Minutes from the Ubuntu Kernel Team meeting, 2012-03-06

[Joseph Salisbury]

= Meeting Minutes =
[[http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/03/06/%23ubuntu-meeting.txt|IRC Log of 
the meeting.]]
[[http://voices.canonical.com/kernelteam|Meeting minutes.]]

== Agenda ==
[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues, 06 Mar, 2012|20120306 
Meeting Agenda]]


=== ARM Status  ===
  nothing new to report this week

=== 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                || 4 work items ||
  ||            || hardware-p-kernel-config-review       || 6 work items ||
  ||            || hardware-p-kernel-delta-review        || 3 work items ||
  If your name is in the above table, please review your Beta-2 work
  items.

=== Blueprint: hardware-p-kernel-power-management  ===
  nothing new to report this week

=== Status: Precise Development Kernel  ===
  We uploaded the 3.2.0-18.28 kernel last Friday.  The most notable
  changes are a rebase to v3.2.9, updated AppArmor patches, clickpad
  detection support, and re-enablement of AUFS.  We also uploaded the
  first instance of linux-backports-modules-3.2.0 which contains an
  updated v3.3 compat-wireless stack.
  Note that Beta-2 is approaching.  We will be preparing our final Beta-2
  kernel by the end of next week.  Please submit any patches which need to
  land for this milestone.
  Important upcoming dates:
   * Thurs Mar 22 - Beta-2 Freeze (~2 weeks)
   * Thurs Mar 29 - Beta-2 (~3 weeks)

=== Status: CVE's  ===
  Currently we have 75 CVEs on our radar, one new CVE was 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 broadly unchanged 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 - 
Oneiric/Natty/Maverick/Lucid/Hardy  ===
  Here is the status for the main kernels, until today (Mar. 06):

   * Hardy - 2.6.24-31.100    - A single CVE.
   * Lucid - 2.6.32-40.87     - CVEs, eCryptfs, NFSv4, block, and other 
misc. fixes.
   * Maverick - 2.6.35-32.67  - A single CVE.
   * Natty - 2.6.38-13.57     - CVEs, eCryptfs and some other fixes.
   * Oneiric - 3.0.0-16.29    - CVEs and 3 stable upstream releases.

  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  ===
  No Discussion.