0930

Colin Watson

* GRUB:

  • Finally nailed #430141 (Vista is not showing up in grub2); turned
    • out to be a ubiquity bug.
  • Show the boot menu if the previous boot (into Ubuntu) failed.
  • Don't emit memtest86+ menu items if /boot is on a loop-mounted
    • device, e.g. Wubi (#435153).
  • Installer:
    • Fixed base-installer #413135 again (Installer needs way to install
      • PAE kernel on i386 9.10 DVD).
    • Turned usplash on for the live CD (#434980).
    • Stop oem-config running all the time with new Upstart jobs
      • (#432180).
    • Fix a messy file-copy-blacklisting bug that broke boot loader OS
      • detection in ubiquity in some very strange ways (#436613).
    • Reorganise clock handling, in a further attempt to fix the class of
      • wrong-filesystem-timestamp bugs exemplified by #431786.
    • Fixed shell provision on live CD VTs (#434769).
    • Fixed tasksel regression #438546 (task list includes blank names).
    • Merged: partman-partitioning, base-installer (#435376)
  • Eucalyptus:
    • tasksel update for new UEC task.
    • Lots of fixes to installer integration (better error handling,
      • user-setup/encrypt-home carry-over, euca_conf --discover-nodes fixes, IPv6 problems with euca_find_cluster (#436200)).
    • Tweaks to euca_conf operation to make initial installation
      • experience smoother.
    • Boot sequence adjustments.
  • Converted usplash to Upstart (#434361). Not entirely without
    • incident, with a follow-up ubiquity bug, but on the whole this seems to have worked out rather well. Took nearly a full day of frequent reboots to figure it out though ...
  • Got Wubi working at long last (#435153), although perhaps only for
    • me; Dave Morley is still having trouble.

Evan Dandrea

  • Short week. Plumbers from the 23rd through the 25th. Swap day on

Monday to make up for United travel madness on Sunday.

  • Sponsored an upload of ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu for Dylan.
  • Lots of bug triage (this week and last, forgot to mention it in my

previous report).

  • CD testing.

ubiquity

  • Released two new versions of ubiquity.
  • Fixed a minor bug: Add missing definition of self.controller for

the noninteractive page in the language plugin.

usb-creator

  • Released a new version.
  • Fixed two small bugs:
    • Modify adtext.cfg as well when adding options to the syslinux

configuration (LP: #317059).

  • The persistence value is no longer passed around as a string.

Fix a check that assumed it was. This was causing the persistence option to always be written (LP: #436207).

James Westby

Distributed Development

  • Fixed some more import failures.
  • Asked to stop importing new branches by IS until they get
    • more disk space on codehosting. They estimate around 7 days until this is done.
  • Pinged the LP team about the release process around DD.

Daily Builds

  • Nothing this week.

Distro tasks

  • Archive admin duty.
  • Sponsoring from Bazaar branches.
  • ISO testing.

Lars Wirzenius

Matthias Klose

Michael Terry

* Attended Linux plumbers * Canonical OEM team work

Michael Vogt

software-store^Wcenter

  • lots of bug triage (both s-c and aptdaemon)
  • review/merge changes by rugby471
  • fixing xapian query
  • fix update-software-store with invalid locales
  • look at matts-pathbar-integration branch
  • fix untrusted package handling (#435313)
  • border size fixes
  • fix various crashes
  • fix drag-n-drop handling
  • fix alignments
  • fix more padding issues (as requested by mpt)
  • merge fixes from lool
  • renamed to software-center
  • fix gconf crash
  • review/merge help-fixes branch
  • Aptdaemon: debug/fix(?) crash in remove_from_connection (LP:
    • #422585)
  • debug/fix empty progress window when the daemon exited in
    • between (#437685)
  • Aptdaemon: add "allow-unauthenticated" feature and push to
    • lp:~mvo/aptdaemon/allow-unauthenticated
  • Aptdaemon: bigger default gtk progress dialog, make it resizable
  • Aptdaemon: avoid possible race with apt-get (#437709)
  • Aptdaemon: prepare/uplaod new version (with ~6 fixes)
  • Aptdaemon: debug/fix translation problem (#438077)

gdebi

  • bugtriage/fixing #428978
  • build with split=True (debian asked about this)
  • upload new version

apt/python-apt

  • merge i18n fixes
  • Merge/review apt changes from donkult
  • work on the karmic branch (lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/apt/karmic)
  • cherry picking fixes from debian-sid and the mvo branch
  • merge CAPS fix
  • better error reporting for invalid ar headers

  • test-build/upgrade with 0.7.23.1ubuntu1 from jaunty -> karmic

    • (no issues)
  • merge apt with debian/sid version and upload to karmic
    • (ABI break) - sorry for the lateness of this merge
  • also upload all rdepends with proper versionized dependencies
    • (~30 packages)
  • debug failure in immediate configure calculation (#548858)

beta

  • some upgrade testing (but not as much as I would have liked too,
    • too much to do
  • updated
  • run app-install-data extraction (took much longer than expected
    • and did not finish in time to be included in the beta iso) so the data on the CD is slightly outdated

update-manager

  • bug triage
  • fixing (i18n issues, ui issues)
  • adding quirks for kbluetooth
  • debug problem with utf8 chars in gtkbuilder and
    • report gnome upstream (gnome #596205)
  • Debug/fix two crashes in update-manager
  • fix hang in auto-upgrade-tester, better error reporting on
    • failure
  • debug server upgrade failure (syslogd/rsyslog releated)
  • fix ubuntu-minimal remove in server upgrade by adding a implicit
    • keepInstalled rule for all baseMetaPackages (ubuntu-minimal, ubuntu-standard)
  • create patch against lp:~mvo/update-manager/hardy-oem for the OEM
    • team that implements stepped upgrades (multiple download/install runs for systems with small disks)

misc

  • Wiki MOTU feedback for amaranth
  • Work on lp-archive-crawler to speed up changelog (and later more)
    • data generation - will have to wait for lucid, but proof of conecpt looks very promising (lp:~mvo/+junk/lp-archive-crawler)
  • fix goldendict install error and upload new versoin
  • Travel planing UDS
  • Vte update
  • Debug/fix gdebi failure with vte (gnome bug #587894) and upload new
    • vte (ping vte upstream about this failure because I provided test-case + patch, it got merged now)
  • weekly software-center phonecall with mpt
  • phonecall with robbie

sponsoring

* Review/sponsor compiz upload

Scott Remnant

Steve Langasek

Release management

  • alpha6 released

Packages

  • Fix cryptsetup to use usplash again as intended, and fix

initramfs-tools

  • to properly invoke the needed scripts. Bug #433773.
  • Fix dbus to not set rpath unnecessarily. Bug #432718.

Sponsorship

  • rsyslog, sysklogd (bug #401056)

Misc

  • sprinting with kernel team at LinuxCon

  • working with Scott on boot boogz

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