2010-11-22-SR

Stable Release Team Agenda

  • PURPOSE: collaborate on stable release updates and long term support point releases

  • FREQUENCY: bi-weekly meeting

  • ACTIVE RELEASES: Maverick, Lucid, Karmic, Hardy, Dapper

  • RELEASE LIFECYCLE STATUS: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases

Actions from Last Meeting

  • none (first meeting after all Wink ;) )

Features and Bugs Summary

  • Release-targeted bugs (snapshot 2010/11/17)

Release

Bugs Open

Critical

High

New

Maverick

333

2

55

66

Lucid

623

5

113

161

Karmic

283

3

39

115

Hardy

458

0

65

180

Dapper

211

1

14

67

10.04.2 Long Term Support Status

Planned Release Date: February 17, 2011

Kernel

  • Unresolved Important Bugs

    • 635344:After my CD-Rom is ejected, the tray will instantly retract. [sconklin] - need to determine if can come up with fix for RC and where fix needs to happen

Foundations

  • Unresolved Important Bugs

    • 563916:[details.so] No prompt for [S]kip or [M]anual recovery on server boot - [cjwatson] - release candiate, on list

    • 591207:Casper's USB update-initramfs shim should look for initrd.img in /boot - [cjwatson] - .1 attempt failed, will see if possible, ev to look at

    • 607657:Lucid point release installer must support LTS backported Kernels - [cjwatson] - release candiate, on list

    • 635273:Building debs with SWIG libraries do not work - [cjwatson] - under investigation.

Server

  • Unresolved Important Bugs

    • 671103:backport grub-legacy-ec2 from maverick to lucid - [cjwatson] - accepted for validation already - will go out as SRU

Desktop

  • Unresolved Important Bugs

    • 525807:[upstream] [3.2.1] OOo Slide Show and Fullscreen modes - not full screen under compiz - [pitti] - pending finding an OOo maintainer

    • 625280:SRU: xserver-xorg-video-geode 2.11.9-1 to Lucid and older supported releases - [pitti] - will investigate

    • 459647:Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled - [pitti] compiz has been going off/on - jeopardizes stability, so may declare permanently broken in lucid.

Kubuntu

  • [ScottK via IRC on ubuntu-devel 11/22] - Tech board has approved putting KDE point releases into -updates. Kubuntu will update to KDE 4.4.5 (and 4.4.7 for kdepim) for 10.04.2

Stable Release Updates

Notes:

  • [cjwatson] sponsored 671097 and milestoned this for server team

  • [cjwatwon] bug 554172, don't know a good fix. Need discussion on solutions, see action items

  • [victorp] certification testing for lucid done on ubuntu for netbooks, desktop edition (laptops and pc) sevrers, i386 and amd64) testing link: http://people.canonical.com/~cr3/hw-testing/lucid-proposed.html

  • [skaet] decision to ship lucid SRU update without regression testing formalized, some concern on it not baking for a week - reverts not reseting -proposed is the concern

  • [skaet] shipping maverick SRU will be decided after we get result of SRU testing - action taken to call meeting to discuss tomorrow

Quality Assurance

  • what is the status of the regression automation infrastructure?
  • Current SRU status:
  • Questions:

    • This report still looks like its being run, can it be updated to reflect the current releases? see: http://people.ubuntu.com/~sbeattie/sru_todo.html

    • is there a report that details the regression run report for the current SRU kernel update? [pedro] will take an action to provide next time

    • what has changed in terms of the bug validation over the last week for the current SRU proposed packages?
    • how many packages moved from proposed to updates/security in last week?

Hardware Certification

Kernel

  • Questions:
    • Which bugs that are being targetted for next SRU testing cycle?
    • Which kernels will need SRU testing?
    • What date will the kernel(s) be available for build? test?
    • Any security issues that may impact next cycle?
    • What is the priority list of SRU candidate bugs that will be worked on in next two weeks?

Security

  • Questions:
    • Any show stoppers likely which will cause kernel SRU release cycle to be skipped?
    • Any packages which need to have SRU bugs validated?
    • Any SRU candidate bugs against packages to be worked on in next two weeks?

Foundations

  • Questions:
    • Any packages which need to have SRU bugs validated?
    • Any SRU candidate bugs against packages to be worked on in next two weeks?

Server

ARM

  • Questions:
    • Any packages which need to have SRU bugs validated?
    • Any SRU candidate bugs against packages to be worked on in next two weeks?

Desktop

  • Questions:
    • Any packages which need to have SRU bugs validated?
    • Any SRU candidate bugs against packages to be worked on in next two weeks?

Ubuntu One

  • Questions:
    • Any packages which need to have SRU bugs validated?
    • Any SRU candidate bugs against packages to be worked on in next two weeks?

Kubuntu

  • Questions:
    • Any packages which need to have SRU bugs validated?
    • Any SRU candidate bugs against packages to be worked on in next two weeks?

Derivatives

Linaro

  • Questions:
    • Any fixes that need to be released in maverick SRU?
    • Any SRU candidate bugs against packages to be worked on in next two weeks?

OEM

  • Question:
    • Any escalation bugs that need to be worked on in next two weeks that should be SRU?

IRC Meeting Log

ACTIONS

  • [cjwatson, apw, Keybuk, azul] - to come up with proposal to handle upstart interaction/bug 642555
  • [victorp] look at adding hardware cert reports with architectures as one of the pieces of info tracked for SRU meeting
  • [pedro, marjo] - look at adding regression test report as one of the pieces of info tracked for SRU meeting.
  • [victorp, pedro, bjf, skaet] to set date for next target SRU release. We'll be skipping Dec. 2.
  • [skaet, victorp, bjf, pitti] - meet to discuss SRU release of maverick post hardware cert testing results
  • [skaet] publish meeting conventions and discuss pre-work expectations with individual leads, so we can get this a little more efficient.

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