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Agenda

20130326 Meeting Agenda

ARM Status

• R/master: the -omap flavour was renamed -generic and support for Calxeda SOC was added to it. The -generic rename, coupled with the deletion of R/omap4 and the removal of the highbank flavour from master, officialy mark the beginning of arm multiplatform support in UBUNTU.

Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs

• Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following link:

  • http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/kt-meeting.txt

Milestone Targeted Work Items

• apw	hardware-r-kernel-config-review	1 work item
  	hardware-r-delta-review	3 work items
  	foundations-r-secure-boot	1 work item
  	foundations-r-aarch64	1 work item
  	foundations-r-upstart-user-session-enhancements	1 work item
  	foundations-1303-phablet-kernel-maintenance	1 work item
  ogasawara	hardware-r-kernel-config-review	3 work items
  	hardware-r-kernel-version-and-flavors	2 work items
  	hardware-r-arm-kernel-maintenance	1 work item
  	hardware-r-kernel-misc	1 work item
  ppisati	hardware-r-kernel-config-review	1 work item
  rtg	hardware-r-delta-review	1 work item
  sforshee	foundations-1303-phablet-kernel-maintenance	1 work item

  The above summarizes the remaining work items owned by individuals on our team for the rest of the 13.04 cycle.

Status: Raring Development Kernel

• We have rebased Raring to the latest v3.8.4 upstream stable kernel and uploaded. We have also began work to provide support for highbank in Raring. We have also rebased our unstable-3.9 branch to the latest upstream v3.9-rc4. Please be aware that Beta Freeze is fast approaching, ie this Thurs Mar
• We will perform one more upload either today or tomorrow prior to Beta Freeze. Beta release is then next week on Apr 4 and Kernel Freeze is the following week on Apr 11. All patches submitted after Kernel Freeze must adhere to our SRU policy. Important upcoming dates:
  • Thurs Mar 28 - 13.04 Beta Freeze (~2 days)
  • Thurs Apr 04 - 13.04 Final Beta Release (~1 week)
  • Thurs Apr 11 - Kernel Freeze (~2 weeks)

Status: CVE's

• == 2013-03-26 (weekly) == Currently we have 73 CVEs on our radar, with 8 CVEs added and 25 CVE retired this week. See the CVE matrix for the current list:

  • http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/ALL-linux.html

  Overall the backlog has decreased slightly this week:

  • http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/status/cve-metrics.txt

  • http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/CVE-linux.txt

Status: Stable, Security, and Bugfix Kernel Updates - Quantal/Precise/Oneiric/Lucid/Hardy

• Status for the main kernels, until tiday (Feb. 26):
  • Hardy - Nothing this cycle
  • Lucid - In Prep; (2 commits)
  • Oneiric - In Prep; 4 upstream releases; (100 commits)
  • Precise - In Prep; 1 upstream releases; (150 commits)
  • Quantal - In Prep; 1 upstream releases; (164 commits)
  Current opened tracking bugs details:

  • http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/kernel-sru-workflow.html

  For SRUs, SRU report is a good source of information:

  • http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/sru-report.html

  Future stable cadence cycles:

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RaringRingtail/ReleaseInterlock

  We respun the Quantal and Precise kernels yesterday. All derivative kernels will need to be respun.

Open Discussion or Questions? Raise your hand to be recognized

• No open discussion or questions.