[Foundations] Release Meeting 2012-08-03

[Oliver Grawert]

== What was done engineering wise? ==

* Worked on eglibc bugfixes and backports for quantal and precise
* Accidentally broke the archive (due to bug #1031061) and spent some
  time fixing it
* Worked more with lamont on sorting out the (un)happiness of panda
  buildds
* Worked on some build failures over the weekend
* abandoned work on xapian py3 bindings since both swig and cython
  approaches hit deadends
* importlib docs landed for py3.3 in time for beta2
* gwibber py3 work started
* finished automatic luks encryption for ubiquity. Pushed merge
  proposals for: ubiquity and partman-crypto
* bugbot modification to check systemstate attachment for username and
  password
* bugbot work to tag bugs verification-failed and regression-proposed
* fixed missing apport white list stuff in ubuntu-release-upgrader
* modified sru-release to comment on bugs and unsubscribe ubuntu-sru
  team 
* modified sru-report to look at message owners when coloring stuff
  golden
* bugfix in lxc-ubuntu and lxc-ubuntu-cloud that'd make container
  creation fail now that sysvinit has been fixed
* Went through all the targeted/milestoned bugs for 12.04.1, updated
  status based on comments and queue status
* SRUs for bugs targeted to the point release (usb-creator, ubiquity,
  isc-dhcp, ubuntu-docs)
* Implemented proof of concept for foundations-q-image-based-updates
* Update publish-image-set in ubuntu-archive-tools to properly deal
  with the new arm images
* Almost done merging LTSP with Debian, it might be the first time we
  do that, so the delta was huge, but it's now quite small and readable,
  so LTSP should be much easier to maintain in the future
* Move server image base system squashfs (set up last week)
  from /casper/ to /install/ to reduce confusion
* almost all the work required to kill off the old copy-package.py
  script in Launchpad was done
* Investigating xorriso 1.2.4, which (once I work out how to drive it)
  may clean up Mac/UEFI image building sufficiently that we can ditch
  the amd64+mac images
* reviewing cedarview enablement packages in precise-proposed
* updated skype packages in partner
* boot/upstart: stateful re-exec: enum handling now complete; need to
  finish off dbus connection serialisation and map out strategy for
  dummy ConfSource/inotify handling
* switched omap/omap4 images to use uEnv.txt and preEnv.txt (this
  completely drops the requirement of boot.scr and gives us plain text
  files for setting boot options) the installed system still uses
  boot.scr after install, flash-kernel changes for this are in the works
  and should land mid next week
* QA sprint: fully automatic image testing on pandaboards is now in
  place


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

* nothing atm

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

bug 1029556 "Only include linux-headers for the kernels being shipped
on the image" 
bug 1029094 "Replace simplejson with json"
bug 1026203 "python3-defaults does not yet support Python 3.3"
bug 1029046 "include system state from apt-clone in apport package hook"
bug 818760 "update-manager crashed with timeout in readline(): timed
out"
bug 1002956 "Missing ReleaseNotesViewerWebkit.py from package"
bug 1006633 "should collect /etc/default/grub from package install
failures due to update -grub failing"
bug 972436 "backend_helper.py crashed with UnicodeEncodeError in
apport_excepthook(): 'ascii' codec can't encode character u'\xe8' in
position 166: ordinal not in range(128)"
bug 1008727 "link for followed errors doesn't change color"
bug 1031478 "Drop Build-Depends on poxml"
bug 1029981 "FTBFS on i386 in quantal"
bug 938869 "lsb_release crashed with SIGABRT in Py_FatalError()"
bug 958374 "software-center crashed with SIGABRT in Py_FatalError()"
bug 1022205 in command-not-found (Ubuntu) "command-not-found crashed
with SIGABRT in Py_FatalError()"
bug 1027648 "ubiquity crashed with ValueError in command(): I/O
operation on closed file."
bug 1029864 "read error appears from brltty during precise server iso
testing"
bug 488696 "syntax error in nsswitch config near [ syntax error ]"

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

* we are still waiting for a PVR driver
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