December

  • 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:
    • Edubuntu LTS application
    • 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
    • Next meeting:
      • Skipping the December 26 meeting due to Christmas holidays
      • Next on 2012-01-09
      • Chair: Matt Zimmerman

TechnicalBoard/TeamReports/11/December (last edited 2011-12-13 08:39:08 by pitti)