[Foundations] Release Meeting 2012-07-06

[Oliver Grawert]

== What was done engineering wise? ==
* ubiquity-lvm auto install saw a first working iteration
* started to jujufy collab-qa/cloud-scripts.git for launching archive 
  rebuilds
* container bugfixes in quantal and SRU preparation for precise
* isotracker content migrated from testing to production
* some work on the network stack
* finished writing the error reports from application hangs feature in 
  apport and merged it into trunk.
* support for the apport application hangs was written for compiz
* planning and investigation of error dialogs on 
  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ErrorTracker#debconf
* fixes of some ARM issues in both Debian and Ubuntu
* investigation of GNU R breakage on ARM
* efilinux menu patch landed
* launchpad custom-uefi branch landed
* new name, version, and exact_match parameters to 
  DistroSeries.getPackageUploads
* PackageUpload.overrideBinaries interface was refactored for 
  performance
* fixed bash to stop hardcoding command-not-found's interpreter
* debugging plymouth issues on various arm images
* research of ac100 kernel/image issue (upgrades work but cdimage images
  fail booting with a kernel panic)
* arm image build debugging
* upstart, stateful re-exec work: code now 64-bit safe
* work on upstart Job serialisation and all its associated tentacles

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

* nothing atm

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

bug 1013843 in casper "resolv.conf empty when doing PXE installations"
bug 795005 in Launchpad itself "Asynchronous PPA copying with default
series OOPSes"
bug 1015483 in ubuntu-meta "ubiquity-dm: 2 language names wrongly
displayed (missing font?)"
bug 1018759 in ubiquity "ubiquity crashed with TypeError: update() takes
exactly 2 arguments (1 given)"
bug 1006894 in partman-base "Partitions are misaligned when using GPT on
disks w/ 4096 byte physical sectors"
bug 992241 in partman-target "Upgrading using the live cd
wipes /var/lib/mythtv/*"
bug 1019514 in livecd-rootfs "Need to be able to generate images with
-proposed in sources.list"
bug 1018884 in debconf (Ubuntu) "debconf: setting console triggers
update-initramfs"
bug 977940 in gnome-vfs "Please transition gnome-vfs to multi-arch"
bug 977964 in libart-lgpl "Please transition libart-lgpl to multi-arch"

bug 977947 in libbonobo "Please transition libbonobo to multi-arch"

bug 977952 in libbonoboui "Please transition libbonoboui to multi-arch"
bug 977959 in libgnome "Please transition libgnome to multi-arch"
bug 978012 in e2fsprogs "Please SRU micro bug fix release of e2fsprogs
1.42.4-3ubuntu1 (main) from Quantal (main)"

bug 1002357 in mdadm "sort out udev rules madness (3 editions installed
into 4 files)"

bug 1009973 in mdadm "SRU upstream bugfix micro point release 3.2.5"

bug 1017407 in mdadm "should copy /etc/udev/ rule if available"

bug 942106 in mdadm "software raid doesn't assemble before mount on
boot"
bug 523896 in shadow "useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again
later."

bug 683640 in lsb "status_of_proc is returning incorrect error code"

bug 946406 in casper "suspect race condition Keyboard layout, oem-config
not set on persistent USB image"
bug 970638 in psmisc "killall can't kill processes with fairly long
names (Ubuntu 12.04)"

bug 974584 in sysvinit "Semaphores cannot be created in lxc container"
bug 946406 in casper "suspect race condition Keyboard layout, oem-config
not set on persistent USB image"

bug 985065 in xkeyboard-config "Can't use fr/oss keyboard layout by
default"
bug 974584 in sysvinit "Semaphores cannot be created in lxc container"
bug 523896 in shadow "useradd: cannot lock /etc/passwd; try again
later."

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

* nothing currently
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