20111205
Meeting
Who: SecurityTeam
End: 18:30 UTC
Where: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net
Chaired By: JamieStrandboge (jdstrand)
Attendance
- jdstrand
- mdeslaur
- micahg
- tyhicks
- jjohansen
Not present
- sbeattie
Agenda
- Announcements
- Thanks to the following people who helped Ubuntu Security last week:
- Gabriel A. von Winckler (winckler) for the phpldapadmin debdiffs
Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> for the request-tracker3.8 debdiff
- Arnaud Quette (Uzuul) for help in updating the nut qa-regression-testing script (LP: #894476)
Your work is very much appreciated and will keep Ubuntu users secure!
- Thanks to the following people who helped Ubuntu Security last week:
- Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
- jdstrand
- Weekly role: happy place
- several pending updates
- MIR audits
- work items as have time
- mdeslaur
- Weekly role: community
- pending updates
- sbeattie (added after meeting)
- Weekly role: triage
- pending updates
- continue with cgroups investigation
- micahg
- Weekly role: happy place
- patch pilot
- pending updates
- Firefox rapid release migration for Lucid/Maverick
- webkit 1.6 migration planning
- tyhicks
- Weekly role: happy place
- pending updates
- ecryptfs statfs() max filename length reporting bug
- ecryptfs 'make check' for trunk tests
- jjohansen
- Weekly role: happy place
- pending kernel updates
- finish bug fixing in aa namespaces and get fake stacking up in a ppa
- testing on the new d_path upstream api, adjust our patch for it, and write documentation surrounding this api
- jdstrand
- Highlighted packages
The Ubuntu Security team will highlight some community-supported packages that might be good candidates for updating and or triaging. If you would like to help Ubuntu and not sure where to start, this is a great way to do so. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/UpdateProcedures for details and if you have any questions, feel free to ask in #ubuntu-security. To find out other ways of helping out, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/GettingInvolved. The highlighted packages for this week are:
The Ubuntu Security team suggests that contributors look into merging Debian security updates in community-supported packages. If you would like to help Ubuntu but are not sure where to start, this is a great way to do so. See the available merges and SecurityTeam/UpdateProcedures for details on preparing Ubuntu security updates. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in #ubuntu-hardened. To find out other ways of helping out, please see SecurityTeam/GettingInvolved.
- Miscellaneous and Questions
Work items analysis - http://people.canonical.com/~jamie/wi/precise-canonical-security.html
Log
Logs available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2011/ubuntu-meeting.2011-12-05-18.06.moin.txt
MeetingLogs/Security/20111205 (last edited 2011-12-05 18:46:59 by jdstrand)