[Foundations] Release meeting 2011-12-16

[Colin Watson]

== What was done engineering wise? ==

 * Landed and QAed Launchpad branch to make use of python-germinate for
   faster publisher runs.  Should be deployed soon once some problems
   elsewhere in the deployment pipeline are sorted out.
 * Added uninstallable output for -updates suites
   (http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/testing/lucid-updates_probs.html
   et al).
 * python-dbus port to Python 3 submitted upstream.
 * Progress on multiarch: gstreamer stack is nearly done now.
 * Tracking down high variance in bootchart runs.
 * Updated bug bot to tag ubiquity bug reports ubiquity-upgrade.
   Investigation of other ubiquity bugs not matching bug patterns.
 * armhf bootstrap: fixed some build failures, tracked down some ICEs,
   and worked on porting clang and gnat.
 * Production ISO tracker now upgraded to new codebase.
 * Working on dnsmasq/NM with the aim of turning on dnsmasq by default.
 * Improved mountall container support.
 * Bug/patch review of casper.
 * Released Upstart 1.4.

== What's about to land that might impact the other teams? ==

 * Upstart 1.4 released upstream, but a few review comments need to be
   addressed before it lands in Ubuntu.  This should happen by tomorrow.
 * Tomorrow's daily CD builds should use the -generic-pae kernel flavour
   on i386.

== Summary of bugs ==

rls-mgr-p-tracking/alpha-2:

 * Bug 850264: fixed upstream, pending (ABI-breaking) merge
 * Bug 874774: outstanding patch, pending review from Steve
 * Bug 901638: direction seems clear here, but it looks as though Martin
   needs some help from Kubuntu developers

== Blueprints ==

  https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+specs?searchtext=foundations-p-
  http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-foundations.html

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]