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NOTE: Team meeting times have changed.

The kernel team holds weekly public meetings on irc.freenode.net in #ubuntu-kernel, on Tuesdays from 16:00 UTC to 17:00 UTC. The meeting is skipped for weeks where there is a public Ubuntu Developer Meeting. Community is encouraged to attend, but remember, these meetings are not to discuss various bug reports. This is meant to be a high level discussion of the team's workload and roadmap.

Agenda for next meeting

Past meetings

Tue, February 12, 2008

  • Team status

    • AmitKucheria: Mobile updates coming up in the next week, including graphics and dma drivers for hardy lpia kernel.

    • TimGardner: Coordinating with Amit for -8 kernel, targeted for Alpha 5. Expressed concern about an change in IDE drivers (sda->hda). Needs to be addressed ASAP.

    • StefanBader: tp_smapi driver in lum, and lots of bug triaging. Some discussion with Leann on proper bug triaging.

    • ColinKing: Initial commits to main repo, bug trigiaging.

  • Adhoc discussion in re-establishing the double-ack patch submission to kernel-team
  • Discussion on bug list:
    • "Carried Over" section is still growing. Needs priority
    • 189224: Serious issue, needs attention. Stefan to investigate
    • 185303: Also important, bios related, Tim will investigate
  • abogani: Raised desire to include -rt kernel in main for hardy+1

Tue, February 5, 2008

  • Team status
  • Intros's: Colin King and Stefan Bader
  • General discussion
    • Issues raised about NFS bugs
    • Issues with Broadcom 43xx driver conflicts/overlap raised

Minutes and Logs

Past logs and minutes are now at ["MeetingLogs/Kernel"]

Tue, July 10 (canceled)

  • Meeting canceled (London Distro Sprint)

Tue, Jun 12

  • Team Status
    • Absent: Tim (vac) and Kyle (UME sprint)
    • New start: Amit
  • Discuss hand-off of gutsy maintenance to rest of team

    • ACTION: Ben to provide schedule of major devel cycle events, including uploads and rebase days, to be matched against milestones.

    • ACTION: Ben to provide process document for maintaining tree

  • KVM status (cr3)
    • Ben ran test of KVM just before meeting, all seemed working
    • Issues noted:
      • vpn requirement
      • reference of machines names to id requires cross checking a file on the cert system

    • ACTION: Marc will work on getting ssh or stunnel to replace vpn

  • An intro to bugs from distro-qa:
    • heno instroduced distro-qa team and discussed some processes they will be using for high priority bugs.

    • ACTION: Ben will add a rolling agenda item to kernel team meetings to discuss hi prio distro-qa bugs.

    • ACTION: Ben will schedule time at Distro Sprint in London for distro-qa and kernel team: Topics to include bug workflow and handling of distro-qa bugs.

  • Open discussion

Tue, May 29

  • Team Status
    • Ben (BenC)
      • Working on gutsy kernel, patch merges
    • Kyle (kylem)
      • Non-kernel related work
    • Phillip (pkl)
      • Sifting through feisty security upload bugs, no major regressions
      • Still working on VIA ps2 mouse problem
      • Needs to contact Rob Rhoads directly about mobile kernel config. Email ubuntu-module when there's progress.
    • Tim (rtg)
      • Absent, vacation
  • Issues before Tribe 1 (BenC)
    • None to speak of. The 2.6.22-6.11 (-rc3) kernel will likely be Tribe 1.
  • Discuss KVM setup at Montreal Office (cr3)
    • KVM accessed over VPN
    • Client is java based
    • Machines are powered off at this time, connected to PDU. Powered on by request
    • Plans to move to colocation center so machines can remain on 24/7
    • Will provide VPN/client howto in coming days
    • Will provide info on cert appliance and colocation at next kernel meeting.
  • Open discussion

Tue, May 15

  • Reviewed topics from UDS
  • Virtualization
    • Continued vmware support looks good
    • Xen support needs community behind it
    • OpenVZ will need support to forward port things to 2.6.22
  • Wireless discussions from UDS
    • Regulatory restrictions
    • mac80211
  • Open discussion

Tue, April 17

  • Review kernel release schedule

    • Status, released Smile :)

  • Review bug status for feisty
    • No release critical bugs known
    • A few bugs pointed out for SRU
  • Discuss initial proposed specs for UDS
  • Syncing local Ubuntu kernel changes to upstream when 2.6.22 opens in git. Need someone to take on this process to reduce our delta for feisty+1.
    • Tim to handle syncing these changes for merging upstream.
  • Review for feisty-security post-release.
    • Phillip to handle feisty tree post-release
  • Open discussion

Tue, Apr 3 (canceled)

  • Meeting canceled

Mon, Mar 19

  • Confirm kernel freeze
    • Discussed kernel release times for feisty in conjunction with release schedule. Will add notes to ["KernelTeam/Roadmap"].
  • Review new kernel bug policies
  • Review any show stopper bugs
  • Discuss upcoming UDS and Request-For-Specs: ["KernelTeam/Roadmap"]
  • Discuss new day/time for the meetings.
    • Decided on Tue's at 15:00 UTC
  • Open discussion
    • Kyle brought up how to handle late drivers for feisty. Need to discuss where the updates will go (-proposed, -backports, -updates, main?).

Mon, Mar 5

  • Updates on bug list
  • Open discussion

Wed, Feb 21

  • Status of d80211 inclusion (in addition to bcm43xx status).
    • Kyle will work on syncing newer d80211 stack and testing.
  • Status of Unionfs. Discuss whether to include Unionfs 2.0 in Feisty kernel.

    • Bug in question is: https://launchpad.net/bugs/85145

    • Unionfs 2.0 is too big of a change this close to release.
    • Phillip to work on isolating fix to backport to our current code.
  • Discussion of bug triaging methods and policy.
    • Ben will work on wiki howto to detail our current policy.
  • Assessment of current bug list.
    • It's huge. Work will begin to lower the unconfirmed and unassigned list.
  • Open Discussion.