Minutes from the Ubuntu Kernel Team meeting, 2012-07-10

[Joseph Salisbury]

= Meeting Minutes =
[[http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/07/10/%23ubuntu-meeting.txt|IRC Log of
the meeting.]]
[[http://voices.canonical.com/kernelteam|Meeting minutes.]]

== Agenda ==
[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues, 10 Jul, 2012|20120710
Meeting Agenda]]


=== ARM Status  ===
 Q/omap4: rebased on 3.4.4 (Ubuntu-3.4.0-204.9).

=== 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-q-kernel-config-review || 1 work item   ||
 ||             || hardware-q-kernel-delta-review  || 3 work items  ||
 ||             || hardware-q-kernel-versions-and-flavors || 1 work item ||
 || cking       || hardware-q-kernel-delta-review  || 1 work items  ||
 || cooloney    || hardware-q-kernel-config-review || 1 work item   ||
 || jjohansen   || hardware-q-kernel-config-review || 1 work item   ||
 || ogasawara   || hardware-q-kernel-config-review || 1 work items  ||
 || ppisati     || hardware-q-kernel-config-review || 1 work item   ||
 || tgardner    || hardware-q-kernel-config-review || 2 work items  ||
 ||             || hardware-q-kernel-delta-review  || 1 work items  ||
 || kernel-team || hardware-q-kernel-config-review || 3 work items ||
 ||             || hardware-q-kernel-versions-and-flavors || 2 work items ||
 If your name is in the above table, please review your Alpha-3 work items.

=== Status: Quantal Development Kernel  ===
 We have recently rebased the Quantal kernel to the latest v3.5-rc6
 upstream kernel and have uploaded.  This has also been uploaded to the
 q-lts-backport [1] PPA to help facilitate testing of the 12.10 kernel
 in 12.04.  We welcome any early adopters to please install, test, and
 let us know your feedback.
 [1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/q-lts-backport
 Important upcoming dates:
  * Thurs July 26 - Alpha 3 (~2 weeks)

=== Status: CVE's  ===
 == 2012-07-10 (weekly) ==
 Currently we have 93 CVEs on our radar, with 1 CVE retired this week.
 See the CVE matrix for the current list:
  * http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/ALL-linux.html
 Overall the backlog has decreased slightly this week:
  * http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/status/cve-metrics.txt
  * http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/CVE-linux.txt

=== Status: Stable, Security, and Bugfix Kernel Updates -
Precise/Oneiric/Natty/Lucid/Hardy  ===
 Here is the status for the main kernels, until today (July 10):
  * Hardy – 2.6.24-32.103 – Verified, ready for testing; 1 CVE (4 commits)
  * Lucid – 2.6.32-41.94 – In verification (2 commits) (2 commits)
  * Natty – 2.6.38-15.64 – In verification (2 commits) (2 commits)
  * Oneiric – 3.0.0-23.38 – In verification; 3 upstream stable release
(approx. 94 commits)
  * Precise – 3.2.0-27.43 – In verification; 2 upstream stable release
(approx. 183 commits)
 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/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseInterlock
 The week of Sept. 6 is the week the last Natty kernel will be built.

=== Open Discussion or Questions? Raise your hand to be recognized  ===
 The July 17th meeting is cancelled due to the kernel team sprint.
 ogasawara will chair the July 24th meeting.