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* Foundations developer interview. * Installer bug fixes: * Finally fixed apt-setup #172879 (Unable to skip network access during installation). * console-setup #416949 (Arabic layout broken in karmic). Some other keyboard layout updates. * Restored ntfs-3g syncio patch in the hope that it'll fix Wubi. * partman-iscsi #435290 (does not prompt for iSCSI install). * grub-installer #427048 (install the bootloader to each disk in a RAID1 array providing /boot). * Backported the linux-swap fs name reorganisation I got applied upstream ages ago to fix parted #399428. * Fixed grub-installer #444583 (breaks on disks with dmraid metadata but only one disk). * Fixed partman-partitioning/ubiquity #421407 (wrong auto-resize default). * Fixed partman-partitioning #441242 (Ubiquity generates bad fstab with NTFS partitions). * Other bug fixes: * klibc #416636 (fstype detects ext4 w/o journal as ext2), including fighting to get klibc to build. * Backported fix for debconf #387112 (unused 'use I18N::Langinfo' causes upgrade failure). * Wrote a vmbuilder patch to install grub inside the chroot rather than relying on tools in the host, and thus stop breaking when the host is using grub2 (#410886). Along the way, backported the upstream patch I did ages ago for parted #399428 (parted can't create swap partitions in vm images), and adjusted gnu-fdisk, gparted, and partitionmanager to cope with this. * Fixed ntfs-3g #395079 (ntfs-3g mount errors in KDE). Along the way, made hal stop crashing all the time (#440797). * Fixed bash-completion #419509 (no tab completion on path that contains a space). * Sponsorship: * casper #385305. * grub2 #440879. * Fixed build failures: grub, netpbm-free, gettext (merge), kexec-tools, elilo |
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==== usb-creator ==== * Tested, fixed, and merged Cody's changes to process all syslinux configuration files, not just a whitelist. * Lots of bug triage. Merged a patch from John Gruber. * Released two new versions. ==== ubiquity ==== * Lots of bug triage. * Fixed returning to partitioning not working on a partman crash in the KDE frontend. * Sorted out the reiserfsprogs issue once and for all by having ubiquity explicitly depend on it. * Added support to ubiquity and installation-report to copy the .disk/info file to the target system. * Debugged 438155 for Roman, only to find that it was actually a console-setup bug that cjwatson fixed. ==== misc ==== * Released a new slideshow. * Started working with the Ubuntu One team to get a slide for their project in the slideshow. |
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* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/421318 (totem Python crash on exit). Helped get a patch from upstream. * Upgraded laptop to karmic. Total failure. Installed karmic from scratch. Too many essential tools (e.g., epiphany, evolution, gnome-terminal). Re-installed jaunty. * Computer Janitor i18n bug fixing. * Heard that Michael will be taking over CJ in lucid. Expressed my sympathies. * Bug triage (CJ, update-manager, general). |
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* around 20 uploads to fix build failures * look at build failures which looked suspicious to wrong-code generation, filed bug reports for affected packages and the toolchain. * twisted bug fixes for plugin registrations * openjdk-6 update to accept all certificates provided by ca-certificates * OOo upload to work around problems on armel, "some" test builds * python2.6.3 update * starting to work on GCC PR 40521 |
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* 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. |
* Returned from Linux Plumber's Conference, lost Monday due to travelling and jet lag, lost Tuesday due to ADSL downtime (took this as a swap day in the end) * Interviewed candidate for Foundations Team role * Debugged and fixed issue with partitioned MD devices * Created /dev/VG/LV symlink from udev for LVM2 devices * Improved method to have Upstart reconnect to D-Bus so that it doesn't cause Upstart to forget all event state, and now happens as part of the dbus job's post-start * Improved the initramfs PID transition to recover from common errors such as the PID not existing * Set the console of the rc scripts to /dev/null again * Further fixes to initramfs framebuffer console loading * Fixed gdm to stop when entering single user mode |
For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.
Present
RobbieWilliamson - chair
Apologies
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
- Ubuntu 9.10 Deliverables
- 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
Activity reports
Colin Watson
- Foundations developer interview.
- Installer bug fixes:
- Finally fixed apt-setup #172879 (Unable to skip network access
- during installation).
- console-setup #416949 (Arabic layout broken in karmic). Some other
- keyboard layout updates.
- Restored ntfs-3g syncio patch in the hope that it'll fix Wubi.
- partman-iscsi #435290 (does not prompt for iSCSI install).
- grub-installer #427048 (install the bootloader to each disk in a
- RAID1 array providing /boot).
- Backported the linux-swap fs name reorganisation I got applied
- upstream ages ago to fix parted #399428.
- Fixed grub-installer #444583 (breaks on disks with dmraid metadata
- but only one disk).
- Fixed partman-partitioning/ubiquity #421407 (wrong auto-resize
- default).
- Fixed partman-partitioning #441242 (Ubiquity generates bad fstab
- with NTFS partitions).
- Finally fixed apt-setup #172879 (Unable to skip network access
- Other bug fixes:
- klibc #416636 (fstype detects ext4 w/o journal as ext2), including
- fighting to get klibc to build.
- Backported fix for debconf #387112 (unused 'use I18N::Langinfo'
- causes upgrade failure).
- Wrote a vmbuilder patch to install grub inside the chroot rather
- than relying on tools in the host, and thus stop breaking when the host is using grub2 (#410886). Along the way, backported the upstream patch I did ages ago for parted #399428 (parted can't create swap partitions in vm images), and adjusted gnu-fdisk, gparted, and partitionmanager to cope with this.
- Fixed ntfs-3g #395079 (ntfs-3g mount errors in KDE). Along the way,
- made hal stop crashing all the time (#440797).
- Fixed bash-completion #419509 (no tab completion on path that
- contains a space).
- klibc #416636 (fstype detects ext4 w/o journal as ext2), including
- Sponsorship:
- casper #385305.
- grub2 #440879.
- Fixed build failures: grub, netpbm-free, gettext (merge), kexec-tools, elilo
Evan Dandrea
usb-creator
- Tested, fixed, and merged Cody's changes to process all syslinux configuration files, not just a whitelist.
- Lots of bug triage. Merged a patch from John Gruber.
- Released two new versions.
ubiquity
- Lots of bug triage.
- Fixed returning to partitioning not working on a partman crash in the KDE frontend.
- Sorted out the reiserfsprogs issue once and for all by having ubiquity explicitly depend on it.
- Added support to ubiquity and installation-report to copy the .disk/info file to the target system.
- Debugged 438155 for Roman, only to find that it was actually a console-setup bug that cjwatson fixed.
misc
- Released a new slideshow.
- Started working with the Ubuntu One team to get a slide for their project in the slideshow.
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
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/421318 (totem Python crash on exit). Helped get a patch from upstream.
- Upgraded laptop to karmic. Total failure. Installed karmic from scratch. Too many essential tools (e.g., epiphany, evolution, gnome-terminal). Re-installed jaunty.
- Computer Janitor i18n bug fixing.
- Heard that Michael will be taking over CJ in lucid. Expressed my sympathies.
- Bug triage (CJ, update-manager, general).
Matthias Klose
- around 20 uploads to fix build failures
- look at build failures which looked suspicious to wrong-code generation, filed bug reports for affected packages and the toolchain.
- twisted bug fixes for plugin registrations
- openjdk-6 update to accept all certificates provided by ca-certificates
- OOo upload to work around problems on armel, "some" test builds
- python2.6.3 update
- starting to work on GCC PR 40521
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
- Returned from Linux Plumber's Conference, lost Monday due to
- travelling and jet lag, lost Tuesday due to ADSL downtime (took this as a swap day in the end)
- Interviewed candidate for Foundations Team role
- Debugged and fixed issue with partitioned MD devices
- Created /dev/VG/LV symlink from udev for LVM2 devices
- Improved method to have Upstart reconnect to D-Bus so that it doesn't
- cause Upstart to forget all event state, and now happens as part of the dbus job's post-start
- Improved the initramfs PID transition to recover from common errors
- such as the PID not existing
- Set the console of the rc scripts to /dev/null again
- Further fixes to initramfs framebuffer console loading
- Fixed gdm to stop when entering single user mode
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
Misc
- Monday archive duties
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