11.04 Status

11.04 Alpha 2: February 3, 2010

11.04 Release Date: April 28, 2011

Release Overview

• Schedule

  • Natty Release: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseSchedule

  • Interlock Information: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NattyReleaseInterlock

• Features

  • Release Status: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/FeatureStatus

  • Alpha 2 Work Items: http://people.canonical.com/~platform/workitems/natty/all-natty-alpha-2.html

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.

  • [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/JamieBennett] - discuss where Linaro Natty Freeze milestone should be logged and visible - TO DO
• 2010/12/03
  • [allison] - Tutorial on linker order - IN PROGRESS
• 2010/12/10
  • [robbiew] get burndown charts into uniform format - ?
  • [skaet/ScottK] brainstorm with others on ways to help tackling the large number of linking failures backlog - IN PROGRESS

  • [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) - IN PROGRESS

  • [dbarth] update on open bugs from agenda - DONE

Bugs and Features Summary

• Feature status

  • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/FeatureStatus

• Release-targeted bugs

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+bugs

• Milestoned bugs

  • ubuntu-11.04 - alpha 2: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.milestone=33572

• Milestoned features

  • ubuntu-11.04 - alpha 2 : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/natty-alpha-2

• Known regressions

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+bugs?field.tag=regression-potential

• Nominated bugs

  • https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+nominations

Team Updates

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

Quality Assurance

• Features

  • Natty Work Items

  • Alpha 2 Work Items

• weekly testing status:

  • http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/qadashboard/qadashboard.html

Hardware Certification

• Features
  • Natty Work Items - ??
  • Alpha 2 Work Items - ??
• weekly testing status

  • Hardware testing

  • Boot Performance - needs update

Security

• Release Status

• Features:

  • Natty Work Items

# * Alpha 2 Work Items

• no work items explicitly scheduled for alpha 2

• Bugs:
  • Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs

    • 667815: ?

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

Kernel

• Release Status

• Features:

  • Natty Work Items

  • Alpha 2 Work Items

• 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

    • 566437:package fglrx 2:8.723.1-0ubuntu2 failed to REMOVE: error exit status 2 - dpkg-divert: mismatch on package - while removing the package

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

    • 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:

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

Foundations

• Release Status

• Features:

  • Natty Work Items

  • Alpha 2 Work Items

• 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)

    • 680328: Many postinst scripts fail using either AptDaemon, PackageKit, or QApt (dpkg)

    • 688839: proposal to turn dh_shlibdeps warning into an error (dpkg)

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

Server

• Release Status

• Features:

  • Natty Work Items

  • Alpha 2 Work Items -format?

• 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:

  • Natty Work Items

  • Alpha 2 Work Items

• Bugs
  • Alpha 2 Milestone Targeted Bugs

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

  • Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs

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

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

    • 688776: evolution-rss broken in Natty (evolution)

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

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

    • 674252: Syncdaemon needs to store events into zeitgeist

    • 687387: ftbfs with python2.7 (avogadro)

Ubuntu One

• Release Status

• Features:

  • Natty Work Items

  • Alpha 2 Work Items

• Bugs:
  • Alpha 2 Milestone Targeted Bugs

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

    • 510232 Empty list values and simple (non-mergeable) lists are not possible in desktopcouch

    • 558306 Failing test in desktopcouch

    • 627085 desktopcouch replicates _users database

    • 669671 Use one connection per client when replicate

    • 669674 Remove mocker from contrib

    • 669733 Add lint script to check changed files

    • 670699 Remove deleted flag in favor of moving the record to "trash"

    • 670700 Migration from old style delete to new style delete ("trash")

    • 675787 MergeableList.pop() (without any argument) should pop the last element in the list.

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

Kubuntu

• To do list

• Features

  • Natty Work Items <- need reset?

  • Alpha 2 Work Items

• 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

• [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/NattyReleaseStatus|Release Status]

• Features

  • Natty Work Items

  • Alpha 2 Work Items

• Bugs
  • Alpha 2 Milestone Targeted Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs

    • 526642: compiz.real crashed when OpenOffice freeze with SIGSEGV in eventLoop() (compia)

    • 684193: compiz crashed with SIGSEGV in g_source_unref() (compiz)

    • 657771: 'Keep in launcher' item missing for some applications (unity)

    • 628727: Screen corruption make UNE unusable (unity)

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

ARM

• Release Status

• Features

  • Natty Work Items <- needs reset?

  • Alpha 2 Work Items

• 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 - ??

  • Failures to build from source: http://udd.debian.org/cgi-bin/ubuntu_ftbfs.cgi

• Features - ??
• Bugs
  • Alpha 2 Milestone Targeted Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
    • None
    • Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs

      • 618809 libvala-dev -> libvala-0.10-dev transition (ethos)

    • 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: