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 * [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=21447|Milestoned bugs]] * [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs|Targeted bugs]] * [[http://people.ubuntu.com/~dholbach/sponsoring/|Sponsorship queue]] * Any business from activity reports * Good news * AOB ## Additional items here == Outstanding actions from last meeting == ## List outstanding items and an update on their progress if appropriate == Actions from this meeting == ## List new action items == Chair for next meeting == ## * ChairForNextMeeting ## Now follows a section for each agenda item ## == Title == ## commentary == 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 (Bug:129769) * aptitude (Bug:515525) ==== Packages ==== * fix wrong kernel load address in dove netboot image (Bug: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 (Bug:554566)