[Foundations] Release Meeting 2012-08-29

[Oliver Grawert]

== What was done engineering wise? ==

* boot/upstart, Stateful re-exec: Continued work to get post re-exec 
  environment sane
* more work on gwibber py3 port
* bug triage of package installation failures / distribution upgrades
* gathering of and research into BootDmesg from bug reports to determine
  number of people using mdadm
* wrote code to create duplicate signatures for existing bugs with a 
  VarLogDistupgradeApttermlog.gz file
* investigation into DuplicateSignature not being created for all 
  package installation failures
* apport upload to quantal with an improved duplicate signature creation
* investigation into dpkg already installed and configured issue
* research into apport reporting python dbus no reply reports and them 
  appearing on errors.ubuntu.com
* errors.ubuntu.com:
  - fix odd behavior around the most common problems form
  - reworked most common problems table to actually show the most common
    100 problems, rather than any problems with an instance count 
    greater than 20
  - invertigated correct handling of etags
  - worked with IS to diagnose problems with the retracers exiting
  - speed ups to the most common problems API call
  - fix canonical-memento to sync retracer logs with the correct
    permissions
  - wrote a new State of the Ubuntu Error Tracker email (in review)
  - finished wiring up the 90 day unique user calculation (rt #55650)
  - fixed a bug that was preventing us from correctly bucketing crashes 
    that had a package without a version specified in the report
  - added getting the problem instances for a user and individual 
    instances to the errors.ubuntu.com API
* investigating customer supported cases that need to be addressed for 
  milestone 12.04.02
* python2.7, python3.2, python3.3 updates
* address all open multiarch issues for python3.3
* finally found the "no stdout for sharedmods build" issue in python
* python3-stdlib-extensions update, distribute update
* gdb update to 7.5
* discussions around choice of secureboot bootloader for 12.10
* proposal to drop alternate CDs for 12.10
* XDG_RUNTIME_DIR spec to be done the coming week
* fixed geoname lookup code (Now only 4 New York's instead of 20)
  (rt #55554)
* filed feature freeze exceptions for landing ubiquity lvm/luks work
  (bugs: #1042649, #1042647, #1042642, #1042639)
* started https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Ubiquity/LVMLUKSTesting
* Boost1.46 finally removed from the archive
* merge & Deploy updated ubiquity slideshow with support for localised 
  screenshots
* ported debtagshw to python3 (inclusion pending)
* testing and sponsoring omap4 PVR, final version uploaded to the 
  archive
* included pvr-omap4 as default in the panda images (GLES works OOTB on 
  the desktop images now)
* compiz GLES testing
* fix build issues with livecd-rootfs that had grown a new default 
  feature to automatically build foreign arches in a qemu vm (which made
  our armel based livefs builder try to run armhf builds in a qemu 
  chroot which in turn hung the buildd)

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

* full GLES support on omap4 desktop images will soon be there (pending 
  fix of bug #1043589), QA team: ... there will be desktops to test on 
  arm for B1 :)
* we will be soon holding a Google OnAir session on how to use your 
  Panda board for all teams.

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

bug 1042970 "apport not blocking DBus no reply bug reports"
bug 941673 "performance of accounts-daemon is very poor"
bug 1040380 "package-data-downloader crashed with AttributeError in
    process_download_requests(): 'Deb822' object has no attribute 
    'has_key'"
bug 1042930 "partition size error during install of Quantal on Panda 
    board"
bug 523896 "useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again later."
bug 1042159 "[regression since 12.04] wubi won't boot when Windows8 is 
    hibernated (default)"
bug 1043149 "[regression since 12.04] ntfs-3g refuses to mount Windows8 
    not using hibernation"


== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

* waiting for compiz GLES support to land (FFe: bug #1043589)
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