 14:49 <jibel> #topic tkamppeter 14:49 <jibel> - Hardware: Some testing on the HP OfficeJet Pro 8730 14:49 <jibel> - CUPS: Forwarded several crash bugs upstream. Michael Sweet is working on fixes. 14:49 <jibel> - OpenPrinting Summit 2018: Started planning schedules. 14:49 <jibel> - Google Summer of Code 2018: Checked the official proposals of the students which they have submitted to the Google system, given introduction into the exact projects to do to two students, continued mentoring Sahil Arora. 14:49 <jibel> - Bugs. 14:49 <ahasenack> willcooke: wait, that upstream bug is about wayland, not xorg? 14:49 <jibel> Thanks Till 14:49 <jibel> #topic trevinho 14:49 <ahasenack> "Product" is set to wayland, but the assertion failure talks about Xorg 14:50 <Trevinho> · unity-greeter reubuild and build fixes 14:50 <Trevinho> - https://code.launchpad.net/~3v1n0/unity-greeter/logo-update-rebuild 14:50 <Trevinho> · Fixing theme changes and working on implementing Ambiance-Rw 14:50 <Trevinho> · Changes to the Telegram snap to propose PR upstream: 14:50 <Trevinho> - https://github.com/telegramdesktop/tdesktop/pull/4505 14:50 <Trevinho> · Fixes to electron-builder snap to genrate mime db and icon caches on snap install 14:50 <Trevinho> - https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/pull/2715 14:50 <Trevinho> · Some unity7 debugging for a lockscreen issue 14:50 <Trevinho> · Booked flights and airbnb for attending GNOME performance hackfest 14:50 <Trevinho> - https://wiki.gnome.org/Hackfests/Performance2018 14:50 <Trevinho> · Nautilus fixes improvements and cherry-picks to stable 14:50 <Trevinho> 🍕 14:51 <jibel> Thanks Trevinho 14:51 <jibel> #topic jamesh 14:51 <jibel> I don't have any update for James 14:51 <jibel> #topic robert_ancell 14:51 <jibel> - GNOME Software bugfixes 14:52 <jibel> - Backporting GNOME Software categories to 16.04 (https://gitlab.gnome.org/robert.ancell/gnome-software/tree/categories-3-20) 14:52 <jibel> - Working on Ubuntu pages for a first run wizard (https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-initial-setup/log/?h=wip/rancell/ubuntu-welcome) 14:52 <jibel> #topic aob 14:52 <jibel> anyone wants the mic? 14:52 <jbicha> . 14:53 <jbicha> I was wanting to add totem to our minimal-remove list since it's common for people to want to switch it out with vlc or gnome-mpv 14:53 <jbicha> also, I'd like a decision on whether we need the Amazon webapp in the minimal Ubuntu install 14:53 <jibel> ^ anyone any opinion on jbicha's proposal ? 14:53 <jibel> willcooke, Laney didrocks and all ? 14:54 <didrocks> willcooke: I guess those are mostly for you, as you discussed the content with the product manager ^ 14:54 <willcooke> otp - sec 14:54 <willcooke> +1 sounds fine to me 14:54 <willcooke> didrocks, any opinion? 14:54 <jbicha> willcooke: fine to remove both totem and the webapp? 14:55 <willcooke> -1 on webapp, sorry 14:55 <jbicha> almost … ;) 14:55 <willcooke> nice try 14:55 <Laney> you already tried that one 14:55 <didrocks> willcooke: I don't know for totem, I think vlc is a strong candidate for replacement, so yeah, makes sense 14:55 <jbicha> I didn't remember getting a firm answer yet 14:56 <willcooke> caveat re: totem - I don't want to spend time on it if it will affect data collection service work 14:56 <didrocks> I guess jbicha is going to do the MP 14:56 <willcooke> kk cool 14:56 <jbicha> it takes almost no time to add it to the list 14:56 <didrocks> jbicha: think testing it with gstreamer additional codecs 14:56 <didrocks> so you need to test an install, and so on 14:56 <didrocks> (with 3rd part options) 14:57 <jbicha> hmm 14:57 <didrocks> so no, don't just update the list, have a real install :) 14:58 <jibel> jbicha, you have an answer. Anything else for this week? 14:58 <didrocks> nothing for me 14:58 <jbicha> nothing for me 14:59 <jibel> Lets wrap then. Thank you everyone and see you next meeting! 14:59 <didrocks> thanks! 14:59 <jibel> #endmeeting