- Meeting: 2011-12-12
- Chair: Martin Pitt
- Attendees: Kees Cook, Stephane Graber, Matt Zimmerman, Colin Watson, Soren Hansen
- Guests: Tim Gardner, Steve Langasek, Jonathan Carter
Full log: http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2011/ubuntu-meeting.2011-12-12-21.01.moin.txt
- Action review:
pitti: document brainstorm review activity: DONE: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoard/BrainstormReview
- kees: perform brainstorm review → carried
- Edubuntu LTS application
- Still blocked on Kubuntu LTS application
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/12.04/LTS-Proposal has the list of affected applications, will still be tuned a bit to drop Java dependencies
- Non-PAE kernel disposition
- Kernel team would like to drop non-PAE kernel soon
- TB members generally feel that (1) dropping the current default kernel is too much of a step, and (2) there is still a significant number of users which have non-PAE systems, based on Launchpad bug report data and an ubuntu-devel@ strawpoll
- Maintaining the extra flavour is not much extra work, and not comparable to e. g. the -ti-omap4 kernel which is an entirely separate source tree
- We need a way to prevent upgrades for non-PAE systems. Some options were mentioned:
- Add update-manager check to not offer the upgrade if PAE is not available
Add libc6/linux preinst to abort the upgrade early if PAE is not available; that's not the best failure mode, but will prevent a safety net for users of apt-get dist-upgrade
Agreements:
- Switch precise over to PAE kernel by default on i386; we retain the option to revert if it causes too much fallout (Colin)
- Drop non-PAE flavour in 12.10; this will give non-PAE systems another 5 years of life time, which is considered enough
- Further discuss upgrade strategy/checks
- Micro release Exception for Nova, Swift, Glance, and Keystone
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2011-November/001142.html
- deferred to discussion by email, as we ran out of time
- Next meeting:
- Skipping the December 26 meeting due to Christmas holidays
- Next on 2012-01-09
- Chair: Matt Zimmerman