canonical bzr team weekly notes

[Martin Pool]

bzr standup 2011-09-20

Canonical's doing internal quarterly review/planning, this week and next.

vila-

* landed https://bugs.launchpad.net/udd/+bug/836782 bzr-builddeb requires
  dpkg-dev >= 1.15.7 with help from poolie (just use a local
  dpkg-mergechangelogs), so this should give better merges and less
conflicts during imports

* package-importer should back off (and "make tea") if Launchpad's
unreachable, https://code.launchpad.net/~vila/udd/795321-make-tea/+merge/76058
waiting for review (should address the peaks in
http://webnumbr.com/ubuntu-package-import-failures.from%282011-09-13%29);
  working on distinguishing transient from ~idempotent failures;

* Froze 2.5b1 (should announce today), still need installers/packages
from people.

* SRU 2.2.5 still pending
<http://wiki.bazaar.canonical.com/UbuntuStableReleaseUpdates>

* jelmer proposed being PP for config stuff, should clarify roadmap and next
  step(s)

 * NEXT: testing Launchpad 'make tea' circuit breaker patch.

jam-

 * working on getting the server to disconnect idle clients, which
will allow a lot smoother service and upgrades on lp, aside from being
generally useful. this causes some glitches during the test suite.
some discussion about how to handle it smoothly.

 ACTION: group discussion offline of disconnect, reconnect, graceful
shut down and test handling

riddell-

 * finished up marking translatable strings, and refactoring handling
on the long slow task of fixing strings to be translatable; some
people have started translation, will see if they have feedback; also
should remind Naoki Inada this was done and thank him
 * NEXT: pp this week; then requiring signature on branches; also bzr
builddeb do-mode for non-merge mode; maybe unicode filename support in
udd.

jelmer-

 * Bored all week long.
 * Worked on bzr-builddeb multiple-tarball imports. Fairly tricky.
 * FTBFS fixes for ubuntu.
 * Patches for Launchpad to do bzr-git pulling from HTTP smart-server
support on LP.
 * Fixed HTTP redirect handling in lp mirroring
 * bzr-svn now down to 70 test-suite failures out of roughly 2500 when
used as an alternate branch implementation.
 * only ~15 bzr-svn mirrors failing on lp
 * NEXT: finish bzr-builddeb multi-tarballs

poolie-

 * some work on hiring for us and other teams, announcement soon
 * Helped Michael Hudson on Launchpad Feature Flags (anon ssh)
 * Landed DKIM support for Launchpad, on production now. No more GPG
needed for GMail accounts!
  * Working on QBR
 * Worked with IS to get various production changes done or at least
prioritized.
 * Little bit of work on recording successful imports in udd importer
as well as failures.

http://blog.launchpad.net/general/speeding-up-development - lp will
now deploy frequently, every few days, with just about a minute of
downtime or sometimes no downtime at all, hooray.  needs more work
(including what John's now on) to make it smooth for code hosting.