2010-12-10

11.04 Status

11.04 Alpha 2: February 3, 2010

11.04 Release Date: April 28, 2011

Release Overview

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. - DONE

    • [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? Publish policy statement. Possibly adjust RC milestone to work around easter for Natty. - IN PROGRESS
  • 2010/11/19
    • [skaet] communication about o-series/p-series in launchpad, opening in December - DONE
    • [skaet/JamieBennett] - discuss where Linaro Natty Freeze milestone should be logged and visible - TO DO
    • [cjwatson] re: bug 677209 - will try to change owner to ubuntu-archive - DONE

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

  • 2010/12/03
    • [allison] - Tutorial on linker order - IN PROGRESS

Bugs and Features Summary

Team Updates

  • Have started the move over to Python 2.7
  • SRU process interlocking with security updates - further discussion occurring

Quality Assurance

Hardware Certification

Security

# * Alpha 2 Work Items

  • no work items explicitly scheduled for alpha 2
  • Bugs:
    • Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs
    • Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
      • None
    • Unresolved Bugs with Patches
      • None

Kernel

  • Release Status

  • Features:
  • Bugs:
    • Alpha 2 Milestone Targeted Bugs

      • 630748: iwlagn degrades quickly during normal wifi session

    • Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Bugs

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

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

      • 681294: [STAGING] X doesn't start with 2.6.37-6+

      • 681877: Blank screen after resuming from hibernation on a Dell Latitude E6410

      • 682617: Microphone not working in Optiplex 980

      • 684304: cciss module does not identify resources

      • 636091: Touchpad stops working when wifi/3G connects

    • Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs

      • 630748: iwlagn degrades quickly during normal wifi session

    • Unresolved Bugs with Patches
      • None
    • Fixed since last update: |

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

Foundations

  • Release Status

  • Features:
  • Bugs:
    • Alpha 2 Milestone Targeted

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

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

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

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

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

      • 684083: Plymouth hangs after installation of nvidia driver (plymouth)

    • Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted

      • 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)

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

      • 683379: user prompted twice on ec2 grub-pc upgrade from 1.98-1ubuntu7 to 1.98-1ubuntu8 (grub2)

      • 684052: live CD does not have reboot on the power menu after install completes (indicator-session)

    • Unresolved Targeted Regression
      • None
    • Unresolved Bugs with Patches
      • None
    • Fixed since last update

      • 662611: Not compatible with python 2.7

Server

  • Release Status

  • Features:
  • Bugs:
    • Alpha 2 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

  • Features:
  • Bugs
    • Alpha 2 Milestone Targeted Bugs

      • 677382: gir-repository fails to build from source in natty

    • Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs

      • 408417: No option to log in remotely via XDMCP (gdm)

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

      • 674252: Syncdaemon needs to store events into zeitgeist

      • 684482: kmozillahelper doesn't work with firefox 4 beta 7

      • 687387: ftbfs with python2.7 (avogadro)

    • Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
      • None
    • Unresolved Bugs with Patches
      • None
    • Fixed Since last update

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

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

      • 674175: rebuild python-vte for python 2.7

Ubuntu One

  • Release Status

  • Features:
  • Bugs:
    • Alpha 2 Milestone Targeted Bugs

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

    • Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs
      • None
    • Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
      • None
    • Unresolved Bugs with Patches
      • None
    • Fixed since last update

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

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

Kubuntu

  • To do list

  • Features
  • Bugs
    • Alpha2 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

Desktop Experience

ARM

  • Release Status

  • Features
  • Bugs
    • Alpha 2 Milestone Targeted Bugs

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

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

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

    • Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs

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

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

      • 683683: ??? (mentioned by ogra on 12/03)

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

MOTU

  • Release Status - ??
  • Features - ??
  • Bugs
    • Alpha 2 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

  • Linaro Weekly Status

  • Features:
    • 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.
  • Bugs:
    • Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs
      • None
    • Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
      • None
    • Unresolved Bugs with Patches
      • None
    • Possible archive interactions with Ubuntu:

IRC Meeting Log

Highlights

  • overall, reasonable progress on work items for alpha 2, but expecting it to start to slow for holidays soon.

  • python 2.7 transition progressing fairly well. Summary of what's left can be found: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=python27

  • new kernel (2.6.37-rc5) will permit re-enabling NX support for modules, and re-enabling a number of drivers that were disabled for the rebase.
  • natty upstart spec finalized, improvements planned are: debug stanza, override files, job visualisation, socket activation, D-Bus activation, chroot support, user sessions and visible job start/stop in plymouth details view.
  • OO.o builds are breaking CD images (due to python 2.7 transition and problems with python-uno) looking at options to work around.
  • desktopcouch 1.0 should release today, initial zeitgeist integration to be released next week
  • gcc/arm issues resolved, builds are progressing again for ARM team and Kubuntu.
  • unity foundations work mostly done, but will hold off on upload until January, to avoid dependency conflicts until python stabilizes.
  • still considerable backlog on the linker side in MOTU, that needs some help

ACTIONS

  • [robbiew] get burndown charts into uniform format
  • [skaet/ScottK] brainstorm with others on ways to help tackling the large number of linking failures backlog

  • [skaet] figure out a way of calling attention to wishlist bugs(per: http://www.uk.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities), that are actually feature dependencies between teams (bug:56679, bug: 688142)

  • [dbarth] update on open bugs from agenda

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