2010-12-10 Ubuntu Release Meeting Minutes

[Kate Stewart]

Highlights from today's meeting:

Overall, reasonable progress on work items for alpha 2, but expecting it
to start to slow for holidays soon.   See individual team statuses for
details. 

Python 2.7 Transition: 
 - python 2.7 transition progressing fairly well. Summary of what's left
can be found: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=python27
- OO.o builds are breaking CD images (due to python 2.7 transition and
problems with python-uno) looking at options to work around.
- unity foundations work mostly done, but will hold off on upload until
January, to avoid dependency conflicts until python stabilizes.
 
Toolchain Concerns:
- gcc/arm issues resolved,  builds are progressing again for ARM team
and Kubuntu.
- still considerable backlog on the linker side in MOTU, that needs some
help

General Updates: 
- natty upstart spec finalized, improvements planned are: debug stanza,
override files, job visualisation, socket activation, D-Bus activation,
chroot support, user sessions and visible job start/stop in plymouth
details view.
- desktopcouch 1.0 should release today,  initial zeitgeist integration
to be released next week
- new kernel (2.6.37-rc5) will permit re-enabling NX support for
modules, and re-enabling a number of drivers that were disabled for the
rebase.
 
Details, including IRC log can be found at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2010-12-10