Jul2008
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 or 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 community.
- SRU development for Ubuntu stable releases
- driver backporting to stable releases
- work with QA to identify SRU candidates
- C, upstream kernel build procedures
Discuss the policies regarding the current SRU practice for -updates => -security (in relation to the above topic of stable engineer)(pgraner)
- Review progress of fglrx and nvidia DKMS packaging
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.