[Foundations] Release Meeting 2012-08-10

[Oliver Grawert]

== What was done engineering wise? ==

* lots of 12.04.1
* implementation has started for
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker#When_there_are_multiple_simultaneous_errors 
* a tool to calculate the 90 day moving count of unique users on
errors.u.c was writtenm
* new errors.ubuntu.com landed 
* Python rewrite of cdimage, with unit tests
* new ubuntu-archive-tools client code to automatically approve copies
was deployed
* shifting security->updates auto-copies away from lp_archive at cocoplum
and into ubuntu-archive at lillypilly (over the API); now we no longer have
any cron jobs running as lp_archive.
* trying to comprehend new image build options in xorriso 1.2.4
* stateful re-exec: ConfSource/ConfFiles/inotify watches handling
* fixed xulid of firefox-lp-improvements as it was identified as malware
* resolved an issue with arsenal not loading launchpad_config
information from json files
* upstream discussion for the gcc-multiarch patch
* work on an upstream python3.3 build issue due to incomplete multiarch
patch
* binutils updates
* openjdk updates still pending
* upload of ubiquity and partman-crypto to land automatic recipe for
full-disk encrypted installation
* boost1.46
* work on on new Panda buildds
* CD size issues for 12.04.1
* work on eglibc updates for both quantal and precise
* QA sprint
http://ograblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/the-bamboo-feeder-automating-continuous-arm-image-tests/ (lots of positive feedback)
* flash-kernel vs live-installer fixes
* transitioning started for all of flash-kernel bootloader handling to
use /etc/default/flash-kernel as a source for the bootloader cmdline
* investigating EFI netboot support
* managing secureboot insecurities

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

nothing atm

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

bug 1032857 "DistributionSourcePackage:+publishinghistory should show
the audit trail of copies"
bug 926340 "aptd crashed with UnicodeDecodeError in _set_error():
'ascii' codec can't decode byte 0xc3 in position 9: ordinal not in
range(128)"
bug 980917 "Failed to create pty - disabling logging for job [SRU]"
Debian bug 684058 "libjson0: json-c version 0.10 is now available."
bug 818760 "update-manager crashed with timeout in readline(): timed
out"
bug 1031978 "indicates a package origin of Ubuntu for Ubuntu systems"
bug 1017001 "package resolvconf 1.63ubuntu14 failed to install/upgrade:
ErrorMessage: pre-dependency problem - not installing resolvconf"
bug 1032398 "oops ids aren't very unique"
bug 1032822 "json data returned by API could be more readable"
bug 892370 "The time zone for China should default to Beijing not
Shanghai (when offline)"
bug 1028905 "cdrom-detect in quantal omap4 hangs trying to look for
install media on an extended partition"

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

* still waiting for PVR driver from linaro
* waiting for 3.5 kernel (well on track), thanks for the regular updates
from the kernel team 
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