15:01:14 #startmeeting 15:01:14 Meeting started Tue Oct 18 15:01:14 2011 UTC. The chair is jono. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/AlanBell/mootbot. 15:01:14 15:01:14 Available commands: #accept #accepted #action #agree #agreed #chair #commands #endmeeting #endvote #halp #help #idea #info #link #lurk #meetingname #meetingtopic #nick #progress #rejected #replay #restrictlogs #save #startmeeting #subtopic #topic #unchair #undo #unlurk #vote #voters #votesrequired 15:01:18 aha! 15:01:20 hah 15:01:43 ok, so this is the first Canonical community team meeting on IRC 15:02:00 the goal here is to provide a more transparent view of what the team is doing 15:02:18 in each meeting we usually kick off with a set of roundtables where every discusses what they have been doing over the last week 15:02:36 obviously confidential topics will not be mentioned, but 99% of topics are open anyway 15:02:42 so, let's kick off 15:02:54 dholbach, want to go first? 15:03:08 he's giving a class 15:03:09 jono, giving an UOW session right now - dpm has my notes :) 15:03:18 hehe 15:03:19 ok 15:03:21 dpm? 15:03:27 slacker, even on the first one 15:03:28 lol 15:03:35 jono I'm here! 15:03:39 lol 15:03:44 dpm, can you post dholbach's notes? 15:03:49 sure 15:04:05 So here are dholbach's notes: 15:04:13 ∘ CC election + hand-over to new CC 15:04:22 ∘ dev survey 15:04:32 ∘ uds sponsorship - almost done 15:04:40 ∘ email - down to 10 in my inbox! 15:04:49 ∘ discussion on ubuntu-devel about NEW packages 15:05:03 ∘ updated 12.04 plans 15:05:13 ∘ stitched together pic of all uploaders (with LP profile pic) to oneiric for weekly dev update: http://people.canonical.com/~dholbach/oneiric.jpg 15:05:21 ∘ set up precise vm 15:05:29 the uploaders pic was awesome 15:05:41 * dpm +1's 15:05:44 ∘ set up patch pilot schedule 15:06:09 And that was Daniel's most relevant activities for the week 15:06:13 super time efficient! 15:06:27 seriously :-) 15:06:44 ok, dpm want to go next? 15:06:54 jono, sure 15:07:15 So my week was divided in translations and mostly app developer stuff: 15:07:23 Translations 15:07:24 ------------ 15:07:37 * Ensured translation stats are ready for release (they're now updated automatically every day at http://is.gd/aTv7eu ) 15:07:46 * Sent skaet the release notes for translations to go into the general release notes 15:07:54 * Filed a bunch of translations bugs, mostly software-center-related. Some were fixed pre-release, some might have to be SRU'd 15:08:02 * Some discussions on the mailing list. Highlight: Oneiric post-release language pack updates schedule 15:08:11 App devel 15:08:11 --------- 15:08:24 * Went through some of the bugs in the ubuntuappdeveloperportal project in Launchpad 15:08:38 * Fixed the simple-player tutorial on developer.ubuntu.com (there were some out-of-date parts) 15:08:48 * Started regular calls with jpugh to ensure both the community and the business sides work together on promoting app development 15:08:58 * Went through app-development-related questions on askubuntu and tagged them as 'application-development'. We've now got more than 100! 15:09:09 * Some discussions on integrating the ARB process into MyApps 15:09:16 Other - community 15:09:17 ----------------- 15:09:24 * Had a call with kim0 to discuss 12.04 strategy 15:09:32 * Worked with johnoxton from the web design team on a revamp of the ubuntu.com/community page 15:09:38 * Made a list of the active community teams and their resources 15:09:46 Other 15:09:46 ----- 15:09:58 * Bank holiday last Wednesday 15:10:05 And that was my week 15:10:23 thanks dpm, also thanks for the u.c/community discussion 15:10:31 did John reach out to you regarding reqs? 15:10:35 I met with him in London 15:10:57 jono, no worries - yeah, we've been having some calls and working together on this 15:10:59 given that they are tight on time, I think his plans look great for outlining five or so key roles 15:11:04 awesome 15:11:11 dpm spins his d.u.c magic 15:11:15 :-) 15:11:33 thanks dpm 15:11:33 :) 15:11:34 kim0 next? 15:11:39 Sure 15:11:55 I don't have it pre-written .. so typing fasst .. 15:12:16 - was off half last week .. so did some general catchup 15:12:17 I am lucky I get to go last! 15:12:19 no worries kim0 15:12:25 - Finished off the strategic plan 15:12:25 jcastro, see what I did for you there? 15:12:28 ;-) 15:12:31 * jono hugs jcastro 15:12:36 - Had a talk with dpm on that as well (thanks) 15:12:52 - Needed to push the reviewed serverguide on Oneiric release day! 15:13:04 -- For that, reviewed the remaining 3 chapters myself 15:13:21 -- sent out coordination emails on server list asking every volunteer to review their chapters 15:13:39 -- created 5 merge proposals for chapters .. reached out to doc committers list 15:13:56 -- reached out to translators list to get confirmation, we can push and that no translator is on it 15:14:06 -- finally all chapters merged .. success 15:14:29 - Created nice green visulasion and blogged it http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/10/ubuntu-serverguide-community-review-100percent/ 15:14:56 - Created wiki page on using juju to control an orchestra server fleet: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/OrchestraJuju 15:15:21 - Created wiki page on install ubuntu-cloud (openstack) using juju charms on top of orchestra : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/UbuntuCloudOrchestraJuju 15:15:36 - Blogged an article with pointers to all four needed pages: http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/10/ubuntu-cloud-deployment-with-orchestra-and-juju/ 15:15:58 - Also created a video demo'ing ubuntu-cloud-live today .. apparently youtube chokes on OGV 15:16:06 so converting to whatever and pushing today 15:16:47 - smaller stuff: Fill cloud part in dpm's new community overview page, review UCD for Amber's checklist document, cloud portal maintainence (answer comments) 15:16:52 that's mostly all 15:17:13 thanks kim0 15:17:16 jcastro, your go 15:17:26 ok! 15:17:31 DONE: 15:17:31 - Plenaries are all done (2 left from Linaro) 15:17:31 - We have a car for UDS for the week before the sprint. 15:17:31 - Reviewed upstream linkages in release notes for Kate. 15:17:31 - Finished the mobile schedule, should be public any day now. 15:17:32 - Submitted talk with Clint for SCALeS awesome cloud day. 15:17:32 - Went to Puerto Rico this weekend and drank from a coconut, and then ate the coconut. It was awesome. 15:17:39 DOING: 15:17:40 - Openweek stuff. 15:17:40 - Random "how do I schedule a session?" questions from ubuntu developers. 15:17:40 - Send people here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS/Scheduling 15:17:40 - Random UDS things, updating the website. 15:17:40 - Still procastinating on my goals and blueprints, but I promise to start today, for real. Actually can we set a deadline? 15:17:40 - Ping from some developers on app indicator support, sent them to DX. 15:17:41 - Messing with juju local dev, this will be wicked. 15:17:41 - Working with guy who is porting the AU and reddit lenses to 11.10. He's blocking on a bug, followed up with didrocks, mikkel's got a patch in hand and it's been reviewed by Tomau upstream, waiting on an SRU to make Python lenses actually work. 15:17:42 - Telling the world about the Ubuntu Friendly thing, because it's awesome 15:17:46 TODOs: 15:17:46 In an unprecedent move to improve transparency, I am making my TODO list public, and prototpying this with akgraner and pleia, anyone is welcome to join in and assign me stuff. You can see what I am working on in real time, holla at me if you want to give this a shot and see if it works for us: 15:17:46 - https://trello.com/board/community-team/4e6febfb247e35000000aab1 15:17:46 - https://trello.com/board/classroom/4e94f7afaef5aa0000a5d2ea 15:17:50 any questions? 15:17:51 :) 15:17:53 man u should paste line by line 15:17:55 :) 15:18:00 braindrump 15:18:05 jcastro, showoff! 15:18:15 hate that guy 15:18:16 lol 15:18:29 one of the nice things about this meeting format is that I am listening to Dio right now :-) 15:18:35 thanks jcastro 15:18:39 ok, I am up next 15:18:48 -- Week before in Boston for OpenStack Summit - good event, JuJu demo went really well, the team did an awesome job. 15:18:58 Also sat in on their governance/foundation session - was interesting, but I think they are going to face more challenges than they face 15:19:21 the real challenge is when all the companies want things outside of the published governance 15:19:30 -- In London last week for the release sprint - sat in management meetings for half of it 15:19:39 discussed as range of topics in mgmt meetings such as new quality processes for 12.04, localized isos (dpm need to discuss this with you), derivs and the release process 15:20:02 outside of that discussed Mark's opening talk at UDS, the design<->community process and how we open it up more, caught up on the ARB 15:20:27 was great to hang with some of the QA folks, jibel and gema are awesome 15:20:33 also had a bunch of calls with community members over the recent feedback and concerns about motivation - merged that into my notes 15:20:51 jono, on localized isos, the main point to resolve now is testing. I had a chat with skaet and arranged a call with her and jibel next Monday 15:20:58 hit up the release party which was fun, and I still blame popey for my head on the flight back 15:21:10 dpm, yeah, I want to ensure we tightly scope that work 15:21:21 all you should focus on is connecting the translations leads to the release process 15:21:33 we don't want to spend too much time on this one with everything else going on 15:21:49 got back on Friday and I am behind on email 15:21:56 -- UDS related bits 15:22:02 social events finished 15:22:08 finalizing Linaro requirements - they all seem set now 15:22:21 blueprinting going well, badgered engineering managers and tech leads about it - the schedule is starting to form now 15:22:33 jcastro, we need to keep an eye on the BPs to approve them - I approved 55 last night 15:22:39 pgraner and I also discussed plans for Allstars :-) 15:22:47 wait, I don't approve blueprints 15:22:51 or am I supposed to now? 15:22:56 jcastro, oh, I thought you did 15:23:05 jcastro, I know I can, who else can? 15:23:14 track leads 15:23:18 ahhh cool 15:23:24 I will pester them again 15:23:29 -- spent a bunch of time working on gathering and processing community feedback to resolve community concerns 15:23:36 oh, hang on 15:23:44 jcastro, did you get that Nokia session scheduled 15:23:59 I am not sure if Claire reached out to you 15:24:07 let me check 15:24:10 thanks 15:24:14 I will carry 15:24:15 on 15:24:23 survey is still gathering results, plan on closing that off tomorrow and then start processing results 15:24:34 more calls 15:24:42 email feedback was plentiful, some patterns observed in common concerns 15:24:52 discussed with folks at OpenStack and London about this, got some great feedback from some ex-Canonical staff for areas of focus 15:25:07 already started providing some responses and solutions, but plan to start releasing the data later this week, and next week 15:25:31 -- 12.04 plan 15:25:38 working with the team to finalize 12.04 plans 15:25:42 switching around some team responsibilities 15:25:49 I think that is mostly it from me 15:26:00 I'm unaware of any nokia session 15:26:11 is this a session or a plenary? 15:26:22 jcastro, remember how we discussed having a Qt plenary but we were full so we suggested a session 15:26:28 we discussed this at OpenStack 15:26:45 I will ask clan to ping you to coordinate 15:26:51 ah ok 15:26:53 I can ping her 15:26:56 thanks 15:27:03 no worries, sorry, I verbally agreed but didn't write down 15:27:07 np 15:27:19 on UDS related business - jcastro can you keep an eye on the leadership summit and ensure it keeps getting moved back to Bonaire 2? 15:27:42 is it moving around?! 15:28:09 yup 15:28:12 it was last night 15:28:16 sorry, pal 15:28:21 I know you hate doing this 15:28:22 huh, weird 15:28:26 ok I will keep an eye on it 15:28:29 thanks! 15:28:36 ok, so does anyone have any agenda items? 15:28:39 maybe someone else is moving it 15:28:41 jono: yeah 15:28:54 jcastro, I doubt someone else moved it, the room was empty 15:29:00 I think it must be the autoscheduler 15:29:18 hmm, we'll look into it, it's not supposed to move things after you manually set them 15:29:21 one thing we do need to fix 15:29:23 weird 15:29:24 thanks 15:29:32 so any agenda items folks? 15:29:36 is mhall119 is still struggling with IS on the memory errors on the server hosting summit 15:29:47 mhall119? 15:29:57 we might need your ticket bumping powers if the next thing they try doesn't work 15:30:05 ok 15:30:12 we hope that is resolved 15:30:15 I've got nothing for the agenda today 15:30:26 some changes were made that hopefully will fix the memory problems 15:30:32 I haven't heard any reports of problems since 15:31:58 ok cool 15:32:10 so I have a few short agenda items 15:32:17 I haven't gotten any error emails since the change 15:32:36 kim0, jcastro, dpm, dholbach UDS related bits:L 15:32:59 I have asked msm to book us a few private meetings to discuss team related bits after the plenaries on the Mon and Wed 15:33:15 also could you all ensure you get your blueprints registered this week 15:33:27 next week we will be at the pre-UDS sprints and things are gonna be crazy then 15:33:30 ok, so by friday? 15:33:44 jcastro, no urgent date, but get most of it in this week 15:33:52 jcastro, we need to review youe 12.04 plan before then 15:33:58 * jcastro nods 15:34:10 one other topic 15:34:27 for those of you who are not aware, which should be everyone apart from the team, Eric Ward left us last week 15:34:42 Eric was working as the new QA Community Coordinator 15:35:24 unfortunately Eric felt like the role was just not right for him 15:35:32 and he left part way through the release sprint 15:36:21 that's it from me really 15:36:23 any other business? 15:36:44 I believe dholbach wanted to talk more about Dio 15:36:50 haha 15:36:53 he always does 15:36:55 Dio? 15:37:06 Metallica vs. Megadeth ;-) 15:37:07 dholbach, don't start them 15:37:29 * kim0 jumps 10mins into the future 15:37:31 we can talk about the Jonas Brothers if you guys want 15:37:34 kim0, LOL 15:37:38 metal trolling 15:37:40 BIEBER 15:37:46 I have the fever 15:38:12 alright, we are done 15:38:18 thanks everyone! 15:38:20 #endmeeting