Foundations Team Weekly Summary, 2009-12-16

[Scott James Remnant]

For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

== Present ==

 * ScottJamesRemnant - chair
 * BarryWarsaw
 * EvanDandrea
 * GaryLasker
 * JamesWestby
 * LoïcMinier
 * MatthiasKlose
 * MichaelVogt
 * SteveLangasek 

== Apologies ==

 * ColinWatson - on holiday
 * RobbieWilliamson - paternity leave

== Agenda ==
 * Lightning Round 
  * 2-4 sentences on current work/roadblocks
 * Outstanding actions from last meeting
 * Platform sprint
 * Outstanding feature freeze exceptions
 * [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs?field.milestone%
3Alist=1326|Milestoned bugs]]
 * [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bugs|Targeted bugs]]
 * [[http://people.ubuntu.com/~dholbach/sponsoring/|Sponsorship queue]]
 * Any business from activity reports
 * Good news
 * Reminder for release meeting, if due this week
 * Select chair for next meeting
 * AOB

== Outstanding actions from last meeting ==

 * Colin to see if -Wa,-mimplicit-it=thumb fixes qt4-x11 problems on
armel, and if not punt to mobile team / #ubuntu-arm
  * Colin on leave, but investigation showed that it built on armel

== Lightning Round ==

{{{
<slangasek> worked on
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-lucid-cryptsetup this week (more than I'd intended)
 triggering upstart rules on udev events is neat
 if only it all worked right, that'd be great

<mvo> work on software-center features (sub-categories and package
integration)
 work on apt merges (from debian, from Davids branch)
 and spend some time on the auto-upgrade tester setup (still running
from my home server :/

<doko> arm, arm and arm
 currently getting gcc-4.4 fixed for thumb mode, fixing packages with
thumb build failures, other toolchain related updates for eglibc, gdb,
binutils

<lool> Mostly worked on python policy updates and pbuilder patches last
week; will continue in the last days before holidays; would like to look
at chromeos a bit as well.  Took #ubuntu-reviews slots and booked travel
for Jan.

<james_w> worked on: fixing import failures, getting more info about
which problems cause the most failures, telling bzr + LP what we want
from them
 will work on: more of the same
 blockers: none

<tremolux> I've been working on software-center, specifically a fix for
bug 437868
 I've uploaded a fix and mvo has merged it, but there remains a UI
inconsistency that I'm working on fixing (application list view loses
its selection after an install/remove)
 Once that's done, I'll move on to more bugs and triage (working with
mvo)
 Also, I've been looking at integrating apturl into software-center,
which is a work item on
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-lucid-software-center-ui-improvements

<ev> Currently working on keyboard map calculation
(foundations-lucid-oem-config-localized-keyboard-layout) and
NetworkManager copy (foundations-lucid-oem-config).  Nearly done with
both, just doing some polish.  Reading through Michael Forrest's first
draft of the new installer design in parallel.

<barry> bug 390423 ext4 in system-config-lvm landed w/cjwatson's
mentoring, posted summary of experience to udd mlist, currently working
on task list for this cycle and draft of maybe-insane-maybe-cool pep to
help python packaging

<Keybuk> Been hacking all over the boot all week; plymouth + mountall
integration are being tested.
I got angry at dkms and killed it with a sword.
I've either broken initramfs-tools badly or really speeded it up, by
making the dep code use tsort and just stash the answers in the
initramfs so it doesn't have to calculate every boot
}}}

== Chair for next meeting ==

 * james_w

== Activity reports ==

=== Barry Warsaw ===

 * system-config-lvm bug 390423 - support ext4 file system.  Used this
bug to
   learn the basics of the Ubuntu development process, including
packaging and
   deb build tools.  Worked through the bug using several different
   approaches, settling on udd (i.e. the bzr way).  Wrote a summary of
my
   experiences for the udd mailing list and engaged in discussions
there.
   Mentored and landed by cjwatson.

 * Began work on figuring out what I'm going to do for the rest of the
cycle.
   Reviewed list of tasks and will have discussions this week.

 * Began work on sekrit proto-PEP that might be cool or crack.

=== Colin Watson ===

 * Merged: grub2 (big merge), elilo (exposed bzr-builddeb bug, fixed by
   James), albatross (universe), dpkg-cross (universe), gnu-fdisk
   (universe), liblicense (universe), hostname

 * Platform/IS review call.

 * Fixed udev-udeb dependency problems.

 * Sponsorship:
  * debianutils #493243 (synced instead).
  * sensible-utils #462515.
  * adduser #493957 (commented).
  * ubuntu-meta/xubuntu-meta #455153 (commented).
  * rsyslog #459730 (commented).

 * grub2:
  * Resolved conflict between fixing 'grub-install --grub-probe=' and
    fixing 'help2man grub-install' (see #480571).

 * foundations-lucid-kickstart-iscsi-support:
  * Worked on iSCSI authentication support. This involved a new upstream
    release of open-iscsi, and a couple of upstream backports as well to
    make iscsiadm do what we need for discovery records.

 * foundations-lucid-uec-installer-enhancement:
  * Finished up and landed CLC preseed file handling.
  * Done!

 * A bit of mentoring for Barry.

 * Fixed up mdadm udev rules file naming (#493772).

 * Fixed ttf-sazanami removability (#495194).

=== Evan Dandrea ===

 * Worked on copying the network configuration from the live
filesystem to the target system as part of installation.  Nearly done.
 * Investigated apparmor on the live CD issue, discussed, fixed.
 * Helped Michael Forrest get set up with kvm.
 * Sat down with Michael at Millbank and talked through the finer
points of his new installer design draft a few times.
 * Trying to combine a set of NFS mounts with aufs to transparently
remotely source installer files for development.
 * "Review the progress indicator" work item
  * Blocked by PyGTK being stuck at GTK+ 2.16, and thus not having
GtkSpinner yet.
  * Colin made a quick patch that I will try to get applied, should a
new release of pygtk not be scheduled for lucid.
  * I sent a mail to the pygtk list asking how far out a new release is.
 * "Text wrapping needs to be fixed" work item
  * Had a discussion with Mirco about this after he came up with a
partial solution.  He's going to look into why it's not working within
the installer, but is working in his demo.
  * Talked to Ivanka who asked Cody to review the extended layout
branch of GTK+.

=== Gary Lasker ===

=== James Westby ===

==== Distributed Development + Daily Builds ====

Most of my time on this was spent communicating with LP and
bzr developers about the things we need to do, and discussing
what can be done an when. We are approaching an understanding
on these things.

In addition I fixed more of the imports, so that we are now
down to a reasonable number of failures.

I worked on a script that reports the failures each day, both
the count, and the number of each type. Thanks to Martin Pitt
for the inspriation on how to go about matching failures. This
shows that there is a very long tail, but a few fixes could
lower the count by an order of magnitude. I'm going to be
processing those failures and reporting bzr bugs where necessary.

=== Loïc Minier ===

==== Misc ====

 * Worked quite a bit on first revision of Python Policy to bring it
   up-to-date with current practices
 * Helped on the AETC booth on Thursday
 * Reworked and merged upstream parts of the Ubuntu pbuilder diff
 * Fix a bad merge of maximus

=== Matthias Klose ===

=== Michael Vogt ===

==== apt ====
 * Apt-netrc: implement/test host with multiple users/passwds   
 * test netrc branch against private ppa:mvo/private-test
 * merge mvo branch into ubuntu
 * merge netrc branch into ubuntu
 * test careful for abi issues 
 * merging with debian, reivew donkult branch   
 * merging from the "donkult" branch (long, lots of changes)

==== update-manager ====
 * fix FTBFS, upload new version   
 * work with free on landscape integration
 * add experimental performance patch (for seb128 and his dell mini)
 * work on auto-upgrader-tester setup on my "server"
 * default to lts->lts releases for lucid 
 * experiment with virtio block driver for the auto-upgrade tester 
   (not working reliable for me for hardy guests)
 * review/update DistUpgrade.cfg/DistUpgrade.cfg.hardy  
 * publish auto-upgrade-test results to 
   http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/automatic-upgrade-testing 

==== software-center ====
 * review/merge software-center search-greylist branch 
 * review/merge lp:~glatzor/software-center/glatzor 
 * fixes in the greylist code 
 * add support for comma seperation (helps apturl integration) 
 * phonecall with Gary about software-center
 * foundations-lucid-software-center-repository-based-index 
   status call 
 * review/mege lp:~rugby471/software-center/software-store-andrew
 * add "reload" button if the package information looks incomplete
(#466321)
 * fix misleading msg in not-enabled channels (#488060) 
 * string review with mpt for the fixes #488060, #466321 
 * fix regexp for list formating (#493679) 
 * Review/merge lp:~robert-ancell/software-center/trunk 
 * Run menu-data-ubuntu extraction (for alpha-1)  
 * debug problem with non-fixed height mode 
 * add "X-AppInstall-Ignore" honoring 
 * add code that shows top application (by popcon) and "installed
   applications" (for kwwii and card sorting)  
 * create dapper->hardy->lucid upgrade test profiles for server and 
   ubuntu profile

==== misc ====
 * Look into deployment of lp-get-changelogs on rookery (no success,
   no urllib2) 
 * Conflictchecker: investigate issue, deploy new version 
 * Aptdaemon: create ubuntu-lucid branch and test new version (with
   glatzor)
 * Compiz: test/commit kde4 build fix from upstream 

==== sponsoring ====
 * Review/sponsor/upload app-install-data-partner for karmic 

=== Scott James Remnant ===

 * udev:
   * Added a rule to mark which of the /dev/dri/card0 or /dev/fb0
     devices is the primary one for a given physical device.

 * Plymouth:
   * Included and tweaked Alberto's script theme.
   * Fixed issue where plymouth was actually restarting before gdm came
     up, rather than being stopped.  In the end, went with patches that
     actually make gdm stop plymouth, rather than Upstart - this solves
     lots of problems, including having no ttys if gdm cannot start X.
   * always set FRAMEBUFFER=y for now until we can come up with a more
     interesting way to start the splash screen
   * casper needed updating to set FRAMEBUFFER=y as well
   * Added new root command to initramfs.
   * Removed usplash from the seeds and updated meta package.
   * MIR.

 * gdm:
   * straced the gdm-binary and X packages to figure out which devices
     it needed, adjusted the start condition accordingly
   * Applied plymouth integration patches to make the seamless
     transition from the boot splash into X, and also deal with
     restoring the console if X fails to start.
   * Removed the starting-dm event since this isn't necessary anymore.

 * libdrm:
   * Removed printf()s that caused fbcon to reassert itself when
     deactiving a DRM master

 * mountall:
   * Worked on plymouth integration (still a few tidying up bits to go)
   * Changed to always wait on all filesystems again; if you don't want
     to wait on boot, use "noauto" and don't mount it
   * Renamed the existing "mount" event to "mounting"
   * Added a "mounted" event that takes place after a mountpoint is
     mounted.
     * This meant all the hooks, including the restorecon call, could be
       moved to Upstart events
   * Support for mounting /dev as devtmpfs if available, falling back to
     tmpfs when not.
   * Lots of bug fixes and clean ups.

 * Other:
   * Found kernel patch for modules.builtin, gave URLs to apw.

=== Steve Langasek ===

==== Release management ===
 * Lucid alpha 1
 * grub SRU for 8.04.4

==== Packages ====
 * continued triaging of grub upgrade problems
 * fix bug #461725 in upstart
 * work on bug #462169 in samba; still no reproducible test case
 * merge brltty and fix bug #491775
 * merges/syncs: quilt
 * fix pam FTBFS now that quilt is merged
 * work on cryptsetup fixes for upstart

==== Sponsorship ====
 * nfs-utils (bug #493145)
 * xtide (bug #486157)

==== Misc ====
 * archive admin duties

Scott
-- 
Scott James Remnant
scott at ubuntu.com
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