11.04 Status

11.04 Alpha 2: February 3, 2010

11.04 Release Date: April 28, 2011

Release Overview

• Release Schedule: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule

• Interlock Information: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseInterlock

• Feature Status: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/FeatureStatus

• Archive ownership https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/677209

Actions Pending

• UDS BOF/Post Mortem
  • [skaet] Rework release process pages to make explicit who/role, where and when; and apply refactoring (merging pages, checklist, etc. to make timeline not require back/forth linking). - TO DO

  • [release team] Need to schedule in advance who's on engineer and management tasks for each milestone in natty. - IN PROGRESS - see: ReleaseTaskSignup - need Alpha 2, and 10.04.2 signed up.

  • [releaseteam & other managers ] Review master Natty cycle multiple releases schedule (NattyReleaseInterlock) and update as needed. - IN PROGRESS - revising based on SRU/Image refresh shaking out.

  • [skaet] drive a discussion to resolve disconnect between what we're calling rc vs. a beta 2. Should we do a beta 2 weeks before, or rc and be strict about it? How many bugs tested post RC? - TO DO
  • [skaet/releaseteam] come up with policy statement for what is RC. - TO DO
• 2010/11/19

  • [skaet] ScottK requests change ReleasePostMortem references to something without post-mortem in it (lessons? retrospective?) - DONE - updated: ReleaseProcess, PostReleaseReview (was ReleasePostMortem)

  • [skaet] communication about o-series/p-series in launchpad, opening in December - TO DO
  • [skaet/JamieBennett] - discuss where Linaro Natty Freeze milestone should be logged and visible - TO DO

  • [skaet] add some clarification about which milestones are associated with which releases - DONE - see: NattyReleaseSchedule/WorkItemIterations

  • [cjwatson] re: bug 677209 - will try to change owner to ubuntu-archive - IN PROGRESS

  • [doko] - update http://wiki.debian.org/ToolChain/DSOLinking on increasing strictness of linker and ways to fix it - TO DO

Bugs and Features Summary

• Feature status

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/FeatureStatus

• Release-targeted bugs

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+bugs

• Milestoned bugs

  • ubuntu-11.04 - alpha 2: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.milestone=33572

• Milestoned features

  • ubuntu-11.04 - alpha 2 : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/natty-alpha-2

• Known regressions

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

• Nominated bugs

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

Team Updates

• Alpha 1 released 12/02!! Thanks to all who helped test, fix bugs, and get the release notes and images ready!!!
• First SRU and LTS bi-weekly meeting held 11/22

  • see minutes at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-11-22-SR

  • next meeting 12/5

Quality Assurance

• weekly testing status
  • ?
• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

Hardware Certification

• weekly testing status

  • Hardware testing

  • Boot Performance

  • Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Bugs with Patches
    • None

Security

• Release Status

• Work Items

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

Kernel

• Release Status

• Milestone Targeted Bugs

  • 630748: iwlagn degrades quickly durning normal wifi session

  • 669496: natty kernel fails to mount root on ec2 (linux)

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Bugs

  • 542660: New Apple iMac (Core i5) fails to display anything (linux)

  • 600453: [arrandale] [i915] DELL E6510: blank screen on boot (Intel GPU) (linux)

  • 661568: nvidia-173 pulls in postfix (nvidia-graphics-drivers-173)

• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs

  • 630748: iwlagn degrades quickly during normal wifi session

• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

Foundations

• Release Status

• Foundations Work Items

• Milestone Targeted Bugs

  • 605042: [armel] java fails to start with eglibc-2.12-0ubuntu4

  • 645818: 10.04.1 image created in Maverick does not boot in my Dell Mini9 (usb-creator)

  • 662611: Not compatible with python2.7

  • 667243: Ubiquity takes a very long (>20 minutes) time to remove langpacks on the Edubuntu image (ubiquity)

  • 671016: EOL needs to be handled more elegantly (update-manager)

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs

  • 345126: Installer creates too small swap partition (hibernation fails) (partman-auto)

  • 553745: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events() (plymouth)

  • 675347: volatile int causes inline assembly build failure (gcc-4.5)

  • 664276: python-numpy doc related build failure (python-numpy)

  • 664397: python-numpy-doc missing (python-numpy

  • 673028: Ubiquity encrypted home doesnt setup encrypted swap (ubiquity)

• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

Server

• Release Status

• Milestone Targeted Bugs

  • 600174: axis2c fails to build from source on maverick/i386 (axis2c)

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

Desktop

• Release Status

• Milestone Targeted Bugs

  • 676949: shotwell crashes on import due to gexiv2 (shotwell)

  • 674175: rebuild python-vte for python 2.7

  • 674252: Syncdaemon needs to store events into zeitgeist

  • 677382: gir-repository failst ot build from source in natty

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs

  • 636311: Keyboard special keys interfere with mouse (xserver-xorg-input-evdev)

  • 637827: Firefox and Thunderbird (XUL) menus dont appear in the menu bar (firefox)

  • 676949: shotwell crashes on import due to gexiv2 (shotwell)

• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

Ubuntu One

• Release Status

• Milestone Targeted Bugs

  • 519028 desktopcouch replication and org.desktopcouch.CouchDB.service are NOT started on desktopcouch.records calls

  • 656545: Accessing the keyring in a thread make the program crash (was find_credentials segfaults) (ubuntu-sso-client)

  • 656545: Accessing the keyring in a thread make the program crash (was find_credentials segfaults) (ubuntu-sso-client)

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs

  • 660516: Ubuntu SSO Client does not notify of failed Ubuntu One ping attempt / invalidate token (ubuntu-sso-client)

• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

Kubuntu

• Feature List

• Milestone Targetted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

Desktop Experience

• Release Status

• Milestone Targetted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
  • Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Bugs with Patches
    • None

User Experience

• Milestone Targeted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

ARM

• Release Status

• Milestone Targeted Bugs

  • 67544: Bootstrapping needed for fpc for armel (fpc)

  • 615773: flash-kernel fails to handle raw boot partitons on eMMC (flash-kernel)

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs

  • 605042: [armel] java fails to start with eglibc-2.12-0ubuntu4 (eglibc)

  • 633227: instabilities with highmem activated (linux-ti-omap4)

  • 659754: Universe & multiverse are not enabled on OMAP4 preinstalled image (jasper-initramfs)

• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

MOTU

• Milestone Targeted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
  • Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Bugs with Patches
    • None

Derivatives

• Jamie cannot make it to the meeting, nothing much to raise apart from that below.

• Linaro Weekly Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None
• Possible archive interactions with Ubuntu:
  • ARM team may share the OMAP3 Linaro kernel only.
  • ARMv7 string tuning make be folded into GLIBC.
  • Some QEMU changes to come.
  • GCC 4.5 is already being pulled by Ubuntu as is GDB 7.2. Both are packaged in the Linaro consolidation branch.

IRC Meeting Log

• mootbot logs available at

  • http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.log.20101203_1000.html

  • http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.20101203_1000.html

ACTIONS

• [TBD] - Tutorial on linker order to help with link problem
• [skaet]- work on updating schedule for release candidate, once figure out what good definition is.