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Meeting

• Who: SecurityTeam

• When: Mon Jul 30th 2012 18:00 UTC

• End: 18:30 UTC

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

• Chaired By: JamieStrandboge (jdstrand)

Attendance

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

Not present

• None

Agenda

• Announcements

  • Thanks to bdrung for his help on security updates for the community supported vlc last week. Your work is very much appreciated and will keep Ubuntu users secure. Great job!

• Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
  • jdstrand
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • finish up community work from last week
    • MIR audits
    • recruiting
    • webkit maintenance investigation
  • mdeslaur
    • weekly role: triage
    • pending updates
  • sbeattie
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • embargoed issues
    • pending updates
    • openstack issue to test
  • micahg
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • webkit
    • pickup mozilla testing while tyhicks is gone
  • tyhicks
    • Weekly role: community
    • pending updates
    • auditd network packages
    • ecryptfs pull request
  • jjohansen
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • finish up dbus patches for sbeattie
    • finish locking patchset
    • back to stacking after that
• 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

  • There are a lot of merge opportunities for packages listed in http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/d2u/. Performing these updates is a great way to help Ubuntu and bolster your developer application.

Log

Logs available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2012/ubuntu-meeting.2012-07-30-18.03.html