Foundations Team Weekly Summary

[Robbie Williamson]

=== Colin Watson ===
* GRUB:
  * Finally nailed #430141 (Vista is not showing up in grub2); turned
    out to be a ubiquity bug.
  * Show the boot menu if the previous boot (into Ubuntu) failed.
  * Don't emit memtest86+ menu items if /boot is on a loop-mounted
    device, e.g. Wubi (#435153).

 * Installer:
  * Fixed base-installer #413135 again (Installer needs way to install
    PAE kernel on i386 9.10 DVD).
  * Turned usplash on for the live CD (#434980).
  * Stop oem-config running all the time with new Upstart jobs
    (#432180).
  * Fix a messy file-copy-blacklisting bug that broke boot loader OS
    detection in ubiquity in some very strange ways (#436613).
  * Reorganise clock handling, in a further attempt to fix the class of
    wrong-filesystem-timestamp bugs exemplified by #431786.
  * Fixed shell provision on live CD VTs (#434769).
  * Fixed tasksel regression #438546 (task list includes blank names).
  * Merged: partman-partitioning, base-installer (#435376)

 * Eucalyptus:
  * tasksel update for new UEC task.
  * Lots of fixes to installer integration (better error handling,
    user-setup/encrypt-home carry-over, euca_conf --discover-nodes
    fixes, IPv6 problems with euca_find_cluster (#436200)).
  * Tweaks to euca_conf operation to make initial installation
    experience smoother.
  * Boot sequence adjustments.

 * Converted usplash to Upstart (#434361). Not entirely without
   incident, with a follow-up ubiquity bug, but on the whole this seems
   to have worked out rather well. Took nearly a full day of frequent
   reboots to figure it out though ...

 * Got Wubi working at long last (#435153), although perhaps only for
   me; Dave Morley is still having trouble.


=== Evan Dandrea ===
 * Short week.  Plumbers from the 23rd through the 25th.  Swap day on
Monday to make up for United travel madness on Sunday.
 * Sponsored an upload of ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu for Dylan.
 * Lots of bug triage (this week and last, forgot to mention it in my
previous report).
 * CD testing.

==== ubiquity ====
 * Released two new versions of ubiquity.
 * Fixed a minor bug: Add missing definition of self.controller for
the noninteractive page in the language plugin.

==== usb-creator ====
 * Released a new version.
 * Fixed two small bugs:
   * Modify adtext.cfg as well when adding options to the syslinux
configuration (LP: #317059).
   * The persistence value is no longer passed around as a string.
Fix a check that assumed it was.  This was causing the persistence
option to always be written (LP: #436207).


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

  * Fixed some more import failures.
  * Asked to stop importing new branches by IS until they get
    more disk space on codehosting. They estimate around 7
    days until this is done.
  * Pinged the LP team about the release process around DD.

==== Daily Builds ====

  * Nothing this week.

==== Distro tasks ====

  * Archive admin duty.
  * Sponsoring from Bazaar branches.
  * ISO testing.


=== Lars Wirzenius ===


=== Matthias Klose ===


=== Michael Terry ===

* Attended Linux plumbers
* Canonical OEM team work


=== Michael Vogt ===

==== software-store^Wcenter ====
 * lots of bug triage (both s-c and aptdaemon)
 * review/merge changes by rugby471
 * fixing xapian query
 * fix update-software-store with invalid locales
 * look at matts-pathbar-integration branch
 * fix untrusted package handling (#435313)
 * border size fixes 
 * fix various crashes
 * fix drag-n-drop handling
 * fix alignments 
 * fix more padding issues (as requested by mpt)
 * merge fixes from lool 
 * renamed to software-center
 * fix gconf crash 
 * review/merge help-fixes branch
 * Aptdaemon: debug/fix(?) crash in remove_from_connection (LP:
   #422585) 
 * debug/fix empty progress window when the daemon exited in 
   between (#437685) 
 * Aptdaemon: add "allow-unauthenticated" feature and push to
   lp:~mvo/aptdaemon/allow-unauthenticated 
 * Aptdaemon: bigger default gtk progress dialog, make it resizable  
 * Aptdaemon: avoid possible race with apt-get (#437709)
 * Aptdaemon: prepare/uplaod new version (with ~6 fixes)
 * Aptdaemon: debug/fix translation problem (#438077)     

==== gdebi ====
 * bugtriage/fixing #428978
 * build with split=True (debian asked about this)
 * upload new version 

==== apt/python-apt ====
 * merge i18n fixes  
 * Merge/review apt changes from donkult
 * work on the karmic branch (lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/apt/karmic)
 * cherry picking fixes from debian-sid and the mvo branch
 * merge CAPS fix
 * better error reporting for invalid ar headers
 * test-build/upgrade with 0.7.23.1ubuntu1 from jaunty -> karmic
   (no issues)
 * merge apt with debian/sid version and upload to karmic 
   (ABI break) - sorry for the lateness of this merge 
 * also upload all rdepends with proper versionized dependencies 
   (~30 packages)
 * debug failure in immediate configure calculation (#548858)

==== beta ====
 * some upgrade testing (but not as much as I would have liked too,
   too much to do
 * updated
   https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GnomeAppInstallDesktopDatabaseUpdate to 
   reflect current status 
 * run app-install-data extraction  (took much longer than expected
   and did not finish in time to be included in the beta iso) so the
   data on the CD is slightly outdated

==== update-manager ====
 * bug triage
 * fixing (i18n issues, ui issues)
 * adding quirks for kbluetooth 
 * debug problem with utf8 chars in gtkbuilder and 
   report gnome upstream (gnome #596205)
 * Debug/fix two crashes in update-manager    
 * fix hang in auto-upgrade-tester, better error reporting on 
   failure
 * debug server upgrade failure (syslogd/rsyslog releated)
 * fix ubuntu-minimal remove in server upgrade by adding a implicit
   keepInstalled rule for all baseMetaPackages (ubuntu-minimal,
   ubuntu-standard) 
 * create patch against lp:~mvo/update-manager/hardy-oem for the OEM
   team that implements stepped upgrades (multiple download/install
   runs for systems with small disks)

==== misc ====
 * Wiki MOTU feedback for amaranth  
 * Work on lp-archive-crawler to speed up changelog (and later more)
   data generation - will have to wait for lucid, but proof of conecpt
   looks very promising (lp:~mvo/+junk/lp-archive-crawler)
 * fix goldendict install error and upload new versoin
 * Travel planing UDS
 * Vte update
 * Debug/fix gdebi failure with vte (gnome bug #587894) and upload new
   vte (ping vte upstream about this failure because I provided
   test-case + patch, it got merged now)
 * weekly software-center phonecall with mpt
 * phonecall with robbie

==== sponsoring ====
* Review/sponsor compiz upload


=== Scott Remnant ===


=== 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


-- 
Robbie Williamson <robbie at ubuntu.com>
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