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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

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

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