Meeting

• Who: SecurityTeam

• When: Mon Mar 5th 2012 18:00 UTC

• End: 18:30 UTC

• Where: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net

• Chaired By: JamieStrandboge (jdstrand)

Attendance

• jdstrand
• mdeslaur
• sbeattie
• tyhicks
• micahg
• jjohansen

Not present

• None

Agenda

• Announcements
  • Thanks
    • Kilian Krause (kilian) provided debdiffs for lucid for fex (DSAs 2414 and 2259)

    Your work is very much appreciated and will keep Ubuntu users secure. Great job!

• Review of any previous action items
  • [ACTION] sbeattie to follow up on qrt bugs from QA team: DONE
• Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
  • jdstrand
    • happy place
    • archive admin caught up
    • MIR audit catch-up
    • pending updates
    • embargoed issue
  • mdeslaur
    • Weekly role: triage
    • pending updates
    • research some security bugs
  • sbeattie
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • pending update

    • essential work items (AppArmor userspace bugs/work items)

  • micahg
    • Weekly role: happy place

    • icedtea6 regression 927282

    • prepare for next round of mozilla updates
    • webkit as have time (uploads to ppa could happen this week)
  • tyhicks
    • Weekly role: community
    • pending updates
  • jjohansen
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • pending updates
    • upstream submission follow-ups
    • bug fixes for mount rules and minimization
    • work items
• 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
  • Discuss another PPA for staging SRUs and development packages. Is it worth it? (Could provide additional peer-review at lower cost). If so, what should it be named? ubuntu-security-staging
    • [ACTION] jdstrand to setup ubuntu-security-staging ppa and communicate to team

  • < mdeslaur> tyhicks: what's the status on #842647? It's unclear to me

    • tyhicks tried to reproduce recently but couldn't. Wrote a patch and will update the bug.

Log

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