2011-08-31 meeting minutes

[Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org>]

Release Team Meeting, 2011-08-31, 18h UTC
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Attendance
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Present:
 Alejandro Piñeiro Iglesias (API)
 Andre Klapper (andre)
 Colin Walters (walters)
 Frédéric Péters (fredp)
 Javier Jardón (jjardon)
 Kjartan Maraas (kmaraas)
 Luca Ferretti (elleuca)
 Matthias Clasen (mclasen)
 Olav Vitters (bkor)

Guests:
 Javier Hernandez Antúnez (jhernandez)

Agenda
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 - Release notes
 - Live Image for 3.2
 - 3.2 Features
   - Application menu / Actions / Jumplists
   - Backup
   - Color Management
   - Contacts
   - Crypto Glue
   - Quick File Previewing
   - Finding And Reminding
   - Fix Annoying Things
   - Human Interface Guidelines
   - IBus/XKB support
   - Login Screen
   - On-screen Keyboard
   - Sharing
   - System Dialogs
   - Tablets / touch / scrollbars
   - Web Applications Integration
 - Assignments for next relesases
 - Next meeting / meeting frequency


Release notes
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 → andre is on it
  - [AI] send an email to d-d-l for release notes material
  - [AI] contact marketing team and aday wrt featured apps described
    in release-notes
 → there's material on the feature pages
 → andre welcomes screenshots

Live Image for 3.2
==================

 → jhernandez will ping fcrozat about it, and work with him in
   producing images
 → Follow discussion about OBS and build.gnome.org integration in
   build-brigade-list


3.2 Features
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Application menu / Actions / Jumplists
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 → Will be deferred to 3.4. Colin is making this his priority for 3.4.
 → alexl has been volunteering


Backup
------

 → not for 3.2, deja-dup continued to be developed as a standalone
   app, and we didn't have enough designer-time to integrate it better
 → [AI] fredp to ask mterry about his impressions 
 → [AI] jjardon to mail distributors-list about the removal of the
   possibility of out-of-tree system settings panel

Color Management
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 → it's done, integrated in gnome-control-center, thanks hughsie
 → ask him for details when writing about it in the release notes

Contacts
--------

 → new module : gnome-contacts
 → [AI] fredp to move contacts to core

Crypto Glue
-----------

 → stefw worked a lot on this, don't know if he achieved all of his
   plans; he should probably be pinged
 → [AI] mclasen to ping stef about crypto glue

Quick File Previewing
---------------------

 → new module : sushi
 → [AI] elleuca to move sushi to core
 → [AI] elleuca to check for sushi documentation, bug, and ping shaunm

Finding And Reminding
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 → not fully implemented yet
 → some part of it in a new module : gnome-documents
 → keep in gnome-apps
 → document in release notes as "preview release"

Fix Annoying Things
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 → they are getting fixed
 → use the remaining weeks to fix even more of them

Human Interface Guidelines
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 → nothing yet :(

IBus/XKB support
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 → will be for 3.4, https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=641531
 → we really need to get that pulled into GNOME

Login Screen
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 → landed in gnome-shell
 → shell style greeter
 → the initial setup part is on hold atm
 → two relevant bugs are bug 657822 and bug 657823

On-screen Keyboard
------------------

 → landed in 3.1.90 (gnome-shell and caribou)

Sharing
-------

 → new module: gnome-online-accounts
 → parts in the new "online accounts" panel
 → status in evolution: working
 → status in empathy: still need to be merged (without SSO)
   <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=652543>

System Dialogs
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 → device hotplug is in
 → [AI] mclasen to ask stef about the keyring dialog

Tablets / touch / scrollbars
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 → Wacom Graphics Tablet panel in gnome-control-center
 → ongoing, must be a 3.4 priority
 → [AI] jjardon to get some notes / slides about garnacho work


Web Applications Integration
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 → Basic support for web applications landed in epiphany


Assignments for next releases
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 - Sep 07 - 3.1.91 - jjardon
 - Sep 21 - 3.1.92 - fredp
 - Sep 28 - 3.2.0 - mclasen
 - Oct 19 - 3.2.1 - elleuca


Next meeting / meeting frequency
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 - next meeting: September 15th, 18UTC
 - monthly meeting afterwards, should be part of schedule
 - will try to alternate weekdays and weekend, to accomodate every one

Misc
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 - [AI] andre should do his "blocker bugs" dance
 - [AI] fredp to check damned lies modulesets against jhbuild
   modulesets
 - [AI] fredp to mail shaunm with a summary of the minutes, again our
   excuses, and a note about our commitment to keep going on with the
   feature focused process.