Minutes from the Ubuntu Kernel Team meeting, 2013-03-19

[Joseph Salisbury]

= Meeting Minutes =
[[http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2013/03/19/%23ubuntu-meeting.txt|IRC Log of 
the meeting.]]
[[http://voices.canonical.com/kernelteam|Meeting minutes.]]

== Agenda ==
[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues, 19 Mar, 2013|20130319 
Meeting Agenda]]


=== ARM Status  ===
  R/master: worked on adding support for a new arm soc.
  R/omap4: still waiting input if we can drop the omap4 dekstop image.
  R/nexus7: debugged an issue about display brightness.

=== 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-r-kernel-config-review       || 1 work item  ||
  ||           || hardware-r-delta-review               || 3 work items ||
  ||           || foundations-r-secure-boot             || 1 work item  ||
  ||           || foundations-r-aarch64                 || 1 work item  ||
  ||           || foundations-r-upstart-user-session-enhancements || 1 
work item ||
  || ogasawara || hardware-r-kernel-config-review       || 3 work items ||
  ||           || hardware-r-kernel-version-and-flavors || 2 work items ||
  ||           || hardware-r-arm-kernel-maintenance     || 1 work item  ||
  ||           || hardware-r-kernel-misc                || 1 work item  ||
  || ppisati   || hardware-r-kernel-config-review       || 1 work item  ||
  || rtg       || hardware-r-delta-review               || 1 work item  ||
  The above summarizes the remaining work items owned by individuals on
  our team for the rest of the 13.04 cycle.

=== Status: Raring Development Kernel  ===
  We have rebased Raring to the latest v3.8.3 upstream stable kernel and
  uploaded.  We have also started tracking the v3.9 kernel in an
  unstable-3.9 branch.  We have rebased that branch to v3.9-rc3 but not
  yet uploaded.
  Important upcoming dates:
   * Raring:
    * Thurs Mar 28 - 13.04 Final Beta Freeze (~1 week)
    * Thurs Apr 04 - 13.04 Final Beta Release (~2 weeks)

=== Status: CVE's  ===
  == 2013-03-19 (weekly) ==
  Currently we have 69 CVEs on our radar, with 21 CVEs added and 6 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 - 
Quantal/Precise/Oneiric/Lucid/Hardy  ===
  Status for the main kernels, until tiday (Feb. 26):
    *   Hardy - Nothing this cycle
    *   Lucid - In Prep; (2 commits)
    * Oneiric - In Prep; 4 upstream releases; (100 commits)
    * Precise - In Prep; 1 upstream releases; (150 commits)
    * Quantal - In Prep; 1 upstream releases; (164 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/RaringRingtail/ReleaseInterlock

  Note: This is the week the last Hardy and Oneiric kernels may be built.


=== Open Discussion or Questions? Raise your hand to be recognized ===
  No open discussion or questions.