Ubuntu Wiki

Include(KernelTeamHeader)

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)

Agenda

Day 1 Monday 14 June 2008

AM Session

• Discuss the role of a stable kernel engineer & job description (pgraner)

  • Track CVEs and security issues
  • Apply backports, develop fixes, work with Linux vendor community for resolution of security issues

  • Test & Validate Security Fixes

  • Debian Packing hight desirable. (Can be taught)
  • git understanding
  • upstream kernel experience desired
  • coordinate regression testing with the Ubuntu community.
  • SRU development for Ubuntu stable releases
  • driver backporting to stable releases
  • work with QA to identify SRU candidates
  • C programming essential
  • upstream kernel or linux distro experience desired
• Daily Kernel Builds
  • Decided on weekly. Daily builds fail to often.
  • To be handled by the stable kernel position
  • will need sync all modules i.e. lbm and friends

• Discuss the policies regarding the current SRU practice for -updates => -security

  • will merge at every Y release this will allow us to track the stable kernel sooner for a longer period.
  • needs further discussion with rel-eng
• Review progress of fglrx and nvidia DKMS packaging
  • Nvidia driver looks good
  • ATI/fglrx ???
• Packaging Vanila Kernel Source

  • Reqested by QA & Support

  • Needed as a reference point/check
  • Kernel team noted that the vanilla kernel prob won't boot due to things like apparmor
  • Would cause modules to not work in many cases i.e. lrm
  • rtg's PPA is an alternative

  • Other option could be, every time we have a new rc release, rebase, build kernel.ubuntu.com, email to QA & Support. (2.6-27-rc1)

PM Session

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

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

Day 2 Tuesday 15 June 2008

AM Session

• Overview of specs from UDS, defer, complete or mark as done.
• DKMS Packaging overview (by Ben?)

PM Session

• Debian Packaging (Ben & Joint with server, by Kees?)

Day 3 Wednesday 16 June 2008

AM Session

• 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 (pgraner)

PM Session

• 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. (requested by Adilson)
• Hardware Enablement Proposal Review (pgraner)1 hr.

Day 4

AM Session

• Kernel Packaging 101 (by Ben)

PM Session

• Learn how to track changes in kernel infrastructure, especially modifications to linux-ubuntu-modules (lum), linux-restricted-modules (lrm) and linux-backports-modules (requested by Adilson)

Day 5

• One on one time with team members
• Add hoc meeting/networking time

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.