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For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

Present

• ScottJamesRemnant

• EvanDandrea

• GaryLasker - chair

• JamesWestby

• LoïcMinier

• MichaelVogt

• SteveLangasek

• ColinWatson

• MatthiasKlose

• BarryWarsaw

Apologies

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

Lightning Round

Scott James Remnant

Loïc Minier

Gary Lasker

Evan Dandrea

Michael Vogt

James Westby

Steve Langasek

Colin Watson

Matthias Klose

Barry Warsaw

Outstanding actions from last meeting

None.

Feature freeze exceptions

Notes from previous weeks:

• foundations-lucid-software-raid-in-ubiquity-for-desktop-install - medium priority, running out of time, may need to defer

• foundations-lucid-btrfs-support - low priority, expecting to defer

• foundations-lucid-jockey-support-in-ubiquity - medium priority, expecting to defer

• foundations-lucid-software-center-repository-based-index - may not make it, in which case we'll need a client-side workaround, or external PPAs won't get to benefit from icons

• foundations-lucid-distributed-development - various useful bzr features won't land in the next week, but perhaps not for lucid anyway

• <mvo> I will probably need one for ratings&reviews, just as a early warning

• <james_w> I'll probably realise that were are in dire need of a new bzr-builddeb feature in about 24 hours

• <ev> I might need some for things design want, but nothing specific yet

• <Keybuk> I may end up with a couple of small ones for extra tenths of second

Chair for next meeting

Activity reports

Barry Warsaw

• Pycon

Colin Watson

(was off last week, this report is for week ending 2/12)

• foundations-lucid-ubiquity-partitioner-optimisation:
  • Cached output of resizing tools.
  • Profiled parted_sync_server experiment; negligible difference, so
    • discarded.
  • Cached output of os-prober and linux-boot-prober.
  • Optimised away calls to method, mountpoint, and free_space partman
    • scripts.
  • Cached question descriptions in partman plugin.
  • Now within target time; done!
• Some openssh patch review.
• Sponsorship:
  • docbook2x #514877.
  • ttf-sil-scheherazade #517297.
  • geronimo-jta-1.0.1b-spec #512430.
• Caught up on DMB minutes and actions.
• TB meeting.
• foundations-lucid-support-timeframe-information:
  • Added statistics to update-manager-support-status.
• foundations-lucid-gfxboot-update:
  • Added bullet-proof-x support to ubiquity-dm.
  • Integrated greeter code from Cody Russell.
• Integrated multipath-tools patch from Intel (#520309).
• Merged: debhelper, dpkg

Evan Dandrea

Gary Lasker

• Presentation of PPAs/individual software sources in Software Center merged and released

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

  • Fixes LP: #442882
• Lots of work on back/forward navigation in the top-level "Get Software" section

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

  • Some edge cases not complete by Wed before FF, so we will defer and request a FF exception
• Fix for alpha-3 bug LP: #496058, branch review and merge tbd
• Software Center call with mvo and mpt
• OEM, Foundations team weekly meetings

James Westby

Distributed Development

• Started to fix some bugs in bzr-builddeb.
• Merged some fixes from John for the importer. Thanks to him we are now below 400 failures.
• Had a call with jml about recipes.
• Updated some work item statuses to reflect reality.
• Worked with IS to allow more people to control the importer. Thanks agy.

Other

• Belatedly enabled kerneloops again.
• Archive admin duty.
• A little sponsoring.

Loïc Minier

Misc

• various small fixes to ubumirror, moved the Vcs around
• reviewed ubuntu-dev-scripts edit-patch
• filed an old expense

• prepared a cubic meter of boxes to ship around with ARM hardware

• chased adding valgrind to Packages-arch-specific for a good while, in Debian, and then in Ubuntu; documented the current process on wiki.u.c/Packages-arch-specific
• poked FTBFSes further, requested cdebconf sync to fix cdeconf-terminal build-deps; looked into first user-mode-linux FTBFSes (empty linux-source package); requested xprint sync to fix some FTBFS
• requested more versatile kernel packages tweaks to support installer properly: linux-versatile meta and udebs; thanks to apw for taking care of these!
• uploded qemu-kvm pselect() support patch as well as the GCC atomic builtins patch since it passed basic testing
• uploaded qemu-kvm with support with "credentials yes" for qemu-arm-static binfmt: allows running suid apps such as sudo under qemu-arm chroots; thanks cjwatson for merging my binfmt-support changes
• upstreamed all current Debian/Ubuntu valgrind patches; all code changes merged upstream now \o/
• chased valgrind doc build issue; got a workaround now, need to reupload a valgrind snapshot with docs, but waiting for some ARM fixes to land
• upstreamed GCC atomic builtins qemu patch (+ volatile spinlock_t)
• triaged some valgrind Ubuntu bugs

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

software-center

• wrote ratings&reviews server prototype (lp:~mvo/+junk/reviews.django) now that we know that we can not use LP directly

• make lp:~mvo/software-center/reviews work with the new server
• calls/coordination on how the server should work
• review sourcesview branch
• use gtkspinner instead of progress bar in reviews code
• review/merge sourcesview branch
• add SCPkgname xml filter
• reviews discussion with ubuntuone
• push server code to lp:~rnr-developers/rnr-server/trunk
• work on channelsview
• add abstractions/cleanup
• add "XB-Softwarecenter-Appname" support for PPAs
• add "Featured" section
• headache about fixed_height mode (or the lack of it) - the center is sluggish without it and my upstream patch got no feedback so far
• look into ubuntu SSO API/ubuntuone API

update-manager

• Work on kvm auto-upgrade-test setup in the DC

• fix crash in hardy->lucid cleanup stage

• fix bug in result publishing in the auto-upgrade

apt & friends

• review/merge python-apt debian-sid branch, bugfixes in compat code
• Debug apt configuration problem in buildd/pbuilder and upload new
  • util-linux that should fix the bug
• Apt merges (merge from lp:~mvo/apt/debian-sid, lp:~mvo/apt/mvo)
• Merge synaptic fixes from jibls (my hero this week)
• Review/merge apt patch from lifeless (thanks), took a bit because bzr was giving me a hard time (#523703)
• dd abicheck/ code that make testing for accidental abi breaks trivial (*happy*)

misc

• work on lp:~mvo/+junk/edit-patch
• Commit edit-patch to lp:~ubuntu-dev/ubuntu-dev-tools/trunk
• upload new squid-deb-proxy that contains squid-deb-proxy-client with auto proxy configuration

sponsoring

• Review/sponsor ubumirror package (foundations-lucid-local-repository-support)
• Test/review/sponsor aptitude #391035 (and submit upstream)

Scott James Remnant

• Fixing daily bootcharts, and updating to use unity session difficulties actually getting unity to work
  • traced to very strange "cache" behaviour of the user's preferred session in gdm and fixed
• Re-architectured daily scripts to support multiple images
• Re-did netbook tests by installing netbook images instead
• Lots more catching up on bugs and doing triage
• Finally almost caught up on bugs e-mail
• Updated e2fsprogs to 1.14.10
• Uploaded ifupdown to use -n on initctl emit
  • fixes issues with "on net-device-up" combined with another event
  • helps boot time too
• Fixed mountall to create /dev/console and /dev/null after mounting something over top of /dev
• also switched to copying /lib/udev/devices again instead of using MAKEDEV in the devtmpfs case
• Updated rsyslog to drop the dd job and read from /proc/kmsg directly
• Uploaded initramfs-tools with moved blacklist job
• Uploaded udev that depends on moved blacklist
• udev upstream fix for buffer
• include in udevadm monitor too
• merge into ours
• call from udev bridge

• In bed with Flu thursday/friday

Steve Langasek

Release management

• Feature Freeze
• prep for alpha 3

Packages

• ifupdown (bug #497299)
• cryptsetup: doesn't need 'console output' anymore
• libdrm: move libs to /lib for plymouth
• mysql-dfsg-5.1: no-change upload to follow through on the
• libmysqlclient16

debacle

• lvm2: move .so to /usr/lib, to fix cryptsetup FTBFS
• pam: merge from Debian
• opensc: fix for pcsclite
• kexec-tools (misuse of debconf, bug #518853)
• add an apport hook to plymouth
• bridge-utils, ifenslave-2.6: upstart support

Sponsorship

• upstart (bug #524484)
• cloud-init

Misc

• archive admin duties