Present
- Steve Langasek (slangasek) - chair
- Colin Watson (cjwatson)
- David Morris (davmor2)
- Rick Clark (dendrobates)
- Henrik Omma (heno)
- Jorge Castro (jcastro)
- Loïc Minier (lool)
- Mathias Gug (mathiaz)
- Matt Zimmerman (mdz)
- Oliver Grawert (ogra)
- Emmet Hikory (persia)
- Pete Graner (pgraner)
- Steve Beattie (sbeattie)
- Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Agenda
- Milestoned bugs
- Milestoned features
- General feature update
- Known regressions
status of issues found in previous milestone: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidIbex/TechnicalOverview#head-f550c3cb66314cc86937bc31b1c8bcfb08ad1874
- Hardware testing
- ISO size
- Future issues expected to impact the release (e.g. major upstream changes pending)
- Release manager for alpha-4
- Set schedule for future meetings
Milestoned Bugs
List of all bugs targetted to intrepid
milestoned linux bugs are tracked by the kernel team weekly
- short list of bugs milestoned bugs for alpha-4; are there others that should be on the list?
- dendrobates indicates server team will have more bugs to milestone
reminder about https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RCBugTargetting
253686 highlighted by heno as a candidate for milestoning
Kernel Team
- discussion of the kernel port split and where we are on getting community kernels into working order
- new kernel upload planned for today
Server Team
[Spec:degraded-raid] potentially blocked on installer and grub
- unblocked by discussion between cjwatson and Dustin Kirkland
- likewise-open and openldap 2.4.11 are potential targets for alpha-4
- xen domU moving to main to support amazon ec2; expected to be ready for kernel team review by next week
Mobile Team
- new dailies being published for MID, but not a blocker for alpha-4
QA Team
All issues documented in the alpha-3 release notes are milestoned
Desktop Team
- New GNOME drop scheduled for Monday
- "shutdown and reboot act as logout" on seb128's list for next week
252498, broken gnome-keyring ssh agent
Platform Team
compcache, NetworkManager 0.7, X input hotplugging, and OpenJDK in main being delivered for alpha-4
NetworkManager to be tested, with a daily test CD made available, the week before alpha-4
Hardware testing
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/DailySmoke: daily tests of several ISO test cases on a range of hardware
- reviewing test failures so that they can be escalated to developers is a WIP
General Feature Update
- technical overviews for alphas have been lacking in technical content; team leads asked for content
Known Regressions
243682 - ongoing usplash corruption issues
- please escalate regressions by nominating them for intrepid and tag "regression"
- wiki documentation, announcement to follow
ISO Size
- currently everything fits, but vigilance required
- uncompressed Packages files aren't needed on alternate CDs
- should investigate downsampling of desktop sounds sooner, not later
Release manager for alpha-4
slangasek will be at DebConf the week alpha-4 comes out, so Martin Pitt will be standing in as release manager for the milestone; please coordinate with him that week
Schedule for future meetings
- Friday 1500-1630 UTC proposed as a recurring time slot for this meeting; needs to be confirmed with other team leads not present
Action Items
- cjwatson and slangasek to follow up with pgraner about details of the kernel package split
- slangasek to discuss openldap 2.4.11 drop with mathiaz
- slangasek to follow up directly with Jonathan Riddell regarding milestoned Kubuntu bugs
- pgraner to pick one or two kernel highlights relative to 8.04
- mathiaz to suggest a technical overview blurb for samba 3.2
- slangasek to write up the new screen resolution applet for the alpha-4 technical overview
- slangasek to add the guest login to the alpha-4 tech overview
- cjwatson to investigate removing uncompressed Packages files from alternate CDs
- cjwatson to follow up with Luke Yelavich regarding desktop sound downsampling