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Activity reports

Colin Watson

• Ubuntu 9.04 release!

• Started working through NewReleaseCycleProcess, with Scott.

• Merged: base-files, devscripts, lintian, ubuntu-policy, libdebian-installer, choose-mirror
• Synced: debian-policy (ironically, turned out to fail to build due to a missing build-dependency; working on this with my upstream hat)

Evan Dandrea

• Started working on usb-creator specifications for UDS Karmic.
• Started looking into a ctypes win32 backend to usb-creator.
• Fixed some low hanging fruit in the form of a few low priority ubiquity bugs.
• Spoke with bdilly about his usb-creator patch. Was told he'd put it in a public branch so I could merge it. Will follow up later in the week.
• Packaged parti-all and uploaded to my PPA.

James Westby

Lars Wirzenius

Luke Yelavich

Matthias Klose

• karmic toolchain opening
• gcc-4.4 was released, so open karmic with it
• gcj updates for hppa

• contribute openjdk local changes to IcedTea

• upstream python2.7 and python3.1 configuration changes
• armel image testing for jaunty
• upstream small binutils/GCC-4.4 local changes
• initiate jaunty test rebuild with karmic toolchain.

Michael Vogt

jaunty release

• Add SRU test-cases to the jaunty-proposed update-manager upload
• Add SRU instructions for packagekit error (#257639) and upload new version to jaunty-proposed
• Update meta-release for jaunty final and activate it
• Sru for synaptic (#365151) for the apt-xapian-index update
• Add release notes for unneede guidance-power-manager
• Update-manager SRU (to fix/workaround upgrade problem we discovered late)
• Compiz-fusion-plugins-unsupported sru (#349201)

upgrades

• lots of update-manager/post-release bug triage
• Create update-manager/jaunty branch and start karmic development in update-manager/main
• Debug apt-cacher releated sources.list rewrite problem with pmautilus
• Debug python upgrade problem with pymol
• Debug upgrade calculation failure with libkipi0/libkipi6 (#365840)
• Fix pmm to actually compile/install (#365995)
• Fix softflowd install failure (#365928)
• Fix crash in update-manager with partial upgrades (#366048)
• Refactor quirks hanlding code (in post-jaunty branch)
• Debug/fix incorrect free space calculation in u-m (#365623)
• Fix file overwrite error in opencity (#365619)
• When rewriting sources.list in update-manager, remove cdrom entries with no lists files
• Work on better sources.list rewrite for apt-cache/apt-p2p uris (#367002)
• Update-manager karmic upload
• Debug/fix langauge-selector quote problem (#241904)

apt

• Work on apt hash problme with turkish locales (#80248)
• Fix g++-4.4 build failures in apt
• Look into better segfault/coredump handling for jaunty in apt-term.log
• Add dmesg log to apt apport pkg failures (to get info about segfaults too)
• Look into auto tagging for dpkg file overwrite problems (#368435) (need support from dpkg)

misc

• Debug indicator-applet problem (#349237)
• Debug/fix notification-daemon crash (#131227)
• Debug/diagnose the synaptic problem (#365129) with conffile detection
• Debug/fix problem that apturl sometimes skipps adding sections (if it knowns about the package already)
• Fix apturl to support proper url synatax
• Work with asac on workaround for #363798
• Organize 1-to-1 meeting with Muharem

sponsoring

• Review/sponsor brasero (#361224)
• Review/sponsor gnome-terminal upload
• Review/sponsor gnome-terminal karmic upload

Scott James Remnant

Steve Langasek

Release management

• managed a release, with the help of a very persistent and dedicated team \o/
• sleep a bit (i.e., took Release Friday off)
• help with opening the archive for karmic

Packages

• sync coreutils (dropping Ubuntu diff)
• merge ntp

Misc

• post-release email catch-up, trying to sweep up all non-release-critical threads that were deferred