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Note: This page is for prioritizing Foundations track UDS-M sessions. For general Maverick planning, please see FoundationsTeam/Maverick/Planning.

Session Topics

The following sessions are broken out by topic; for a flat listing of the sessions, see below.

General

1. [ACCEPTED] 10.04 Review - hold this early to aid breakout topics, maybe in the first roundtable

2. [ACCEPTED] Spring Clean - right after an LTS release is a good time for an aggressive cleanup of things we don't need or that should be extensively refactored

3. [ACCEPTED] btrfs Support (seconded by OEM)

4. [ACCEPTED] Toolchain decisions for Maverick. May be followed up with architecture specific sessions. (MatthiasKlose)

   1. Compile for i686 as the default on i386 - instead of i486

5. [ACCEPTED] Improved Platform-Internationalization Collaboration (seconded by OEM)

Building/Packaging

1. [ACCEPTED] Multiarch Support (may not need further discussion?)

2. [ACCEPTED] Drop the IA64 and SPARC community ports

3. [ACCEPTED] CD build speed - CD build speed has been creeping back up of late; attack it again

4. [ACCEPTED] Better archive crawler (carried over from Lucid)

5. [ACCEPTED] Package Culling - find and aggressively deal with packages whose merges have been lagging for several releases

6. [ACCEPTED] Speed up downloads of .debs by using apt-sync

Installation

1. [ACCEPTED] Implement the installer redesign spec (EvanDandrea)

2. [ACCEPTED] Download updates while installing (EvanDandrea)

3. [ACCEPTED] Use Swap Files Instead of Swap Partitions (carried over from Karmic)

Update/Upgrade

1. [ACCEPTED] Discuss testing (seconded by OEM)

2. [ACCEPTED] D-Bus Refactor of release-upgrader - discuss refactoring the release-upgrader backend as a dbus service to improve reliability/responsiveness (MichaelVogt)

3. [ACCEPTED] Refactor update-notifier - make update-notifier a more modular design (probably with vala), it has out-grown to be a update-notifier since some time (MichaelVogt)

4. [ACCEPTED] update-manager Improvements

5. [ACCEPTED] Remove Demoted Packages on Upgrade - We need to explore the removal of demoted packages on upgrade (all, only auto-installed ones, only default installed ones, only unused... how to detect).

Booting

1. [ACCEPTED] move CD booting to grub2/gfxterm (ColinWatson)

2. [ACCEPTED] smoother boot splash via grub2 and a boot framebuffer (ColinWatson, ScottJamesRemnant)

3. [ACCEPTED] Boot Performance/Experience (seconded by OEM)

4. [ACCEPTED] UEFI Firmware Support

Upstart

1. [ACCEPTED] Upstart Q&A UDS session

2. [ACCEPTED] Finish Upstart (seconded by OEM indirectly for their interest in continued boot performance improvements)

Developer Support

1. [ACCEPTED] Review and Planning for Distributed Development

2. [ACCEPTED] OpenJDK6 updates for older Ubuntu releases (MatthiasKlose)

3. [ACCEPTED] Automated transition testing framework (build, run upstream unit test, 2to3, report on ftbfs and test failures, against any/every python version) (BarryWarsaw)

4. [ACCEPTED] Python Robustification - this blueprint includes the two below for ease of UDS session scheduling, and it carries over (though likely with different work items) the a similar Lucid era spec.

   1. Eliminate symlinks for python-central and python-support using PEP 3147? Needs support for extensions. (And mostly done for python-central). (BarryWarsaw).

   2. Freezing (e.g. cx_freeze) critical dist upgrade tools? (BarryWarsaw)

5. [ACCEPTED] Python Versions - this blueprint includes the two below for ease of UDS session scheduling

   1. Python 2.7 (BarryWarsaw) That should be tested before UDS as a basis for a decision.

   2. Migration to Python 3 (BarryWarsaw)

Software Center

1. [ACCEPTED] Software Center Roadmap

   1. Software Center Dynamic App View

   2. Software Center Dynamic Testing Improvements

   3. Software Center Screenshots for Third-parties

   4. packagekit as backend for software-center

Accepted Sessions

1. [ACCEPTED] 10.04 Review - hold this early to aid breakout topics, maybe in the first roundtable

2. [ACCEPTED] Software Center Roadmap

   1. Software Center Dynamic App View

   2. Software Center Dynamic Testing Improvements

   3. Software Center Screenshots for Third-parties

   4. packagekit as backend for software-center

3. [ACCEPTED] Upstart Q&A UDS session

4. [ACCEPTED] Finish Upstart (seconded by OEM indirectly for their interest in continued boot performance improvements)

5. [ACCEPTED] Multiarch Support (may not need further discussion?)

6. [ACCEPTED] btrfs Support (seconded by OEM)

7. [ACCEPTED] move CD booting to grub2/gfxterm (ColinWatson)

8. [ACCEPTED] smoother boot splash via grub2 and a boot framebuffer (ColinWatson, ScottJamesRemnant)

9. [ACCEPTED] Package Culling - find and aggressively deal with packages whose merges have been lagging for several releases

10. [ACCEPTED] Discuss testing (seconded by OEM)

11. [ACCEPTED] Implement the installer redesign spec (EvanDandrea)

12. [ACCEPTED] Refactor update-notifier - make update-notifier a more modular design (probably with vala), it has out-grown to be a update-notifier since some time (MichaelVogt)

13. [ACCEPTED] Remove Demoted Packages on Upgrade - We need to explore the removal of demoted packages on upgrade (all, only auto-installed ones, only default installed ones, only unused... how to detect).

14. [ACCEPTED] D-Bus Refactor of release-upgrader - discuss refactoring the release-upgrader backend as a dbus service to improve reliability/responsiveness (MichaelVogt)

15. [ACCEPTED] Boot Performance/Experience (seconded by OEM)

16. [ACCEPTED] UEFI Firmware Support

17. [ACCEPTED] OpenJDK6 updates for older Ubuntu releases (MatthiasKlose)

18. [ACCEPTED] Spring Clean - right after an LTS release is a good time for an aggressive cleanup of things we don't need or that should be extensively refactored

19. [ACCEPTED] Automated transition testing framework (build, run upstream unit test, 2to3, report on ftbfs and test failures, against any/every python version) (BarryWarsaw)

20. [ACCEPTED] Python Robustification - this blueprint includes the two below for ease of UDS session scheduling, and it carries over (though likely with different work items) the a similar Lucid era spec.

    1. Eliminate symlinks for python-central and python-support using PEP 3147? Needs support for extensions. (And mostly done for python-central). (BarryWarsaw).

    2. Freezing (e.g. cx_freeze) critical dist upgrade tools? (BarryWarsaw)

21. [ACCEPTED] Python Versions - this blueprint includes the two below for ease of UDS session scheduling

    1. Python 2.7 (BarryWarsaw) That should be tested before UDS as a basis for a decision.

    2. Migration to Python 3 (BarryWarsaw)

22. [ACCEPTED] Review and Planning for Distributed Development

23. [ACCEPTED] Use Swap Files Instead of Swap Partitions (carried over from Karmic)

24. [ACCEPTED] Download updates while installing (EvanDandrea)

25. [ACCEPTED] Drop the IA64 and SPARC community ports

26. [ACCEPTED] Toolchain decisions for Maverick. May be followed up with architecture specific sessions. (MatthiasKlose)

    1. Compile for i686 as the default on i386 - instead of i486

27. [ACCEPTED] Better archive crawler (carried over from Lucid)

28. [ACCEPTED] Improved Platform-Internationalization Collaboration (seconded by OEM)

29. [ACCEPTED] update-manager Improvements

30. [ACCEPTED] Speed up downloads of .debs by using apt-sync

31. [ACCEPTED] CD build speed - CD build speed has been creeping back up of late; attack it again

32. [ACCEPTED] Improving the installation process of Edubuntu - this probably belongs in a community session; will ping Jono; Foundations can make sure someone is present for the discussion, however

Lower priority, include only if they will fit

1. apt Ordering

2. Enable Hybrid suspend/hibernate by Default (proposed by OEM, but doesn't seem viable given current kernel support)

Declined Sessions

1. Improved server boot (superseded by Server boot and upstart)

2. Use xz compression by default for binary packages (proposed by community member) (we aren't going to use it by default, and we'll naturally get elective support by way of a dpkg merge)

3. Use Energy Star compliance power settings by default (proposed by OEM) - After a conversation with Colin, Pete Graner, and Pat McGowan, this was identified as something that the Desktop team would be involved in, not foundations