For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

Present

• You - chair

• BarryWarsaw

• ColinWatson

• EvanDandrea

• MatthiasKlose

• MichaelVogt

• ScottJamesRemnant

• SurbhiPalande

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

  • ubuntu-10.10 bugs

• 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

• short week due to holidays/illness
• bug 627654 investigation
• landed pep 3149 upstream
• gtimelog update and packaging

Colin Watson

2010-08-23 - 2010-08-27

• Backported fix for bogus warning messages from dpkg upstream (#619135).
• GRUB 2:
  • Reverted to gfxpayload=text (#605614, #608429, #612626).
• CD boot menu changes requested by Kubuntu team (#608746).
• foundations-m-uefi-support:
  • New grub-rescue-efi-amd64 package (possibly temporary).
  • Ported cdrkit patch from Fedora to add -efi-boot option.
  • Added GRUB EFI configuration to debian-installer and debian-cd on amd64, making those images multi-catalog.
• Added busybox cross-compiling support (#623392).
• Reviewed Upstart patches from server team.
• A few bits and pieces from foundations-m-spring-cleaning.
• Merged: grub2, debian-installer-utils

2010-08-31 - 2010-09-03

• Archive cleanup work for beta (openoffice.org-voikko installability, sash functionality on amd64, and lots of archive-side work).
• Fixed Wubi, which was trying to run conditionals using GRUB's rescue parser rather than its normal parser (#600578, #617715).
• Fixed oem-config KDE frontend crash (#627549).
• Worked around apt-cdrom madness on writable USB sticks (#627672).
• Did a good chunk of the release management work for beta, in consultation with Kate and Robbie.
• foundations-m-uefi-support:
  • Stopped grub-installer asking for a boot device on UEFI.
  • Fixed partitioning code to mount the first method=efi partition on /boot/efi.
  • Still trying to get my test machine to boot a 64-bit kernel, but no luck as yet. Will wait for serial console hardware instead.
• Suppressed verbose debugging messages in webkit (cherry-pick from Debian).
• Merged: grub-installer, partman-efi, usb-discover (#627004)

Evan Dandrea

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

apt

• debug ssl timeout failure with donkult
• fix missing apport report writing (thanks to mdz)
• forward aptitude patch for FTBFS to upstream
• merge fixes from debian-sid, upload new verison

software-center

• lots of branch review/merges
• aptdaemon: merge/upload new bzr snapshot
• branch merges, fixes in "what's new", "featured" display
• fix crash in local checkouts
• implement the "find it at" part of the spec
• workon/test buy-something
• work on the addons branch, add tests, debug logic

software-properties

• review/merge and471 gtkbuildre branch
• review/merge gtkbuilder-and-gui-polish branc

update-manager

• debug/fix crash in doPostUpgrade (#618597)
• fix label wraping for label_downsize
• remove the extra "demoted" dialog, move into main confirm dialog
• use treeview for the details (in gtk)
• fix #624894 and upload to maverick

• work lucid->lucid-updates upgrade profile

misc

• App-install-data update
• Command-not-found data update
• Gdebi: merge debian branch/upload
• Policykit: add session-auto-restart support for the agent
• Travel preparing
• Update-notifier: merge xdg patches from Sebastian Geige

• Work with kamstrup on s-c & unity integration

Scott James Remnant

Surbhi Palande

* Investigated kernel boot up code, initramfs, udev and mdadm - to figure out the Raid Bringup

* Finding out what the requirements are to make the initramfs event based for bringing up RAID. (In the coming weeks, shall look at how this could possibly be done)

* Worked on bug 628400. Shall send a sponsorship request soon.