[Foundations] Release Meeting 2012-01-13

[Colin Watson]

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

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

 * Package management and upgrades:
  * update-manager updated to call ubuntu-bug directly when an error is
    encountered during a distribution upgrade.
  * Fixed ia32-libs to not pull in daemons and debconf questions on
    upgrade.
  * Testing new apt update to fix bug 850264 ("given a foreign
    architecture of i386 on amd64 machine, and an outdated libc, apt
    tries to remove libc-bin").

 * Python:
  * Updated Python 2.7 and 3.2 packages.
  * Early work on packaging Python 3.3.
  * Expanded out work items for update-manager port to Python 3.  This
    resulted in a noticeable jump in our burndown chart, but the items
    are much more sensibly fine-grained now.
  * Uploaded Python 3 port of dbus-python.

 * Networking:
  * Patched the resolvconf package to better integrate with precise.
  * IPv6 testing for privacy extension change.
  * Poked at a fix in network-manager-openvpn to properly deal with
    reconnects.
  * Working on merging ifupdown from Debian experimental.

 * Containers:
  * Helped to split cgroup-lite out to its own source package.
  * Working on a fixed util-linux package with Serge's container
    handling patch.

 * Boot and services:
  * Added a post-stop script to dbus so the system bus gets restarted
    when it crashes.
  * Changed mountall to not mount already mounted filesystems.
  * Chasing down unreliability in Upstart logging.

 * Archive administration:
  * Converted all archive admin sync processes to use client-side
    syncpackage tool, and submitted a Launchpad branch to remove
    sync-source.py.
  * Discussed client-side backport handling with backports team.
  * Started work on a script to data-mine build times from Launchpad.

 * Installer:
  * Added lucid apt/python-apt backports to precise alternate CDs.
  * Added natty and oneiric kernel backports to lucid DVDs (for
    10.04.4).

 * Crash database:
  * Packaged and uploaded whoopsie-daisy, the new crash reporter and
    database for Ubuntu.
  * Moved to txstatsd for the web frontend metrics submission.
  * Added bson insertion and hostname specification support to
    oops-repository.
  * Added core file submission support.
  * Investigation around retracer handling.

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

 * We may attempt to land eglibc 2.15 (major customer interested, and
   adds IFUNC support on ARM), but this is not confirmed yet.  It's in
   the ubuntu-toolchain-r/glibc PPA for those who are interested.

=== Release Notes ===

None for now.

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

Alpha-2 rls-mgr-p-tracking bugs:
 * Bug:850264 ''[given a foreign architecture of i386 on amd64 machine,
   and an outdated libc, apt tries to remove libc-bin]'': Some testing
   of this happened at the rally, so this will hopefully land soon.
 * Bug:874774 ''[could not mount /dev/mapper/cryptswap1]'': Checking
   with Steve what the news on this is ...
 * Bug:912563 ''[ubiquity crashed with TypeError in
   partman_column_format: argument of type 'NoneType' is not
   iterable]'': I escalated the pygobject part of this to the desktop
   team, and Martin fixed that, but reckons there's more work to be done
   in ubiquity.  I haven't re-reviewed the bug yet.
 * Bug:912558 ''[log.c Assert failed - err=>number == EIO]'': James has
   been hunting the details of this down over the last couple of days
   and seems to have a solid lead.

=== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items? ===

None.

=== Issues? ===

None.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]