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For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

Present

Apologies

On Holiday: Scott James Remnant, James Westby

Agenda

  • Lightning Round
    • 2-4 sentences on current work/roadblocks
  • Outstanding actions from last meeting

Outstanding actions from last meeting

None

Actions from this meeting

Chair for next meeting

Activity reports

Barry Warsaw

Colin Watson

Evan Dandrea

Gary Lasker

Software Center

  • Finished up performance and user experience improvements for app reselect. Selected app now tracked per category/subcategory. Branch reviewed by mvo and merged.
  • In progress - key navigation feature, up one level on
    • backspace (LP: #509783)

General

  • US Holiday Monday
  • Time allocation this week
    • Platform team 40%, OEM team 40%, Holiday 20%
  • OEM engineering meeting

James Westby

Loïc Minier

ARM

  • Worked a while on fixing qemu-kvm armel build failures
  • Worked on rebasing/fixing/completing misc qemu patches including
    • linux-user uname emulation and various configure fixes

Misc

  • Looked into misc vm-builder issues, notably why it depends on devscripts (calls rmadison for xen kernel name)
  • Expenses
  • Chaired Foundations meeting and helped with Release meeting
  • Replaced netcat-traditional with netcat-openbsd in seeds to avoid getting two netcats with the virt-host task
  • Fixed some logcheck issues I was hitting on two hosts and sent patches to Debian; bug triage
  • Reviewed pbuilder --profile patches from contributor
  • Refreshed grub2 support patch originally by cjwatson for vmbuilder; now segfauts in grub2
  • Fixed a bunch of old and annoying bugs in vmbuilder; tested lucid vmbuilder and fixed a broken patch
  • Poked small things in unattended-upgrades
  • MIRs: kasumi (spent quite some time providing autofoo fixes and guidance), python-keyring, edbus, efreet, libvdpau,

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

Scott James Remnant

Steve Langasek

Release management

  • preparations for Ubuntu 8.04.4

Sponsorship

  • klibc (bug #175324)

Packages

  • further cryptsetup fixes: fix a bashism and avoid double-prompting for

the same disk if cryptdisks-enable starts while cryptdisks-udev is still running

  • plymouth: bugs 506717, 496782, 509579, 496765
  • fix netcat priorities, so livefs builds work again