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

• 2010-11-22
  • [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 - DONE
  • [pedro, marjo] - look at adding regression test report as one of the pieces of info tracked for SRU meeting. - DONE
• 2010-12-03
  • [pitti, kees, sconklin] - get together and propose adjustments process if needed, then broadcast new dates. - DONE
  • [skaet] call meeting to discussing outcome of sconklin's meeting with pitti and kees. - DONE

Features and Bugs Summary

• Release-targeted bugs (snapshot 2011/01/03 (2010/12/06) )

• 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 2010-11-26, update?

Foundations

• Unresolved Important Bugs

  • 579850: mount segfault on shutdown when unmounting autofs mountpoint - ?

  • 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.

• Resolved

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

Server

• Unresolved Important Bugs
  • None
• Resolved
  • None

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; pretty much "can't fix" until then

  • 625280:SRU: xserver-xorg-video-geode 2.11.9-1 to Lucid and older supported releases - [pitti] - just needs an upload and test, pinged Martin-Eric on the bug

  • 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

• Kubuntu will update to KDE 4.4.5 (and 4.4.7 for kdepim) for 10.04.2 - [ScottK] KDE 4.4.5 is pending in lucid-proposed, has been marked verification done, so should make it into 1/27 drop with no issues

Stable Release Updates

• Recent

  • Lucid shipped on 12/20 ( tracked: http://launchpad.net/bugs/683425 )

  • Maverick shipped on 12/20 ( tracked: http://launchpad.net/bugs/683422 )

• Next
  • -ec2 pending testing
  • Karmic - validation in progress, in general, karmic and earlier don't follow 2 week cadence and will rely on traditional community testing/burn in cycle unless resources available from testing teams.
  • 1/6 - will be skipped, nothing in queue over holidays - probably should take this into account on future scheduling.
  • Lucid - 1/27
  • Maverick - 1/27
  • Security - ?? not aware of any hot issues to force earlier at this point.

• 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

Quality Assurance

• Current SRU status

• Questions:
  • what is the status of the regression automation infrastructure?

  • 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] took an action to provide this 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

• SRU Testing for Lucid and Maverick

  • Latest Test Results

  • Test Results Archive

• Current SRU status:
  • overview of schedule and window? Ara's calendar
• Questions:
  • any adjustment to 2-day time 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

• Server tracked bugs

• 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?

IRC Meeting Log

• mootbot logs available at

  • http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.log.20110103_1000.html

  • http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.20110103_1000.html

ACTIONS

• marjo, bdmurray: triage lucid and maverick new bug surge over holidays - with focus on 10.04.2 coming up.
• skaet: broadcast freeze date for 10.04.2
• skaet: update natty interlock wiki with revised SRU biweekly milestones (testing week, verification week, drop, release to be clarified)