[Server] Release Meeting 2012-08-17

[Antonio Rosales]

Status: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-quantal/#Servercloud

=== What was done engineering wise? ===
* [cloud-utils] contain cloud-images public signing key
* [apt] Deferring Apt by hash improvements to next cycle to have more
testing on the current proposal.
* [hadoop] Testing of existing hadoop charms with openjdk-7
* [hadoop] Update bigtop-utils and hadoop charms to support openjdk-7
* [openstack] upstream changes for config drive spec
* [ceph] Enable use of google-perftools (test failures/glibc compat)
* [libvirt] automated tests for libvirt-lxc
(start,stop,define,undefine,console)
* [openflow] Package floodlight for Ubuntu
* [openflow] Support packaging of mininet
* [cloud-builder] Proto-type build system
* [cloud-builder] Setup internal build server
* [cloud-images] Add links to cloud-images.ubuntu.com
* [tomcat7] Update tomcat(7) charm to accommodate changes during quantal
dev cycle


=== What's about to land that might impact the other teams and release
as a whole? ===


=== Summary of bugs working on by team (reasonably reliable) ===
http://status.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/ubuntu-server/release-bugs.html

1028503: support creating initial user if not present
    -Triaged and inprogress

1030914: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/glance', which is also in package
glance-client
    -Confirmed, still need to be triaged

1034701: ImportError: Could not import settings
'openstack_dashboard.settings': missing depende…
    -Confirmed and triaged, workaround is to install
python-glanceclinet. Fix in progress

1028509: 'nova rescue' fails if an instance image does not have a kernel_id
    -confirmed, still need to be triaged.

1024281: Bug during installation. conflicts: python-glanceclient +
glance-client
    -confirmed, upstream to deprecate and remove the original glance
client from glance server(s).

1025203: Trying to overwrite
'/etc/quantum/plugins/openvswitch/ovs_quantum_plugin.ini', which is also
in package quantum-server
    -Triaged, specific to Ubuntu packaging of quantum modules. Fix in
progress; targeting beta1

1023066: python-quantum fails to install due to python syntax errors
    -fix released; folsom-3

1020313: openstack-dashboard hijacks the web root
    -Triaged; milestone target = beta1

844995: Drop support for couchdb related packages
    -python-couchdb and kombu fix-released target=12.10 beta1 (won't fix in
Precise)

=== Dependencies on other teams to make deliverables, blocking items,


Thanks,
-- 
Antonio Rosales
Ubuntu Server & Cloud Workloads
Canonical Ltd