For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

Present

• ColinWatson - chair

• BarryWarsaw

• EvanDandrea

• GaryLasker

• JamesWestby

• LoïcMinier

• MatthiasKlose

• MichaelVogt

• ScottJamesRemnant

• SteveLangasek

Lightning round order

   1 from random import shuffle
   2 team = [
   3     'Keybuk',
   4     'barry',
   5     'cjwatson',
   6     'doko',
   7     'ev',
   8     'james_w',
   9     'lool',
  10     'mvo',
  11     'slangasek',
  12     'tremolux',
  13     ]
  14 order = team[:]
  15 shuffle(order)
  16 print ', '.join(order)

Apologies

Agenda

• Lightning Round
  • 2-4 sentences on current work/roadblocks
• Outstanding actions from last meeting
• Outstanding feature freeze exceptions
• Farming out tasks that aren't being handled

  • Milestoned bugs

  • Targeted bugs

• Sponsorship queue

• Any business from activity reports
• Good news
• AOB

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Actions from this meeting

Chair for next meeting

Activity reports

Barry Warsaw

Colin Watson

• Partitioner:

  • Fixed up GPT->MBR syncing in parted for Intel Macs (#538536).

  • Fixed broken use of cylinder alignment in parted_server (#539456).
• Ubiquity:
  • Fixed KDE privilege-raising code (#526456, #538142).
  • Minor UI fixes (#527704, #531864).
  • Fixed up noninteractive frontend (#539342).
  • Plymouth interaction fixes.
  • Avoided use of apt/libudev when we already have /cdrom bind-mounted (#539170).
• Other installer work:
  • Filter out cloud tasks from ordinary server installations (#540167).
  • Fixed kernel installation on ubuntustudio/amd64 (#541625).
  • Unbreak console-setup-udeb postinst (#540835).
  • console-setup performance improvements.
  • Don't warn about data loss from partitioning when we know there won't be any (#151266).
  • Attacked wubildr installation problem a bit more (#477104).
• Worked with Scott to nail down Plymouth/Upstart console handling bug that caused pressing Enter on live CD boot to kill X (#540256).
• Revert dpkg fsync during unpack for now due to serious performance regression (#537241).
• Cope with partitions over 9 in initramfs (#539577).
• Kubuntu Netbook localisation (#540335).

Evan Dandrea

ubiquity

• Worked a bit on a test harness for ubiquity.
• Align labels to the top on the language page in ubiquity (LP: #532876).
• Fixed a race around the quit dialog in ubiquity (r3927 for the full details).
• Properly set the text for the release notes label after the user runs the 'update this installer' option.
• Fixed the grub comboboxes in ubiquity (LP: #539204).
• In the KDE frontend in ubiquity, call reboot with root privileges and try rebooting via dbus only if a KDE dbus session exists (LP: #540856).
• Moved ubiquity's apport hook into the apport source.
• Give feedback when the user selects one of the ubiquity greeter options and disable the other.
• Landed my inactive labels for the user setup page branch on ubiquity trunk.

slideshow

• Implemented the rest of the need changes to ubiquity for the slideshow, now that Dylan has implemented Michael's mockup. Freeze exception filed as bug 538411.
• Fixed the Firefox icon in ubiquity-slideshow and merged the updated Kubuntu slideshow branch.

usb-creator

• Fixed a race in usb-creator that was preventing partitions from being shown sometimes.
• Looked into 269786 (suppressing nautilus windows in usb-creator) some more. The options are seemingly limited to either mounting partitions in hidden directories or telling nautilus via gconf to not automount *anything*.
• Rework partition mounting so that it doesn't fail if the partition was mounted between dbus calls.
• Don't write usb-creator-helper's log to /root (LP: #461064).
• Somewhat fix progress reporting.
• Provide a format confirmation dialog (LP: #443330).
• Error out of formatting if we're unable to unmount all of the partitions (LP: #507420).
• Provide feedback via a spinning cursor and disabled format button while formatting (LP: #457737).
• Unmount the partition at the end of install using usb-creator-helper rather than umount as a regular user to work around a udisks bug.
• Handle device property changes (synthesizing a remove and add).
• Pulse the progress bar while flushing changes to disk and installing the bootloader.
• And lots more small changes.

Wubi

• Small fixes to get it working in lucid.

Gary Lasker

• Continued software-center bug fixes and triage.
  • Lots of triage, targeting and prioritizing bugs for Beta 2. Emphasis on stability and performance.
  • Fixed four bugs in current release 1.1.18.
  • In-progress LP: #535055, channel/PPA reload issue.
• OEM and Foundations weekly team meetings
• Recruitment: IRC/email with candidate for open OEM/desktop
  • developer positions
• Engineering rotation allocation this week
  • 80% platform, 20% OEM

James Westby

Loïc Minier

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

update-manager

• debug/fix #530632 hardy->lucid initramfs-update upgrade bug in module-init-tools

• review auto-upgrader logs and report bugs/target existing bugs
• debug/fix conffile prompt hang in noninteractive upgrade mode (#538206)
• fix gtk-qt-engine removal (#532968)
• add workaround for openoffice.org #516727
• add better pre-depends cycle detection to cleanly revert in this case
• improve "keep-install-section" rule to fix main-all/main-all-lts auto upgrade test failures
• fix indicator applet add bug (#539969)
• fix kernel selection from base-installer to avoid duplicates (#540114)
• dpkg: look at missing error on --status-fd on trigger failure
• Debug/patch missing dpkg error reporting for deferred triggers (#540252), send patch upstream for comments
• Debug main-all upgrade failure, fix libunique #493608
• show progress when searching for obsolete packages in cleanup stage
• fix crash in non-interactive upgrader
• debug/fix blacklist removal issue (#540823)
• improve stepmaker profile by using devilspie to ensure fixed window positions (yeah!) and commit updated script to bzr

command-not-found

• updated command-not-found scan.data
• cherry pick fix for #507760

beta-1

• Apt-ddtp update for beta-1
• updated and uploaded into rosetta for import, fix bug in upload
  • script

archive-crawler

• debug/fix bug in icon extraction (and add test to tests/)

apt/python-apt

• fix incorrect addition of "cs" in needFullLocales and upload new version

• debug memleak in TagFileParser

• review apt debian/sid changes

software-center

• review/merge lp:~barry/rnr-server/review-stats
• update reviews branch for changes in rnr-server, fix some bugs
• debug/fix maintenance status for non-apps (#538172)
• Aptdaemon: review/merge fix for socket race (#455861)
• Aptdaemon: fix is_dpkg_journal_clean() code

• ratings&reviews deployment calls

• debug aptdaemon debconf race (#455861)
• Gtk: work on speedup for software-center in the treeview/treelist #514879

computer-janitor

• Work on dbus computer-janitor branch with barry and review his branch (good stuff!)
• review dbus branch
• push "find_async" improvements on lp:~mvo/computer-janitor/dbus

misc

• Ubuntu-system-service: debug/fix apply-systemwide bug (#530430)
• Update-notifier/landscape: review/comment reboot-required file (#538253) additional info
• Discuss system-wide apply on gnome-control-center with upstream
• Update-notifier: add hplip firmware loading support (with pitti, tkamppeter)
• Unattended-upgrades: add support for plymouth via --text ... if a upgrade is running on shutdown (#506709)
• Compiz: look at rounding issue (#532224) with light theme
• Arm: trying to reproduce hang, but fails in qemu-system-arm
• various M planning phonecalls

Scott James Remnant

Steve Langasek

Release management

• Lucid beta 1 released, in SUDDEN DEATH OVERTIME
• plymouth testing
• bug triaging

Packages

• finish NBS mass-rebuilds for libhdf5-serial-1.8.4
• NBS rebuilds for libgdal1-1.6.0, libgssdp-1.0-2, libgupnp-1.0-3
• fix yate FTBFS (more NBS cleanup)
• fix whois, libspe2 FTBFS

Sponsorship

• plasma-widget-message-indicator (539700)