[Foundations] Release Meeting 2012-04-06

[Colin Watson]

== What was done engineering wise? ==

 * Defect analysis:
  * Wrote tool to query iso-testing defects.

 * Package management:
  * Various multiarch metadata fixes for cross-building and to support
    bits of the partner archive (e.g. vmware-view-client).

 * Crash database:
  * Finally completely live as of 2 April (previously wasn't handling
    core file submissions).

 * rls-p-tracking bugs:
  * Fixed OSes missing from grub-install screen at end of installation
    (#963471).
  * Worked around the worst of the TLS 1.2 problems with OpenSSL 1.0.1
    (#965371).
  * Merged aptitude with improved (though still problematic) multiarch
    support (#831768).
  * Fixed biosgrub method display in ubiquity (#969038).
  * Fixed grub2 regression caused by 4K sector support (#972250).
  * Fixed long-standing racy crash during partitioning (#792652).
  * Fixed Windows detection (#772470).
  (Probably several more I don't have detailed notes for.)

== Summary of bugs working on by team (reasonably reliable) ==

 * Bug 553745 ("plymouthd crashed with SIGSEGV in
   ply_event_loop_process_pending_events()"): finally reproduced
   reliably!
 * Bug 873009 ("Unable to boot degraded RAID-1 array from second disk")
 * Bug 873468 ("Update to latest Release failed for overloaded mirrors
   with no descriptive error message")
 * Bug 876298 ("[FFe] [MASTER] We need to better handle external
   payloads (Flash, msttcorefonts) not being available."): should be
   uploaded today
 * Bug 924628 ("package libapt-pkg4.12 0.8.16~exp12ubuntu3 failed to
   install/upgrade:
   './usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/libapt-pkg4.12.mo' is different
   from the same file on the system")
 * Bug 965371 ("HTTPS requests fail on some sites on Ubuntu 12.04"):
   continuing to monitor upstream bug for more recent advice

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

We need help from the desktop team on bug 966294 ("Ubiquity loops
forever from ubiquity_webcam_play"), which blocks installation on many
systems.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]