Foundations Team Weekly Activity Report, 2009-06-17

Thu Jun 18 22:45:47 BST 2009

== Present ==

 * RobbieWilliamson - chair
 * ColinWatson
 * EvanDandrea
 * LarsWirzenius
 * MichaelVogt
 * MikeTerry
 * MuharemHrnjadovic
 * ScottJamesRemnant
 * SteveLangasek

## list additional participants here

== Apologies ==
 * JamesWestby - Attending the [[http://opensourcebridge.org/|Open Source Bridge
conference]]
 * MatthiasKlose - on Canonical OEM Team rotational assignment
## * FooBar - at a conference

== Agenda ==

 * DMRaid update from mterry
 * Karmic
  * Status and Roadmap (*complete*, but NOT final)
   * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/ReleaseStatus/Karmic
  * foundations-karmic-i586-support NEEDS an assignee
  * Need to Milestone Features
   * Ex: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/karmic-alpha-3
  * Platform Team Sprint Update
 * 8.04.3 LTS Update
   * https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+milestone/ubuntu-8.04.3
 * Sponsorship queue
 * Good news
 * AOB
  *
[[http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/BootPerformance/DebianUbuntuSprint|Debian-Ubuntu
Boot Performance Sprint]] next week

== Outstanding actions from last meeting ==

## List outstanding items and an update on their progress if appropriate

== Actions from this meeting ==
 * liw to enter the storm of dmraid and talk to TheMuso
 * robbiew to add
http://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-karmic-usb-creator-for-windows
to Karmic Roadmap
 * Keybuk to draft KMS on the Console spec....based on mysterious irc discussion

## List new action items

## Now follows a section for each agenda item
## == Title ==
## commentary

== Activity reports ==
=== Colin Watson ===
 * Sponsorship:
  * libwibble #385317 (bounced).
  * mutt #384499.
  * ntfs-3g #349569 (semi-bounced).
  * libunique #383718.
  * mdbtools #383917.
  * partman-ext2r0 #384796 (sync, universe).
  * parrot #219276 (universe, I'm the Debian sponsor too).
  * qcomicbook #384808 (sync, universe).
  * viking #384380 (sync, universe).
  * mpi-defaults #383665 (universe).
  * netcfg (merge from Muharem).
  * silo-installer (merge from Muharem).
  * rootskel (merge from Muharem).
  * rootskel-gtk (merge from Muharem).
  * dpkg #332068 (rejected for sponsorship, Debian bug already filed and
    it's better there anyway since it involves translatable strings).
  * console-tools #49031 (universe).
 * Fixed oem-config #163518 (.desktop files say OnlyShowIn=GNOME, should be
NotShowIn=KDE;) - on the sponsorship list although only due to a different task
on the same bug.
 * Finished introducing variable-width menu columns to gfxboot-theme-ubuntu,
allowing me to fix #311699.
 * Fixed gfxboot-theme-ubuntu #40144 (Norwegian languages sorted weirdly).
 * Drafted specs: foundations-karmic-rsyslogd, foundations-karmic-grub2
 * Reviewed/approved specs: foundations-karmic-usb-creator-for-windows,
rsync-based-deb-downloads, foundations-karmic-better-debian-import,
foundations-karmic-swapfile
 * IS/platform review meeting.
 * Fixed casper #386010 (unionfs-fuse killed too early on live CD shutdown).
 * Hoovered up most of a casper patch series to fix snapshot resyncing, and
commented on the rest (#384059, #384061, #384066, #384068, #384076).
 * Fixed grub-installer #385995 (sometimes tries to edit menu.lst even with GRUB 2).
 * Merged: anna, base-installer, cdrom-checker, clock-setup,
debian-installer-utils, finish-install, grub-installer, installation-report,
lilo-installer, lowmem, main-menu, net-retriever, network-console, partman-auto,
partman-auto-crypto, partman-auto-lvm, partman-basicfilesystems, partman-crypto,
partman-ext3, partman-lvm, partman-partitioning, partman-target, preseed,
tzsetup, yaboot-installer
 * Synced: cdebconf, mountmedia, partconf, partman-jfs, partman-md,
partman-reiserfs, partman-xfs
 * Honour casper's live_media_path configuration in ubiquity.
 * Added cdimage/livecd-rootfs support for variable casper initramfs compression
methods, in preparation for a kernel version that will support LZMA initramfs
decompression across the board.
 * Proposed patch for util-linux #383697 (mount.preinst uses lsb-release while
unconfigured).
 * TB meeting (chaired).

=== Evan Dandrea ===
 * Ubiquity bug triage.
 * Helped rgreening get the KDE frontend merged into usb-creator.
 * Helped cr3 with ubiquity automation questions.
 * Specification writing.  All specs approved, awaiting for responses from
others, or awaiting approval, with the exception of encrypted swap.
 * Started work on a UDS writeup for Larry Poon.
 * More work on migration-assistant base code.

=== Lars Wirzenius ===
 * In preparation of making a video to allow comparison between gscan2pdf and
flegita, tested Istanbul and recordmydesktop. The latter actually works.
 * Participated and monitored machine-readable debian/copyright discussions in
Debian.
 * Wrote my important specs.
  * https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/rsync-based-deb-downloads
  (approved)
  *
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/computer-janitor-karmic-ui-improvements
 * Verified that python-fstab is covered by the decision to not require
contributor agreements that was done for Computer Janitor.
 * Upgraded main desktop to karmic. Broke gnome-display-properties and USB
auto-mounting, so far.
 * Started travel arrangements for Debconf and karmic sprint.
 * Filed a sync request for speedcrunch.

=== Matthias Klose ===
* Travel to Lexington (Mon)
* Work on an OEM project
  * Installations
  * start working on bug reports
  * look at apport backport for jaunty based projects.
* Various talks with OEM people about procedures/processes,  while learning
* Some simple toolchain updates

=== Michael Vogt ===
==== software-properties ====
 * add copy-n-paste for pub-key adding
 * drag-n-drop for pub-key adding
 * bugfixes

==== packaging tools ====
 * Add transition code to update-manager for broadcom users
 * Unattended-upgrade maintainace/merges
 * Add search progress and UI updates to synaptic (#24188) and upload new version
 * Add ionice support to apt

==== AppCenter ====
 * design call with mpt
 * add prototype support for keyword search for gnome-app-install
 * make g-a-i start faster
 * make desktop data reading and cache opening threaded

==== misc ====
 * spec work
 * Smoke testing the desktop CD for alpha-2
 * merge/test/upload apt
 * Add code to python-apt to create required dirs on the fly if run with
"apt.Cache(rootdir=foo")"
 * Review gconf patch for seb128
 * Write debian-version compare script (lp:~mvo/+junk/compare-to-debian)
 * Review language-selector diff (from lool)
 * Write some simple profiling code for the apt install run (for the pre-unpack
spec)

==== sponsoring/merges ====
 * Review/sposnor imagemagick, popcon
 * Merge/upload newlib, bzip2
 * Review/merge/sponsor app-install-data-partner for jaunty
 * Review/merge/sponsor app-install-data-commercial intrepid upload
 * Review/merge patch from robert for compiz

=== Mike Terry ===
==== Merges ====
 * Merge freevo (385645)
 * Merge galan (385662)
 * Merge hdparm (311451)
 * Merge libxml2 (386390)
 * Merge xkeyboard-config (386445)
 * Merge hunspell (387366)
 * Sync gnome-backgrounds (385666)

==== GConf Error ====
 * Fixed a gconf error when logging in (383461) that arose because we referenced
a gconf source location, but didn't make sure that it existed

==== Power Management ====
 * Continued working on removing ac.d and battery.d (385949)
 * Still need to get some feedback from upstream devicekit folks.  Looks like
pm-powersave isn't being called by devicekit-power and they aren't planning to.
 * May need to call pm-powersave another way (maybe call it if anything but kde4
is running)
 * Started looking at keypress events we can drop

==== rsyslog ====
 * Started working on replacing sysklogd with rsyslog
 * An initial version of the upgrade path is working (copy syslog.conf over).
Need to make this use ucf
 * Worked on derooting it.  Started work on a -U flag to drop privileges, but
apparently upstream v4 has similar support built-in as a config flag.  mbiebl
says v4 likely to hit in Karmic timeframe
 * The above privilege-dropping doesn't help with klog, which needs root access.
 Implemented a simple config value to look at a different path and running a
privileged dd instance that copies it over (as we do for sysklogd) to that path

=== Muharem Hrnjadovic ===
==== Administravia ====
  * AllHands feed-back
  * performance review preparation/call with Julian E.
  * UDS survey

==== Package merges ====
  * fbreader_0.10.7dfsg-2ubuntu1
  * ibus_1.1.0.20090531
  * solr_1.2.0+ds2-5ubuntu1
  * xom_1.2.1-1
  * netcfg_1.49
  * findutils_4.4.2-1ubuntu1
  * rootskel_1.78
  * rootskel-gtk-1.16
  * lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/pkgsel/ubuntu
  * silo-installer (1.16)
  * perl - 5.10.0-23ubuntu1
  * popularity-contest
  * zsh_4.3.10-2ubuntu1
  * python-crypto_2.0.1+dfsg1-4
  * smartmontools_5.38-3ubuntu1

 ==== Sync requests ====
  * requestsync libsepol karmic
  * requestsync newt karmic
  * requestsync newt pyopenssl
  * requestsync ifplugd karmic

==== Launchpad ====
  * finished testing LP API for package sets

=== Scott James Remnant ===
 * Holiday on Friday
 * Finally finished the Upstart D-Bus work, took even longer than I thought it
might in the end.
 * Updated Upstart's Contributing Code guide
 * Fixed some D-Bus bugs in the process.
 * Finished up my patch to notify setsid() over the proc connector, sent to lkml
along with the 2.6.31 firehose
 * Chatted with other folks about what to talk about at Plumbers this year,
submitted Upstart 1.0 talk and possibly doing a shared talk with Kyle at Fedora
about living in Arjan's shadow
 * Put our C bootchart code into bzr for Michael Meeks at Novell
 * More nagging Ted Tso about libuuid
 * More VFS union-mount testing

=== Steve Langasek ===
==== Release management ====
 * alpha-2 released
 * release meeting
 * continuing the 8.04.3 round-up

==== Sponsorship ====
 * aptitude (bug #139661)
 * perl merge
 * audacious merge

==== Specs ====
 * foundations-karmic-power-management drafted

==== Misc ====
 * Monday archive duties
 * NBS cleanups