For archives of previous meetings, please see DevelTeamMeetings.

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):

  • http://people.ubuntu.com/~bryce/Xorg/versions_current.html

  • xorg merged by Timo
  • got review comments from colin
  • waiting for new Debian bits to emerge from EXPERIMENTAL
• 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

• Began creating a high-level development summary page for X: http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X

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

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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