10:05 <ochosi> #startmeeting 10:05 <meetingology> Meeting started Tue Aug 26 10:05:42 2014 UTC. The chair is ochosi. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 10:05 <meetingology> 10:05 <meetingology> Available commands: action commands idea info link nick 10:05 <ochosi> hey !team 10:06 <ochosi> !team | hey everyone, meeting time 10:06 <ubottu> hey everyone, meeting time: bluesabre, elfy, GridCube, jjfrv8, knome, lderan, micahg, mr_pouit, Noskcaj, ochosi, pleia2, skellat, slickymaster, Unit193 10:06 <bluesabre> hey ochosi 10:06 <skellat> o/ 10:06 <ochosi> just as a disclaimer, i might get a phone-call during the meeting that i'll have to take 10:06 <ochosi> so don't worry if i'm suddenly mute :) 10:07 <ochosi> (i didn't die in front of my computer in that case) 10:07 <bluesabre> as far as we'll know 10:07 <ochosi> :] 10:08 <ochosi> soo, who's here apart from bluesabre and skellat? 10:08 <slickymasterWork> o/ 10:09 <ochosi> right, so let's get on with it 10:09 <ochosi> #topic gksu/do versus pkexec 10:09 <ochosi> we still have that on our agenda 10:09 <ochosi> bluesabre: wanna #info something on that? 10:09 <bluesabre> #info we now have pkexec policy files for thunar and mousepad 10:10 <bluesabre> they, among other things, need translations https://translations.launchpad.net/xubuntu-default-settings 10:10 <ochosi> what's the doc-status on this? 10:10 <slickymasterWork> on what ochosi? pkexec? 10:11 <ochosi> yup 10:11 <ochosi> bluesabre: so a call for translations to the ML maybe? 10:11 <slickymasterWork> well, knome and I haven't started working on that 10:11 <ochosi> but you have it on the radar 10:11 <slickymasterWork> but we're planning to do it shortly 10:12 <slickymasterWork> yeaps 10:12 <ochosi> #info slickymaster and knome will work on docs for pkexec 10:12 <ochosi> #undo 10:12 <meetingology> Removing item from minutes: INFO 10:12 <ochosi> #action slickymaster and knome will work on docs for pkexec 10:12 * meetingology slickymaster and knome will work on docs for pkexec 10:12 <bluesabre> ochosi: yeah, need to do a call for all of our projects 10:12 <bluesabre> though, I think there was one already recently 10:12 <ochosi> bluesabre: mind doing that (since you seem to have the overview)? 10:13 <bluesabre> sure thing 10:13 <slickymasterWork> bluesabre: have upload the new strings for menulibre? 10:13 <slickymasterWork> + you 10:13 <ochosi> #action bluesabre will send a call for translations for all our projects to the mailinglist 10:13 * meetingology bluesabre will send a call for translations for all our projects to the mailinglist 10:13 <bluesabre> slickymasterWork, not yet, to do shortly 10:13 <slickymasterWork> ok 10:13 <bluesabre> was going to do it sunday with other translation releases, got derailed by gtk-theme-config 10:13 <bluesabre> :) 10:13 <ochosi> :) 10:14 <ochosi> so, anything else on pkexec? 10:14 <bluesabre> We have thunar and mousepad policies, need anything else? 10:14 <knome> slickymasterWork, looks like i'll have some time today 10:14 <knome> bluesabre, tell me, why does mousepad need it? 10:14 <ochosi> bluesabre: well we've asked around (also on the ML), and that's what ppl came up with 10:14 <slickymasterWork> great knome. I'll ready whenever you are 10:14 <knome> because it can save files to system locations? 10:14 <slickymasterWork> + be 10:15 <ochosi> knome: ppl might want an editor for config files? (e.g. lightdm config) 10:15 <bluesabre> knome: dunno, I did what the others told me :) 10:15 <bluesabre> ^ 10:15 <ochosi> or logind policies or whatever 10:15 <knome> ochosi, right, so wouldn't any app that saves files potentially need a policy, like transmission 10:15 <bluesabre> edit != save 10:15 <knome> what about abiword/gnumeric? 10:16 <knome> aha 10:16 <skellat> knome: In general you would not be using transmission to land a file straight to /var/apt/cache 10:16 <ochosi> i'd do this on an on-demand basis, tbh 10:16 <skellat> For example 10:16 <slickymasterWork> bluesabre, what about for xfce4-terminal? 10:16 <bluesabre> anyway, I see this going down the wrong trail :) 10:16 <knome> i'm just asking 10:16 <knome> argument accepted. 10:16 <ochosi> slickymasterWork: the terminal really doesn't need one 10:16 <knome> so we're covering the "sensible" use cases that might need policies 10:16 <ochosi> you can execute super-user commands in a terminal anyway 10:17 <knome> skellat, thank you sherlock ;) 10:17 <bluesabre> haha 10:17 <slickymasterWork> ochosi, yes, I agree with you. was just asking because it was included in https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Roadmap/Specifications/Utopic/Pkexec 10:17 <skellat> knome: If memory serves, there actually is an apt transport package for using bittorrent if you really wanted to for some reason 10:17 <ochosi> slickymasterWork: yeah, that was a place set up for suggestions (incl. some from the community) 10:18 <slickymasterWork> ok, got it 10:18 <knome> skellat, sure. and some people might want to download torrents to system directories, like sharing an ISO with all the users but not let them touch it. 10:18 <ochosi> so we took thunar and mousepad cause they made some sense, but not the terminal 10:18 <ochosi> ok, let's get back on the topic 10:18 <ochosi> anything else on pkexec? 10:18 <bluesabre> not from me 10:18 <knome> nope 10:18 <skellat> Nope 10:18 <ochosi> ok, moving along 10:18 <ochosi> #topic Open Action Items 10:19 <ochosi> from last time there are a few open action items 10:19 <ochosi> knome: any clue whether pleia2 started with the marketing support for the xfce bounty programme? 10:19 <ochosi> or shall we carry that along to the next meeting? 10:19 <knome> i imagine not. 10:19 <knome> let's carry it on 10:19 <ochosi> #action marketing team to support xfce's bug bounty programme by informing people on website and social media 10:19 * meetingology marketing team to support xfce's bug bounty programme by informing people on website and social media 10:19 <ochosi> bluesabre: what about your action items? 10:20 <bluesabre> #info DONE: bluesabre to put list of xubuntu packageset packages on wiki (somebody beat me to it by adding the link) 10:20 <bluesabre> #info DONE: bluesabre to upload new xubuntu-default-settings 10:21 <bluesabre> #info DONE: bluesabre to enable clutter in parole, set as default in xubuntu-default-settings 10:21 <ochosi> oh, where is that page? 10:21 <knome> bluesabre, #done too :P 10:21 <bluesabre> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Processes#Maintained_packages 10:21 <ochosi> huhu 10:21 <knome> i want and added that link :) 10:21 <skellat> #info DONE: skellat to mail list to see if anyone wishes to identify specific low-hanging fruit tasks for the Global Jam 10:21 <bluesabre> 06:05 <meetingology> Available commands: action commands idea info link nick 10:21 <knome> bluesabre, sorry for taking your item.. 10:22 <knome> bluesabre, that's broken. lderan! 10:22 <bluesabre> knome: somebody had to do them, and I was dragging my feet ;) 10:22 <ochosi> knome: i guess we already carried your item forward... 10:22 <knome> ochosi, yep, that's fine. 10:22 <ochosi> #topic Team Updates 10:23 <ochosi> #info ochosi did a new release of the icon theme that adds support for the new power-manager amongst others 10:24 <bluesabre> #info new versions of catfish, lightdm-gtk-greeter, xfce4-power-settings, xfce4-settings, light-locker-settings have landed 10:24 <ochosi> \o/ 10:24 <ochosi> nice work bluesabre 10:24 <ochosi> (even though i'm not sure what xfce4-power-settings is, must be a new project ;)) 10:24 <bluesabre> whatever that thing is, obviously not my project ;) 10:25 <bluesabre> #undo 10:25 <bluesabre> er not 10:25 <bluesabre> ;) 10:25 <ochosi> #undo 10:25 <meetingology> Removing item from minutes: INFO 10:25 <ochosi> bluesabre: now feel free to go again ;) 10:25 <ochosi> #chair bluesabre 10:25 <meetingology> Current chairs: bluesabre ochosi 10:25 <bluesabre> #info new versions of catfish, lightdm-gtk-greeter, xfce4-power-manager, xfce4-settings, light-locker-settings have landed 10:26 <ochosi> #info ochosi talked to ubuntu devs about gtk3.12 affecting our default applications like evince. they will all remain in their gtk3.10 versions for 14.10, so we have nothing to worry about with headerbars and client-side decorations 10:26 <ochosi> if anyone spots problems with that ^ though, be sure to let me know 10:27 <bluesabre> #info outside of that, headerbars and CSD work well enough with xubuntu... with compositor on they are fine, with it off, they have an extra xfwm titlebar on top 10:27 * bluesabre did some testing on the side 10:28 <ochosi> cool 10:28 <ochosi> saw the screenshots, it's okay 10:28 <ochosi> even if it isn't pretyt 10:28 <ochosi> pretty 10:28 <bluesabre> yup, not broken = yay 10:28 <ochosi> :D 10:29 <ochosi> any other updates..? 10:29 <bluesabre> oh yeah 10:29 <bluesabre> #info apt-offline is fixed in utopic, courtesy of Unit193 10:29 <ochosi> nice 10:30 <ochosi> ok, moving along... 10:30 <ochosi> #topic Announcements 10:30 <ochosi> #info Beta1 freeze is in effect 10:31 <knome> #info Beta1 releas on Thursday 10:31 <knome> bah 10:31 <knome> releas releas! 10:31 <ochosi> #undo 10:31 <meetingology> Removing item from minutes: INFO 10:31 <ochosi> #chair knome 10:31 <meetingology> Current chairs: bluesabre knome ochosi 10:31 <knome> #info Beta1 release on Thursday 10:31 <bluesabre> #info Feature freeze is also in effect 10:31 <ochosi> i guess we're in bugfix mode then 10:32 <knome> #info Following freezes: UI freeze Sept 11, Doc string freeze Sept 18 ... 10:32 <ochosi> are there any blockers any of you have been seeing? (those of you who have been testing utopic i mean) 10:32 <bluesabre> so far, we're pretty clear... things have stabilized a lot in the past week or so 10:33 <ochosi> good to hear 10:33 <ochosi> i'm actually just running updates on my utopic VM now 10:33 <knome> if i have any time and motivation, i'll try to set up my old laptop for testing 10:33 <ochosi> ok, any other announcements? 10:33 <ochosi> knome: that'd be nice! 10:33 <knome> otherwise i guess i'll just have to do VM testing at some point (again) 10:34 * slickymasterWork will continue with VM testing 10:34 <bluesabre> yeah 10:35 <bluesabre> #info Beta 1 is Thursday, we'll need iso testing, see elfy's mail: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/xubuntu-devel/2014-August/010387.html 10:35 <ochosi> a bit offtopic, but i have to admit i really enjoy the way whiskermenu works in utopic. with all the settings dialogs there, it's quite the universal launcher 10:35 <ochosi> yeah, i'll try to do a test this week 10:35 <ochosi> would be great if others could join in too 10:36 <ochosi> more announcements? 10:36 <knome> i'll try to squeeze some testing in, but tbh, schedule looks meh 10:36 <bluesabre> yeah, was going to do one this morning, beta1 is not on the list yet it seems 10:36 <slickymasterWork> I'll do some 10:37 <bluesabre> great :D 10:37 <ochosi> yup, elfy will be happy to see those flowing in :) 10:37 <ochosi> #topic Discussion 10:38 <ochosi> #subtopic Incentives to get more people to help with QA and testing 10:38 <ochosi> i've discussed this with elfy and knome in this channel previously 10:38 <ochosi> but i thought we might want to consider throwing some of the leftover resources we have at people who help with testing 10:39 <ochosi> elfy has had a bit of a hard time this cycle finding and motivating folks to run the tests 10:39 <ochosi> which is probably partially due to this being LTS+1, partially due to testing not being the most exciting task in the world 10:39 <ochosi> (and maybe there are other factors i'm not thinking of now) 10:39 <knome> summer? 10:39 <ochosi> be that as it may, i think testing and QA is really important for us and we've had a great run in 14.04 with it 10:39 <bluesabre> partially due to virtualbox seeming to fail on start 10:40 <ochosi> we should try to maintain that somehow and try to get new folks involved in that department 10:40 <ochosi> so one idea was to set up a sort of "incentive programme" where e.g. the "tester of the month" gets a xubuntu-sticker in the mail 10:40 <ochosi> and the "tester of the cycle" gets a t-shirt 10:40 <ochosi> just as examples 10:41 <bluesabre> I think that'd be cool 10:41 <ochosi> i'd like to hear some opinions on that from you guys 10:41 <ochosi> (fwiw, i see a beneficial side-effect in this, we might be able to attract more people to contributing. testing is a good first step of getting familiar with xubuntu and the procedures around it) 10:42 <ochosi> slickymasterWork, skellat: opinions on ^ ? 10:43 <ochosi> knome: btw, how does that work with the stickers now, can we just order a single one on behalf of somebody else, i.e. get it mailed directly to someone's house? 10:43 <bluesabre> the stickers from unixstickers are pretty nice 10:44 <slickymasterWork> well, I believe that there are people testing, thing is that most of the people don't report their tests 10:44 <knome> ochosi, you'll have to ask pleia2 who set it all up 10:44 <ochosi> is what pleia2 set up unixstickers? 10:44 <ochosi> slickymasterWork: right, so we might need more incentive to get people to report their tests then i guess 10:44 <slickymasterWork> but the incentive program seems a good idea 10:45 <bluesabre> yeah, there are definitely people testing, got lots of feedback when I broke shimmer-themes ;) 10:45 <knome> to me, it doesn't seem to have any difference if we get completely new testers, or those who just don't report, to actually report tests 10:45 <ochosi> +1 10:45 <slickymasterWork> yes, the only way they would get rewarded would be measured but the number of reported tests 10:46 <bluesabre> yup 10:46 <skellat> I agree with knome. Reporting is the key. 10:46 <ochosi> ok, i suggest we let elfy come up with some ideas and vote on it in the next meeting? 10:46 <slickymasterWork> wfm 10:47 <ochosi> (we might also have to review those options in terms of how much work it actually is to get a sticker sent to someone's house every month) 10:47 * slickymasterWork is aiming for the t-shirt :P 10:48 <bluesabre> on a slightly related note, just wondering if there was any progress on this: 10:48 <bluesabre> xubutrello: card 22 link 10:48 <xubutrello> Couldn't find any card with id: 22. Aborting. 10:48 <bluesabre> that never works for me 10:48 <bluesabre> https://trello.com/c/835Pk6MH 10:48 <ochosi> #action elfy shall set up a page for the QA incentive programme, collecting proposals/ideas for rewards and a general outline of it 10:48 * meetingology elfy shall set up a page for the QA incentive programme, collecting proposals/ideas for rewards and a general outline of it 10:48 <knome> maybe team members should be not allowed to win :P 10:49 <ochosi> awwwwh :) 10:49 <slickymasterWork> I want one with xub icon surfing knome 10:49 <ochosi> we can discuss that once elfy has set up that page i guess 10:49 <knome> well, it doesn't motivate new contributors.. 10:49 <ochosi> ok, let's carry on 10:49 <ochosi> #subtopic Jenkins for image testing 10:50 <ochosi> since bluesabre just brought it up, any idea what that idea was all about? :) 10:50 <skellat> Jenkins is a "continuous integration" system but that's all I know about it 10:51 <ochosi> i've seen jenkins in action for xfce 10:51 <ochosi> and it seems quite good in terms of catching build-time errors 10:51 <ochosi> not sure what else it can do 10:53 <ochosi> alright, one last topic from my side... 10:53 <ochosi> #subtopic Trello and launchpad blueprints (again) 10:54 <ochosi> while elfy has synced the two, i really think that for the next cycle we should decide on which one we want to carry on with 10:54 <ochosi> using both is tedious and even more annoying than using launchpad during 14.04 was 10:54 <ochosi> and i appreciate that knome did put a lot of effort into getting the blueprint system running 10:55 <ochosi> so yeah, it's probably too early now, but i'd like us to have this discussion again towards the end of the cycle 10:56 <ochosi> and hear how team members felt it went 10:56 <bluesabre> sounds good to me 10:57 <ochosi> i've personally disliked launchpad for its slowness, but the integration of the bugs and branches etc is quite good 10:58 <ochosi> maybe it can be improved somehow 10:58 <ochosi> alrighty, from my side, that's it 10:58 <ochosi> any other topics for discussion? 10:58 <bluesabre> yeah 10:59 <ochosi> go ahead :) 10:59 <bluesabre> #subtopic UI Updates 11:00 <bluesabre> #info lightdm-gtk-greeter no longer supports proper centering, wondering if you guys think we should keep the "kinda-centered" layout, or consider others 11:00 <bluesabre> examples, http://imgur.com/a/aSj6W#0 11:01 <bluesabre> and not sure if this is info-worthy, but do we want to stick with the desktop icon sizes, or adjust? http://imgur.com/tsLjypk 11:01 <ochosi> ah right 11:01 <ochosi> yeah, thanks for bringing that up again 11:01 <bluesabre> this all comes from xubuntu-default-settings, so changes are quick and easy, but wanted to discuss before UIF 11:02 * slickymasterWork likes the power on right option 11:02 <ochosi> i'm leaning towards "clock, power on right" as long as the clock isn't really centered 11:02 <slickymasterWork> I'm with you ochosi 11:03 <slickymasterWork> also, IMO we would stick with the desktop icon sizes 11:03 <knome> yep, that seems like the best one 11:03 <ochosi> it's close to our default panel layout and "clock on right" somehow looks wrong 11:03 <bluesabre> and with the icons, you can click the image to make it not tiny 11:03 <slickymasterWork> yes 11:04 <bluesabre> yeah, I agree with the clock, power on right 11:04 <knome> re: desktop 48/64 is ymy favorite 11:04 <ochosi> yeah, i somewhat agree with knome on that 11:04 <knome> or could be that 32/64 was even better 11:04 <knome> anything >64 on tooltip just looks way too huge 11:04 <ochosi> also from a technical side, we have a lot of icons for 64px, but not so many for 96px yet 11:04 <ochosi> so lotsa potential fuzziness 11:05 <bluesabre> My complaint is that with 32, File Syst... is cut off, though I realize this probably happens a lot for other locales 11:05 * slickymasterWork also prefers desktop 48/64 11:06 <ochosi> bluesabre: so let's set the tooltip to 64px and see how that looks 11:06 <bluesabre> k 11:06 <ochosi> i don't mind bumping the size of the icons back to 48px 11:06 <ochosi> (call, brb) 11:12 <ochosi> sorry about that 11:12 <ochosi> bluesabre: so if you don't mind let's start with only the tooltips and if we dislike the 32px then, we bump that too 11:13 <ochosi> no need to discuss that in a meeting though 11:13 <bluesabre> alrighty 11:13 <ochosi> sidenote: i was also considering to make the top panel 26 instead of 24px 11:13 <bluesabre> just good to get multiple inputs :) 11:13 <bluesabre> yes please 11:13 <ochosi> sure 11:13 <bluesabre> :) 11:13 <ochosi> only problem atm with that is that the power-manager icon doesn't support it yet 11:13 <ochosi> will have to pull a few strings again 11:14 <ochosi> anyway... 11:14 <bluesabre> oh? 11:14 <ochosi> wrapping it up 11:14 <ochosi> thanks everyone for the meeting! 11:14 <ochosi> #endmeeting