For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

Present

• EvanDandrea - chair

Apologies

• Scott - at LF Collab Summit
• Steve

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

• PEP 3147; hopefully merged into py3k trunk by Friday.
• bug 519541 investigation (abiword freezes)

Colin Watson

• GRUB:
• Fix broken space handling in GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR (#557606).
• Improve handling of missing device.map to avoid bogus root= settings
  • (#549980).
• Fix workaround for BIOSes that pass bogus DL values (#555500).
• Partitioning:
• Don't offer side-by-side installation on armel (#550963).
• Remove limits on loop labels, which broke LVM/RAID on large disks
  • (#543838).
• Tweaked parted_server's limits on free space fragments it doesn't
  • bother to show.
• Other installer work:
• Fix up init script output handling on server installations a bit
  • better (#548954).
• Cosmetic KDE oem-config string fixes (#540929).
• Fix translation of inactive labels on language changes (#552673).
• Initial Foundations team planning for 10.10.
• Minor assistance with beta-2 preparation, mostly fielding ISO testing
  • bugs where I could.
• Worked with Scott and others to develop a plan for smooth boot splash
  • in Maverick (foundations-maverick-grub2-boot-framebuffer).
• Merged: parted (including library package name change to smooth
  • upgrades, #535368)
• Synced: germinate

Evan Dandrea

Gary Lasker

Gary Lasker

• Continued software-center bug fixes and triage
• 8 fixes this week including two related to channel
  • updating mentioned last report
• Continued testing, looking for edge cases, regressions, etc.
• OEM, Foundations weekly team meetings
• Engineering rotation allocation this week
• 90% platform, 10% OEM
• On holiday next week

James Westby

Distributed Development

• Continuing to push launchpad changes. Not a lot of coding this week,
  • but going through the time-consuming process of landing changes.
• Merged various patches and prepared a (hopefully final) upload of
  • bzr-builddeb for lucid.

Other

• Much sponsoring.
• Some lucid bug fixing.
• Archive admin duty.
• Helped debug the gwibber CPU usage issue.

Loïc Minier

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

beta2

• updated for beta-2
• app-install data update
• apt ddtp update

update-manager

• improve exception logging in the auto-upgrade testerimprove exception logging in the auto-upgrade tester
• look over the upgrade logs
• report odd bind9 behavior (#556332)

• report failure on 8.04->10.04 and attach fix (#556343)

• review/merge branch lp:~barry/update-manager/132311-bootspace
• add est_kernel_size.py helper, merge into lucid branch
• review/refactor quirks
• refresh translations, manually unfuzzy strings for 10.04 LTS

• update quirks for hardy->lucid upgrade

• support i18n in release notes uri
• add extra protection against removal of video drivers (#556629)
• debug upgrade failure #551782
• improve logging
• save system state prior to the upgrade (#551646)
• raise i18n issue (#559018) with the pt translators
• test new version on hardy, lucid for a new upload
• Analyize upgrade failure (broken metacity/compiz-gnoem)

apt

• fix unicode/utf8 textwrap issues in ddtp upload (#552542)
• Apt-ddtp update, fix some utf8 issues (#445331)
• add check against invalid utf-8 and upload new ddpt translations
• debug/fix crash in apt-get source #556056

support-timeframe

• talk about my two branches
• target #558429 to be sure it lands in time

• clarify status on SeedManagement wiki page

• push lp:~mvo/launchpad/support-timeframe-kubuntu (+merge request)

software-center

• fix missing cache changes monitoring (LP: #432555)
• work with zyga to figure out some slowness issues
• review/merge lp:~gary-lasker/software-center/lp556995
• review/merge lp:~mmcg069/software-center/pathbar-atk
• profiling and making the UI nicer on long operations
• Work on software-center responsivness
• add experimental spinner when changing pages

misc

• fix #556297
• merge branch lp:~kelemeng/gdebi/bug-554731
• cherry pick i18n fix for gdebi #554731
• Friendly-recovery: merge i18n fixes (#430926)
• Friendly-revoery: try to debug failure to run at all (#543580), not much success
• Debug/send ticket to fix #523714 (changelogs.ubuntu.com needs newer dpkg)
• Gdebi: fix issue with missing --auto-deconfigure
• Upload new compiz with fix for #428769
• GSoC: look at some proposals
• debugging thread deadlock without success

Scott James Remnant

Steve Langasek

Release management

• write a script to batch-load AMIs onto the ISO tracker; submitting 12

webforms by hand for the 12 different AMIs each time there's a respin is tedious

• Lucid Beta 2

Sponsorship

• xscreensaver (129769)

• aptitude (515525)

Packages

• fix wrong kernel load address in dove netboot image (541399)

• goffice: fix the upgrade path for libgoffice-0.8-8
• fglrx-installer: upgrade fix, i386 build fix
• kubuntu-logo plymouth theme: fix text placement to match ubuntu-logo
• mythbuntu-default-settings, lubuntu-artwork, ubuntustudio-look,

xubuntu-artwork: add deps on plymouth-label

• move plymouth deps around so metapackages don't pull in themes that

flavors don't want

• paw: fix for FTBFS
• plymouth: fix for initramfs-less systems; and fix initramfs hook script

for the case when only the text theme is installed (554566)