Foundations Team Weekly Summary, 2009-09-23

[Robbie Williamson]

== No Meeting That Week == 

== Activity reports ==

=== Colin Watson ===

 * Some more minor assistance with boot problems: fixed run-time expat libraries to install to /lib.

 * More attempts to get Wubi working, integrating a grub.d script and adjusting grub2 to ignore the usual Linux handling for loop-mounted   filesystems, and explicitly calling update-grub on lupin-support installation.

 * Installer:
  * Fixed dh-di #430724 (manual partitioning is not shown in ubiquity).
  * Ported ubiquity's init scripts to Upstart.
  * Fixed ubiquity #431048 (crash on OEM end-user setup).

 * Merged: dpkg (#427854)

 * Sponsorship:
  * fsl #402174 (universe)
  * xscreensaver #129769.
  * rsyslog #430220 (not quite yet).
  * cdrkit #430190 (not quite yet).
  * quilt #428657.
  * edubuntu-addon-meta #404608.

 * Resurrected ia64 (fairly simple dbus link order fix plus some buildd babysitting).

 * Eucalyptus:
  * Fixed #425933 (Eucalyptus, avahi-publish component discovery, and eucalyptus configuration not functional if front-end machine has more than one interface).

 * Blitzed TB actions from last meeting.

 * GRUB:
  * Investigated blinking cursor on boot. Not a GRUB issue.
  * Fixed grub2 #431179 (GRUB_DEFAULT="label" is ignored).
  * Stop throwing away errors from os-prober, to help see what's wrong with Wubi.
  * Fixed grub-installer #433259 (/etc/grub.d/ contains both 30-otheros and 30_os-prober).


=== Evan Dandrea ===
==== slideshow ====
 * Finally got reflections using javascript and css in the slideshow working for the Firefox icon, solving the derivative works problem.
 * Released a new version of the slideshow.

==== ubiquity ====
 * Released two new versions of ubiquity.
 * Fixed a few bugs in ubiquity:
   * Suppress Pango warning about not being able to open /root/.pangorc.
   * Use the page name instead of the new step name when considering both partitioning pages.
   * Fix broken conditional statement that prevented process_autopartitioning and info_loop from being called.
   * Disable the forward button for the usersetup page when coming from both the automatic and manual partitioning pages, rather than just the latter.
   * Open a browser window when links are clicked on in the slideshow (LP: #432145).

==== usb-creator ====
 * Got my patch to devkit-disks upstream.  davidz fixed the other and released a new devkit-disks, meaning that we could finally re-enable the format button.
 * Fixed a few bugs in usb-creator:
   * Add PolicyKit support (LP: #273483).
   * Move logging back to the home directory, now that usb-creator is run as a regular user (LP: #431266).
   * Use GIO instead of gnomevfs.  Only lookup GNOME device names and icons as needed.
   * Remove the device in the DeviceKit-disks backend when it's removed from the system.
   * Only set the non-size columns to expand to fill available space in the GTK+ frontend.  Set a minimum width of 75px for all columns.
   * ifdef out some Linux-specific code that was breaking the Windows binary.
   * Add the missing retry dialog to the GTK+ frontend.
   * Fix a deadlock when the failed dialog runs.
   * Always return something from get_gnome_drive.
   * Explicitly depend on mtools, just in case someone removes it and expects usb-creator to still work.
   * Re-enable the format button now that Devicekit-disks 007 has been released.

==== misc ====
 * Linux Plumbers Conference in Portland, OR.

=== James Westby ===
==== Distributed Development ====

  * Reviewed more work from Muharem. THanks.
  * Worked on some failures to import.

==== Daily Builds ====

  * Triaged some bugs filed by Neil. Thanks.

==== Kerneloops ====

  * Nothing.
  * No bugs have been filed. It doesn't seem like there is anything left to do here, just keeping an eye on it.

==== Other ====

  * Archive admin day.
  * Sponsoring from Bazaar merge proposals.
  * Debugging some karmic bugs that are getting in my way.
  * Looked at the gnome-system-tools changes to make it less hostile to ecryptfs. Saved by Kees, thanks.

=== Lars Wirzenius ===

 * Looked briefly at Haiku, the BeOS re-implementation as free software. The live CD boots very quickly even under kvm (mere seconds), but the installed system does not boot at all.
 
 * Verified that Computer Janitor actually removes old kernels (yup, it does).
 
 * Computer Janitor UI de-threading does not seem to have fixed mysterious random crashes, but also there are no new crashes. Still detesting the difficulty of writing threaded code.
 
 * Upgraded to current karmic. Things broke. Fixed some, worked around some, upgraded again. Works now.
 
 * Worked on getting debdelta working on hardy + hardy-security.

=== Matthias Klose ===
 * Work on OOo bug fixes
   * Two test builds on karmic, one test build on jaunty after backporting to jaunty (started the week before).
   * Rebuild tests of affected library with jaunty/karmic toolchains, bisecting toolchains, bisecting object files of the affected library.
   * Identify problem (either OOo or ARM binutils), and work around it for now.
   * Fix some other ARM bugs
   * Make sure that OOo works with OpenJDK on ARM.
   * Upload package.
   * Upstream bug reports
 * ARM soft float abi fixes, discovered while working on OOo, fixed known packages (OOo, OpenJDK, libffi, gcj-*). Upstream bug fixes.
 * Fixed OpenJDK buildability on powerpc and sparc (xulrunner build failures caused by redefinition of the `inline' word in an installed header of wireless-tools.
 * Fixed dpkg, uninstallability of emacs22 used as a b-d.
 * Fixed mountall micompilation on powerpc, applied suggested fix in gcc-4.4.
 * Work on package removal bugs
 * Some buildd maintenance, bug triage.
 * OpenJDK sound fix.
 * sun-java removal discussion
 * binutils update

=== Michael Vogt ===
==== software-store ====
 * bug triage
 * MIR report for software-store / aptdaemon
 * Fix software-store crash in on_iter_children()
 * review/merge the run-uninstalled branch
 * review/merge the disable-install-button 
 * review/merge software-store branch from rugby
 * add i18n to the desktop file parser  
 * fix corrupted entires from duplicated names (e.g. Terminal)
 * screenshort fetching fixes, database cleanup 
 * create experimental pathbar-integration branch (lp:~mvo/software-store/pathbar-integration)
 * move common code into the softwarestore.db.database 
 * Aptdaemon - fix bug in medium required
 * Aptdaemon - work on config file promp feature
 * Aptdaemon: debug/fix hang in InstallPackage
 * discuss posibility to get debconf support into packagekit this hopefully opens up a new possibility for karmic+1
 * fix i18n bugs (gtkbuilder/gettext interaction)
 * bug triage, fixing, dive into unicode sorting
 * Mail about screenshots.ubuntu.com
 * auto update version information 
 * set user agent in the screenshot fetcher
 * fix crash in cancel handling
 * implement dbus interface in the update-software-store code to ensure that the store does not crash if a database update happens in the background (#430603)
 * implement #426252 (status bar updates string update on searching)  
 * fixing bugs (#432645, #433520, #432704)         
 * fix bug in on_iter_nth_child
 * debug debconf failure in aptdaemon (multiple-connection issue, no luck so far)
 * Debug/fix software-store failure with empty comment lines (#432995) 
 * fix conffile prompting
 * fixes in media change requests  
 * debug/fix gst import failure    
 * aptdaemon - commit a bunch of fixes to trunk 
 * add basic license information to the page
 * fix default focus (#433828)  
 * implement basic arrow key moving in the categories view and get the missing up,down key handling from Stuart (thanks!)

==== alpha6 ====
 * Command-not-found data update for alpha6 
 * Apt-ddtp update work

==== misc ====
 * a bit of network/hardware trouble
 * Help OEM with update-manager and mini9 and push to lp:~mvo/update-manager/hardy-oem 
 * Discuss old DynamicMirrorDessison spec again   
 * Look into python-apt merge with debian, send comments to juliank
 * Port apturl to not use add/remove anymore and use software-properties-gtk 
 * Work on compiz update (assert failure when core is loaded twice) 
 * Upload new compiz  
 * Look into more efficient way to publish changlogs (discuss with bigjools, loo kinto launchpadlib) lp:~mvo/+junk/lp-archive-crawler
 * Upload new synaptic with better differenciate between official supported and not supported

==== sponsoring ====
 * Merge compiz-fusion-plugins-main change (#402633)
 * Review/merge language-selector changes by arne (and upload)  
 * "review"/upload xserver-xorg-video-ati upload for tormod   
=== Mike Terry ===
 * Rsyslog: Fixed syslog user deletion that was causing some problems when purging old sysklogd
 * Fixed a couple ftbfs: 432470 & 404272
 * Ubiquity: Fixed Polish (and possibly others) lacking a default timezone
 * Researched sensible-browser vs xdg-open fallback behavior for 204858

=== Scott James Remnant ===
 * LinuxCon and Linux Plumbers

=== Steve Langasek ===
==== Release management ====
 * alpha6 released

==== Packages ====
 * Fix cryptsetup to use usplash again as intended, and fix initramfs-tools to properly invoke the needed scripts. Bug #433773.
 * Fix dbus to not set rpath unnecessarily. Bug #432718.

==== Sponsorship ====
 * rsyslog, sysklogd (bug #401056)

==== Misc ====
 * sprinting with kernel team at LinuxCon
 * working with Scott on boot boogz
 * reading, on the bus at 7:30 in the morning on the way to LPC to arrive in time for the 8am foundations team meeting, an email informing me that there is no 8am foundations team meeting



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Robbie Williamson <robbie at ubuntu.com>
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