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Revision 2 as of 2010-01-27 09:09:51
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For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.
Present
MichaelVogt - chair
Apologies
On Holiday: Scott James Remnant, James Westby
Agenda
- Lightning Round
- 2-4 sentences on current work/roadblocks
- Outstanding actions from last meeting
- Outstanding feature freeze exceptions
- Any business from activity reports
- Good news
- Reminder for release meeting, if due this week
- AOB
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