10:30 #startmeeting Xubuntu Community Meeting 10:30 Meeting started Tue Jul 29 10:30:35 2014 UTC. The chair is bluesabre. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 10:30 10:30 Available commands: action commands idea info link nick 10:30 !team | Meeting time 10:30 Meeting time: bluesabre, elfy, GridCube, jjfrv8, knome, lderan, micahg, mr_pouit, Noskcaj, ochosi, pleia2, skellat, slickymaster, Unit193 10:30 So, who's here? 10:31 o/ 10:31 Here 10:31 * knome is lurking a bit 10:32 * bluesabre hasn't guided one of these meetings in a while 10:32 good luck ;) 10:33 you basically need #topic, #subtopic, #action and #info 10:33 yup 10:33 ochosi should be back shortly 10:33 #topic Open action items 10:35 #info xubuntu packageset has been updated with the packages we ship, so uploads should be simpler now 10:36 #info gstreamer1.0-clutter is the only additional package if we ship parole with a clutter backend 10:36 #info The "split theme package" bug may subside after the recent QA upload for shimmer-themes but catching duplicates has to be done manually. 10:36 any news/progress on getting the list of packageset packages to the wiki? 10:36 I think ochosi followed up on that one 10:39 oh wait, we did not make progress on that 10:39 :) 10:39 but I think ochosi did "bluesabre to set up a page on the ubuntu-wiki collecting apps that potentially need a pkexec profile and send an email to the list to get users to contribute to the list " 10:39 Which relates to the gksu issue 10:40 #action bluesabre to put list of xubuntu packageset packages on wiki 10:40 * meetingology bluesabre to put list of xubuntu packageset packages on wiki 10:42 #nick slickymaster 10:42 #info slickymaster wrote a draft for "things to do after a 12.04 to 14.04 upgrade" 10:46 I guess we can move on to updates now 10:46 #topic Team updates 10:47 sorry for being late 10:47 * ochosi took JPohlmann to the train 10:47 #info new packages in utopic: xfce4-power-manager, xfwm4 10:47 hey ochosi 10:47 wb 10:48 ty, and hey everyone 10:48 #info From overwatch on bugs, there has been a small effort to try to treat design decisions as bugs and patch them away 10:48 #info Such bugs that have attempted to re-open design decision have been flagged as opinion for now 10:49 At least when I catch them 10:49 Thanks for that :) 10:50 #info xfwm4 tabwin needs small theme updates/tweaks, ochosi has local patches for that already 10:50 (things look okayish by default though) 10:51 yeah 10:51 question re: clutter 10:51 what other packages would be pulled in if we decided to get rid of abiword at some point? 10:52 What would we ditch abiword in favor of? 10:52 i mean: what packages would be pulled in/needed by parole other than gstreamer1.0-clutter 10:52 skellat: i guess nothing 10:52 skellat: but anyway, let's not go there *now*, i just wanna know in case ;) 10:52 Okay 10:52 let's talk about the abiword replacing later 10:52 (i mean, in this meeting..) 10:53 sure, why not 10:53 * skellat would run rdepends if he wasn't sitting at a Debian Jessie ARM box at the moment 10:53 yeah, we'll have plenty for Discussion today :) 10:53 bluesabre: hm, so would you happen to know or shall we investigate that later? (or are you investigating now? :D) 10:54 ochosi: looks like this, gstreamer1.0-clutter libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-1.0-common libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 10:54 possibly more 10:55 right 10:55 but I can send the current file listing in utopic to see what is *currently* installed 10:55 we can review that later 10:55 well i guess as long as we keep abiword it's a no-brainer to add the clutter backend 10:55 do we want to move to Announcements? 10:56 * bluesabre always feels like team updates and announcements are the same 10:56 yeah, i kinda agree 10:56 #topic Announcements 10:57 #info Xubuntu 14.04.1 released last week, good job everyone! 10:57 +1 10:57 ochosi: are we participating in alpha2, or only betas this cycle? 10:58 iirc only betas 10:58 ok, thought so when I checked our calendar 10:58 anybody else have any announcements? 10:59 #info Xfce has made some progress towards new development releases that we will most likely want to pick for 14.10 10:59 btw, how does that micro-release exception work exactly wrt that ^ ? 10:59 We've been picking them as they are released :) 10:59 with the MRE, not entirely sure 10:59 since big changes happen with dev releases 10:59 well i'm thinking 14.04 11:00 and we are running on top of 4.11 in 14.04 11:00 I assume the usual rules apply 11:00 yeah, that is true for a few of those releases... 11:00 with regard to interface freeze, etc 11:00 right, i guess i have to look up what MRE is about exactly at some point 11:01 yeah 11:01 discussion time? 11:01 +1 11:01 #topic Discussion 11:01 #subtopic Default IRC client 11:02 I'm still not sure we have a clear direction with this yet 11:02 me neither 11:02 However, I did find yesterday that Mint switched from xchat to hexchat 11:02 i don't think we ever will, we just need to make a decision 11:02 what would you guys think of the following: 11:02 Mint does not equal *buntu 11:02 yeah, probably a vote 11:03 drop xchat for 14.10 11:03 skellat: sure, but it means maintenance/attention usually 11:03 see what the feedback is like 11:03 yeah, somehow i'm all for experimenting a bit in the upcoming cycle 11:03 if the feedback is people want an IRC client, consider including xchat/hexchat for 15.04 11:04 and point ppl to pidgin meanwhile 11:04 yep 11:04 that sounds good to me 11:04 +1 11:04 yup, same here 11:04 as i've said in the ML, pidgin is a fairly good IRC client for people who IRC only occasionally 11:04 yeah, and it's a consequent move after getting rid of gthumb 11:04 yep 11:05 streamline 11:05 yup 11:05 #vote Drop xchat for Xubuntu 14.10 11:05 Please vote on: Drop xchat for Xubuntu 14.10 11:05 Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (for private voting, private message me with 'vote +1/-1/+0 #channelname) 11:05 +1 11:05 +1 received from ochosi 11:05 +1 11:05 +1 received from bluesabre 11:05 +1 11:05 +1 received from knome 11:05 +1 11:05 +1 received from skellat 11:05 +1 11:05 +1 received from doubleplusgood 11:05 nice 11:05 #endvote 11:05 Voting ended on: Drop xchat for Xubuntu 14.10 11:05 Votes for:5 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0 11:05 Motion carried 11:05 bluesabre, was that a team or public vote? 11:06 knome: good question, should have specified 11:06 each of the team members present voted in favor of 11:07 not that it seems to matter much, both XPL and XTL agreed 11:07 but with the current team size, we don't have a quorum ;) 11:07 We should go ahead and extend this to the ML 11:07 Back out the vote and throw it to CIVS? 11:08 bluesabre: we can extend it to the ml, but please add a timeout (1 week should do) 11:08 skellat, why would we want to use complex voting methods if we can do a simple vote on the mailing list? 11:08 ochosi: want to send that mail? 11:08 knome: Force of habit from LoCo Council so that we had a paper trail to back up what we did 11:08 An external paper trail, that is 11:09 bluesabre: hm, fine :) 11:10 #action ochosi to send mail to ML to vote for dropping xchat for 14.10 11:10 * meetingology ochosi to send mail to ML to vote for dropping xchat for 14.10 11:10 #subtopic Gksu/do 11:11 ochosi: did you get a chance to chat with ubuntu-devel folks on this? 11:11 i did 11:12 there were some comments about pkexec being superior and gksu being hackery 11:12 but tbh nothing too-convincing 11:12 the other thing is though that it doesn't seem hard to add support for pkexec 11:12 and i guess the list of apps that need it isn't overly long 11:13 (the hackery concerning e.g. how that pwd-dialog is done etc) 11:13 is there any reason not to move to pkexec (apart from the one-off workload) ? 11:14 well, actually we just fixed a bug wrt pkexec in xfce this weekend (https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9373) 11:14 bugzilla.xfce.org bug 9373 in General "double fork breaks desktop files containing pkexec" [Normal,Resolved: fixed] 11:14 at this point, we've carried 2 (or 3) releases without gksu 11:15 yeah, not too much of an outcry so far 11:15 you're not answering my question :P 11:15 :> 11:15 I see no reason to not move to pkexec, other than old habits (gksudo) die hard 11:15 +1 11:16 right, then let's move into it 11:16 I don't see any reason to avoid the shift to pkexec other than we'll have a differing paradigm from other flavours in case people shift to us. 11:16 ok 11:16 if it's horrible, we can reassess that in 15.04 as well 11:16 well for the moment it means improving the status quo if we add policy file 11:16 s 11:17 so i'd go for this incremental improvement and see whether it helps 11:17 indeed 11:17 anything from the docs-side on this? 11:17 is gksu/do part of the docs? is pkexec mentioned at all? 11:17 I think gksu parts of the docs were removed, right? 11:17 there was some work done on it 11:18 since david is away, you can assign a work item for me to check our situation 11:19 #action knome to check docs side of including pkexec policy files in favor of gksu 11:19 * meetingology knome to check docs side of including pkexec policy files in favor of gksu 11:19 good? 11:19 yep 11:19 cool 11:20 #subtopic Xfce bug bounty program 11:20 #info ochosi has helped to set up a bug bounty programme on bountysource.com for Xfce 11:21 i think it would be good to support that by informing people 11:21 we can discuss whether we want to directly put some of our funds on bugreports a bit later 11:22 but the first step should be to put out a blog-post on x.org, g+, fb, twitter, well all the usual suspects basically 11:22 #action marketing team to support xfce's bug bounty programme by informing people on website and social media 11:22 * meetingology marketing team to support xfce's bug bounty programme by informing people on website and social media 11:22 would be very cool if i wouldn't be the only one doing it 11:22 #nick makreting 11:22 #nick marketing 11:22 cause i'm already handling a lot of that upstream at xfce 11:22 ochosi, be in touch with the marketing team (eg. me and pleia2) and talk about that, and things will get done 11:23 ok, ty 11:23 #subtopic Trello and Blueprints 11:24 "Discuss how to continue with Trello and blueprints and evaluate how things are going so far. Also: should the Trello board be public?" 11:24 So far, I think Trello works well. Makes it easy to find and keep up with task items 11:24 yup 11:25 i think it should be public though 11:25 i don't remember who brought that up earlier (maybe it was in bluesabre's application for upload-rights?) 11:25 Yeah, Scott Kitterman brought it up then 11:25 but i don't see any reason to keep this private, since bps are also public 11:26 Yeah, it should be public. 11:26 my concern is that when we are using trello, the blueprints aren't kept up-to-date 11:28 well i guess in the long run the question is whether to s/blueprints/trello/ 11:28 but yeah, we've had that problem of not up-to-date blueprints in previous cycles 11:29 and using trello "on the side" this cycle certainly hasn't contributed to mitigating that situation 11:29 I don't think I'd want to get rid of blueprints 11:29 yes, trello is okay, but then we shouldn't use blueprints at all 11:29 the pro for blueprints is that they are always up-to-date regarding bugs linked to them 11:29 and when they are linked to the status tracker, it's very easy to get an up-to-date overview of the progress 11:30 of course you need to keep the manually added work items in the blueprints up-to-date as well 11:30 but with trello, you have to keep the trello board updated 11:30 the work items, 11:30 the bugs 11:31 and in addition there are no good overview stats 11:31 One keeps us more firmly grounded within the Ubuntu ecosystem, one does not. Where do we stand is the question we have to consider in the end. 11:32 i don't think that's the core question 11:32 knome: yup, i agree. the best thing (imho) would be to improve launchpad :> 11:32 the core question is what works best with the team 11:32 i mean, many teams have stopped using blueprints already 11:32 but since that's not likely to happen, i guess we have to see what we can live with 11:32 i prefer the method we used for the reasons stated above 11:32 the sluggishness of launchpad is quite a downer, but yeah, it has all those pros that you mentioned 11:33 but i'm fine with trello 11:33 knome: True. How have our Kubuntu colleagues managed the use of Trello and the use of Launchpad? 11:33 skellat: they exclusively use trello 11:33 whatever we decide to do, we should make it clear for possible new members what and how we are using 11:33 and describe the process 11:33 knome: Agreed 11:34 so what's the evaluation on trello so far? 11:34 i personally like it 11:34 it's quite snappy an the overview it provides works well for me 11:35 it's less statistical than status.ubuntu thoug 11:35 h 11:35 It works well for having an overview of what everyone is doing without jumping between blueprints and bug reports 11:35 bluesabre, what about the overview page of the status page? 11:35 yeah, the jumping between blueprints is a bit annoying, because they're so slow in usage 11:35 http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-t/group/topic-t-flavor-xubuntu.html 11:35 I find that I don't know where most things are on launchpad 11:36 knome: for me, that one is a bit cluttered. i mean it's really comprehensive but too much 11:36 this is a super helpful page, but I would not know how to get here without your link 11:36 i partly agree 11:36 the simplicity is what i prefer there with trello 11:36 so yeah, as i said, i'd prefer to improve on the existing infrastructure actually 11:37 bluesabre, ehm, go to the main page: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-t/ and click the xubuntu link 11:37 links are obviously for T, because U hasn't been set up 11:37 that page also always has links to the blueprints 11:38 so you can access those easily as well 11:38 and there's that 11:38 setting up? that takes 5 minutes 11:38 right 11:38 but we haven't done it yet 11:38 if *that's* the reason what's keeping us from using launchpad, i'll promise to do that every cycle 11:39 bluesabre, well, yeah, because i didn't get any questions about it from ochosi until i asked him a few days ago whether we were going to set it up altogether 11:39 that's cool, but I think that's the problem with launchpad 11:40 what then? 11:40 things not setting up automatically? 11:40 too many links, too much content 11:40 was the trello board set up magically? 11:40 i kinda agree with bluesabre there, the learning curve for launchpad is really different from trello and the likes 11:41 i understand and can agree 11:41 Did i just miss a meeting or something? 11:41 it took me ages and lots of energy to slowly start using it 11:41 Noskcaj: we're still in the middle 11:41 but it's really a crap argument that "it's too hard to set it up, boo hoo" when it takes 5 minutes 11:41 I'm here for ~5 mins 11:41 right, that's not my argument 11:41 right, 11:41 now when the cycle was beginning 11:42 i was told we were going to use both trello and blueprints to see how they work and which works better 11:42 obviously i gathered that wrong, because we've mostly been using trello 11:42 * bluesabre just needs to collect all his bookmarks to navigate launchpad 11:43 I might be the only one with this issue :) 11:43 you don't need the bookmarks really 11:43 you only ned the main blueprint link 11:43 or the status.u.c link 11:43 (for the blueprint stuff, that is) 11:43 pad.lv truly helps too 11:43 i'm not saying people shouldn't have problems perceiving that. 11:43 skellat: what's that? 11:43 ochosi: The Launchpad-specific link shortener 11:44 but yeah, I agree that trello has been getting updated more frequently than the blueprints 11:44 and that is probably because its easier to use and everything is always in front of you 11:44 sure, that's mostly a fact 11:44 well the comparison is obviously flawed because the blueprints aren't set up the way they are supposed to 11:44 (i mean the less frequent updates) 11:45 and when we decided to use... well, "both", i asked whether people would be up for that 11:45 and everybody was like "sure!" 11:45 well, now we see it 11:45 we really can't use BOTH 11:45 yeah 11:45 knome: the only thing lacking in the bps is the link to status.ubuntu though, right? 11:45 if we aren't using blueprints, let's not even register them then. 11:46 ochosi, yeah, and people updating them 11:46 * skellat throws out the ridiculous suggestion of somebody building a bridge using launchpadlib between trello and lp 11:47 ochosi, i don't think you can do a fair comparison between the two during one cycle, because keeping them both up-to-date means almost double the work 11:47 ochosi, and people are always going to prefer either or 11:48 Do we want to continue this discussion a bit later to finish up the meeting? Or we can create some action items? I'll need to leave for work shortly 11:49 I need to bow out too 11:49 i don't think we're going to find a resolution with this group of people anyway 11:49 sounds sane 11:49 yeah 11:49 just wanted to raise my concerns 11:49 well personally i don't have that many blueprints anyway 11:49 so for me it's not so much work to keep both updated 11:49 ochosi, work item? 11:50 ochosi, you personally, but 11:50 knome: that too, but i also am only involved in two blueprints 11:50 [unit193] Propose a new installable metapackage, xubuntu-core: INPROGRESS 11:50 isn't that done? 11:50 i know that it's different with others 11:50 i don't think Unit193 has many items either 11:50 #action team to continue discussion using Trello, Blueprints 11:50 * meetingology team to continue discussion using Trello, Blueprints 11:50 should be, it's in xubuntu-meta but i don't know whether it's uploaded 11:50 i'm not blaming anybody, i'm just saying that it isn't working 11:50 It's uploaded 11:50 #nick team 11:51 besides the work item is "propose", that's surely done 11:51 :) 11:51 :] 11:51 just pointing out 11:51 Unit193 ^ 11:51 knome: fine, let's send a grumpy email to the ml pointing team members towards updating their blueprints 11:51 we can figure out the status.ubuntu thing later 11:51 (maybe not today, but one of these days) 11:52 also, 11:52 let me say this one last thing: 11:52 since you say launchpad is so hard to use 11:52 and trello is easy 11:52 why do we need to have "notes"/"help" cards in the trello main view to help people use trello? 11:52 no need to answer, just wanted to point that out. 11:53 #subtopic Merged Settings menu in Whisker and classic menu 11:53 * ochosi has never looked at those 11:53 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xubuntu-default-settings/+bug/1310264 11:53 Ubuntu bug 1310264 in xubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu) "Can't search/find items in the Settings Manager" [Undecided,Confirmed] 11:53 ochosi, i never looked at the launchpad documentation... :P 11:54 So, I've updated the menu files in xubuntu-default-settings, want to get more feedback 11:54 https://i.imgur.com/52N8SmP.png 11:54 https://i.imgur.com/VAbLGmt.png 11:54 In the classic menu, I've made the Settings menu its own item, do we want to keep this, or how would we like to continue? 11:54 that looks excellent to me 11:55 i think we've had this setup previously in the classic menu 11:55 yeah 11:55 it's a good fallback and with our default whisker it'll be a nice improvement 11:56 bluesabre: btw, that looks as if some icons were not 16px in that menu 11:56 if you could check and let me know which ones, i'll try to fix that in our icon-theme 11:56 I like the new look 11:56 ok, so if we agree to this, I can push that today 11:56 please do so 11:57 yep, looks good 11:57 We also have a few other changes in the next xubuntu-default-settings, if I can get some quick feedback 11:57 sure 11:58 https://bazaar.launchpad.net/~xubuntu-dev/xubuntu-default-settings/trunk/view/head:/debian/changelog 11:58 I did a bit of tidying based on comments in the past 11:58 not sure what the 20px thing is about, but the rest is fine 11:58 1. Removed the huge white border from xscreensaver, we don't use it anymore, but it does make it look much more attractive 11:58 ok 11:58 then i'm +1 on that 11:59 the battery-plugin will maybe be renamed to xfpm-plugin (because the brightness plugin has been merged in) 11:59 but adding it to the panel is good 11:59 Also added a reasonable config for compton which mimics our current xfwm compositor 11:59 don't forget to take indicator-power out of the seed 11:59 yup, that's committed 12:00 just gotta update meta 12:00 or, if we still seed it (so that we have power-indicator in the greeter/lockscreen) we need to hide it in the indicator-plugin 12:00 i've been testing the compton config on two different setups now and it looks and feels good. this is probably the first time i'm satisfied with compton, so nice work on that :) 12:01 cool 12:01 ;) 12:01 so that's that for xubuntu-defualt-settings 12:01 #action bluesabre to upload new xubuntu-default-settings 12:01 * meetingology bluesabre to upload new xubuntu-default-settings 12:01 great 12:01 thanks a bunch bluesabre 12:02 #subtopic Parole's clutter backend 12:02 #info Abiword already pulls clutter, so parole only adds gstreamer1.0-clutter (111 kb) 12:02 #info With the clutter backend, parole works correctly even in virtualbox 12:03 #info performance for clutter is less than xv, but better than just X 12:03 So, what do we want to do? 12:03 i'm personally in favor of enabling it 12:04 same as with the xchat decision, i'm for trying this in 14.10 12:04 we can revisit it in 15.04 (or even before the release) if there are some terrible unforeseeable drawbacks 12:04 With enabling it, do we want to set it as default as well? 12:05 knome: any thoughts, for or against? 12:05 14.10 is a non-LTS release so it's the perfect place to test new things 12:05 i guess by setting it as default, it would get quite a bit of testing 12:06 since totem also uses it by default, i don't see a huge problem there 12:06 we should document that though somewhere 12:06 another option is to ask Unit193 to build a custom ISO 12:06 and get that testing 12:06 yeah, if it's only about that one package, i suggest we just go ahead with it 12:07 just make sure the final assessment if it works or not happens early enough to be able to revert the change 12:07 of course :) 12:07 i guess enabling by default is a thing for x-d-s anyway 12:07 right 12:08 so the first step of adding it in parole is definitely fine 12:08 i know it is an obvious thing, but we've been too late before ;) 12:08 knome: true, but this time we actually have an uploader ;) 12:08 bluesabre: so yeah, i'm +1 on both (add, default) 12:09 ok, I'll make these changes today 12:09 ochosi, yeah yeah 12:09 ;) 12:09 thanks again bluesabre 12:09 #action bluesabre to enable clutter in parole, set as default in xubuntu-default-settings 12:09 * meetingology bluesabre to enable clutter in parole, set as default in xubuntu-default-settings 12:09 Anything else we want to discuss? 12:10 nothing from my side at this point 12:10 knome, skellat? 12:10 I'm good 12:10 i guess dropping abiword 12:11 but we can do that later 12:11 ok 12:11 hmright 12:11 #subtopic Schedule next meeting 12:12 Who's next? 12:12 pleia2, 12:13 #action pleia2 to schedule next meeting 12:13 * meetingology pleia2 to schedule next meeting 12:13 #endmeeting