DevelTeamMeeting20070607

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Apologies

  • Kenneth Wimer (kwwii) - national holiday
  • Michael Vogt (mvo) - national holiday
  • Sebastien Bacher (seb128) - holiday
  • Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter) - national holiday

Agenda

  1. Roll call
    • Apologies
    • Introduce new starters (if any)
  2. Review agenda
    • Review activity reports
    • Propose additional items
    • Accept agenda
    • Where is the right place to carry kernel /proc/sys settings? (kees)
      • procps (easy to change, but causes /etc/sysctl.conf merge warnings)
      • kernel (cleaner integration, but requires carrying a patch)
    • Where do Ubuntu's non-stock ulimits come from? (kees)
      • These are all unlimited and should not be:
        • pending signals (2048)
        • max locked memory (32)
        • POSIX message queues (819200?)
        • max user processes (2048)
  3. Release readiness update
  4. Other business

New Starters

  • Kees Cook (keescook) - joining Server Team from IS
  • Henrik Nilsen Omma (heno) - new QA role

Activity Reports

Adilson Oliveira (adilson)

  • MOTU Q&A

  • Continuing the process of bringing in the hildon components. This week the main component, hildon-desktop, finally compiled. Now working on the support files like themes and locales.
  • Organizing issues to be taken care at DAM-4 next week.
  • Drafting Ubuntu Embedded Application Framework.

Alexander Sack (asac)

  • firefox security updates 1.5.0.12 and 2.0.0.4 finished, QAed and uploaded
  • thunderbird security update 1.5.0.12 (2.0.0.4 is not yet released)
  • discussing "vendor" driven security support for upstream abandoned firefox 1.8.0 branch (with redhat) - more on this soon.
  • initial coding (and upstream discussion) for easy/automatic codec install feature in gnash
  • evaluating nspluginwrapper for 32-bit plugins on firefox amd64; next: draft a spec
  • discussing web-service implementation for firefox-addon service with proposed community volunteer(s)
  • LinuxTag

  • MOTU mentoring

Ben Collins (BenC)

  • Fixup l-u-m upload to fix ftbfs on sparc
  • Performance review call
  • Kernel security/update conf call
  • Work on kernel security/update process doc

Brian Murray (bdmurray)

Bug triaging:

  • assigned packages to some bugs that had none i.e. were just filed against Ubuntu
  • closing old bugs marked needs info and without a response
  • reading through bug mailing list and triaging bugs

Bug helper:

  • Bug hunting via bughelper
  • created multiple clue files

Other:

  • phone call with cjwatson
  • phone call with heno
  • QA team application review

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Packaging

  • Package merges/syncs: beforelight (take 2)
  • Reviewed Timo's xorg package for upload
  • Began looking into updating fglrx (and nvidia) in restricted-drivers

Testing / Bugs

  • Bug triage
    • Closed many xorg NEEDS INFO bugs > 3 mo w/ no answer

    • Fixed some bugs, passed some upstream, etc.
  • Began conceptualizing acceptance testing approach for xorg
  • Testing/troubleshooting on Dell 1505n laptop; posted status to warthogs; updated it a few times from reader comments
  • Reviewed NVidia's troubleshooting FAQ and addressed LP bugs on those issues

Specs

  • xorg 7.3 status (ACCEPTED):
  • bulletproof-x status (ACCEPTED):
    • got review comments from quinn & colin

    • implemented preliminary failsafeXServer script + INSTALL file (And it actually works!)
    • tested in VESA mode on T30.
  • displayconfig-gtk status (REVIEW)
    • Testing bzr-head against different systems (ati, radeon, intel)
    • Sending patches for minor fixes here and there
    • Assisting in bug triaging/reporting
  • compiz-by-default status (REVIEW)
    • Testing, adding to spec

Misc

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)

GNOME

  • gnome-orca upload
  • worked on DesktopTeam wiki

  • sponsored a lot of packages for new contributors, YAY
  • vte fix, gtksourceviewmm and nemiver updates, updated gnome-specimen, fixed gdm color bug, fixed gnome-sesion to work with gnome-power-manager again

MOTU

  • motu mentoring
  • motu documentation
  • MOTU Q&A session

  • motu discussions
  • reviewing motu packages/patches
  • sponsored a lot of packages for new contributors, YAY

Bug Tools

  • bughelper upload

Misc

  • status update meeting
  • derivative team discussions

Bug Triage

Artwork

  • artwork discussions
  • hacked on art builder

Evan Dandrea (evand)

  • Prepared installers for Tribe 1 by testing images and fixing bugs in Ubiquity.
  • Started work on a contributing to Ubiquity document.
  • Answered questions from mythbuntu developers.
  • Did preliminary work for OSX and Vista support in migration-assistant.
  • Started work on ubiquity-automation. Slow progress.
  • Completed another merge.

Fabio Di Nitto (fabbione)

  • catch up after being sick
  • multipath-tools SRU finally in -proposed
  • fixed silo-installer outstanding bugs
  • tested pre-Tribe1 cd on sparc
  • more preparation work to move ubuntulog to the datacenter
  • gfs1 and gfs2 updates and testing
  • looking into a d-i for feisty-proposed/-updates to catch the last kernel but waiting for a new one to skip regressions introduced by -16-.
  • system-config-cluster update to something that works.

Henrik Omma (heno)

  • Bug triage
  • worked with forum ambassadors to extend the testing section of the forum to a more general QA section wit sub-sections for ISO testing, -proposed testing and bug triage
  • GSoC mentoring, with weekly meeting
  • start of ISO testing cycle with tribe 1
  • Coordinating various ISO tracker tweaks with stgraber
  • Interviews and various conf calls

Ian Jackson (iwj)

Done:

  • Discussed with Scott, and wrote a new disk full testing spec. (FullFilesystemSanityGutsy). Scott yet to approve but I've already started on trying to find where in libc to hack it. (Ideally I want to hack libc so I can catch in one place every syscall that returns ENOSPC.)

  • Various ongoing discussionlets about winmodem support, particulary in the context of Dell. The situation really needs improvement.
  • Got mvo to introduce me to Carlos Garnacho so we could get him to fix the default dialling type (apropos of winmodem support, but should be fixed generally). I also fixed the seeds to put sl-modem-daemon on the CD.
  • Updated the consistent-login-screen spec to prefer the VC switching approach at least at first. This is as unpopular as I expected and I predict that the end result will be a decision to turn off fast user switching.
  • Merged dpkg from svn to get the latest lpia changes.
  • Various other loose ends I've forgotten.

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

done:

  • release management discussion
  • Packaging Qt 4.3.0
  • Packaging KOffice 1.6.3
  • Finishing merges
  • main inclusion reports for strigi
  • SoC student mentoring
  • Fixing XDG menu problems in KControl
  • Testing tribe 1 CDs and making fixes
  • Mentoring Hobbsee to edit seeds and meta package
  • updating KDE 4 build in preparation for kde-system-settings spec

todo:

  • release tribe 1
  • kde-system-settings spec

Kees Cook (keescook)

Progress:

  • Security Updates
    • built/tested/published gimp update (USN-467-1)
    • published firefox update (USN-468-1)
    • published thunderbird update (USN-469-1)
    • reviewed/tested/published clamav update
  • Vulnerability Mitigation
    • /proc/$pid/maps protection enabled
    • built initial VMs for ASLR testing
    • hunted down ulimit defaults
    • reviewed/sponsored AppArmor uploads

  • Investigations
    • "star" deadlock
    • hash validation in apt
  • Bug Triage
    • cleared security bug reports of needless private/security flags
    • added dups, subs, and priv/sec flag handling to python-launchpad-bugs

Outstanding Issues:

  • AppArmor patches are needed in Gutsy kernel to continue testing work

  • VMWare WS6 licenses needed before 30 day license expires

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

  • UME mockups (IM, Keyboard, single-top-bar layout as specified by Intel)
  • Created example theme
  • Created documentation on using the AutomaticArtworkBuilder

  • next week: mountain view

Kyle McMartin (kylem)

Kernel:

  • dapper kernel cve tracking

Misc:

  • booking flights
  • filing expenses
  • preparing for mobile sprint

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Spec status:

  • all written up and pending approval
  • apport-better-retracing: got points 1 to 4 implemented now, last item is in progress

Merges: all done except for dhcdbd, will do after Tribe-1

Other stuff done that week:

  • Release management/engineering and related bug fixes for Tribe-1
  • New langpacks for stable-proposed and gutsy

Mathias Gug (mathiaz)

  • AppArmor integration

    • Improve management scripts.
    • Package new updates.
    • Debug profiles.
    • Send patches to upstream, accepted.
    • Update guide on wiki: UsingAppArmor.

    • Profiles are shipped in complain mode by default.
    • Get in touch with Grant Defayette that is interested in developing a GUI to manage apparmor profiles.
  • Spent Tuesday at Montreal support office.
    • Meet the support team.
  • Ubuntu MOTU:
    • Install and play with pbuilder and schroot.
  • Ubuntu:
    • Attend distro meeting, server meeting.
  • Ubuntu Server:
    • Wiki gardening for UbuntuServer, LP spec registration.

    • Work on specs for system administration framework evaluation:
      • sysadmin-framework-eval
      • sysadmin-framework-eval-criteria

Matthias Klose (doko)

Activity:

  • prepared and uploaded gutsy OOo, and related packages
  • glibc debian merge
  • new tcl/tk subminor upstream versions

Michael Vogt (mvo)

Misc:

  • mail catchup from vacation
  • fixes in AutomaticCodecInstallation gstreamer caps intersection code, fixed some bugs that were discovered after the release, fixed missing gst-inspection in gst-fluendo-mpegdemux

  • fixes in the desktop data extraction for desktop files with multiple sections
  • hacking on displayconfig-gtk (xrandr1.2 support started, ui discussion with sebastian and coordination with upstream of the backend)
  • updated/uploaded compiz to the latest git version for the compcomm (formerly known as beryl) project and some fighting with it (keeps crashing/hanging my system, might be HW related)
  • looked a bit into compcomm, but Amaranth is currently packaging it (it looks straightforward)
  • started with debian-deity mailing list catchup and merged some apt patches (more to come) and added lpia support into apt (required a bit of fiddling)

Specs:

  • work on libapt package failure apport integration (good progress)

Bugs:

  • gnome-app-install bug triage
  • debugged crash in auto-upgrader tester with Spads
  • debugging strangeness in g-s-t with iwj and asked upstream (garnacho) for help in the end who fixed the issue Smile :)

SoC:

  • reviewed/sponsored brasero upload build with libburn

Phillip Lougher (pkl)

  • CVE analysis and tracking
  • Several attempts at another Feisty-security kernel upload
  • Conference call to discuss security/update kernel processes

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

On holiday.

Søren Hansen (shawarma)

  • Samba bug triaging
  • (redhat-)system-config-samba packaging (pending upload)
  • eBox evaluation, tweaking, and packaging.
  • MOTU mentoring
  • Go through the server seeds looking for candidates for special server team care. (Doing a tiny bit of seed janitorial work in the process)

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Done:

  • Repackaged CUPS Driver Development Kit (cupsddk, www.cups.org), as it contained GPLed PostScript files without source

  • New ghostscript to sync up with upstream and to fix bug #118785 (/usr/bin/gsc conflicts with gambc package).
  • Answered bug reports.

Tim Gardner (rtg)

General:

  • Madwifi CVE in l-r-m for Feisty/Edgy/Dapper

Kernel:

  • Dapper CVE

Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)

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