15:30 <willcooke> #startmeeting Desktop Team Weekly Meeting - 2017-01-24
15:30 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Jan 24 15:30:37 2017 UTC.  The chair is willcooke. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology.
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15:30 <Sweet5hark> grmbl,  something is fscked up about epoxy and i dont even know what that is.
15:30 <willcooke> Roll call: andyrock, attente, desrt,  dgadomski, fjkong (out), flexiondotorg (meeting), happyaron (out), hikiko, laney, qengho, seb128, sweet5hark, themuso (out), tkamppeter, trevinho, robert_ancell (out)
15:30 <qengho> Aiee!
15:30 <Sweet5hark> o/
15:31 <hikiko> hello
15:31 <desrt> yup
15:31 <andyrock> hey
15:32 <willcooke> 1 more minute...
15:32 <hikiko> :)
15:33 <willcooke> oki, let's start
15:33 <willcooke> #topic andyrock
15:33 <andyrock> hey
15:33 <andyrock> #1. Proposed a branch for recording failing test on jenikins for unity8
15:34 <andyrock> #2. Worked a little bit for the a11y problem with compiz
15:34 <andyrock> #3. Reviewing a comping branch
15:34 <andyrock> eow
15:34 <willcooke> thanks andyrock, good stuff
15:34 <willcooke> #topic attente
15:34 <attente> hey
15:34 <attente> apparmor dconf patch testing and review with desrt, meeting with security team to figure out missing requirements
15:34 <attente> mir patch backporting from gtk4 to gtk3 to reduce the delt
15:34 <attente> started debugging combo box problems in gtk-mir/miral-shell: https://bugs.launchpad.net/miral/+bug/1655997
15:34 <ubot5> Ubuntu bug 1655997 in MirAL "[gtk] Save as dialog: dropdown menu surface positioned wrong" [Undecided,Incomplete]
15:35 <attente> (eof)
15:35 <willcooke> great! thanks to you and desrt for the work with the sec. team
15:35 <willcooke> #topic desrt
15:35 <desrt> hey
15:36 <desrt> attente mostly covered it.  got together last week to discuss the interface between the proxy and what is needed from apparmor
15:36 <desrt> and indeed, had a security team meeting.  imho, that didn't go very well
15:36 <desrt> the one thing that we really needed from them was not delivered (even though they delivered some other things)
15:36 <desrt> so that's completely clear now
15:36 <desrt> work continues....
15:36 <desrt> eof
15:36 <willcooke> thanks desrt #
15:36 <willcooke> #topic dgadomski
15:36 <dgadomski> hey
15:36 <dgadomski> * backported fix to #1550983 from Debian to Xenial/Yakkety
15:37 <dgadomski> * investigated a blank screen issue with intel vga on vesa driver, no conclusions yet
15:37 <dgadomski> * checking a potential usblp issue
15:37 <dgadomski> eof
15:37 <willcooke> thanks dgadomski
15:37 <willcooke> #topic FJKong
15:37 <willcooke> bug tracing:
15:37 <willcooke> #1656450
15:37 <willcooke> Desktop notifications stop working
15:37 <willcooke> should be notify-daemon crash
15:37 <willcooke> #1656071
15:37 <willcooke> Expect Preview in 16.10 When I Press Space, Instead, Nothing Happens.
15:37 <willcooke> #1644781
15:37 <willcooke> Sushi-start fails with 16.10 upgrade, both Unity and Mate
15:37 <willcooke> due to sushi-start crash
15:37 <willcooke> #topic flexiondotorg
15:37 <willcooke> <flexiondotorg> Time appropriate greetings!
15:37 <willcooke> <flexiondotorg> � If you seen Dell and Barton George getting coverage in blogs and podcasts over the last couple of weeks, I've been working with Barton in the evenings to help broaden the exposure of the new Ubuntu Powered line-up from Dell.
15:37 <willcooke> <flexiondotorg> � About a dozen upstreams and ISVs on the go.
15:37 <willcooke> <flexiondotorg>   � Helping upstreams and ISVs unblock snap progress now that dbus support in snapd is in much better shape.
15:38 <willcooke> <flexiondotorg>   � Snapcraft assistance for several projects who've shown interest but lack the time to get started.
15:38 <willcooke> <flexiondotorg> � Testing Zesty themes. Aside from Firefox Notebooks (upstream issue) everything is in good shape.
15:38 <willcooke> <flexiondotorg> � Testing Xenial dailies and liasing with System 76 who said they wanted to be more involved in the HWE testing last October.
15:38 <willcooke> <flexiondotorg>   � System 76 have smoke tested all their supported computers, both upgrades and oem-installs.
15:38 <willcooke> <flexiondotorg> 🎬
15:38 <willcooke> #topic happyaron
15:38 <willcooke> 1. nm bug #1647283
15:38 <willcooke> 2. opencc SRU to yakkety, bug #1657677
15:38 <ubot5> bug 1647283 in network-manager (Ubuntu) "WiFi being detected as ethernet when race condition on renaming for persistent name" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1647283
15:38 <willcooke> 3. opencc arch dependent data files, debian #851733
15:38 <ubot5> bug 1657677 in opencc (Ubuntu Yakkety) "[SRU]fix versioned Breaks/Replaces" [High,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1657677
15:38 <ubot5> Debian bug 851733 in opencc "ocd data files are arch dependent" [Serious,Fixed] http://bugs.debian.org/851733
15:38 <willcooke> 4. zfs-linux linux 4.9 compatibility
15:38 <willcooke> 5. prepare information for bug #997200
15:38 <ubot5> bug 997200 in network-manager (Ubuntu) "Test for captive portal before putting applications in online mode" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/997200
15:38 <willcooke> #topic hikiko
15:38 <hikiko> hey :) low gfx: I am still trying to figure out what's missing from compizconfig and it doesn't update the profiles instantly + extend the lib, +sick leave monday
15:38 <hikiko> eof
15:39 <willcooke> thanks hikiko
15:39 <willcooke> #topic Laney
15:40 <Laney> JUST IN TIME
15:40 <Laney> • Reviewed/gave feedback/eventually uploaded a branch to add Scale=2 directories to Humanity
15:40 <Laney> • Debugged ubiquity-dm being broken (broke oem-config and only-ubiquity/maybe-ubiquity mode), turned out to already have been fixed so poked ubiquity developers to merge that, done now
15:40 <Laney> • Little bit more work on prepping gnome-software patches to go upstream
15:40 <Laney> • Think some of the iso builds are hitting https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=838441, looking to debug atm
15:40 <ubot5> Debian bug 838441 in apt "apt-get update fails with "Hash Sum mismatch", mixes hashes between tar.gz and tar file" [Normal,Open]
15:40 <Laney> • autopkgtest:
15:40 <Laney> ∘ made blacklisted packages be more visible (e.g. in excuses)
15:40 <Laney> ∘ got some patch reviews: lxd reboot detection fix, fix for fetching packages if "Package-List" is last in the apt-cache showsrc output
15:40 <Laney> ∘ made a reproducer package for not killing the infrastructure if a test causes a kernel panic - panic() hell yeah, just need to fix it now
15:40 <Laney> ⚜
15:40 <willcooke> thanks Laney
15:41 <willcooke> #topic qengho
15:41 <qengho> * chromium beta arm fixes. No upstream stable release this week.
15:41 <qengho> * browser-test snap, debugging audio problems in confinement. Icky.
15:41 <qengho> * tor-middle-relay snap updated, 10 minutes this morning. launchpad build+upload of snaps is *so nice*.
15:41 <qengho> EOF
15:42 <willcooke> :) thanks qengho
15:42 <willcooke> #topic seb128
15:42 <seb128> • contributed to some snap mailing list discussions
15:42 <seb128> • archive admin reviews
15:42 <seb128> • tweaks to the snapd desktop launchers
15:42 <seb128> • xenial desktopish SRU verifications and tried to get some items unstucked
15:42 <seb128> • cleaned a bit the sponsoring queue
15:42 <seb128> • usual rounds of launchpad bugstriaging, IRC discussions, etc
15:42 <seb128> </week>
15:42 <willcooke> thanks seb128
15:42 <willcooke> #topic Sweet5hark
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - sick on friday
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - LibreOffice 5.3.0~rc1 as snap (on amd64 only), bumped to 5.3.0~rc2 then
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - temporarily disabled some tests to pass snap on armhf
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - temporarily disabled some more tests to pass snap on i386
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - LibreOffice 5.3.0~rc1 as dpkg (but missing dbg symbols) -- initial merge for 5.3/zesty
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - some fixes to get LibreOffice 5.3.0~rc1 l10n to build too (allow root builds)
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - various more tweaks and fixes, some removal of delta to Debian
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - bumped/merged dpkg to 5.3.0~rc2 and enabled dbgsyms in ppa builder (currently building)
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - TDF Board, ESC, AB calls
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - some TDF admin: budget approvals, tenders, PR coodination
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - some trusty backporting forwarded to Debian
15:42 <Sweet5hark> - backlog: didnt get to some backporting for precise still :/
15:43 <willcooke> thanks Sweet5hark
15:43 <willcooke> #topic TheMuso
15:43 <willcooke> * Got PulseAudio v10 uploaded to Zesty. All my bluetooth hardware and audio hardware in general working ok.
15:43 <willcooke> * More discussion with Konrad and Seb about getting new bluetooth stack and pulseaudio bluetooth fixes into Xenial.
15:43 <willcooke> * Started going through upstream pusleaudio bluetooth patches, and put together a source package based on the Xenial updates source package. Need to set up a Xenial environment to test properly to see if they break anything.
15:43 <willcooke> #topic tkamppeter
15:44 <tkamppeter> - CUPS snap: Studied current state of the snapcraft docs and applied some stuff to the snap
15:44 <tkamppeter> - cups-filters: Release of 1.13.3
15:44 <tkamppeter> - Google Summer of Code 2017: Put up student project ideas for OpenPrinting, posted the mentoring organization application for the Linux Foundation, video conference student interview.
15:44 <tkamppeter> - Bugs.
15:44 <willcooke> thanks tkamppeter
15:44 <willcooke> #topic Trevinho
15:44 <Trevinho> · Added some cancellable to unity temporary dbus proxies (fixing crashes)
15:44 <Trevinho> · Testing compizconfig for profile switching
15:44 <Trevinho> · Looking at the new fdo StatusNotifierItem implementation
15:44 <Trevinho> . Some more fixes to upstream Remmina to work with snap
15:44 <Trevinho> . Workaround to snap-desktop-helpers to create missing $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR
15:44 <Trevinho> · Add again remote indicators to snap-desktop-helpers
15:44 <Trevinho> · Created a travis cron job that builds daily the Remmina snap, pushing latest git commit to edge and latest release tag to stable (using docker for both i386 and amd64)
15:44 <Trevinho> · Remmina is then now in snap store (and got also some unexpected OMG! ubuntu coverage)
15:44 <Trevinho> · Fixed snapcraft to detect proper arch when building in a 32bit userspace with a 64bit kernel (normally in a container)
15:44 <Trevinho> EOF
15:45 <willcooke> thanks Trevinho
15:45 <willcooke> #topic robert_ancell
15:45 <willcooke> - Working on snapd-glib regression tests (will be required to get SRU exception)
15:45 <willcooke> - Landed snapd-glib Qt/QML bindings
15:45 <willcooke> - Bug diagnosing work
15:45 <willcooke> #topic AOB
15:45 <willcooke> Anyone got anything to share?
15:45 <willcooke> Some news to pass on...
15:46 <willcooke> What was Phonedations - now IOTdations - are helping with Network Manager and BlueZ
15:46 <seb128> \o/
15:46 <attente> nice
15:46 <willcooke> so we should get paper cuts fixes over the next couple of weeks, and them I working with them to solidify the plan going forwards
15:47 <willcooke> *tehn
15:47 <willcooke> then
15:47 <Trevinho> cool
15:47 <willcooke> but generally we are already getting more involvement and it's working out well
15:47 <willcooke> no doubt there will be SRUs to help with soon
15:48 <willcooke> Have a couple of new feature requirements coming down the line around live patching.  Will get the full details and let you all know
15:48 <willcooke> anyone got anything else?
15:49 <willcooke> going once
15:50 <willcooke> twice
15:51 <willcooke> thrice, and sold.
15:51 <willcooke> #endmeeting