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

• 2011-01-03
  • 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 - DONE - will be on 1/20, see NattyReleaseInterlock

  • skaet: update natty interlock wiki with revised SRU biweekly milestones (testing week, verification week, drop, release to be clarified) - DONE
• 2011-01-11
  • victorp to host meeting on 1/24 ( going to weekly until 10.04.2 is released )

Features and Bugs Summary

• Release bugs - 2011-01-17 (last snapshot 2011/01/03)

10.04.2 Long Term Support Status

Planned Release Date: February 17, 2011

Freeze Date: January 20, 2011

• Milestoned Bug Summary

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs?field.milestone=30508

Kernel

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None

Foundations

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs

  • 579858:mount segfault on shutdown when unmounting autofs mountpoint (has patch)

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

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

  • 635273:Building debs with SWIG libraries do not work

Server

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs

  • 458637: Windows Live Sign-In assistant prevents samba from accessing Windows 7 shares (patch

Desktop

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None

Kubuntu

• Kubuntu will update to KDE 4.4.5 (and 4.4.7 for kdepim) for 10.04.2.

Stable Release Updates

• Recent

  • Lucid images moved to -proposed on 1/11 see: 699885

  • Maverick moved to -proposed on 1/11 see: 697948

• Next
  • Current Lucid SRU candidate expected to be kernel for 10.04.2
  • Karmic - validation in progress, in general, karmic and earlier releases won't follow 2 week cadence and will rely on traditional community testing/burn in cycle unless resources available from testing teams.
  • Updates to Hardy, Dapper will be worked on during 10.04.2 freeze cycle.
  • 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

Hardware Certification

• SRU Testing for Lucid and Maverick

  • Latest Test Results

  • Test Results Archive

Kernel

• -updates milestoned

  • 635344:After my CD-Rom is ejected, the tray will instantly retract. [on list since 2010-11-26]

Security

• critical/high lucid-updates milestone:
  • ?

Foundations

• critical/high lucid-updates milestone:
  • ?

Server

• Server tracked bugs

• critical/high lucid-updates milestone:
  • ?

ARM

Desktop

• critical/high lucid-updates milestone:

  • 439448: Visual corruption affecting several panel applets

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

  • 459647:Cannot change mouse cursor theme when compiz is enabled - jeopardizes stability, so may declare permanently broken in lucid.

Ubuntu One

Kubuntu

IRC Meeting Log

• mootbot logs available at

  • http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.log.20110117_1000.html

  • http://www.novarata.net/mootbot/ubuntu-meeting.20110117_1000.html

ACTIONS

• [skaet] broadcast summary of SRU/LTS roles & responsibilities timeline, figured out at Rally

• [leads] scrub what's possible for lucid 10.04.2 before freeze 1/20 & update milestones