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For archives of previous meetings, please see DevelTeamMeetings.

Apologies

• Ian Jackson (iwj) - off sick
• Matt Zimmerman (mdz) - strategic planning
• Michael Vogt (mvo) - GUADEC
• Scott James Remnant (Keybuk) - GUADEC
• Sebastien Bacher (seb128) - GUADEC
• Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) - GUADEC

Agenda

1. Roll call
   • Apologies
2. Review agenda
   • Review activity reports
   • Propose additional items
   • Accept agenda

1. Actions from previous meeting

1. Release readiness update
2. Other business

Activity Reports

Adilson Oliveira (adilson)

• Prepared documentation for UME applications
• Tested candidates for UME applications
• Documented moblin-image-builder
• Updated UME documentation
• Merged Intel code into Launchpad
• Fixed packages from Moblin repository.
• Created UME image creation procedure.
• Fixed hildon/python related packages.

Alexander Sack (asac)

• Distro Sprint in London mostly working on network-manager; at the end starting firefox dapper backporting ...
• upstream released firefox security update in a quick roll-out, because of a zero-day windows-only exploit; in consequence, we - linux distributors - had to hurry; so i worked almost exclusively on backporting patches to 1.8.0 branch, preparing packages for all supported distributions, doing QA and coordinating with other linux distributors.

Amit Kucheria (amitk)

• Finished gutsy kernel rebase and release with ABI bump
• Finished UME kernel config and addition of UME flavour to gutsy
• Started draft spec for UME power management
• Provided feedback to Intel on UME thermal optimisation spec
• Bug triaging
• Gutsy kernel update patching

Ben Collins (BenC)

• Walked amitk through gutsy cycle
• Finished and published kernel-sru-policy wiki from sprint
• coordinating various kernel team related items
• distro sprint

Brian Murray (bdmurray)

Bug triaging:

• triaging of gutsy bugs without a package
• tagged lots of bugs as kernel-oops

ISO testing:

• Ubuntu AMD64 Desktop CD
• submitted a couple of bugs

Other:

• approved 1 Ubuntu QA team application
  • William Lima aka xxxxx1
• sru verification of bug 114184
• submitted RT for ubuntu-qa mailing list
• started revamp of bugsquad wiki pages

  • created BugSquad/ManagingStatus

  • created BugSquad/Header

  • created BugSquad/KnowledgeBase

Bryce Harrington (bryce)

Following pitti's lead, this also covers time both before and after the sprint (and a bit in between).

Packaging

• Uploaded xorg-server, xserver-xorg-video-nv 2.1.2, xserver-xorg-video-amd, xserver-xorg-input-evdev, xauth 1.0.2, xrandr 1.2.1
• Packaged (not yet uploaded): xwininfo, xfontsel, xload, xsetpointer, xrdb, xserver-xorg-video-psb (new driver), mdetect (merged vmmouse_detect code), libxfont, libxcomposite 0.4.0, x11proto-composite 0.4.0
• xorg merge with debian

Bug Triage / Testing

• Tested Xorg on Dell 1505n after reinstall from factory image, driver upgrades, sleep, ext. monitor, etc.
• Triaged 100 old xorg bugs; closed out-of-date NEEDSINFO bugs
• Laptop/Projector testing at sprint

Specs

• Bulletproof-X:
  • Implemented blacklist logic for EDID/PCI ID data
  • Integrated failsafe files into x11-common installation and gdm package (not yet uploaded)
  • Reviewed bpx with displayconfig-gdk with mvo
• Simple X Configuration
  • Tested latest displayconfig-gtk
  • Studied xresprobe + related toolset
  • Studied Ubuntu and Debian dexconf's
  • Studied xserver-xorg.postinst.in code

  • Identified tasks for further research/fixing: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/MonitorDetection

Chris Cheney (calc)

• Sprint
• OOo 2.2.1-5ubuntu3 uploaded
• Working on OOo 2.3 upload for gutsy, but it's still failing to build
• Bug triaging

Daniel Holbach (dholbach)

Misc

• fixing rarian packaging
• prepared talk for ubuntulive
• distro team meeting

Desktop

• fixed gnome-control-center
• sponsored compiz and gnome-session uploads
• reviewed and sponsored Desktop packages

Community

• triaged sponsoring bugs
• motu discussions, motu mentoring
• mentoring, reviewing packages

• improved UbuntuDevelopment/CodeReviews

Bug Tools

• python-launchpad-bugs release
• bug log hacking

Distro Sprint

• wrote "bzr unpack" (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2007-July/023948.html)

• worked 'uploader' into MoM together with Scott
• MOTU brainstorming
• Packaging Training
• finished patch for greasemonkey epiphany-extension and got it accepted upstream
• good discussions about using bzr, sponsoring process, packaging documentation
• other things I forgot

Evan Dandrea (evand)

• Bug fixing and triaging.

• ubuntu-without-restricted:

  • work to get the daily CD images installing a usable system.

• ubiquity-automation:

  • fixes and polish for noninteractive mode.
  • work towards proper page skipping.
• MOTU Packaging.
  • gok, gcalctool, hippo-canvas, evolution-exchange, gnome-bluetooth, etc.

Fabio Di Nitto (fabbione)

Done:

• tons of meetings at distro sprint
• put almost all my packages in final state to handover to others
• sponsoring review/uploads
• lots of sparc test installs and general testing before handover
• fixed lvm2 for sparc LDOM

Ian Jackson (iwj)

Off sick.

Jonathan Riddell (Riddell)

Done:

• tribe 3 testing and fixes
• finished KDE 4 alpha 2 packaging
• NEW queue processing
• security patch to kdebase in gutsy
• started kiosktool spec
• strigi-integration spec, testing and discussing with upstream
• dolphin spec, finishing off Tonio's work
• Packaging and testing new artwork along with Tonio

To do:

• kiosktool spec

Kees Cook (keescook)

Progress:

• Server Team Sprint!
• Distro Team Sprint!
• Security Updates
  • built/tested/published imagemagick update (USN-481-1)
  • published openoffice update (USN-482-1)
  • published libnet-dns-perl update (USN-483-1)
  • built/tested/published curl update (USN-484-1)
  • built/tested/published php5 update (USN-485-1)
  • built/tested/published dovecot update (USN-487-1)
  • built/tested/published mod_perl update (USN-488-1)
  • published edgy kernel update (USN-486-1)
  • published dapper kernel update (USN-489-1)
  • reviewed/sponsored clamav update (CVE-2007-3725)
  • built/published ulogd update (CVE-2007-0460)
• Vulnerability Mitigation
  • added ipv6 "rt" module to iptables in -proposed

  • AppArmor kernel module coordination

• MOTU
  • main-sponsoring of sysklogd bug fixes
• Mentoring
  • ldap-auth-client with dendrobates
  • mdetect with bryce

Kenneth Wimer (kwwii)

• Further work on Ubuntu mobile UI. Specifically, making mockups for all apps based on the current design. Creating final icons for "status bar" perhaps also to be used in Gutsy.
• worked on an idea I had for a desktop wallpaper for Gutsy shortly
• worked on Kubuntu website a bit - still a major work in progress

• worked on Kubuntu artwork for Gutsy - got a lot done in a short time

Kyle McMartin (kylem)

security:

• linux-source-2.6.15 28.56
• linux-source-2.6.15 28.57

gutsy:

• lum: update e1000-ich9 to latest release
• lum: update iwlwifi to latest release

support:

• mptsas build
• megaraid fix

Martin Pitt (pitti)

Two halves of a weekly report (with the distro sprint in between) this time.

Spec status:

• crash-reporting: Implemented and rolled out, did some adjustments during the sprint.

• apport-crash-duplicates, apport-better-retracing: some bug fixes

• apport-for-upstreams: no change since last week

• debian-maintainer-field: no change (remaining universe rebuilds will be done after feature freeze to minimize churn)

• restricted-manager-improvements: no change since last week.

Other notable stuff done:

• Tribe-3 release engineering and co-management with Hobbsee, lots of firefighting and bug fixing
• SoC mentoring and mid-term evaluations; both of my students failed unfortunately

Mathias Gug (mathiaz)

• Developer:

  • AppArmor integration:

    • AppArmor into main: various discussion with martin. It was decided to put infrastructure packages into main and the profiles package into universe after the release of tribe-3.

    • Investigate using bzr to control all of the source tree (not only debian/). Asked for import of upstream svn repository.
• Tester :
  • test pre - tribe-3 server images.
  • Update test cases for install methods.
• Triager : dovecot, mysql.
• Community :
  • discuss/prepare/send the Ubuntu Server Team announcement.
  • review and approve ubuntu-server applications.
  • update wiki pages: Membership policy, Contact.
  • update personal wiki page and apply for ubuntu member.
• Meeting:
  • ubuntu-server team meeting: prepare agenda, write meeting notes.
  • Gutsy sprint in London end of last week.

Matthias Klose (doko)

NO REPORT RECEIVED.

Michael Vogt (mvo)

GUADEC.

Phillip Lougher (pkl)

• Reading up and experimenting with debian-packaging for WriteSupportForNTFS

• Reading up on Lupin and InstallerForWindows

• CVE triaging and patching
• Bug triaging

Rick Clark (dendrobates)

• sprint and travel
• worked on getting ldap-auth-client meta package accepted
• Building community
• ldap-auth-config development.

Sebastien Bacher (seb128)

GUADEC.

Søren Hansen (shawarma)

• Bug triaging
  • MySQL
  • Apache2
  • PHP5
• Prepare more eBox packages for upload to universe (pending approval)
  • ebox-network
  • ebox-ntp
  • ebox-firewall
• Packaged Storm
• Merges
  • Samba
  • vim
  • pbuilder
  • squid

Till Kamppeter (tkamppeter)

Done:

• Ported many bug fixes of ESP Ghostscript into GPL Ghostscript to avoid regressions by the switch to GPL Ghostscript.
• New snapshot of the merged GPL Ghostscript for Tribe 3
• Investigated packaging of new HPLIP 2.7.6, discussing simplifications with Debian maintainer Henrique Moraes Holschuh.
• Improved CUPS page accounting feature of Foomatic so that it can be activated by default (bug 126139).
• Answered bug reports.

Tim Gardner (rtg)

General:

• A couple of hours experimenting with Dell E1501 Gutsy boot problems

Kernel:

• Gutsy l-r-m madwifi 0.9.3.1 update
• Edgy security update, ABI bump
• Edgy l-r-m ABI bump
• Edgy linux-meta ABI bump
• iwlwifi Gutsy testing

Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen)

GUADEC.

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