12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin) Weekly Meeting

Upcoming Dates

• 11/28 - 21:00 Soft Freeze for Alpha 1
• 11/29 - Images for testing posted on ISO tracker

• 12/01 - Alpha 1 release

Release Overview

• Work Items for 12.04:
  • 11/24 was feature definition freeze - all blueprints should now be in and approved, tracking starting.
  • There are 2084 work items on the tracker as of 2011/11/25, a little up from last release (2025).

  • see: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/

• Precise Schedule has been updated with UDS input.

  • see: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseSchedule

  • google calendar: http://fridge.ubuntu.com/calendars/ubuntu-release-calendar/

• Bugs being tracked:

  • Committed for fixing: http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/kernel-bugs/reports/rls-p-tracking-bugs.html

  • Of interest to release: http://reports.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/kernel-bugs/reports/rls-mgr-p-tracking-bugs.html

Logistics

• Meeting format:

  • overview of new format: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000471.html

  • for this to work, its going to be important that the team statuses should be on ubuntu-release mail list at least 4 hours before the meeting (ideally the night before the meeting, so folks have time to read and digest and think up questions).

  • when its your turn in the Q&A session, please paste the link to your email status in the channel, and use ".." to signal you've finished with questions/comments.

  • when someone has a question, please 'o/' to make sure we pause.

Round Table

Hardware Certification team update - mlegris

• no update provided

QA team update - jibel

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000520.html

• Work items: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-platform-qa.html

• Daily testing status can be found:

  • fresh ISO install: https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Precise%20Daily%20ISOs/

  • upgrades: https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/Precise/job/precise-upgrade/

  • to get test information pushed to you subscribe to: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-testing-notifications

  • LTS to LTS will be added after A1.
• Autotesting desktop components before landing

  • Announce: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2011-November/003492.html

  • Documentation: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/AutomatedTesting/UnityAutolandingSetup

Security team update - jmdeslaur

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000501.html

• Work items: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/group/topic-precise-security-essential.html

Kernel team update - ogasawara

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000494.html

• Work items: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-kernel-team.html

Foundations team update - cjwatson

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000476.html

• Work items:http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-foundations.html

• New ISO tracker (currently http://91.189.93.73/) being prep'd for Alpha 1 testing

  • daily builds are being posted to it automatically.

  • see overview from stgraber: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/11/25/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t16:02

Server team update - Daviey

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000479.html

• Work items:

  • Infrastructure: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/group/topic-precise-servercloud-infrastructure-deployment.html

  • LTS hardening: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/group/topic-precise-servercloud-lts-hardening.html

  • Juju charms and service orchestration: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/group/topic-precise-servercloud-service-orchestration.html

  • cloud workload: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/group/topic-precise-servercloud-workloads.html

• Server team bugs: http://status.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/ubuntu-server/release-bugs.html

ARM team update - ogra

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000513.html

• Work items: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/ubuntu-arm.html (in progress)

Linaro update - fabo

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000518.html

• Released 11.11

• Planning: https://launchpad.net/linaro-dev-platform/+milestone/11.12

• pending: DX team test case definition

Ubuntu One Team - joshuahoover

• no update

Desktop Team update - pitti

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000500.html

• Team status: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/ReleaseStatus

• Work items: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-desktop-team.html

Desktop Experience Team Update - dbarth

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000511.html

• Work items: (in progress, assessing bug workload)

Kubuntu Team update - Riddell

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000505.html

• work items: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/group/topic-precise-flavor-kubuntu.html

Edubuntu Team update - stgraber or highvoltage

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000506.html

• work items: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/group/topic-precise-flavor-edubuntu.html

Xubuntu Team update - madnick

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000503.html

• work items: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/group/topic-precise-flavor-xubuntu.html

Ubuntu Studio update - scott-work

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000515.html

• work items: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/group/topic-precise-flavor-ubuntu-studio.html

• will be trying for a wallpaper refresh before monday.

Lubuntu Team update - gilir

• see: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-release/2011-November/000502.html

• work items: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/group/topic-precise-flavor-lubuntu.html

• would like to get powerpc on ISO tracker as part of images

Mythbuntu Team update - superm1

• no update

MOTU Team Q&A - tumbleweed or Laney

• all calm in MOTU land...

Other Topics

• none

Q&A by the teams on the above status

• Meetingology: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2011/ubuntu-meeting.2011-11-25-16.00.moin.txt

• IRC log: http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/11/25/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t16:00