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  * [[https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+bugs?field.milestone:list=27561|alpha-3 bugs]]   * [[https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+bugs?field.milestone:list=27563|beta bugs]]
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 * f-m-python-versions
  * much work on py27 stack
  * dealing with ppa limitations and api
  * pythoneers/py27stack2
  * waiting for (sloooowwww) results of last sync submission
  * todo: review ftbfs logs and write no-change version bump mass upload script
 * f-m-robust-python-packaging
  * python bug 9193
  * versioned .so files patch (poor man's abi)
  * python-dev discussions
  * todo: finish pep 3149 and submit
 * misc
  * bug 602132 (valgrind ftbfs on mav)
  * reviewed lean research paper
  * built out new mav installation on mbp
  * python modules submitted for debian ITP
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 * GRUB 2:
  * Merged Debian work from the tail-end of last week, with some additional fixes for bugs reported over the weekend.
  * Fixed regression when installing to a partition.
  * Yet more documentation work.
  * Worked on foundations-m-grub2-boot-framebuffer, fixing an ordering bug that broke GRUB_BACKGROUND handling, working with Andy to figure out how to avoid screen-clears, and spending a lot of time testing. At Matthew Garrett's suggestion, I wrote a simple linearfb kernel module, awaiting his review.
  * Fixed an obscure directory corruption bug when reading from reiserfs.
  * Fix grub-installer to resolve symlinks in default boot device (Bug:602758).

 * Support building debian-installer with new apt mirror: method.

 * Some 10.04.1 preparation.

 * Fixed cyrus-sasl2 (Bug:600180) and ppp (Bug:600947) build failures.

 * Stop sshd on shutdown, since Upstart won't do it for us now that it's a native job (Bug:603363).

 * Reviewed gparted patches from Surbhi.

 * Merged: initramfs-tools (twice), busybox, suitesparse (fixing build failure, Bug:601008), manpages-de, loadlin
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==== misc ====
 * App-install-data: fix glade meta-data bug
 * Apt-cacher-ng: debug failure with u-m and meta-release fetching
 * Apt-cacher-ng: review/sponsor fix for #601883 (for apw)

==== apt ====
 * fix ftbfs
 * make term.log logfile unbuffered
 * review changes in debian-experimental-ma branch

==== software-center ====
 * aptdaemon: debug crash when user presses CANCEL in aptdaemon progress dialog
 * aptdaemon: debug/fix enable_component call return type mismatch
 * aptdaemon: update 03_auth_me_less to ask for less password prompts
 * aptdaemon: fix test failures
 * workon/merge lp:~mvo/software-center/appdetails-in-db
 * merged appdetailsview-gtk and pathbar-tweaks branches
 * diagnose failure in install-from-channel code
 * make buy-app workflow work
 * port buy-something to new trunk code

==== python-apt ====
 * bugfixes, better test coverage
 * py3 fixes in tests/debfile code

==== update-manager ====
 * Review/merge lp:~mdz/update-manager/small-fixes-20100707
 * call set_fraction() less often
 * fixes in python-apt 0.8 port
 * fixes in the non-interactive upgrader and with python-apt 0.8 from lucid (that is a bit buggy :/)
 * good performance measurment/improvements #595845

==== sponsoring ====
 * hostname, libaio, whois, memtest86+, subversion, compizconfig

For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

Present

Lightning round order

   1 from random import shuffle
   2 team = [
   3     'Keybuk',
   4     'barry',
   5     'cjwatson',
   6     'doko',
   7     'ev',
   8     'mvo',
   9     'csurbhi',
  10     ]
  11 order = team[:]
  12 shuffle(order)
  13 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

  • Sponsorship queue

  • Any business from activity reports
  • Good news
  • AOB
  • Next week's chair

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Actions from this meeting

Chair for next meeting

  • ???

Activity reports

Barry Warsaw

Colin Watson

Evan Dandrea

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

Scott James Remnant

Surbhi Palande

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