[Foundations] Release meeting 2011-11-25

[Colin Watson]

On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 07:58:30AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Colin Watson [2011-11-24 23:45 +0000]:
> >  * More work on Upstart job logging; sorting out inotify handling in
> >    test code.
> 
> How likely will inotify land in precise? Evan could probably save
> himself a lot of work by using that for the crash database uploading
> instead of reimplementing all the apport report parsing in C and
> writing a daemon for it.

This is just Upstart using inotify for its internal use as part of
another feature, much in the same way that it already uses inotify to
spot when you change files in /etc/init/.  The feature Evan needs is
exposing inotify as a kind of event, which is quite different and as far
as I know not scheduled for this cycle.

> >  * Foundations and desktop probably ought to agree on
> >    https://launchpad.net/bugs/893842.  My inclination would be to go
> >    with the new group layout, but that desktop code should tolerate both
> >    old and new administrative groups, probably indefinitely (or else we
> >    need explicit transition code).
> 
> Agreed. I'm leaning towards "indefinitely" here, as it sounds
> difficult to migrate group names if they are in LDAP/NIS/etc.

My thought exactly.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]