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January 5th, 2010, 13:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.
Agenda
Action Items from December 22nd, 2009
- cooloney to ask ericm about 2.6.32 patches for marvell dove
- NCommander to email Marvell about the date of the next expected kernel drop
- asac, ogra, persia to make sure .32 backporting for imx51 kernels is documented somewhere (c/o)
Current Items
Standing Items
- ARM Image Status
- Any Other Business
Action Items
Minutes
Weekly Reports (week before the break for Christmas)
Jamie Bennett (JamieBennett)
This week
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.
Monthly team report done which can be viewed here.
- Image testing, internal stuff, tending to sick kids, all good fun.
Future
- 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).
Steve Kowalik
- 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.
Emmet Hikory
Address squashfs -> squashfs-tools source rename for image builders
- Track ARM image builds
Tobin Davis
- Continued work on porting LSB tests to arm. Currently focusing on T2C test suites.
Paul Larson
- 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
Alexander Sack
- Vacation.
Oliver Grawert
- Vacation.