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Present

• RobbieWilliamson - chair

• ColinWatson

• EvanDandrea

• JamesWestby

• LarsWirzenius

• MatthiasKlose

• MikeTerry

• MuharemHrnjadovic

• ScottJamesRemnant

• SteveLangasek

Apologies

• MichaelVogt

Agenda

• Status Updates on Karmic Deliverables

  • Alpha 4

    • Cloud Setup in Installer - Defer to Alpha 5?

    • Grub2 as Default - Done, but still needs some cleanup work:

      • Blinking cursor
      • The flashes of text that still happen

      • Possible zero delay work

    • Installer Support for ISCSI - Done

    • Multiarch Support

    • Power Management Infrastructure Cleanup

    • Migration Assistant Redesign

    • Install Updates on Shutdown - Deferred to Alpha 5/6 (need to confirm when mvo returns)

    • Encrypted Swap

    • More Robust Python Packaging - Defered to Alpha 5/6 (need to confirm when mvo returns)

  • Missing Milestones

    • eGlibc Adoption

      • Also missing a blueprint

    • Archive Reorganization Phase 1

      • Not specifically tied to the release, so I'm assuming Ubuntu 9.10 milestone?

    • Copyright Licensing for Packages

    • Zsync work

    • Pre-unpacking of Packages During Download

• Sponsorship queue
• Missing Objectives from
  • Steve
  • James
  • Evan
• Good news
• AOB

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Actions from this meeting

• Robbie to update the team release status wiki for Karmic deliverables [Done]

Activity reports

Colin Watson

Evan Dandrea

James Westby

Lars Wirzenius

• Attended Debconf9. Liased, leveraged, synergized, and so on with a number Debian people. Gave a talk and BOF on piuparts (with Holger Levsen). Cooked up a bug exchange format proposal with Don Armstrong.
• Attended karmic sprint. Participated in some (e)glibc bug fixing, did some further zsync and debdelta research. Discussed these things with Launchpad team and Colin Watson. cdimage.ubuntu.com now generates .zsync files for ISO images (zsync seems to use much less bandwidth than rsync), and I have a strategy for Packages files and .deb downloads. Launchpad-dev indicates they might have at least Packages.zsync files generated in September.
• Prototyped a way to show kernel oops messages in a compact form that can be decoded by OCR or such, for times when the whole message can't be visible.

  • http://blog.liw.fi/posts/kernel-oops-compression/

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

Mike Terry

Muharem Hrnjadovic

• Platform sprint

Distributed development

• Implemented "merge-package" bzr command, see lp:~al-maisan/bzr-builddeb/merge-package
• Started adding tests and polishing the branch for review.

Scott James Remnant

Steve Langasek