Foundations Team Weekly Summary, 2010-01-06

[Evan Dandrea]

For minutes of previous meetings, please see
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam.

== Present ==

 * EvanDandrea - chair
 * BarryWarsaw
 * ColinWatson
 * GaryLasker
 * JamesWestby
 * MatthiasKlose
 * MichaelVogt
 * SteveLangasek

== Apologies ==

 * LoïcMinier - flying
 * ScottJamesRemnant - holiday

== Agenda ==

=== Lightning Round ===

==== Barry Warsaw ====

it was a short week because of the holidays. i fixed bug 494704 and
worked on some pycon 2010 stuff. today i plan on trying my hand at
packaging a python module that isn't in uni and catching up with
various folks about next steps

==== Colin Watson ====

 * done: good chunk of
foundations-lucid-ubiquity-partitioner-optimisation, some tweaks to
various packages needed for server eucalyptus work, quite a bit of
time off doing chromeos work
 * todo: want to try to get
foundations-lucid-reliable-device-id-in-grub out of the way now that
upstream has fixed it to not really need device.map in most cases
 * blocked: foundations-lucid-gfxboot-update relies on DX work that
isn't done yet; have discussed with dbarth

==== Evan Dandrea ====

started to land my branches on ubiquity. Working with the X team to
split i18n data out of xkb-data in support of console-setup changes.
Just finished moving from gtkcomboboxes to gtkcomboentrys, to allow
for type to select. Looking into decoupling bulletproofx from gdm.

==== Gary Lasker ====

 * I'm continuing to do some work on software center
 * I've uploaded some code and one bug fix that Michael has merged
 * I'm getting going on bug triage and fixing
 * Oh, and I've got Lean training in Lexington tomorrow and Fri

==== James Westby ====

 * I've been working on the importer, I tracked down the bug that was
killing codehosting, and I'm now getting all the branches back up to
date
 * todo: the latter of those parts, it's worked through the backlog,
but there are a bunch of failures to triage
 * blocked: nothing. also, I'm out of the country for the next few weeks.
 * so you'll find me at odd hours, so mail may be best to track me
down if desired

==== Matthias Klose ====

 * done: most gcc-4.4 ARM updates done, minor gdb update, eglibc-2.11
testing and upgrade, gcc-4.5 prepared for testing, some packaging of
new upstream versions over the holidys
 * next week: gcc-4.5 testing, openjdk-6 update, prepare JCK testing
with sbeattie, outstanding merges
 * blocked: can't think of anything

==== Michael Vogt ====

 * software-center: subcategory work, ratings&reviews client side work
(needs LP server side, but some client side work can already be done)
 * maintaince-timeframe: submited LP soyuz branch for review (spec
blocked until that is done)
 * "fun" with nvidia (#494627)
 * glanced over the upgrade tester results at
http://people.ubuntu.com/~mvo/automatic-upgrade-testing/ (quite some
failures)

==== Steve Langasek ====

* working this week on getting our 4th and final hardy point release rolling
* be prepared to receive calls for help testing :)

== Chair for next meeting ==
 * MatthiasKlose

== Activity reports ==

=== Barry Warsaw ===

 * Short week because of holidays
 * Fixed bug 494704 (python-soaplib) using UDD.  Submitted, reviewed, landed.
 * Did some Pycon 2010 prep work

=== Colin Watson ===

 * Very short week (holidays).
 * Imported openssh package history into bzr based on new Debian import.
 * Got an OpenSSH Upstart job working.
 * foundations-lucid-ubiquity-partitioner-optimisation:
   * Cut off another 20 seconds from the benchmark time (down from
46.8 to 26.2 seconds) by suppressing unnecessary recalculation of menu
choices. Now at 35% of original time, with a goal of 20%.

=== Evan Dandrea ===
 * Short week; off on Monday and vacation from the 24th to the end of the year.
 * Replied to Dylan's email on changes to the slideshow and how to get
up and running with testing the installer.
 * Asked Dylan, Roman, and Ago to become Ubuntu Members and MOTUs,
respectively.  Will continue to pester until they submit :).
 * Talked with QA about usb-creator test cases and added a persistence
test case to Ara's new usb-creator set.
 * Looking into bug 471498, so I can safely re-enable writing hostname
configuration when running as oem-config.

=== Gary Lasker ===
 * Short week (holidays)
 * software-center - working on code to reselect an app in all cases
where the list view is refreshed and keep corresponding menu items
always in sync
 * OEM and Foundations team meetings
 * Calls with mvo and mpt

=== James Westby ===

==== Distributed Development and Daily Builds ====

 * Spent most of the time investigating the bug that was hammering
codehosting. It got so bad that we had to halt imports. (Fixed today)
 * Worked on some bugs that were affecting some peoples use of bzr-builddeb.
 * Filing bugs on LP about problems I was seeing with the API, and
tracking down the information they needed.

==== Other ====

 * A little sponsor review.
 * Archive admin duties, including writing a script to hugely speed up
   sync processing, so there is less time spent on AA duties in future
   (hopefully).
 * Preparation for travel.

=== Loïc Minier ===

 * Vacation

=== Matthias Klose ===

=== Michael Vogt ===
 * Short week; on leave on the 21st, 24th, and 25th of December.

==== update-manager ====
 * Update-manager: add percent JS method for the webkit view (for the
release notes viewer)
 * fix potential failure when multile meta-pkgs are installed
 * honor ForceOverwrite=no properly in auto-test setupd
 * Auto-upgrade-tester: review logs, report bacula failure (#499389),

==== software-center ====
 * work on apt-history feature
 * look at and471 history branch
 * work on search/raking strategies for xapian
 * review spec changes

==== misc ====
 * Support-timeframe: look into soyuz integration, mail julian
 * travel preparing portland

==== apt/synaptic ====
 * Synaptic: i18n merges
 * Review/test/upload new apt (with history branch merged) 0.7.25ubuntu1
 * hunt/fix hidden ABI break
 * Python-apt: migrate my branches from people.u.c to code.launchpad.net
 * Synaptic: fixes in search history
 * Synaptic: work on origin display logic

=== Scott James Remnant ===
 * Short week due to holidays.

 * Hard Drive performance:
  * Did some investigation into kernel page cache flags, there's
something in here that marks "readahead" but I think it's just
kernel's own readahead at the moment, not readahead() pages

 * mountall:
  * Re-permitted nobootwait for virtual devices
  * Reworked mountpoint tagging quite a bit
  * Fixed bug where mountpoints not listed in /etc/fstab would always
need to be remounted
  * (util-linux) added documentation for fstab options, and made mount
ignore them

 * initramfs-tools:
  * Fixes for crashes on boot caused by strcmp() on a NULL device name
  * Fixed delay for the resume invocation
  * Switch to mounting devtmpfs on /dev

 * Plymouth:
  * Fair amount of work on figuring out why things weren't working
out, narrowed down to bad TTY and VT handling code.  Worked on a
temporary patch that only uses /dev/tty7 as the "console" and forces a
VT_WAITACTIVE after the VT switch.
  * Fixed "plymouth deactivate" crashes when no renderer was active,
or when --show-splash had never been called.
  * Fixed "plymouth quit" after "plymouth deactivate"
  * Removed code that disabled plymouth when alternate init= used.
  * Always start plymouth, let it use the splash kernel argument to
decide whether or not to use the graphical or text mode renderer
(since we always want to use plymouth for prompting)
  * Learned a bit about console logging.

=== Steve Langasek ===

==== Packages ====
 * another round of cryptsetup SRU fixes
 * merges: acpid, hsqldb, irda-utils, libpam-ldap, xkeyboard-config,
db4.6, gpredict, kallery, ruby-gnome2, kazehakase, zsync, libloader,
labplot, couchdb
 * syncs: im-switch, mutt, imview, powermgmt-base, netatalk

==== Misc ====
 * archive admin duties