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For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

Present

• RobbieWilliamson - chair

• ColinWatson

• EvanDandrea

• JamesWestby

• LarsWirzenius

• LukeYelavich

• MatthiasKlose

• MichaelVogt

• SteveLangasek

Apologies

Agenda

• Jaunty Alpha 1

• UDS - http://summit.ubuntu.com/uds-jaunty/

  • Blueprints & Specs for Roadmap Topics - http://blueprints.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-jaunty

  • Team Topics - http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/UDS/December2008

• Bugs

  • Milestoned bugs

  • Targeted bugs

• Sponsorship queue

• Any business from activity reports
• Good news
• Reminder for release meeting, if due this week
• AOB

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Actions from this meeting

• Robbie to update the Jaunty UDS planning wiki with blueprints for sessions

Activity reports

Colin Watson

• Fixed gfxboot-theme-ubuntu #294840.
• Helped Kyle Nitzsche (OEM) out with taking over Classmate PC work.
• Merged: memtest86+, partman-auto, partman-auto-lvm,partman-auto-crypto, network-console, installation-report,localechooser, and most of debian-installer
• Made powermanagement-interface build on armel, and cleared out some old bugs in it (#45680, #149678, #182651).
• Typo fix in language-selector.
• Bits of man-db and dpkg bug triage.
• Fix gamin build failure (noticed by Matthias on armel).
• Fix palo build failure.
• Various armel-related buildability and installability fixes; also some related archive administration work.
• Worked to get the GTK debian-installer frontend buildable in Ubuntu (including vte packaging merge).
• Wrote archive script to check for override mismatches between architectures; output at

  • http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/architecture-mismatches.txt (may well be empty when you read this, but it does work ...).

Evan Dandrea

• Short week, off on Friday, November 14th.
• oem-config work
• partman-target merge.

• Specification work: JauntyUbiquityUsability, usb-creator (still in progress)

James Westby

Distributed Development

• Machine moved to the DMZ so that it can be exposed to the public to serve branches. No loggerhead/playground set up
  • yet.
• Move meant that the firewall is currently preventing the importers from working, so a backlog is building up. RT ticket filed requesting the needed holes to be punched in the firewall or alternative solution proposed.
• Discovered that my user account on the machine had a wacky locale set. Changed to a sane one and reduced the failure count by ~1000 (exact number not available at present due to previous point, somewhere around 500 failures remain, ~4%)
• Basic documentation written for how to use the branches, need to incorporate Colin's feedback, and detail what is different for working with the temporary branches.
• Spoke to Celso last week about getting the needed APIs, apparently shouldn't be too hard, but isn't top of his priority list. Current situation works, but isn't ideal. I can work on a solution that will improve most cases.
• Spoke to Kubuntu team about bzr for packaging.
• Also spoke to Celso about building packages directly from bzr. This is hard to do if we want to retain signed source packages, but not impossible.

Ubuntu

• Sponsoring feast. >50 items sponsored in the last few days.

• UDS specs

Lars Wirzenius

• Thinking about wonderful things Cruft Remover could do in jaunty. No coding or wiki activity yet.
• Started preparing my Ubuntu Contributing Developer application.
• Looked at the lockfile-progs merge, and prodded the previous uploader about it (looked like an easy one).
• Verified that the buildd-built system-cleaner SRU binaries fix the bugs the SRU is supposed to fix.

Luke Yelavich

Audio

• Audio bug triaging.
• Ongoing consideration and examination on how the alsa kernel modules could be maintained outside the kernel in their own package, for the several kernels Ubuntu has.
• Merged alsa-driver, alsa-lib, alsa-plugins, alsa-utils, and pulseaudio. Jaunty will have 0.9,13 at a minimum, and hopefully one or two releases newer than that will be available before feature freeze.

Dmraid

• Spent some time checking that the dmraid package in Debian has all the bits I put into the ubuntu package, and fakesynced it into intrepid, due to the newer upstream version in alioth svn not being in debian experimental yet.
• Resume packaging work for the pieces needed for dmraid event monitoring.

Misc

• Cleared the debian-installer component merges that my name was next to, as well as the universe merges that I care about.
• Updated some newly released gnome 2.25 accessibility packages.

Matthias Klose

• armel bootstrap
• toolchain updates
• bug triage

Michael Vogt

SRU

• update compoiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported
• SRU for the package description translations to jaunty-proposed

sponsoring

• Review/sponsor system-cleaner

apt

• fix apt pty problem with background processes (debian #463030)
• Work on updating ddtp debian import script (debian does no longer publish the Translations tarball on ddtp.debian.net)

synaptic

• add (basic) support for screenshots.debian.net by adding a button fetch thumbs/full screenshots
• hack a bit on screenshotMaker.py - a script that can create screenshots automatically and unattended in xvfb

popularity-conetest

• create backup of the data (we have a lot of it)
• write code so that it can give the most popular packages that are not part of a meta-package (in g-a-i utils/analyzePopconData.py)

merges

• Merge cron, unzip, vorbisgain, upx-ucl, tracker, smartmontools, moin, libxslt, lockfile-progs, libgsf, lapack, aptitude, gpm,
  • popularity-contest, apmd, alacarte, python-gdata, xsane (and submit changes to debian when appropriate)

update-manager

• look into libvirt and if the auto-upgrade-tester can be ported to it easily
• setup auto-upgrade-tester for intrepid-jauny
• Fix --ssh-key to install a ssh server in ubuntu-vm-builder and push to lp
• fix sources.list inconsistencies on upgrade as discussed on ubuntu-devel

• enable interpid->jaunty upgrades in the meta-release-development file (and test-upgrade to it)

misc

• research the various backup tools and look at the various solutions

Steve Langasek

Release management

• finish getting the archive ready for jaunty
  • jaunty opening merges: emacs-goodies-el
• preparations for alpha-1

Packages

• further cleanup of PAM bugs
• pick up assigned (== t-i-l) merges for jaunty: choose-mirror,cracklib2, djvulibre, mime-tools, wireless-tools, libpam-ldap

Misc

• aid with indoctrination of new kernel team members @ Portland sprint
• Lexington November Nexus
• Monday archive duties