[Foundations] Release Meeting 2012-02-17

[Colin Watson]

Sorry this is late; we had to go to the hospital at shortish notice
yesterday evening so this took a back seat.

http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-foundations.html

=== What was done engineering wise? ===

 * Crash database:
  * Lots of work on new Apport UI (still undergoing review, and listed
    on FeatureLanding).
  * Lots of work on whoopsie-daisy security review.  This is now
    complete and the package is in main.

 * Boot:
  * Finished fix for bug 926468 ("Stopping ssh with a logged in user
    causes init to spin at 100%").
  * Landed early job logging code in Upstart.
  * Upstart job logging is back on by default now.
  * New friendly-recovery menu landed: all options are always displayed
    now, and the switch from read-only to read/write is done when
    selecting an option that requires it.

 * Containers:
  * New LXC with console/tty handling improvements.
  * Simulate net-device-added for 'lo' in containers.
  * Disable udevadm trigger --action=add in containers.

 * Archive infrastructure:
  * Worked with IS to get qemu-linaro to the point where it can be used
    as an emulated armel buildd running on top of a hardy VM.

 * Installation:
  * Reorganised ubiquity test suite so that it can run within
    autopkgtest.
  * Refactored the way that ubiquity removes about-to-be-copied files
    from the target system, fixing a slew of bugs and making it more
    testable.

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

The apport crash database client.  I don't think we have any other major
FF exceptions pending.

=== Release Notes ===

 * The recovery mode menu now shows all available options immediately
   again rather than having some of them hidden behind a "Remount /
   read/write" option.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]