19:05:36 #startmeeting 19:05:36 Meeting started Mon Jul 16 19:05:36 2012 UTC. The chair is bdrung. 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I live in Nottingham, which is in the East Midlands in England. 19:20:19 It's raining. 19:20:26 It's been raining for about three months constantly. 19:20:48 I'm a MOTU and I've been one for something over three years now. I've been a DD for a bit over a year. 19:20:51 then you have enough time to code ;) 19:21:21 In Ubuntu I'm a backporter, I'm on the release team and I'm also on this DMB. 19:21:34 I just joined Canonical on the Desktop team, as you might be able to tell from my endorsers. 19:21:38 .. 19:23:31 Laney: as you're in ubuntu-desktop know, do you see yourself uploading things outside of MOTU and the desktop package set? 19:23:39 s/know/now/ 19:24:07 yeah, desktop can be kind of limited 19:24:21 I have a glib2.0 and poppler upload planned, both of which I don't think are in the desktop set. 19:24:28 (the former uploaded to exp already) 19:25:33 Also, it would be good to be able to sponsor stuff. 19:25:42 Oh. I also found myself looking after emacs a bit. 19:25:59 Laney: will you help to reduce the sponsors queue to zero? 19:27:06 I'd like to think so. I've not been a very active sponsor in Ubuntu to date really. 19:27:15 I'm much better at sponsoring stuff in Debian for some reason. 19:27:40 Laney: do you know our sponsors queue list? 19:27:49 do I know it? 19:27:54 You mean do I know where it is?! 19:28:00 http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/ 19:28:21 yes 19:28:23 have you looked at it? 19:28:26 I even submitted a patch to it before 19:28:30 which broke it and got reverted 19:29:15 Laney: do you know why you are better sponsor in debian than in ubuntu? 19:29:26 more focused teams I guess 19:29:37 sometimes people email me directly which works quite well 19:29:57 I have a much higher chance of being able to review one of those changes well than any random Ubuntu package 19:30:10 Laney: would grouping by package set help? 19:30:18 it does that 19:30:26 and yeah, I do sometimes cherry-pick those sponsor request 19:30:37 but cli-mono hasn't historically had that many. Maybe it'll be better now with desktop 19:31:36 we could create separate tables for each package set 19:32:35 not sure it would add much over being able to sort the columns as you can do currently 19:33:42 would it help to group by debian teams? 19:34:15 maybe 19:34:23 does it have a feed? 19:34:33 or some kind of machine readable output 19:34:36 no, it has no rss feed 19:34:41 it would be easy enough to hook it up to whatever fancy stuff if so 19:34:49 maybe it should just export json or something 19:35:43 we have a json export 19:35:59 http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/sponsoring.json 19:36:48 i like to discuss your "What I like least in Ubuntu" section 19:36:50 should be easy enough to compute whatever lists you want then 19:36:53 yes! yes let's! 19:37:12 * skaet also thinks from release team perspective that Laney have wider upload permissions beyond desktop would be good. :) 19:37:34 you wrote that there are not enough people working on universe. 19:37:52 * Laney hugs skaet - cheers :-) 19:38:01 it seems to me that the number of MOTUs decrease. 19:38:20 right 19:38:25 in contrast, debian seems to grow and grow 19:38:34 we barely get any new MOTU though the DMB any more, do we? 19:38:47 I think we've had a handful in the last year 19:39:29 5 or so 19:39:29 what can be done? 19:39:56 heh 19:40:12 we've discussed this for the past several UDS 19:40:31 anything that was successful? 19:40:33 this developer advisory team seems like a good idea, but I still don't see very many new active peopl in the channel 19:40:54 in Debian you get to own your own stuff, maybe that's why people stick there 19:41:07 you can also get involved with the whole of the distro, not just a few teams 19:41:48 it's set up differently, which is my second point here 19:43:22 perhaps the presence of the company somehow makes people less willing? 19:44:14 well, QA is always hard to find, and MOTU kinda acts like Debian QA for universe 19:44:30 maybe, the press sometimes have a strange view on Ubuntu and write "Canonical does this and that", but instead it's done by the community 19:45:06 even so, Debian QA is more proactive than MOTU is 19:45:45 possibly because there's a higher chance of there being a 'hit' on any bug over there, because each package has a maintainer (at least in theory) 19:45:53 whereas in MOTU you have to do it yourself really 19:49:14 your second point was that we do not focus enough on user freedom. can you explain what user freedom means to you? FLOSS? 19:50:40 what can we improve? 19:50:51 I get a feeling that we're reluctant to put the freedom of this project we're making as promenantly as we could. 19:51:18 People talk about trying to toggle the little 'non-free software' button on in the installer. 19:51:29 Teams rely on non-free software for their infrastructure. 19:52:27 I dunno, I feel like somehow the Free-ness is a bit more incidental than I'd like it to be. 19:53:59 so we should make it more visible to our developers that Free-ness is very important to us? 19:55:39 well, it is to me. 19:55:53 I'd like it if the front page of the website held this up. 19:56:37 Laney: did you talked to the web team (or whatever team is responsible for the website)? 19:58:18 Laney: can we MIR unar and get it installed by default? then we can drop unrar from ubuntu-restricted-extras 19:58:19 no, mainly because I neither have a good suggestion nor know if other people agree. 19:58:53 how about starting a discussion on the mailing list? 19:59:00 no idea what that is. is it a 100% replacement? why does it need to be in main/installed by default? 19:59:53 unar can extract rar files and should be a 100% replacement. the upcoming file-roller can use unar to extract rar files. 20:00:29 we passed the 1 hour mark. let's vote and continue the discussion later. 20:00:51 possibly. it could be added as depends/recommends/whatever there and unrar dropped if so. 20:00:54 that would be good. 20:01:23 #vote Should Iain Lane become a core-dev? 20:01:23 Please vote on: Should Iain Lane become a core-dev? 20:01:23 Public votes can be registered by saying +1, +0 or -1 in channel, (private votes don't work yet, but when they do it will be by messaging the channel followed by +1/-1/+0 to me) 20:01:28 +1 20:01:28 +1 received from stgraber 20:01:39 +1 20:01:39 +1 received from bdrung 20:02:35 +1 good work all around 20:02:35 +1 good work all around received from micahg 20:02:44 and we have +1 from tumbleweed as well 20:02:48 cody-somerville: ? 20:03:05 +1 for sure 20:03:05 +1 for sure received from cody-somerville 20:03:30 strong evidence of leadership and technical merit 20:03:48 there is one +1 from tumbleweed via email 20:04:15 #endvote 20:04:15 Voting ended on: Should Iain Lane become a core-dev? 20:04:15 Votes for:4 Votes against:0 Abstentions:0 20:04:15 Motion carried 20:04:22 Laney: added 20:04:26 \o/ 20:04:35 Laney: did you have any PPU? 20:04:39 no 20:04:39 Laney: welcome in the core-dev team 20:04:48 good, no need to fight with edit_acl then 20:04:49 motu, desktop, cli-mono 20:04:54 oh yeah, did that get fixed? 20:04:58 also, thanks all! 20:05:05 Laney: congrats 20:05:08 #topic Select a chair for the next meeting 20:05:22 next chair will be barry 20:05:42 should i add the we go alphabetical through our list? 20:06:00 well, it still takes half an hour to list the upload rights because of the remaining duplicates and some packagesets can't be changed because they are duplicates and the API and DB disagree on the index... 20:06:06 so short answer, no, edit_acl is still a mess 20:06:31 I believe cjwatson fixed the code to create a new series in LP, so it shouldn't get any worse at least 20:06:45 ah, so we need SQL-fu to dedup 20:06:50 yeah 20:07:08 I have a bug and ticket open on LP for months now... might go poke #launchpad-ops about getting that stuff done 20:07:31 would be good 20:07:54 #endmeeting