Minutes of the Technical Board meeting 2010-09-21

[Martin Pitt]

This is also available on the wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/TechnicalBoard/TeamReports/10/September

Chair: Martin
Attendees: Colin Watson, Kees Cook, Scott James Remnant
Guests: Jamie Strandboge

 * Review of Actions
  * Martin to follow up with Kees on-list (re: Chromium security updates) -- '''DONE'''
  * Matt to implement brainstorm reviews as proposed  -- '''DONE'''
   * Martin added this as a permanent topic to the agenda, together with the next due date
  * Matt to respond to jono re: application review board  -- '''DONE'''

 * SRU microrelease exception for bzr (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/technical-board/2010-September/000506.html):
  * Requirement: Run selftests during package build to catch architecture specific regressions, and catch problems early
  * Run tests on installed package as part of SRU verification
   * '''ACTION:''' Martin Pitt to ask Martin Pool about self test instructions on installed system
   * '''ACTION:''' Kees to add bzr self test to qa-regression-testing project
  * Under those conditions, the request was unanimously approved
   * '''ACTION:''' Martin add to StableReleasePolicy

 * Chromium security updates  
  * Discussion has shown that a general SRU exception is the only viable way
  * It is not realistic to do any serious testing on these, since updates are released so fast; updates need t o happen pretty much "blindly"
  * It is not realistic to do any serious testing on these, since updates are released so fast
  * This makes it rather inappropriate for main/default install, but as an opt-in in universe the current experience with the recent Chromium SRUs showed that the process is working
  * In case of new build dependencies: in general they should be bundled, but for some of them it is okay to update the system package (e. g. gyp, and perhaps libvpx); this is a case-by-case decision

 * No new community bugs to look at

 * Next chair: Mark Shuttleworth



Martin Pitt
p.p. Ubuntu Technical Board
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Martin Pitt                        | http://www.piware.de
Ubuntu Developer (www.ubuntu.com)  | Debian Developer  (www.debian.org)
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