Ubuntu Wiki

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

Proposed Specs

• move CD booting to grub2/gfxterm (ColinWatson)

• smoother boot splash via grub2 and a boot framebuffer (ColinWatson, ScottJamesRemnant)

• Multiarch Redux

• Package Culling - find and aggressively deal with packages whose merges have been lagging for several releases

• Upstart Q&A UDS session

• Implement the installer redesign spec (EvanDandrea)

• 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)

• 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).

• Download updates while installing (EvanDandrea)

• D-Bus Refactor of release-upgrader - discuss refactoring the release-upgrader backend as a dbus service to improve reliability/responsiveness (MichaelVogt)

• btrfs Support (seconded by OEM)

• UEFI Firmware Support

• OpenJDK6 updates for older Ubuntu releases (MatthiasKlose)

• CD build speed - CD build speed has been creeping back up of late; attack it again

• Discuss testing (seconded by OEM)

• 10.04 Review - hold this early to aid breakout topics, maybe in the first roundtable

• Boot Performance/Experience

• 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

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

• Migration to Python 3 (BarryWarsaw)

• Eliminate symlinks for python-[central (BarryWarsaw). This is a duplicate of foundations-lucid-robust-python-packaging.

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

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

• Drop the IA64 and SPARC community ports

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

• Toolchain decisions for Maverick. May be followed up with architecture specific sessions. (MatthiasKlose)

• packagekit as backend for software-center

• Implement fscaps handling in dpkg

• Review and Planning for Distributed Development

• Use Energy Star compliance power settings by default (proposed by OEM)

• Use xz compression by default for binary packages (proposed by community member)

• Use Swap Files Instead of Swap Partitions (carried over from Karmic)

• Better archive crawler (carried over from Lucid)

• Finish Upstart (seconded by OEM indirectly for their interest in continued boot performance improvements)

• Improved Platform-Internationalization Collaboration (seconded by OEM)

• Enable Hybrid suspend/hibernate by Default (proposed by OEM)

• apt Ordering

• Software Center Dynamic App View

• Software Center Dynamic Testing Improvements

• Software Center Screenshots for Third-parties

• update-manager Improvements

• Speed up downloads of .debs by using apt-sync

Accepted Sessions

TBD

Declined Sessions

TBD