Minutes from the Ubuntu Kernel Team meeting, 2011-02-21

[Joseph Salisbury]

= Meeting Minutes =
[[http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/02/21/%23ubuntu-meeting.txt|IRC Log of 
the meeting.]]
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[[http://voices.canonical.com/kernelteam|Meeting minutes.]]

== Agenda ==
[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues, 21 Feb, 2012|20120221 
Meeting Agenda]]


=== ARM Status  ===
  P/omap4: a new kernel was released (Ubuntu-3.2.0-1406.8) and a fix for 
lp937051 ("Cannot set MAC address via kernel boot parameters") is in the 
pipe.
  SRU: a new round of SRU kernels for every release/arch is queued.

=== Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs  ===
  Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following 
link:
  http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/kt-meeting.txt

=== Milestone Targeted Work Items  ===
  || apw        || hardware-p-kernel-boot                || 2 work items ||
  ||            || hardware-p-kernel-config-review       || 3 work items ||
  ||            || hardware-p-kernel-delta-review        || 2 work items ||
  || ogasawara  || hardware-p-kernel-config-review       || 4 work items ||
  || sconklin   || servercloud-p-ceph                    || 1 work item  ||
  If your name is in the above table, please review your Beta-1 work items.

=== Blueprint: hardware-p-kernel-power-management  ===
  Power Management:
   * Work around broken HP battery info for powerstat.
   * Started looking at Phoronix test suite
   * Call for testing: RC6 at 
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/PowerManagementRC6
     ^^ Thanks to Leann Ogasawara for organising this.

=== Status: Precise Development Kernel  ===
  Last week we uploaded the 3.2.0-17.26 kernel.  Beta freeze is this
  Thursday and Beta-1 is planned for next Thurs Mar 1.  I do not intend
  any further uploads until after Beta-1.  Only fixes critical for the
  release will warrent an upload at this point in time.
  Important upcoming dates:
   * Thurs Feb 23 - Beta Freeze (~2 days)
   * Thurs Mar 01 - Beta 1 (~1 week)

=== Status: Stable, Security, and Bugfix Kernel Updates - 
Oneiric/Natty/Maverick/Lucid/Hardy  ===
  Here is the status for the main kernels, until today (Feb. 21):

   * Hardy - 2.6.24-31.99     - In verification
   * Lucid - 2.6.32-39.86     - In verification
   * Maverick - 2.6.35-32.66  - In verification
   * Natty - 2.6.38-13.56     - In verification
   * Oneiric - 3.0.0-16.29    - In verification

  Current opened tracking bugs details:
   * http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/kernel-sru-workflow.html

  For SRUs, SRU report is a good source of information:
   * http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/sru-report.html

  Future stable cadence cycles:
   * https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PrecisePangolin/ReleaseInterlock

=== Open Discussion or Questions? Raise your hand to be recognized  ===
  Welcome to henrix.

=== Status: CVE's  ===
  Currently we have 72 CVEs on our radar, one new CVEs were added this week.
  See the CVE matrix for the current list"

  http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/ALL-linux.html

  Overall the backlog is unchanged this week, though we have closed one
  additional CVE across the board

  http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/status/cve-metrics.txt
  http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/CVE-linux.txt