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Present

• ScottJamesRemnant - chair

• BarryWarsaw

• EvanDandrea

• GaryLasker

• JamesWestby

• LoïcMinier

• MichaelVogt

• SteveLangasek

Apologies

• ColinWatson - on Leave

• MatthiasKlose - travelling to PyCon

Agenda

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

• Outstanding feature freeze exceptions

• Milestoned bugs

• Targeted bugs

• Sponsorship queue

• Any business from activity reports
• Good news
• Reminder for release meeting, if due this week
• AOB

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Actions from this meeting

Chair for next meeting

Activity reports

Barry Warsaw

Colin Watson

Evan Dandrea

Gary Lasker

• Finished up presentation of individual software sources in Software Center

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#channels

  • Branch to mvo for review/merge
  • Awaiting some icons, other small tbd's
• Wrote/fixed LP: #519090
• In progress - alpha-3 bugs: LP: #514861, LP: #496058
• In progress - Back/Forward navigation in the top-level
  • "Get Software" section

    https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#get-software-navigation

• IRC meeting with mvo, barry for software-center sync-up
• OEM, Foundations weekly meetings

James Westby

Loïc Minier

• enabled RTC in linux/versatile config as to fix fsck from starting on each boot
• disabled drivers which couldn't build in linux/versatile and that I had erroneously enabled
• made some linux/versatile drivers builtins as these are always loaded on versatile
• suggested additional patches to complete modules.builtin fsl-imx51 backport
• suggested cdimage crontab fixes for ubuntu-netbook ports daily-live image
• researched and provided solution for dove power button events not being correctly sent by the kernel
• tested lucid's linux-image-versatile binaries under qemu (work \o/)
• reproduced and filed a couple of annoying qemu issues: LP #520465, LP #520480
• wrote qemu patch to use GCC atomic builtins for locking; helps build on armel where swp isn't available in thumb(2) mode
• wrote qemu patch to implement a stub for pselect6() to avoid the console getting spammed by "qemu: Unsupported syscall: 335" when installing packages under qemu-arm, that was slowing down installation a lot and made debugging of dpkg errors impossible in many cases
• reworked cairo's build to allow two udebs (one for xorg and another one with directfb), but that might turn out to be useless in the end
• fixed parsing of XS-PV and debian/pyversions in pycentral; thanks mvo for handling of comments in control too
• reworked the kexec packaging and merged against latest Debian upload, and merged some additional commits to fix build and usage under arm (notably armv7 uname handling); tested kexec support under versatile (doesn't work, but at least gets to the point that the system reboots into the new kernel, so probably not a kexec issue)
• gathered feedback on versatile udebs and meta packages
• chased and resolved FTBFSes: zshdb, git-buildpackage, valgrind (see below), apr *.la files issue (causing a bunch of FTBFSes), cdebconf (cherry-picked upstream gtk+2.0 patch)
• reworked valgrind package; the package didn't build in lucid, didn't work either, and upstream had added armel support; took a new snapshot and fixed a gazillion of packaging weirdnesses
• fixed qemu-kvm upgrade issue exposed by the renaming of the -static flavour

Matthias Klose

Was on leave last week.

Michael Vogt

update-manager

• work on stepmaker based gui upgrade test (lp:~mvo/autotest/gui-upgrades)
• Report/fix firefox-branding upgrade error (#518747)
• Report network-manager upgrade problem (#518760)
• debug/fix brltty upgrade conffile prompt (#518775)
• Create a bunch update-manager bugs from marks feedback and target them
• detect auto installed packages and remove from demotion list, show only non-auto packages as bold in upgrade confirmation dialog
• review upgrade test data
• add python-desktopcouch to post-upgrade test blacklist (needs gnome-keyring)
• improve result publishing
• Debug/fix nm-applet upgrade bug #518760 (lp:~mvo/network-manager-applet/fix-518760)

• Debug upgrade failures, turns out to be a failure to bring up /etc/network/interfaces (send evan fixed it already

• Add stepmaker 8.04 upgrade ui and file a bunch of bugreports (8.04 -> 10.04 - not in good shape)

• Work on setup of the auto-upgrade-tester in the DC (Chris Jones is my hero)
• speedup cleanup phase
• improve space required caclulcation,
• work on ubuntu-support-status code
• Work on desktop-lucid-update-upgrade-requirements (check-new-release-gtk) - not finished yet

software-center

• review/merge debian branch
• review/merge debian and rtl-fixes branch
• merge spinner branch
• review/merge software-center branch from nzmm
• Review/fix-conflicts/merge software-center sourcesview branch to lp:~mvo/software-center/sourcesview
• Work on lp:~mvo/software-center/sourcesview, fix bug in db generation
• Update aptdaemon branch
• Port software-center to new removal API and fix bug in aptdaemon along the way
• discuss OAuth design for reviews

sponsoring

• Review/sponsor vte upload
• Review/sponsor compiz,metacity,mutter uploads

misc

• Apt-ddtp update
• Improve apt-ddtp-tools scripts to utilize the bzr tree of ddtp-ubuntu (improve the process a lot)
• Fight with bzr (#519769)
• Work with tkamppeter on hplip firmware integration (needs support in u-n)

• work on dbus listener for hplip & friends

• Launchpad-integreation: fixes with bzr-builddeb and sponsoring upload
• Debug/fix cpu bottleneck in synapitc (#387297) and upload to lucid

• Review/merge gdebi patch, talk with DktzKranz about debian merge

• Review ubumirror script and prepare sponsoring

Scott James Remnant

• Couple of days of leave due to travelling back from Portland, and getting laundry done, etc.
• Lots of catching up on e-mail and especially bugs.
• Updated udev to 151-1
  • Firmware helper moved from shell script to C, had to do a brown paper bag due to a missed reference in the initramfs hook
• Updated util-linux to 2.17
  • Merged back with Debian, out delta remains very small (yay co-operative maintenance)
• Updated e2fsprogs to GIT HEAD
  • Typically a 1.41.10 release came out the next day or something
• Netbook install testing; using the approach of installing from the desktop then adding the netbook package ontop

Steve Langasek