11.04 Agenda

11.04 Alpha 1: December 2, 2010

11.04 Release Date: April 28, 2011

Release Overview

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

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

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

Actions Pending

• UDS BOF/Post Mortem

  • [skaet] Update Process pages to include explicit post mortem discussion in future - DONE - see: ReleaseProcess, ReleasePostMortem

  • [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

  • [skaet/releaseteam] Need to schedule in advance who's on engineer and management tasks for each milestone. - IN PROGRESS - ReleaseTaskSignup

  • [skaet] Merge release schedule into master table for Natty Release timeline. - DONE - see: NattyReleaseInterlock

  • [releaseteam & other managers ] Review master Natty cycle multiple releases schedule and update as needed. - IN PROGRESS

  • [cjwatson] before natty alpha1, merge cron jobs (still limited cron jobs) - IN PROGRESS?
  • [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? - TO DO
  • [skaet/releaseteam] come up with policy statement for what is RC. - TO DO

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 1: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.milestone=33571

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

• Milestoned features

  • ubuntu-11.04 - alpha 1 : https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/natty-alpha-1

  • 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

• Next week: quorum or not? Alpha 1 is week after.
• Starting up SRU and LTS bi-weekly meeting on 11/22

  • Agenda: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/StableReleaseAgenda

  • Topics to be iscussed.:
    • improved test automation for regression and certification
    • lucid LTS status
    • SRU kernel updates
    • SRU package updates

QA

• weekly testing status?

• Boot Performance

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

Hardware Certification

• weekly testing status?

• Hardware testing

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

Security

• Release Status

• Work Items

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

Kernel

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Bugs

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

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

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

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

  • 630748: iwlagn degrades quickly during normal wifi session (linux-firmware)

  • 661568: nvidia-173 pulls in postfix (nvidia-graphics-drivers-173)

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

Foundations

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs

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

  • 553745: plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in ply_event_loop_process_pending_events() (plymouth)

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

  • 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)

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

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

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

Server

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs

  • 600174: axis2c fails to build from source on maverick/i386 (axis2c)

  • Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Bugs with Patches
    • None

Desktop

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs

  • 627744: Tomboy note names are blank in the Application Indicator fallback menu (tomboy)

  • 632594: metacity causing xvfs to not work on the buildds (metacity, xorg-server)

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

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

  • 670139: FTBFS in Ubuntu 11.04 (subversion)

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

Ubuntu One

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs

  • 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)

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

Kubuntu

• Feature List

• 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

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
  • Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Bugs with Patches
    • None

User Experience

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
  • None
• Unresolved Bugs with Patches
  • None

ARM

• Release Status

• Unresolved Critical/High Release or Milestone Targeted Bugs

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

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

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

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

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

MOTU

• 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

• Unresolved Critical/High Milestoned Bugs
  • None
  • Unresolved Critical/High Release Targeted Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Targeted Regression Bugs
    • None
  • Unresolved Bugs with Patches
    • None