Platform team meeting minutes 2008/06/18

[Bryce Harrington]

[These minutes are available online at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PlatformTeam/Meetings/20080618]

== Present ==

 * Colin Watson
 * Alexander Sack
 * Bryce Harrington
 * Chris Cheney
 * Evan Dandrea
 * James Westby
 * Lars Wirzenius
 * Luke Yelavich
 * Matthias Klose
 * Oliver Grawert
 * Steve Langasek

Arne is on holiday

= Agenda =

 * State-of-the-onion on Alpha 1
 * Review of Outstanding Actions
 * Minutes Location and Distribution
 * alsa-lib Testing

== Actions ==

New Actions:
  * ACTION:  cjwatson (or delegate) to updating the release schedule once alpha 1 has been released
  * ACTION:  bryce to set up an area on the public wiki for posting
    meeting minutes, and begin posting them to ubuntu-devel@ instead of
    distro-team@ going forward. 
  * ACTION:  bryce to review/move some past minutes as appropriate

Carried Over:
  * ACTION: asac to make an informational spec out of intel connection manager session notes.
  * ACTION: calc to provide updated OOo priority reports to Sun
  * ACTION: calc to draft notes for ooo-langpack spec
  * ACTION: cjwatson to review Ago's wubi spec and decide assignment
  * ACTION: doko to investigate if MoM's host machines has the disk
    space to do Testing and/or Experimental merges
  * ACTION: TheMuso to write the boot-performance spec
  * ACTION: Everyone not occupied with 8.04.1, spec writing, or urgent
    matters should focus on getting merge queue down; esp. keep eye on
    main sponsorship queue 
  * ACTION: asac, TheMuso, doko, ogra to list travel details for Distro
    sprint at DistroTeam / Sprints / Intrepid

== State-of-the-onion on Alpha 1 ==

There's still a large number of merges to do, and lot of the delay is
due to necessary work on 8.04.1. However, the desktop is installable and
the installer is looking like it will work.  There are some initial CD
images up at least for the Alternate CD which may sort of work.  Desktop
CD is probably a ways off yet, but despite that it would be worthwhile
to have an alpha in the next week or so, assuming Steve and the QA folks
have enough bandwidth to take advantage of it for (at least minimal)
testing.

Alpha 2 is currently scheduled for the same day as 8.04.1, which is
probably suboptimal, so we decided to move it a week later, to give us a
bit better gap between alpha-1 and alpha-2

 ACTION:  Someone (cjwatson or his delegate) to updating the release schedule once alpha 1 has been released

== Review of Outstanding Actions ==

  * asac to make an informational spec out of intel connection manager session notes.
    * Still needs to be pushed back; it's on asac's todo list but not as high priority.

  * [DONE] asac + slangasek to discuss inclusion of ffox 3.0 final in the final 8.04.1 CD's
    * <asac> done. 3.0 is out. yes
    * Everyone cheers for seeing this in -updates on release day \o/

  * [DONE] calc to make an informational spec for the ooo release schedule session notes
    * <calc> done
    * Also need something in the form of a calendar

  * calc to provide updated OOo priority reports to Sun
    * <calc> some updates have happened since last week, but still have
      lots to do on that front
    * Will keep this as an open action until an email is sent to the OOo
      people, then treat as ongoing afterwards

  * calc to draft notes for ooo-langpack spec
    * Notes seem to be lost.  calc will try to recreate from memory and
      post a draft for cjwatson and doko to fill in

  * cjwatson to review Ago's wubi spec and decide assignment
    * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WubiIntrepid
    * needs a good bit of work as a lot of that is still a pre-session dump

  * doko to investigate if MoM's host machines has the disk space to do
    Testing and/or Experimental merges
    * <doko> not yet done

  * TheMuso to write the boot-performance spec
    * the notes are on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Intrepid/Report/Platform
    * it's a little vague, and might need a chat with Keybuk to flesh out
    * TheMuso will take a stab at it

  * Everyone not occupied with 8.04.1, spec writing, or urgent matters
    should focus on getting merge queue down; esp. keep eye on main
    sponsorship queue
    * The goal is at DebianImportFreeze (Thursday next week) that each
      package should have been merged at least once.  (see
      https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Debian/ImportFreeze).  The
      DebianImportFreeze date won't be affected by the alpha-1 schedule
      change.
    * For main, we have 211 outstanding merges, compared with 174 at the
      equivalent point in time during Hardy.  So not an emergency, but
      we're definitely behind where we need to be.
    * Core developers can help especially by keeping an eye on the main
      sponsorship queues

  * Alexander, Luke, Matthias, Oliver to make travel arrangements for
    Distro sprint and list at DistroTeam / Sprints / Intrepid
    * please update wiki.c.c/DistroTeam/Sprints/Intrepid when you're done
    * So far listed: Bryce, Chris, Colin, Evan, James, Lars, Steve L.
    * TheMuso needs help getting from airport to hotel early Sunday morning

== Location of Minutes ==

There was a discussion on the mailing lists that more info needs to be
made publically visible.  Our meetings are held on a public channel now,
so our meeting minutes should be public too.  Some past minutes could be
moved if there's no obvious partner discussions or whatever

   * ACTION: bryce to set up an area on the public wiki for posting
     meeting minutes, and begin posting them to ubuntu-devel@ instead of
     distro-team@ going forward.
   * ACTION: bryce to review/move some past minutes as appropriate

[For the first action I've set up https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PlatformTeam
and pulled over the minutes from this month's meetings. -- bryce]

== alsa-lib Testing ==

If you use alsa apps on hardy regularly, please test with the alsa-lib
in proposed.  We're pondering using alsa-lib 1.0.16 for 8.04.1, but it
needs lots of broad regression testing...  This is the biggest undecided
thing for .1