For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

Present

• MichaelVogt - chair

• BarryWarsaw

• ColinWatson

• EvanDandrea

• GaryLasker

• JamesWestby

• LoïcMinier

• MatthiasKlose

• ScottJamesRemnant

• SteveLangasek

Apologies

On Holiday: Scott James Remnant, James Westby

Agenda

• Lightning Round
  • 2-4 sentences on current work/roadblocks
• Outstanding actions from last meeting

• Outstanding feature freeze exceptions

• Milestoned bugs

• Targeted bugs

• Sponsorship queue

• Spot check of A3 specs with low completion rate:

  • foundations-lucid-software-center-repository-based-index

  • foundations-lucid-oem-dvd-iso

  • foundations-lucid-index-based-downloads-client

  • foundations-lucid-gfxboot-update

  • mobile-lucid-une-2d-launcher

  • foundations-lucid-boot-experience

  • dx-lucid-xsplash

  • foundations-lucid-reliable-device-id-in-grub

  • foundations-lucid-fix-iscsi-root

• Any business from activity reports
• Good news
• Reminder for release meeting, if due this week
• AOB

Outstanding actions from last meeting

None

Actions from this meeting

Chair for next meeting

Activity reports

Barry Warsaw

I was on leave, so it was a short week for me. I worked on a rewrite of PEP 999 which is now ready for an official submission upstream. I also worked on some bugs in computer-janitor (503727) and read up on dbus and policykit.

Colin Watson

• foundations-lucid-reliable-device-id-in-grub:
  • Continued work on removing reliance on device.map, including trying
    • to avoid use of (hd0) in both grub-installer and ubiquity. (I got sidetracked into improving the way ubiquity handles raising privilege, and that's now much cleaner.) Spent a fair bit of time beating DM-RAID handling into shape.
• Platform/IS review meeting.
• Sponsorship:
  • apt-show-versions (intrepid) #292872 (no action required, closed).
  • bash-completion #482753 (unconvinced, commented).
• Added launchpad-integration support to vim (#453103).
• foundations-lucid-fix-iscsi-root:
  • Work on partman-iscsi correctness, prompted by an affected user
    • showing up on IRC. Fortuitously let me deal with most of #473036, which is a Lucid work item; there's just one part of that left, namely working out what to do with persistent network interface naming in the initramfs.
• openssh bug-fix backports (#497781, #505301).
• Fixed a partman-uboot/ubiquity integration bug (#462798).
• Fixed rescue mode to work with DM-RAID.

Evan Dandrea

Gary Lasker

Software Center

• Finished up performance and user experience improvements for app reselect. Selected app now tracked per category/subcategory. Branch reviewed by mvo and merged.
• In progress - key navigation feature, up one level on
  • backspace (LP: #509783)

General

• US Holiday Monday
• Time allocation this week
  • Platform team 40%, OEM team 40%, Holiday 20%
• OEM engineering meeting

James Westby

On vacation

Loïc Minier

ARM

• Worked a while on fixing qemu-kvm armel build failures
• Worked on rebasing/fixing/completing misc qemu patches including
  • linux-user uname emulation and various configure fixes

Misc

• Looked into misc vm-builder issues, notably why it depends on devscripts (calls rmadison for xen kernel name)
• Expenses
• Chaired Foundations meeting and helped with Release meeting
• Replaced netcat-traditional with netcat-openbsd in seeds to avoid getting two netcats with the virt-host task
• Fixed some logcheck issues I was hitting on two hosts and sent patches to Debian; bug triage
• Reviewed pbuilder --profile patches from contributor
• Refreshed grub2 support patch originally by cjwatson for vmbuilder; now segfauts in grub2
• Fixed a bunch of old and annoying bugs in vmbuilder; tested lucid vmbuilder and fixed a broken patch
• Poked small things in unattended-upgrades
• MIRs: kasumi (spent quite some time providing autofoo fixes and guidance), python-keyring, edbus, efreet, libvdpau,

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

software-center

• review/merge the matts-pathbar-integration branch from nzmm (great stuff)
• review/merge branch(es) from Gary (many thanks!)
• investigate non fixed_height mode slowness and how to hide/work-around the slowness in s-c

• research gtk treeview issues and submit upstream gnome #607447 (with patch & demo) - no feedback yet

• use new apt.utils from python-apt and remove internal copy
• review/merge code that uses gtk.Entry intead of sexy.Entry (#506811)
• add support for Supported tag

support-timeframe-information

• fixes after review from bigjools (many thanks)
• review result of the server side merge, do client side work
• add arch support
• add update--manager-support-status binary
• move most of the support status code into pyhton-apt

local-repository-support spec

• work on proxy part in lp:~mvo/+junk/squid-deb-proxy

• add wiki page SquidDebProxy

• add example config to our squid package
• mail debmarshal, mirrorkit people (for the other parts of the spec)

misc

• Work on boot-recovery spec and upload new busybox and sysvutils (#505887)
• fix mp3 codec install on frsh install and forward upstream (#510033)
• Debug/fix computer-janitor build bug (plus #503727)
• language-selector: review updates by arne
• language-selector: Review/style-fixes for language-selector changes and push to (lp:~mvo/langauge-selector/language-selector-lucid) and add tests
• Apt: debug cdrom failure (auto-mount issue)
• debug upgrade issues with fagan

sponsoring

• Merge/review gnome-terminal

Scott James Remnant

On vacation

Steve Langasek

Release management

• preparations for Ubuntu 8.04.4

Sponsorship

• klibc (bug #175324)

Packages

• further cryptsetup fixes: fix a bashism and avoid double-prompting for

the same disk if cryptdisks-enable starts while cryptdisks-udev is still running

• plymouth: bugs 506717, 496782, 509579, 496765
• fix netcat priorities, so livefs builds work again