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=??? -- 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

• Questions:
  • is there a report that details the regression run report for the current SRU kernel update?
  • 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 )

• 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:
  • 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?