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Harald Sitter | 25 May 22:52
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Kubuntu Council Elections 2012

The Kubuntu Council is a group of 6 Kubuntu Members who get to vote on
membership of Kubuntu Members and occasionally other decisions regarding
Kubuntu.

Half the council is nearing the end of their 2 year appointment so we need
to hold elections for the open positions to the council.  This could be
you! If you are a Kubuntu Member and are willing to turn up to Kubuntu
meetings as much as possible for the next couple of years do consider
putting your name forward.

We are particularly encouraging non-developers to put their name forward,
as we feel that a less development focused council is beneficial for
the Kubuntu community.

To put your name forward make sure you update your wiki page and then post
to this list.

To nominate someone else also write to this list. It might be a good idea
to first have a chat with the affected person. Please note that everyone
who was nominated by someone else will have to verify their nomination.

Closing date for nominations is June 9 at 23:59 UTC.

The poll will start on June 10. Voting instructions will be sent to
members of the kubuntu-members team with public email addresses on
Launchpad directly. If you do not have a public email address in Launchpad
and wish to vote, email me privately with the address you'd like used you
will get a ballot as well.

regards,
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Scott Kitterman | 25 May 21:46

Kubuntu Council Status/Elections

Getting elections set up has taken longer than we thought, so rather than lose 
half the council membership this week, the KC has decided the existing members 
whose terms are about to expire should be extended three weeks to give time to 
prepare an election.

People who've considered running for Kubuntu Council in the past should be 
considering it again.  It is mosts certainly not just for developers.  Any 
Kubuntu member is eligible to run.

Scott K

P.S. On that note, I'd appreciate it if someone who's subscribed to the user 
list would forward this there.
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Martin Pitt | 25 May 11:12
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Overview of Jockey replacement; options for Kubuntu?

Hello all,

Also sending this to kubuntu-devel@, but as I'm not a subscriber
someone needs to moderate; CC'ing Scott and Harald directly.

As discussed at UDS and in [1] we want to dramatically simplify the
machinery for installing extra drivers (NVidia, bcmwl, and friends).
Jockey was originally designed to do a lot more than we are using it
for, and be compatible with other distros as well (I had it working on
Fedora 14 back then, when we discussed it in the Linux Foundation
driver backports workgroup). But we don't use it to that extent, other
distros have moved into a different direction, and thus it has way too
much code and bugs. So Ubuntu will drop it and replace with with
something much simpler and robust, and also use upstream friendly APIs
(PackageKit).

The logic of detecting drivers and providing PackageKit/aptdaemon
plugins is now in the ubuntu-drivers-common package (formerly known
as "nvidia-common"). This now mostly makes PackageKit/aptdaemon able
to answer a "WhatProvides(MODALIAS, pci:s0000DEADv0000BEEF...)" query
to map a piece of hardware to a driver package. It also contains a
command line tool "ubuntu-drivers" with a few commands (list,
autoinstall, and debug at the moment) which replaces jockey's usage in
the installer (which called jockey-text --no-dbus ...).

The user interface will be made a lot simpler and less confusing, and
move into software-properties-gtk (or perhaps software-center at some
point).

The question arises what to do with Kubuntu. We have a few obvious
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Kate Stewart | 25 May 00:49
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[Blueprint topic-quantal-flavor-kubuntu] Kubuntu Quantal PLans

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    Approver: Kate Stewart => Kubuntu Council

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Harald Sitter | 24 May 22:43
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SRU xsettings-kde

Someone please make
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xsettings-kde/+bug/1002811
so that it meets with ludicrous requirements. I will not. Kthxbai.
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Colin Watson | 23 May 13:49
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Kubuntu and main/universe

Hi Kubuntu folks,

At this UDS, the old "archive reorg" topic came up again
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArchiveReorganisation for those unfamiliar with
it; this page also contains some background for some of the Ubuntu
archive jargon I've inevitably ended up using in this post), and I had a
side discussion with Jonathan about a Kubuntu-related question arising
from it.

Ultimately, I still do plan to move all free software in the archive to
a single consolidated "main" component and express who supports what in
ways that are rather more flexible than (effectively) moving files
around in the pool; but it's clear at this point that I'm only going to
be able to lay the groundwork for that this cycle, not actually do it.
In advance of that, though, my question is as follows: is being in main
actually much more than an obstruction to Kubuntu development these
days?

Up to now, the packages that make up Kubuntu - at least the images you
ship - have been in main at least in part because Canonical was offering
some level of support for them, and thus we wanted to make sure they
passed an explicit review by our security team and the like.  Now that
that isn't the case, though, being in main basically means that
Canonical is requiring main inclusion review for Kubuntu even though we
aren't offering support for it, out of step with all other community
flavours, and thus imposing an extra chunk of work on you that nobody
else has to do.  That seems rather unfair!  When I spoke to him at UDS,
Jonathan seemed to feel the same way, and indicated that you might well
want to consider moving Kubuntu-specific packages to universe.
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Jonathan Riddell | 23 May 13:23
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[greenrd <at> gmail.com: Bug report: Mailing list reject message is unfriendly]

----- Forwarded message from Robin Green <greenrd <at> gmail.com> -----

Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 12:19:59 +0100
Subject: Bug report: Mailing list reject message is unfriendly
From: Robin Green <greenrd <at> gmail.com>
To: kubuntu-devel-owner <at> lists.ubuntu.com
Sender: mailman-bounces <at> lists.ubuntu.com

   I am very annoyed because kcrashhandler told me to report a bug in
   apport-kde by email to kubuntu-devel <at> lists.ubuntu.com. But YOU CAN'T
   because YOU GET THE MESSAGE "You are not allowed to post to this mailing
   list, and your message has
   been automatically rejected. "
   This is not at all user-friendly.
   This was the end of a long list of crashes and incorrect behaviours that I
   ran into while trying to report a bug. The user experience needs to be
   improved.
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Kate Stewart | 23 May 04:14
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[Blueprint topic-quantal-flavor-kubuntu] Kubuntu Quantal PLans

Blueprint changed by Kate Stewart:

    Definition Status: Drafting => Approved

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Kate Stewart | 23 May 04:14
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[Blueprint topic-quantal-flavor-kubuntu] Kubuntu Quantal PLans

Blueprint changed by Kate Stewart:

    Definition Status: New => Drafting

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Kate Stewart | 23 May 04:14
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[Blueprint topic-quantal-flavor-kubuntu] Kubuntu Quantal PLans

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    Priority: Undefined => Medium

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jriddell | 21 May 11:30
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Fwd: Automatic crash report generated by DrKonqi for Apport KDE.

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From: Dennis Schridde <devurandom <at> gmx.net>
To: kubuntu-devel-owner <at> lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Fwd: Automatic crash report generated by DrKonqi for Apport KDE.
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 12:58:19 +0200
Sender: mailman-bounces <at> lists.ubuntu.com

Hello Kubuntu developers!

Apport crashed and started DrKonqi, which then wanted me to send an email to 
the kubuntu-devel mailinglist. This was not possible, because the mailinglist 
is write protected.

--Dennis
Content-Description: kubuntu-devel-owner <at> lists.ubuntu.com: Re: Automatic crash report generated
by DrKonqi for Apport KDE.
Subject: Re: Automatic crash report generated by DrKonqi for Apport KDE.
From: kubuntu-devel-owner <at> lists.ubuntu.com
To: devurandom <at> gmx.net
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 10:04:15 +0000
Sender: kubuntu-devel-bounces <at> lists.ubuntu.com

You are not allowed to post to this mailing list, and your message has
been automatically rejected.  If you think that your messages are
being rejected in error, contact the mailing list owner at
kubuntu-devel-owner <at> lists.ubuntu.com.

From: Dennis Schridde <devurandom <at> gmx.net>
To: kubuntu-devel <at> lists.ubuntu.com
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