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NOTE: This is just a place holder until the sprint takes place.

The July 2008 Sprint will take place at the Canonical Lexington Mass. office. Attendees:

• Ben Collins (Kernel Team)
• Pete Graner (Kernel Team)
• Tim Gardner (Kernel Team)
• Stefan Bader (Kernel Team)
• Leann Ogasawara (QA Team)
• Adilson Oliveira (FAE/SGE)

Proposed Agenda

• Debian Packaging (Joint with server, by Kees?)
• Kernel Packaging 101 (by Ben)
• DKMS Packaging overview (by Ben?)
• Overview of specs from UDS, defer, complete or mark as done.

• Decide the fate of stable kABI [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Stable_kABI] (pgraner)1 hr.

• Discuss the role of a stable kernel engineer & job description 30 min

• Discuss the policies regarding the current SRU practice for -updates => -security (in relation to the above topic of stable engineer) 30 min.

• Review progress of fglrx and nvidia DKMS packaging
• Hardware Enablement 1 hr.

• Possibly use/link into http://www.kerneloops.org/ either from cmdline/apport, or LP? 30 min.

• Discuss a new bug policy for updating bugs from release to release (proposal from Leann

• Discuss Upstream Vanilla Kernel PPA for the QA & Support teams 1 hr.

Day 1

• TBD

Day 2

• TBD

Day 3

• TBD

Day 4

• TBD

Day 5

• TBD

Sessions requested from kernel team

Put things here for OOB sessions with the kernel team or one of its members. Add your name for a list-of-interest.

• Learn how to track changes in kernel infrastructure, especially modifications to linux-ubuntu-modules (lum), linux-restricted-modules (lrm) and linux-backports-modules
  • Adilson
• Learn from kernel QA engineer (Leann) about best practices and processes for kernel bug triaging and isolating problems, especially some of its practices. Possible highlights, suspend/resume and sound.
  • Adilson