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For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

Present

• RobbieWilliamson - chair

• ColinWatson

• EvanDandrea

• JamesWestby

• LarsWirzenius

• MatthiasKlose

• MichaelVogt

• ScottJamesRemnant

Apologies

• SteveLangasek

Agenda

• Status Updates on Karmic

  • Ubuntu 9.10 Deliverables

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

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

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

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/ReleaseStatus/Karmic#Archive_Reorganization_Phase_1

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/ReleaseStatus/Karmic#LTS_Release-Debian_Freeze_Coordination

  • Boot
    • console messages
    • enabling usplash by default
  • RC Bugs that folks want to highlight or need help on
• AOB

Actions from this meeting

• Robbie to prioritize RT ticket (#35783), with the important part being screenshots.u.c
• Lars to "dust off the API design he did long ago", and write up a prototype and a sample cli app for querying from the new Debian copyright format

  • http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/

Activity reports

Colin Watson

Evan Dandrea

James Westby

Distributed Development

• Not much activity as hold on new branches still in place.
• Discussions with LP developers about build-from-branch.

Daily Builds

• Working on a single command to build a bunch of recipes,
  • to make cron easier.

Distro Tasks

• Squished a nasty D-Bus bug with activation. Thanks to Chris and Scott for their help.
• Helped debug the /tmp clearing issue.
• Archive admin tasks.
• Sponsoring.

Lars Wirzenius

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

software-center

• add basic analysing functionality of the db to identify duplicates in the desktop data (utils/stats.py)
• detect duplicated entries and append a (pkgname) in this case (can happen for generic app names like Terminal or System Monitor)
• add auto-switching back from the progress view (#431907)
• look into 404 handling of thumbs/images with JS/xmlhttp, not a workable solution as the webkit security gets in our way
• aptdaemon bug triage
• aptdaemon: improving the transaction tester script,
• debugging a race when two transaction connectto the debconf socket
• add patch for #432607 that hopefully avoids the race with aptdaemon and its debconf frontend
• aptdaemon: new upload with fix for debconf race (#432607)
• aptdaemon: debug/fix lock bug when the release upgrader is running
• Aptdaemon: package new bzr snapshot (lots of fixes, thanks to Sebastian Heinlein)
• ensure the UI is kept alive while the auth dialog is up
• work on 404 handling and ubuntu branding for not-found images (lp:~mvo/software-center/ubuntu-404)
• Software-center: status call
• fix duplicated data entries from thunar
• general cleanup of the app-install-data duplicates found by the stats.py script (feels like cleaning the stables of Augean)
• Aptdaemon: add locking fix, add _syslog_handler crash fix, upload new version
• lots of triage/bugfixing in software-center
• debug/fix locale.setdefaultlocale bug (#444316)
• Debug/fix issues with popcon data for meta-packages that results in poor search results for certain strings like flash

update-manager

• work on langauage-suppport-translations transition (#439296)

• add support for hardy->karmic upgrades (for kubuntu, also useful for early testing of th lts->lts upgrades)

• add workaround for -x permission problem on kde
• Auto-upgrade tester: add lts-kubuntu profile (for riddell)
• commit stepped upgrade functionatlity for the OEM team to
  • lp:~mvo/update-manager/hardy-oem

beta

• App-install-data-ubuntu update for beta
• finally uploaded the app-install-data-ubuntu update, extraction took ages this time, sorry for that. the next cycle should switch to a extract tool based on launchpadlib
• Upgrade testing (ubuntu-desktop, server, manual and automatic), putting results into the isotracker
• Review/upload new command-not-found data

misc

• Travel planning/booking to UDS lucid
• Look into soyuz bug with a openoffice.org upload that caused a double newline in the Sources.gz (#436182)
• fix locking in the extrace_changelog script on rookery
• python-apt: work on improved locking
• fix kpackagekit crash (#438279)
• Merge gnome-codec-installer (in bzr), not uploaded yet
• loking into /tmp clean issue #444252 on upgrade

sponsoring

• Review/sponsor compiz upload with a bunch of fixes

Scott James Remnant

• Interview with Foundations Team candidate
• Included all USB storage drivers in initramfs.
• Worked alongside Colin fixing usplash issues, improving signal
  • handling, making the Upstart job better, etc.
• Massive amount of mountall debugging and fixes. Big upload that
  • quashed _most_ of the issues.
• Ongoing debugging of sreadahead performance issues.

Steve Langasek

Release management

• beta release
• manually seed libgd2-xpm in the desktop to resolve an edubuntu conflict
• FFe processing
• publishing fixes for zsync files on releases.ubuntu.com
• fixes to UEC test plan links

Packages

• fix brightness notification on recent thinkpads in hal. (372874)

• debhelper: fixes to make dh_installinit snippets for upstart both robust and policy-compliant

• fix boot-time nfs mounting for upstart (431248), and clean up a few bugs that fell out from this (364861, 441055, 441855).

• fix mutt regression in handling of text/html mime type
• software-center build fix (.PHONY vs. debhelper 7)
• acpi-support: prune some more redundant code

• hdparm, pm-utils: support for respecting /etc/hdparm.conf when setting apm options on power events (238555)

Sponsorship

• pm-utils (437796)

• acpi-support

• laptop-mode-tools (384875), because Tormod is awesome

Misc

• Monday archive duties