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)

|| Karmic || 283 || 3 || 39 || 115

• ||

• 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=??? -- bug:676774

  • 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

• Unresolved Critical/High Bugs
  • Foundations

    • 563916:[details.so] No prompt for [S]kip or [M]anual recovery on server boot

    • 591207:Casper's USB update-initramfs shim should look for initrd.img in /boot

    • 671103:backport grub-legacy-ec2 from maverick to lucid

    • 607657:Lucid point release installer must support LTS backported Kernels

    • 635273:Building debs with SWIG libraries do not work

  • Kernel

    • 635344:After my CD-Rom is ejected, the tray will instantly retract.

  • Desktop

    • 525807:[upstream] [3.2.1] OOo Slide Show and Fullscreen modes - not full screen under compiz

    • 625280:SRU: xserver-xorg-video-geode 2.11.9-1 to Lucid and older supported releases

    • 459647:Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled

Stable Release Updates

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

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

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

• Figure out: http://people.ubuntu.com/~sbeattie/sru_todo.html

• Figure out: http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/sru/todo.html

Quality Assurance

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

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

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

• Questions:
  • what is the status of the regression run for the current SRU kernel update?
  • what is the status of the bug validation of the current SRU packages?
  • how many packages moved from proposed to updates/security in last week?

Hardware Certification

• Hardware testing

Security

• Release Status

• Work Items

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs

  • 600549:m2crypto fails to build from source in maverick

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

Kernel

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs

  • 633983:Can't boot Maverick beta amd64 live cd on macbook (EFI)

  • 633392:Bridged Guests losing network connectivity

  • 628029:panda ES1.0 does not suspend on beta image

  • 497546:Microphones not working on Dell Vostro 320

• Unresolved Medium

  • 503790:Copy to USB Thumb doesn't work

• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None
• Bugs to be fixed in 0-day update:

  • 634702: If one passes "intel_idle.max_cstate=0" as a kernel paremeter at boot, this will disable intel_idle and allow the S10-3 to successfully boot.

  • 647071: 0-day maverick kernel upload (includes: Intel idle patch has adverse affect on Lenovo S10-3 systems (Intel Atom N450 processor) rendering them incapable of booting)

  • 630748: iwlagn degrades quickly during normal wifi session

Foundations

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs

  • 651880:/etc/apt/trusted.gpg is 0600 (should be 644)

  • 649810: fix for FTFBS

  • 647597:internal compiler error while building package 'witty'.

  • 642344:libspring-2.5-java needs an initial manual build

  • 641259:grub does not appear to load after maverick post-beta install

  • 635891:libvigraimpex (main) build-depends on hfd5 (universe

  • 625294:Unable to bot maverick daily images - RAM not detected

  • 613288:Wubi Windows installer was reported to be unable to open Windows' boot configuration data store in some (but not all) cases

  • 610898:Upgrading Wubi systems from 10.04 LTS is known to fail if Wubi was installed to a partition other than the primary Windows partition, and is not recommended at this time.

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

  • 594162:segmentation fault while downloading preseed file

  • 569900:partman creates partitions with ambiguity between whether superblock is on disk device or partition device.

  • 553745:plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()

  • 544139:Active VT tracking can fail at startup

  • 459639:X server starts randomly in failsafe when starting from cold boot

  • 441941:grub fails after running Windows

• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None
• Won't Fix: need documentation in Release Notes

  • 625383:grub hangs at early booting after handoff from PXE

  • 626984: apparmor_parser crashed with SIGSEGV in libc_start_main()

Server

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs

  • 641259:grub does not load upon reboot after installing. There is no message indicating that grub is loading, nor does holding shift have any effect - ( Unsure of direction, assigned to cjwatson)

  • 640993: USB hot attatch does not work (hostdev functionality only partially implemented) - (SRU candidate)

  • 582963:SSL pass phrase dialog can't read input -(SRU candidate)

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

  • 599342:Temporary failure in name resolution - (SRU candidate)

• Won't Fix: need documentation in Release Notes

  • 572317:image-store does not support images without a ramdisk

  • 619712:keepalived vrrp race condition and fix (versions 1.1.17 and 1.2.0 but perhaps all?)

Desktop

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs

  • 650898: cups does not start at boot time

  • 646995:build-depends on NBS libplayercore2-dev/libpalayerc2-dev; not fixed in Debian, removed from Debian testing.

  • 646824: xvidcap fails to build from source

  • 639835: views fail to reconnect after server restart

  • 610600:There are serious video recording related performance regressions with the application, cheese.

  • 601025:telepathy-qt4 fails to build from source in maverick

  • 592016:[Maverick] Sound is always muted on startup; unmuting makes the volume at lowest level

  • 575160:seamonkey 2.0 crashes with 'RenderBadPicture' diagnostics

• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs

  • 640432:X does not start (nouveau)

• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None
• Won't Fix: need documentation in Release Notes

  • 610600:Serious video performance regression in cheese (2.28.1->2.30.1)

  • 329898:The HP 1018 printer not work out of the box if used non-US locale

Ubuntu One

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs

  • 422178:CouchDB needs to properly enable SSL support

  • 617656: Nautilus hangs while asking for folders

  • 603590: sync polish -2.4.A - After a folder is disabled, all U1 emblems should be removed from the UDF and all it's children

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

Kubuntu

• Feature List

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs

  • 649509: System settings show wrong general font by default (to be uploaded)

  • 640596:KDM: X crashes on login

  • 630580: [82G965] No compositing with kwin (and doesn't work well if enabled) (shows up with Intel drivers and OpenGL usage in this release)

  • 628930: [i945GME] KDE Desktop effects not active by default

  • 628681:Kubuntu OEM did not install oem-config-kde

  • 627815:unable to save user-places.xbel - sporadic and causes no harm

• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs

  • 630580:[82G965] No compositing with kwin (and doesn't work well if enabled)

• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

Desktop Experience

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs

  • 649616:FFE: Use font='Ubuntu' as default UI font in light-themes

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

User Experience

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

ARM

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs

  • ??????:Users upgrading beagle (armel omap) from lucid (10.04 LTS) to maverick (10.10) can run out of free space if USB drive is 4G or less.

  • 646421: On the current preinstalled images a bug exists that will grow the swap file to occupy the full free space of your SD card if you select to use an encrypted home dir.

  • 643791: For users of Ubuntu Netbook on the Marvell Dove development platform, there is a known bug where the installer icon fails to show up. The installer can be started by opening the Terminal application, and typing 'ubiquity' at the prompt to start the installation.

  • 637947:no sound devices on current ES2.0 board

  • 635199:[armel] the ./H5detect test segfaults when built for armv7

  • 633227:instabilities with highmem activated

  • 631696: On the ARM preinstalled images there is a minimal desktop session you can select from GDM. Due to a bug in the tool maximus windows in this session have no frames and are always started in full screen mode.

  • 628217:no audio output from analog ports on panda (omap4)

  • 628029:[maverick] panda ES1.0 does not suspend on beta image

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

  • 619981:Banshee crashed while sitting idle on omap

  • 67544:Bootstrapping needed for fpc for armel

• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None
• Won't fix: needs documentation in release notes

  • 615765: Host strip corrupts cross-built armel archives

  • 631696: maximus should only run in netbook-session and not start in gnome-session

MOTU

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs

  • 644546: syncevolution fails to build in maverick

• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs

  • 651138:likewise-open fails to build from source in maverick

  • 624512:please move mozc from universe to multiverse

  • 610975:wxwidgets2.8 needs Breaks added for binary incompatible packages

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

Derivatives

• Linaro Weekly Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs

  • 627779: corrupted text on console when deleting text - waiting on feedback.

  • 600174: axis2c fails to beuild from source in linaro

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

IRC Meeting Log

• mootbot logs available at

  • http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.log.20101001_1002.html

  • http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.20101001_1002.html

ACTIONS

• no release meeting next week, questions to #ubuntu-release