For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

Present

• RobbieWilliamson - chair

• ColinWatson

• EvanDandrea

• MichaelVogt

• MikeTerry

• MuharemHrnjadovic

• ScottJamesRemnant

Apologies

• LarsWirzenius - On Holiday

• MatthiasKlose - on Canonical OEM Team rotational assignment

• SteveLangasek - Travelling back from Debian/Ubuntu Boot Performance Sprint

Agenda

• Karmic

  • DebianImportFreeze is tomorrow - merge, merge, merge!!!

  • glibc
  • Status and Roadmap

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/ReleaseStatus/Karmic

  • Reminder to Milestone Features

  • Platform Team Sprint - http://wiki.canonical.com/UbuntuPlatform/Sprints/Karmic

• 8.04.3 LTS Update

  • https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-8.04.3

• Sponsorship queue
• Good news

  • Great progress made at the Debian-Ubuntu Boot Performance Sprint

• AOB

Outstanding actions from last meeting

• liw to enter the storm of dmraid and talk to TheMuso

• Keybuk to draft KMS on the Console spec....based on mysterious irc discussion

Actions from this meeting

Activity reports

Colin Watson

• Fixed ubiquity #361627 (should not remove ecryptfs-utils when in use).
• Merged: grub2, busybox, ubuntu-policy, gnu-efi, openldap
• Drafted specs: foundations-karmic-golden-iso-image, foundations-karmic-cloud-setup-in-server-installer,foundations-karmic-server-installer-improvements
• Reviewed/approved specs: foundations-karmic-install-updates-when-installing, foundations-karmic-update-on-shutdown, foundations-karmic-power-management
• Fixed user-setup #388822 (username cannot have underscore during install).
• Sponsorship:
  • iso-scan (merge from Muharem).
• Proposed a parted patch to clean up its current messy names for swap partition types.
• Sent a few busybox patches upstream (and then argued about them).
• Sent a proposal for installer online help text to debian-boot.
• LWN interview regarding GRUB 2.
• Adjusted base-installer for new PAE kernel package naming.
• Dynamically linked busybox in the initramfs, saving a megabyte. Some other shrinkage in initramfs-tools and dmraid.
• Worked on removing the old timezone map from ubiquity.

Evan Dandrea

• Helped Marc Tardiff with a few emails on his experiences with=ubiquity automation. Verified that NTP preseeding was working, but filed bug 388343 after some discussion with Colin.
• Uploaded casper 1.132ubuntu0.3 to fix persistence support in 8.04.3.
• Tested Wubi r136 as a candidate to replace the version we have on the website for 9.04. Filed a RT to have IS sign the binary.

• Had a discussion with Dylan McCall across the ubuntu-installer and ubiquity-slideshow mailing lists about the best approach for a slide format, then incorporating their existing work into the specification. Poked around the webkitgtk code.

• Helped debug some installation issues in #ubuntu-installer for waters and mattn_
• Finished drafting the encrypted swap specification. Prodded Agostino and Roman to finish their respective specs. All specifications are now approved.
• Email discussion with Michael Terry on what specifications and other work he can pick up for 9.10.
• Sorted travel for Debcamp and the sprint.
• Email discussion with Belinda about notifying interested parties about changes to oem-config.
• Did a bit of sponsorship work (LP: #380940, #384648, #349844)
• Looked into unit testing devkit-disks code via netlink messages, but after some discussion with Scott found it's much easier and better practice to create a fake devkit-disks.
• Looked into an issue of ubiquity ending up on the installed system, as reported on ubuntu-devel.
• Wrote an article for the Partner Newsletter, per Larry's request.
• Email discussion with Tim on the likelihood of colinux ever making it into the Ubuntu kernel. As this was a definite no, sent an email to ubuntu-devel announcing that we will not be pursuing it for Wubi.
• Followed up with the Xandros user looking to install Ubuntu via USB on ubuntu-devel, per Robbie's request.

• Started a conversation with Andrew Sayers on his https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallProgramsFromMigrationAssistant specification. Andrew expressed interest on helping with the m-a rewrite, so I'm going to touch base with him when I return from vacation.

• Pushed Wubi r137 to Karmic.
• Hacked on the devkit backend / better backend split code for usb-creator.
• Reviewed rgreening's usb-creator backend work. Looks about ready, but I'll have to make the necessary changes to the GTK frontend and pull in the devkit backend when I return from vacation, as we're long overdue for a new release.

James Westby

Distributed Development

• Started importing lots of main, but slowed due to the the volume of mail generated. Launchpad developers promptly fixed this, thanks. I've started the import again.
• There are what appear to be similar problems causing the import of quite a few packages to fail. Investigation of this not yet done.

Daily Builds

• Spec not completed, sorry. It will be done this week.

Kerneloops

• Spec drafted and approved. Much help from Martin Pitt on how to implement the needed pieces in apport, thanks.

Distro tasks

• Some new packages so that we can have the new launchpadlib. Just one new package left to do I think.
• Less sponsoring than I would have liked due to being away.

Other

• 4 days conference leave for Open Source Bridge

• Preparation and travel arrangements for DebConf.

Lars Wirzenius

Matthias Klose

• Update and test GCC to build with SSP
• python2.6/python3.1 updates
• Update eglibc-2.9/-2.10 in PPA
• simple eclipse update, first steps to a roadmap to update eclipse in Ubuntu.
• build dash using profile based optimization
• binutils updates needed for ARM
• llvm update, needed for OpenJDK
• prepare gdb trunk (vfp support on ARM)

Michael Vogt

Specs

• Set apt-pre-unpack spec to review

• KarmicInternalRepositoryManagment in review

update-manager

• Add code to the non-interactive upgrader to read the dpkg progress logs (pre-unpack spec)
• Add code to libapt to output when dpkg is about to be forked on the status-fd (pre-unpack spec)
• PAE kernel transition discussion
• misc bugfixes
• add auto-upgrade tester as its own package
• ship kubuntu and main-all in default profiles for the auto-upgrade tester (plus lts-server and lts-ubuntu)
• fix problem with left-over kvm instances
• fixes in the auto-upgrade-tester cli interface
• upload new version with auto-upgrade-tester package

kernel-crashdump

• learn about it (including how to trigger it, use "crash" etc)
• fix grub to pass better crashfile= parameter (#389449)
• fixes in kexec-tools
• update crash and makecrashfile to new upstream versions (and fix libdw-dev along the way)
• switch crash output to ELF by default, this got me a meaningful backtrace with "crash" and the linux-image-debug kernel
• make it work by default once the "linux-crashdump" pacakge is installed

AppCenter

• AppCenter design discussion

• Update app-install-data with the keyword data from mpt
• discussion about dbus apt backend with glatzor
• add debconf support to aptdaemon based around passthrough frontend and a debconf socket (lp:~mvo/aptdaemon/debconf)

misc

• Merge the confflictschecker changes by sbeattie to macaroni and make it run again (yeah!)

• Fix ubuntu-vm-builder problem (vol_id -> blkid)

• Synaptic: merge i18n fix
• Fix bugAddress in software-properties
• Debug/fix apt scoring problem with recommends (in the problem resolver)

sponsoring

• smartmontools, metacity, gnome-games

Mike Terry

Merges

• Re-merged hdparm
• Updated duplicity

Rsyslog

• Finished de-rooting it
• Polished upgrade/migration code
• Filed MIRs
• Waiting on review

Ubiquity/oem-config merge

• Spent a while on merging the oem-config codebase with ubiquity's
• Kept history and format by using bzr-merge-into plugin
• Now there are very few oem-config-specific files, there are just bits of code that behave differently when run as oem-config.
• Have something that builds, have not tested yet. Will upload as a bzr branch soon.

Muharem Hrnjadovic

Administrivia

• Took care of Platform sprint travel arrangements

Merges and syncs

• iso-scan_1.28ubuntu1
• dput 0.9.4ubuntu1
• lcms_1.18.dfsg-1
• netbase_4.35ubuntu1
• gawk_3.1.6.dfsg-3ubuntu1
• ifplugd_0.28-15ubuntu1
• rabbitmq-server 1.6.0-1
• texmaker_1.9.1-1ubuntu1
• crash_4.0-8.9-1

Distributed development

• I felt I needed a bit more background so went back and read all the specs on the subject
• started using bzr-builddeb in order to understand the underlying ideas better.
• analysis and study of the bzr-rebase plugin source code.

Scott James Remnant

Upstart

• Upstream license reverted back to GPLv2 (from GPLv3)
• Much bug fixing, with several new releases: 0.3.10 and 0.3.11 of the stable branch (uploaded to Ubuntu) and 0.5.2 and 0.5.3 of the development branch

Kernel

• More fiddling with trying to get the populate_rootfs() call to be async, not having much luck yet - the first thing that the initcalls do is resync - may have to move the function a bit later on
• Union mount testing

Udev

• Updated bzr tree to 143, including necessary rules and control changes caused by the inclusion of the udev-extras code (not yet uploaded)

Other

• Debian/Ubuntu Boot sprint

Steve Langasek

Release management

• release meeting: FeatureDefinitionFreeze

• Ubuntu 8.04.3 work

Specs

• following up on Debian LTS coordination

Misc

• boot performance sprint in London