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Ideas

• 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

• Finish Upstart (ScottJamesRemnant)

  • Have a UDS session for each track that is impacted by Upstart (e.g., Desktop, Server, Kernel, NewCore)

  • 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)

• make screenshots.ubuntu.com show ubuntu branding and add support for PPAs and archive.canonical.com (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

• UEFI Firmware Support

Foundations Support

As usual, Foundations will be providing Ubuntu support for the other teams. A high-level listing of projects where we likely will be involved is given in this section.

Desktop

• As part of their UNE work, Desktop may end up promoting Chomium to main
• HUGE push for Software Center
  1. goal: sell stuff in software center,
  2. goal: figure out how to deliver opportunistic apps via the software center
  3. finish ratings
• Big push for touch, not sure what the impact is going to be for Foundations yet, but we need to be aware of it
• It would really help Desktop if Upstart+Plymouth work stabilized so they could work with it

Design

• Wayland (no idea what state this is in upstream, and the X side of things should be desktop, but at the very least we'll need to look at how this overlaps/interacts with Plymouth);
• We probably ought to have a look-in on the multi-screen work, if it's dealing with remembering configurations for individual devices;
• Installer, first boot, upgrades, Update Manager, and Software Centre;
• System settings (maybe, depending on what this comes down to);
• Possibly keyboard indicator but it depends what they're doing (if it's just visual then probably not).

Server

The server team has listed their planning by priority; their bullet items below reflect this.

• Priority 1: Cloud cluster file system (not sure if we'll be needed for this or not)
• Priority 2: Java/JDK improvements (doko does a lot of that; Server team is getting a Java person, so this may impact us less)
• Priority 2: Support of alternate install modes
• Priority 3: Upstart conversion

Kernel

• Improved battery power support work; Foundations may need to (or be able to) assist
• synaptec multi-touch (multi-finger... not multi-touch)
• new multi-touch driver enhancements that may need work from Foundations

OEM

• TBD

Placeholders for Big Topics

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

• Distributed Development
• 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)
• Python
  • Automated transition testing framework (build, run upstream unit test, 2to3, report on ftbfs and test failures, against any/every python version)
  • Migration to Python 3?
  • Eliminate symlinks for python-[central|support] using PEP 3147?

  • Python 2.7 (BarryWarsaw)

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

Lucid specs not done

(Numbers in parentheses indicate to-do/postponed/done.)

• desktop-lucid-language-selector (0/1/1)

• foundations-lucid-daily-builds (1/0/10)

• foundations-lucid-jockey-support-in-ubiquity (1/5/7)

• foundations-lucid-puppet-installer (0/2/2)

• foundations-lucid-robust-python-packaging (1/0/8)

• foundations-lucid-software-raid-in-ubiquity-for-desktop-install (0/7/7)

• foundations-lucid-stop-the-line-for-update-manager (0/0/10)

• security-lucid-catchall-medium (0/0/1)

Lucid specs partly done

• foundations-lucid-apt-netrc-mechanism (2/0/6)

• foundations-lucid-apt-python-apt-network-error-handling (2/0/7)

• foundations-lucid-backports-notautomatic (2/0/4)

• foundations-lucid-better-archive-crawler (2/0/9)

• foundations-lucid-distributed-development (11/0/35)

• foundations-lucid-dropping-sun-java6 (2/0/5)

• foundations-lucid-installer-design-improvements (3/0/9)

• foundations-lucid-lts-upgrades (14/0/24)

• foundations-lucid-software-center-history-of-packaging-transactions (4/2/9)

• foundations-lucid-upstart-server-review (5/0/8)

Lucid specs mostly done

• foundations-lucid-computer-janitor (3/0/4)

• foundations-lucid-laptop-mode-tools-integration (9/1/11)

• foundations-lucid-local-repo-support (8/0/10)

• foundations-lucid-non-applications-in-software-center (11/1/13)

• foundations-lucid-oem-config-localized-keyboard-layout (2/0/3)

• foundations-lucid-restart-required-dialog (3/0/4)

• foundations-lucid-software-center-subcategories (7/0/9)

• foundations-lucid-support-timeframe-information (9/0/11)