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Present

• Alexander Sack (asac)
• Ben Collins (BenC)
• Bryce Harrington (bryce)
• Colin Watson (cjwatson)
• Rick Clark (dendrobates)
• Henrik Omma (heno)
• Dustin Kirkland (kirkland)
• Loïc Minier (lool)
• Michael Vogt (mvo)
• Emmet Hikory (persia)
• Pete Graner (pgraner)
• Martin Pitt (pitti)
• Scott Kitterman (ScottK)
• Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
• Steve Beattie (sbeattie)
• Steve Langasek (slangasek) - chair

Apologies

• Matt Zimmerman

Agenda

• Outstanding items from last week
• Milestoned bugs
• Milestoned features
• General feature update
• Known regressions

  • status of issues found in previous milestone: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/intrepid/alpha3#Caveats

• Hardware testing
• ISO size
• Future issues expected to impact the release (e.g. major upstream changes pending)
• Scheduling Ubuntu 8.04.2

Outstanding items

• mathiaz still working on openldap 2.4.11 update
• Foundation team concerns about kernel package split resolved
• Kernel team items for the alpha-4 Technical Overview yet to be done

ISO Size

• significant progress made on CD sizing, by refactoring libgweather
• uncompressed Packages files blocked on bug #255545
• Luke continuing to investigate desktop sound downsampling

Milestoned Bugs

• List of release-critical bugs milestoned for alpha-4

• List of all bugs targeted to intrepid

Desktop Team

• gnome-keyring ssh issue resolved since last meeting (252498)

• "reboot and halt" policykit issue not yet resolved, has been retargeted to alpha-5 with using gdm interface as a workaround for alpha-4
• camera handling and USB disk mounting now working with the new permissions setup
• apport re-enabled by default
• sound events currently not working
• langpacks not yet available for intrepid

• pdf-as-standard-print-job-format spec pending, should not be disruptive

• printerdriverautodownload spec postponed

Kernel Team

• new kernel upload planned for today, no ABI changes planned
• BenC investigating gfx weirdness with uvesafb (affects usplash), not a blocker for alpha-4

Foundations Team

• X input hotplugging is done

• NetworkManager 0.7 is done

  • should get some liveCD testing using images including the new NM
• compcache postponed to after alpha-4
• ubiquity 1.9.8 pushed for alpha-4, but the installer team is all on vacation next week so don't break the installer!
• OOo slipping until alpha-5

Server Team

• no blockers
• landscape-client, likewise-open, and tomcat6.x all being worked on before alpha-4

QA Team

• daily ISOs being successfully smoke tested: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/DailySmoke

Mobile Team

• nothing new to report; mobile expected to be on-track wrt the freeze

MOTU-Release Team

• ongoing discussions among MOTU about cruft removal
• process should be improved to notify MOTU about packages demoted from main, so that they can be considered for archive removal entirely if appropriate rather than being "orphaned" in universe
• REVU has been slow this cycle, so the number of new packages for intrepid is expected to be small

Ubuntu 8.04.2 schedule

• 8.04.1+6 months is right after Christmas, which is awkward
• cjwatson suggests aiming for late January, and to begin preparation around mid-November
• goals expected to be less ambitious than for 8.04.1
  • cjwatson will send out a note to remind folks that 8.04.1 was a special case, and not all work should be mirrored to hardy
• settled on Jan 22 as the Ubuntu 8.04.2 release date

Action Items

• dendrobates to follow up with mathiaz about a samba 3.2 blurb for the Technical Overview

• mvo to investigate 255545

• pitti to coordinate with tkamppeter to resolve ghostscript package bloat issue
• asac to email ubuntu-devel-announce with directions for testing

• slangasek to follow up with kirkland on patch for bug 33649

• heno to follow up with davmor2 on 253686

• slangasek and ScottK to discuss with ubuntu-qa about tools for identifying work needing done (e.g., NBS rebuilds)
• slangasek to add 8.04.2 release date (Jan 22) to calendar