Server Team 20100831 meeting minutes

[Serge E. Hallyn]

Here are the meeting minutes.  They can also be found
<a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20100831>here</a>
with full irc logs.

Agenda

    * Review ACTION points from previous meeting
          o SpamapS to submit rubygems change proposal as Important bug in Debian and CC ubuntu-devel
          o jjohansen to review bug 493156
          o zul to review papercut status of bug 582963
          o ttx to make burnup charts available to people who want them 
    * Maverick development (jib)
          o Beta milestone release (ttx) - Beta-milestoned bugs and ISO testing
          o

            Post-beta work - Maverick bugs and release status page (ttx) 
    *

      Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)
    *

      Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (jjohansen)
          o pv-ops kernel status update 
    *

      Weekly Updates & Questions for the Documentation Team (sommer)
    *

      Weekly Updates & Questions for the Ubuntu Community Team (kim0)
    * Papercuts Maverick retrospective (ttx)
    * Open Discussion
    * Announce next meeting date and time
          o Tuesday 2010-09-07 at 1800 UTC - #ubuntu-meeting 

Minutes

Meeting Actions

    * jjohansen to provide tests for bug 582963 and request SRU 

ACTIONS from previous meeting

    * SpamapS to submit rubygems change proposal as Important bug in Debian and CC ubuntu-devel
          o submitted, discussion had, consensus reached...
          o rubygems 1.9.1 to be merged into ruby 1.9, and gems to be placed in /usr/local/bin
          o copious congratulations and kudos from all around to Spamaps 
    * jjohansen to review bug 493156 ("Please enable CONFIG_TASK_DELAY_ACCT")
          o test kernel built, but not yet submitted for SRU 
    * zul to review papercut status of bug 582963
          o Done, in apache now
          o side effect in the form of a new SSl bug
          o zul may revert 
    * ttx to make burnup charts available to people who want them
          o

            http://people.canonical.com/~ttx/current-milestone-progress.svg is refreshed hourly 

Maverick development (jib)

    * beta cycle is winding down (ends this thursday)
          o we are mostly on track 
    * iso testing coming up soon
    * jib and ttx finalizing RC plan on friday
    * ttx described in detail how to prioritize work
          o

            https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/MaverickReleaseStatus
          o Milestoned bugs -- those have high priority
          o high priority meaning, spec work is even secondary
          o then you have "High, release targeted bugs"
          o and finally "Other release-targeted bugs" - targets of opportunity 
    *

      ttx points out that week between Beta release and FinalFreeze is time to fix seemingly basic bugs 

Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)

    * QA team changing the way regression tags are used - RFC out soon
    * mathiaz announces that he has automated all of the iso testing 

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (jjohansen)

    * Bug #606373 - sporadic console output - looking for a race
    * Bug #620994 (xen kernel BUG) - after extensive testing doesn't affect, Maverick or Lucid
    * Bug #614853 (kernel panic divide error) - could not replicate
    * Bug 621175 (virtual kernel contains too many modules) - will have to be fixed post-beta 

[TOPIC] Papercuts Maverick retrospective (ttx)

    * 48 targets; 25 bugs fixed; 8 invalidated; 3 waiting on upstream; 12 postponed
    * ttx frets that the effort failed in bringing in new contributors
    * kirkland asks how many users were made happier with Ubuntu Server
          o tough to quantify 
    * kirkland and mathiaz agree that it is nice dedicating time to fix small bugs
    * hallyn and Spamaps concur that it was a useful exercise for learning about packaging
    * We will further discuss at UDS-N 

Agree on next meeting date and time

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, September 7th at 18:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeti