[steve.langasek at canonical.com: agenda for release meeting: Friday, Jun 19 @ 1500UTC]

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 09:14:39AM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> > 
> > The current upload is pending interlock with the Installer team as it
> > carries the new flavour names.  That work is interrupted by the GEM/PAE
> > issue which we are working in parallel.
> > 
> 
> If the upgrade algorithm is:
> 
> Jaunty generic --> Karmic generic
> Jaunty server --> Karmic generic-pae
> 
> and the install rules are:
> 
> if RAM > 4GB then install Karmic generic-pae
> else install Karmic generic
> 
> then I think we'll be OK wrt to KMS/GEM/PAE. As far as I can tell, this
> is a long standing problem and is not a regression from Jaunty.
> 
> Do you agree?

Yep that sounds good.  With luck we'll have a fixed PAE story in time
for release anyway.  But if we leave people down on non-pae we have
lower risk.

-apw