[lsb-discuss] Unofficial LSB conference call minutes (2012-04-18, 11 to noon)

Wed Apr 18 16:24:08 UTC 2012

LSB teleconference

Wednesday, 18 Apr 2012 @11:00 to noon, US ET

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Attendees:
in the form : name (organization)  [irc_nick]
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Jeff Licquia (LF)  licquia
Mats Wichmann (Intel)  mwichmann
Russ Herrold (Owl River)  orc_emac
Rick Troth (Velocity Software) rickt
Stew Benedict (LF)  stewb
Glen Petrie (Epson)
Robert Schweikert (SuSE)  robjo

potentials:
Denis Silakov (ROSA Labs)  denis_silakov
Alan Clark (SuSE)  AlanClark
Darren Davis (SuSE)
Jiri Dluhos (SUSE)  jdluhos
Kay Tate (SuSE)  ktate
Alexey Khoroshilov (ISP RAS)  Alexey

Apologies:
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Posted Agenda:
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  - LSB 5.0 planning: status of last week's tasks.

  - How do you "get started with the LSB"?

  - Charter: what's the status?  What do we have?  What do we 
need?

(this is a bit heavy for one call.  We will go in the above 
order; anything we do not reach can be carried forward)

Other matter discussed on the mailing list:

  - XSS update
    https://lsbbugs.linuxfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3487
  - GSOC
  - Python 3

New business:
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Meeting opens at 11:00 with:

  - Update on LSB 5.0 timeboxing: sane (Glen), dbus (Robert), 
and the other uplifts (Jeff, ISPRAS)

Python3 drill in of one - four 40 hr person-weeks

Robert: dbus interfaces seem stable, but there are additions 
over time; Jeff asks: do authors needing to access dbus tend 
to prefer toolkit bindings and interfaces, over native dbus 
calls?  Robert: let's start at the lower level, and add higher 
level toolkit interfaces, once an ISV requests it

Glen: sane interfaces are essentially stable; two 40 hr 
person-weeks should cover the work; up to four if a scanner 
emulator needs to be written and stabilized to test against 
(Glen notes that he has a commitments that will stall his 
advancement of this for a week)

Next step: Glen and Robert still have things to do w/ SANE and 
D-Bus.  Jeff will choose a small library and do everything 
needed to import it into LSB 5.0, possibly ncursesw.  Stew: 
will also try to do the same.  Russ: maybe w/ a different 
library, like SANE, to avoid duplication of effort.

  - Getting started with the LSB

Russ speaks to both the desire of the present developer / 
conference call participants for 'hands to co-develop'; Also 
out there is recreating a pool of people USING the LSB as 
candidates for conversion into co-developers as well.  The 
mailing list simply no longer has new people coming to us and 
asking how to get started

Jeff: no question the k.o melt-down hurt; publicity efforts 
had to go to a back burner

Use cases are a good way to sell; Russ: are copies of prior 
systematic marketing documents around from perhaps 3 or 4 
years ago that could be useful; Jeff; not so much as LF was 
more focused on advancing the LDN.  LF has gotten less 
'possessive' on branding issues (Meego, Yacto, Tizen spun out 
to stand alone domains, and are simply enumerated with 
out-links at the current LF web presence)

Robert recapping: getting a web presence going seems like an 
early task. It not being clear that we on the call have 
specific talents there.  Linuxbase.org seems to be the place 
for this.  One starts as a 'casual contributor'.  Mats: it 
should be a welcoming environment and one should be able to 
get started fairly easily  Robert: and it should provide 
satisfaction (positive feedback) quickly.  Robert mentions an 
example of writing a Tet test case, and getting it vetted and 
integrated

So: a 'sample solved process doing such

or: even just fixing a typo; so: getting a local copy of the 
VCS, creating a patch, filing the bug to get it reviewed and 
committed

Glen notes: there is a wiki page: 'adding a new page to the 
LSB specification' -- but stuff is missing, and it is somewhat 
bureaucratic loady, up front; it was not clear where to send 
it.  A meta-description of the overall process (and the 
deliverables) would have been helpful, rather than getting 
drowned in details

Jeff mentions glibc devel's interest in integrating LSB tests 
as expressed at the Collab Summit

Russ: I see grumbling about the feature-paucity of Bazaar by 
some here in IRC. Is the DVCS we are using (bzr) off-putting to 
the kewl kids who seem to have gone to 'git'?  Mats' effort on 
the review site setup was trialling work in this space - at 
least a way to get patches accessible for commenting a little 
more easily

  - Bug triage

Mats: reminder: bug triage tomorrow (details below)

Call ends at local 12:05

Weekly Bug triage:
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irc-only #lsb-meeting at freenode.net
Thurs at 10:00 Eastern
Bugzilla stats as of 18 Apr 2012: 501 open (494 assigned, 4 
new, 1 needinfo, 1 pleasetest). 496 open last week.
New last 90 days: 152, last 30: 28; closed last 90: 102, last 
30: 34
Changed this week: 14, last week: 4
Bugs that are assigned but have no milestone: 275
Rollup bugs: 23
No-milestone bugs will be the focus of the next few meetings. 
Not all bug categories fit the milestone model.
There was no triage meeting the last two weeks.

Reviewboard:
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http://reviews.lsbtest.net/dashboard/

Next meeting:
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25 Apr 2012 11:00 to noon, US ET

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