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Meeting

• Who: SecurityTeam

• When: Mon Feb 13th 2017 16:31 UTC

• End: 16:49 UTC

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

• Chaired By: Tyler Hicks (tyhicks)

Attendance

• jdstrand
• mdeslaur
• tyhicks
• jjohansen
• sarnold
• chrisccoulson
• ratliff

Not present

• sbeattie

Agenda

• Announcements

  • James Page (jamespage) provided a debdiff for xenial for nova-lxd (LP: #1656847)

  • Jeremy Bicha (jbicha) provided debdiffs for yakkety for bubblewrap and flatpak (LP: #1657357)

  • Jeremy Bicha (jbicha) worked to remove jasper from zesty (LP: #1612835)

• Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
  • jdstrand
    • store reviews
    • email/irc catchup from being off
    • gsetting mediation patch review
    • snappy PR reviews
      • many for Personal
      • console access
      • 'notion of trust'
    • better leverage seccomp arg filtering in snappy confinement policy
      • 6 PRs already submitted but more coming
    • various other Snappy policy updates
  • mdeslaur
    • weekly role: CVE triage
    • close to publishing a webkit2gtk update but a regression was discovered
    • php5 updates
    • security updates
    • sbeattie
      • weekly role: happy place
      • security updates
  • tyhicks
    • weekly role: community
    • finish testing and submit seccomp logging kernel patchset v3

    • check on AppArmor Zesty upload (blocked by a perl update)

    • assist in landing the dconf/gsettings mediation

    • tcpdump updates (LP: #1662177)

  • jjohansen
    • dconf/gsettings mediation

      • developing the AppArmor policy notifaction interface

      • revising userspace patches as reviews come in

    • preparing next batch of AppArmor kernel patches to upstream

  • sarnold
    • weekly role: community
    • finish up libapache2-mod-auth-mellon MIR
    • pick up another MIR

  • ChrisCoulson

    • getting rustc working everywhere to be able to provide firefox updates
      • Mozilla is requiring a very new rustc version (1.15.1) to build firefox

    • https://blueprints.launchpad.net/oxide/+spec/ubuntu-webview-implementation

      • Add touch selection handles and quick menu to UbuntuWebView (LP: #1638852)

  • ratliff
    • weekly role: bug triage
    • security updates for ubuntu-core 15.04 and Touch
• 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
  • none

Log

Logs available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2017/ubuntu-meeting.2017-02-13-16.31.moin.txt