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 )

Features and Bugs Summary

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

• Update targetted bugs

  • maverick-update : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?&field.milestone:list=27564

  • lucid-update : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?&field.milestone:list=21448

  • karmic-update : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?&field.milestone:list=12716

  • hardy-update : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?&field.milestone:list=34695

    • note: hardy-updates didn't exist until 11/17 so not accurate at this point - needs a scrub.

  • dapper-update : https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?&field.milestone:list=135

• Known regressions

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+bugs?field.tag=regression-potential

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs?field.tag=regression-potential

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+bugs?field.tag=regression-potential

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+bugs?field.tag=regression-potential

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+bugs?field.tag=regression-potential

• Nominated bugs

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+nominations

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+nominations

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/karmic/+nominations

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+nominations

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/dapper/+nominations

10.04.2 Long Term Support Status

Planned Release Date: February 17, 2011

• Related Blueprints
  • None
• Milestoned Bug Summary

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs?field.milestone=30508

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

• Existing Process Documentation: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

• Existing Kernel SRU Process: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/KernelUpdates

• New Kernel SRU Process being piloted: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/StableReleaseCadence

• Overall SRU Status: http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/pending-sru.html

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:

  • http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sru/latest.html

• 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

• what is the status of the hardware certification infrastructure automation?
• Current SRU status:

  • is there a report that illustrates the results of the last cerification run? ( is http://people.canonical.com/~fader/hw-testing/current.html still in use ) - [victorp] see http://people.canonical.com/~cr3/hw-testing/lucid-proposed.html, was request to add architectures, and extend to releases

• Questions:
  • how much time should be allocated for automated certification run, in planning? (assuming no significant regression)

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

• Questions:

  • Should this link be updated? : https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/StableReleaseTracker -- [[zul] - this is obsolete

  • Is this the official one? : http://people.canonical.com/~chucks/SRUTracker/sru-tracker-bugs.html -- [zul] - this is the one to use

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

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

• mootbot logs available at

  • http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.log.20101122_1002.html

  • http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.20101122_1002.html

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.