20091222

December 22nd, 2009, 13:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

Agenda

asac to approve outstanding liquid specs
persia to watch the builds and make sure they happen and are testable
GrueMaster to post LSB test failures for investigation
asac to figure out why dove still uses a 2.6.31 kernel
dyfet to prepare a test kernel build with the patch in bug 494831 (comment 7)
asac, ogra, persia to make sure .32 backporting for imx51 kernels is documented somewhere.

Continued on with the Casper investigations. Talked with interested parties to identify the area's of interest. Possible low hanging fruit is disable_guest_account which could be sped up by about 6.5 seconds.
Tracked down the major cause of slowness for Casper, that of debconf-communicate. Straced, timestamped and looked at this with the conclusion that loading the templates.dat file takes around 4 seconds for every debconf-communicate call. Massive win to get this sped up so identified ways of tackling it. Needs implementing.
Documented possible fixes for Casper slowness here.
Worked on, along with help from the community, pushing build dependencies for netbook-launcher-efl.
Little work on the REVU version of netbook-launcher-efl to whip it into shape after the excellent work of mterry.
Pushed to get Canola packaged.
- Now packaged at http://edge.launchpad.net/~canola
Initial test of Canola proved that it needs some work before it can be the default media player for Ubuntu ARM. Some bugs submitted.
Image testing, internal stuff, tending to sick kids, all good fun.

Come up with a working implementation to fix the debconf-communicate issues.
Gather monthly information and publish monthly team report.
Keep pushing and monitoring netbook-launcher-efl dependencies.
If I get time take a look at the Moblin media player.
Vacation Tuesday till new year (although I'm sure I'll have some cheeky post-turkey hours to bash some blueprints).

Propose a patch for Launchpad for a change to germinate, get it merged and landed.
Upload netbook-meta, pulling from the new netbook.lucid branch. Do so multiple times.
Merge changes to tasksel, adding netbook, and removed unr and mobile.
Remove mobile-meta, and discuss with the LOSAs how to remove its seed branch.
Test my changes to livecd-rootfs, uploading it, and organising installation on the buildds.
Discover issues that relate to changes with desktop versus une, and fix the seeds. Three times.
Push out my changes for the rename to the public branch of cdimage.
Merge the changes into the deployed cdimage code.
Also fix debian-cd and merge it in too.
After an hour or so of poking around, discover why my cron.germinate changes caused it to bail and fix two scripts on rookery. Fix component-overrides generation while I was there.
Thursday archive admin duties.

Continued work on porting LSB tests to arm. Currently focusing on T2C test suites.

Was able to begin testing images on imx51 with successful images beginning on 20091213
Collected additional requested debug data for bug #494787 - firefox crashed with SIGSEGV
Wrote a script for the bringup testing that uses the bootchart tarball to gather the amount of time it took for boot
rebuilt dove kernel with patch from bug #494831
created a new install image with the kernel for bug #494831 to test the fix - fix worked, and I was able to create a working dove image to test with
made a qemu-arm-static build environment to mess with, see if I can gain any efficiency with it, did some performance comparisons, not impressed with the result
Tested a new build of Chromium on ARM, still seeing some SIGILL issues, but able to get further
Started working on install testing blueprint

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