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Present

• You - chair

• BarryWarsaw

• ColinWatson

• EvanDandrea

• MatthiasKlose

• MichaelVogt

• ScottJamesRemnant

• SurbhiPalande

Lightning round order

   1 from random import shuffle
   2 team = [
   3     'Keybuk',
   4     'barry',
   5     'cjwatson',
   6     'doko',
   7     'ev',
   8     'mvo',
   9     'csurbhi',
  10     ]
  11 order = team[:]
  12 shuffle(order)
  13 print ', '.join(order)

Apologies

Agenda

• Lightning Round
  • 2-4 sentences on current work/roadblocks
• Outstanding actions from last meeting
• Outstanding feature freeze exceptions
• Farming out tasks that aren't being handled

  • alpha-3 bugs

• Sponsorship queue

• Any business from activity reports
• Good news
• AOB
• Next week's chair

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Actions from this meeting

Chair for next meeting

• ev

Activity reports

Barry Warsaw

• f-m-python-versions
  • much work on py27 stack
  • dealing with ppa limitations and api
  • pythoneers/py27stack2
  • waiting for (sloooowwww) results of last sync submission
  • todo: review ftbfs logs and write no-change version bump mass upload script
• f-m-robust-python-packaging
  • python bug 9193
  • versioned .so files patch (poor man's abi)
  • python-dev discussions
  • todo: finish pep 3149 and submit
• misc
  • bug 602132 (valgrind ftbfs on mav)
  • reviewed lean research paper
  • built out new mav installation on mbp
  • python modules submitted for debian ITP

Colin Watson

• GRUB 2:
  • Merged Debian work from the tail-end of last week, with some additional fixes for bugs reported over the weekend.
  • Fixed regression when installing to a partition.
  • Yet more documentation work.
  • Worked on foundations-m-grub2-boot-framebuffer, fixing an ordering bug that broke GRUB_BACKGROUND handling, working with Andy to figure out how to avoid screen-clears, and spending a lot of time testing. At Matthew Garrett's suggestion, I wrote a simple linearfb kernel module, awaiting his review.
  • Fixed an obscure directory corruption bug when reading from reiserfs.

  • Fix grub-installer to resolve symlinks in default boot device (602758).

• Support building debian-installer with new apt mirror: method.
• Some 10.04.1 preparation.

• Fixed cyrus-sasl2 (600180) and ppp (600947) build failures.

• Stop sshd on shutdown, since Upstart won't do it for us now that it's a native job (603363).

• Reviewed gparted patches from Surbhi.

• Merged: initramfs-tools (twice), busybox, suitesparse (fixing build failure, 601008), manpages-de, loadlin

Evan Dandrea

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

misc

• App-install-data: fix glade meta-data bug
• Apt-cacher-ng: debug failure with u-m and meta-release fetching
• Apt-cacher-ng: review/sponsor fix for #601883 (for apw)

apt

• fix ftbfs
• make term.log logfile unbuffered
• review changes in debian-experimental-ma branch

software-center

• aptdaemon: debug crash when user presses CANCEL in aptdaemon progress dialog
• aptdaemon: debug/fix enable_component call return type mismatch
• aptdaemon: update 03_auth_me_less to ask for less password prompts
• aptdaemon: fix test failures
• workon/merge lp:~mvo/software-center/appdetails-in-db
• merged appdetailsview-gtk and pathbar-tweaks branches
• diagnose failure in install-from-channel code
• make buy-app workflow work
• port buy-something to new trunk code

python-apt

• bugfixes, better test coverage
• py3 fixes in tests/debfile code

update-manager

• Review/merge lp:~mdz/update-manager/small-fixes-20100707
• call set_fraction() less often
• fixes in python-apt 0.8 port
• fixes in the non-interactive upgrader and with python-apt 0.8 from lucid (that is a bit buggy :/)
• good performance measurment/improvements #595845

sponsoring

• hostname, libaio, whois, memtest86+, subversion, compizconfig

Scott James Remnant

Surbhi Palande