Foundations Team Weekly Summary, 2009-02-19

[Robbie Williamson]

On 02/19/2009 03:06 PM, Robbie Williamson wrote:
> http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2009/0128
Wrong link :/
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2009/0218

> 
> == Present ==
> 
>  * RobbieWilliamson - chair
>  * ColinWatson
>  * EvanDandrea
>  * LarsWirzenius
>  * LukeYelavich
>  * MatthiasKlose
>  * MichaelVogt
>  * ScottJamesRemnant
>  * SteveLangasek
> 
> == Apologies ==
> 
>  * JamesWestby
> 
> == Actions from previous meeting ==
>  * None
> 
> == Agenda ==
>  * Feature Freeze Check
> 
> 
> == Actions from this meeting ==
>  * None
> 
> == Activity reports ==
> === Colin Watson ===
> * Spec reviews:
>   * daily-upstream-builds-poc (by e-mail)
>   * distributed-development-debian-import (by IRC)
> 
>  * Feature work:
>   * Added prompt during LVM partitioning for how much of the VG should be
> allocated (#160156).
>   * Changed server CDs to use LVM by default (although still ask).
>   * Finished changes to allow manual package selection in d-i. (This took quite
> a while; getting the terminal definition into the right place was unwarrantedly
> painful.)
> 
>  * Installer:
>   * Merged partman-auto and partman-auto-lvm from Debian to fix #225785.
>   * Made use of new dmraid exit code sanity to fix #325947.
>   * Fixed grub #317085 (trailing slashes in fstab mountpoints).
>   * console-setup fix for users of the CyrSlav codeset.
> 
>  * Wrote up TB meeting notes for TeamReports.
> 
>  * Tracked down the cause of ubuntu-cdimage #309396.
> 
>  * Removed ancient /etc/init.d/console-screen.kbd.sh.
> 
> === Evan Dandrea ===
>  * Sponsorship queue work.  Uploaded gnome-system-tools.
>  * Modified ubiquity to use PNGs instead of SVGs for the timezone map for better
> performance.
>  * Email to Robbie about usb-creator work.
>  * Spoke with Ken about the time zone map requirements, and posted some mock ups
> from him to the wiki for future design consideration.Ken will provide me with a
> final copy by the artwork deadline.
>  * Modified the time zone map to only select cities in the time zone band the
> mouse is over instead of selecting the absolute nearest city.
>  * Started reviewing shtylman's ubiquity bzr branch, specifically changes to the
> time zone map.  Roman is working on bringing the KDE frontend up to speed with
> changes to the GTK frontend.
>  * Added support to ubiquity for translating between partman-auto translations
> and their ubiquity equivalents.  This removes the confusing "Guided -" portion
> of the text on the automatic partitioning page as well as allows us to provide
> more specific options ("Use the entire disk, replacing Windows XP").
>  * Finished the code in the new partitioning bar with resize slider
> (SegmentedBarSlider) to set proper bounds and return a correctly formatted value
> to partman-auto.  Finished integrating this widget into ubiquity.
>  * Discussed the automatic partitioning page with Matthew Paul Thomas at
> Millbank.  He's provided a mock up
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyUbiquityUsability?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=automatic_partitioning.pdf)
> that I hope to at least partially implement before Feature Freeze.
> 
> ==== Specifications ====
>  * UbuntuSpec:oem-tracking-id : Implemented.  I still need to rip out the old
> oem-id code and might need to make additional changes if they do not find the
> current functionality to be sufficient.
>  * UbuntuSpec:jaunty-ubiquity-usability : Mostly implemented, just a few
> deferred items and little bits here and there that I might be able to knock off
> before FF.
>  * UbuntuSpec:ubiquity-slideshow : Deferred due to Julian's team not having
> sufficient time for it this cycle.  I spoke with him at the sprint about this
> and they are going to try to work it in for the future.
> 
> ==== To do before FF ====
>  * Rip out the old C time zone map code to remove bloat from the ubiquity package.
>  * Finish implementing mpt's automatic partitioning page suggestions.
>  * Knock off any small remaining items from JauntyUbiquityUsability.
> 
> === James Westby ===
>  * Distributed Development
>   * New features for bzr-builddeb, most notable:
>    * Extra options for building without so much hassle
>          $ bzr builddeb -- -S -v0.2-1
>    * pristine-tar integration. No more checksum mismatches,and more things just
> working.
>    * Had to break backwards compatibility in a few places to do this, but I hope
> the pain is worth the benefit.
>   * Spec re-written following review feedback. Tentative re-review looks good.
> 
>  * Ubuntu
>   - Plenty of sponsoring.
>   - Some archive admin work.
> 
> 
> === Lars Wirzenius ===
> 
> 
> === Luke Yelavich ===
> ==== Audio ====
>  * Audio bug triaging
>  * More uploads of pulseaudio with fixes from git, and a few configuration
> changes. These were Daniel Chen's decisions, but I am happy to go with them at
> this point. One major change was to turn glitch free off, since it was causing
> manu users a lot of headaches.
>  * Uploaded 0.9.15~test2 of pulseaudio to my PPA.
>  * Uploaded a fix for alsa-lib, again thanks to Daniel Chen.
>  * Started testing pulseaudio's glitch free for myself, and yse I get glitchy
> audio as well.
> 
> ==== dmraid ====
>  ( Found the cause ofRAID0 arrays not being activated. It was a patch that the
> Ubuntu and Debian packages were carrying that was in the upstream release, but
> the patch still applied anyway.
>  * Updated the git tree for the debian dmraid package with all the fixes I'd
> written for the activation script, and the dropping of the patch. I have direct
> commit access to the git tree, so will be sending all my changes via Debian
> first, except for extremely urgent cases, like late in the Jaunty release. In
> general, this will mean we will be syncing the dmraid package from now on.
>  * Investigated dmraid and ubiquity/live CD again. It looks like nothing
> substantial needs doing here, except for deciding whether we activate dmraid
> arrays on the live CD by default, and if not, at what point in the CD load do we
> ask the user if they want them activated.
> 
> ==== Misc ====
>  * Some sponsoring of both packages for main and universe, particularly with
> feature freeze coming up, this was good to get some good sponsoring work under
> my belt, as I have not done nearly as much as I should have.
>  * After several uploads, got kernels for ports architectures all built, so that
> lots of packagse can be built on all architectures. There is still a kernel
> issue with endianness on sparc that needs addressing however, however thats for
> my own time, i.e personal time, as well as tweaking the kernel configs, adding
> Ubuntu aadded modules, etc.
> 
> === Matthias Klose ===
> 
> === Michael Vogt ===
> 
> ==== compiz ====
>  * update to the 0.8 branch (will get released very soon)
>  * debug/fix issue that seb128 brought up with incorrect placment of windows
> (wrong viewport). sent patch upstream (#1124)
>  * compiz metadata/plugin default sync
>  * update plugins-main,extra and upload to compiz ppa and then jaunty (0.8
> release is comming soon)
>  * Multi screen compiz-manager fix (#207770) and sent upstream
> 
> ==== plymouth ====
>  * patching plymouth to work on ubuntu
>  * add integration into our initramfs
>  * packaging in lp:~plymouth-dev/plymouth/ubuntu
>  * uploading into my ~mvo PPA and later into the ~plymouth-dev PPA
>  * Create kvm image with plymouth by default (no kernel modesetting in the image)
>  * no success in getting kernel mode settng to work on my hardware
> 
> ==== update-manager ====
>  * discuss/prepare possilbe fglrx transition
>  * Work on the update-manager not-automatic branch, not quite ready for
> feature-freeze :/
>  * Work on the computer-janitor<->update-manager code merging in the
> lp:~mvo/update-manager/janitor-merge branch with liw This is taking its time,
> the code bases are different
> 
> ==== update-notifier ====
>  * implement the DX team changes for autoamtic launch of update-manager
>  * add automatic launching of dialogs too (e.g. reboot required will not show a
> bubble but a dialog instead)
>  * worked on avoiding focus stealing, not everything ready, needs to get fixed
> after FF
> 
> ==== misc ====
>  * bug triage
>  * Mail robbie with ongoing tasks/responsibilites I do/have
>  * Look into codenia (fluendo codec installer)
>  * Work with asac on the partner-repository policy mail (partner-repository spec)
>  * Call with randy about codec install/sent mail with screenshots of the new
> interface
>  * Review/sponsor deja-dup upload into universe (jaunty backup spec)
>  * Apt ddtp translation update
>  * Work on gdebi (lots of small fixes, talk with sianis who helped greatly with
> triage and fixes), upload new version
>  * Followup on ddtp import bug (turns out to be a LP problem: #317482)
>  * upload new gconf with changed gconf system defaults location (to be in sync
> with the other distros)
>  * Help arne with language-selector questions
>  * Bug triage for dpkg trigger processing problems (thanks to bdmurray for
> compiling the list)
> 
> ==== sponsoring ====
>  * Review/sponsor gnome-desktop-sharp2 update
>  * Review/merge/sponsor multiscreen compiz-manager patch (#207770)
>  * Review/sponsor brasero, gnome-terminal
>  * Review/sponsor yet another new brasero
>  * review/sponsor tomboy
> 
> === Scott Remnant ===
> 
> * udev
>   * Added support for udev to watch block devices with inotify.  When closed
> after being opened for writing, udev will fake a "change" event for the
> underlying kobject.  In practice this means that running dd, or mkfs, etc. on a
> block device will update /dev/disk/by-{uuid,label} automatically.
> 
>  * module-init-tools
>   * Updated to latest GIT head.
>   * Compared the performace of 3.3, 3.6 and GIT head.  Results posted to
> ubuntu-boot ML.
> 
>  * util-linux
>   * Worked on the patch to hwclock to support stepping the system clock and
> setting the kernel timezone without reference to the hardware clock.
>   * udev rule to call this new hwclock option when the hardware clock was not in
> UTC.
>   * Worked with LaMont to put together a GIT tree for my work that he can merge
> from.
>   * Restored patches LaMont accidentally dropped when doing an upstream update.
>   * First cut of a performance comparison, results not yet mailed.
> 
>  * Boot performance:
>   * Meeting with Arjan Van der Ven of Intel to discuss the work Moblin have been
> doing
>   * Compared the 2.6.28-7, 2.6.29-rc4 and 2.6.29-rc5 kernel versions, and
> compared with/without the fastboot async patches enabled.  Results posted to
> ubuntu-boot ML.
>   * Compared boot with/without LRM.
> 
>  * Fixed bootchart dependencies since it turns out to need a full JRE
> 
>  * Updated autoconf to 2.63
> 
>  * Update automake to 1.10.2
> 
> === Steve Langasek ===
> 
> ==== Release management ====
>  * triaging of jaunty nominations/targeted bugs
>  * release meetings
>  * alpha-4 preparations/release
>  * Feature Freeze announcement / coordination
> 
> ==== Specs ====
>  * nail down the Hotkey spec and get the implementation going during the
> platform team sprint
>  * extensive hotkey testing / debugging, availing myself of the local hardware
> access during the sprint
> 
> ==== Packages ====
>  * Follow through on nut SRU, uploading the fixes to jaunty.(bug #222761)
>  * merge libgsf (bug #325682)
>  * merge samba 3.3 (bug #328874)
>  * follow through on the acpi-support drive parking mess, uploading pm-utils to
> hardy/intrepid/jaunty (bug 59695)
>  * lay the basic groundwork for openldap 2.4.14 in jaunty
> 
> == Misc ==
>  * trace down a false-positive regarding a regression in a kernel security
> update (bug #322497)
>  * Monday archive duties x2
>  * participate in hwclock discussions with Scott and Colin
> 
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