2011-01-21 Ubuntu Release Meeting Minutes

[Kate Stewart]

Thanks to Colin for hosting the meeting this week!  :)

Minutes can be found:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReleaseTeam/Meeting/2011-01-21


Highlights:
 - release overview
   - features in alpha2 burn-downs still a bit behind. 
     Most got cleaned up in Dallas, but a couple of teams still need 
     to do some housekeeping (they know who they are ;) )
   - alpha2 bugs.  Some teams have milestoned bugs that have been 
     been stalled for quite a while, and need to update/look at.
 - the main distro kernel remains at v2.6.37, we will remain on 
   this version for a couple of weeks while the early 2.6.38 release
   candidates shake out. We are working on getting a v2.6.38-rc1 
   based kernel which will boot on both 32 and 64 bit systems in
   preparation for upload once stable.
 - LibreOffice is now being included natty
 - evaluating multiple test rebuilds, including one for gcc-4.6  
(http://people.ubuntuwire.org/~wgrant/rebuild-ftbfs-test/test-rebuild-20110111-gcc-natty.html)
 - foundations team working on setting up easily snapshottable btrfs
snapshots in installer by default
 - Cobbler is now in the archive, and Eucalyptus has a solution for a
FTBFS to be uploaded this week.
 - Updates to unity and bamfs released,  places are back.
 - Unity-2D for ARM packaging in rogress, aiming for alpha 2.