[Server] Release Meeting 2012-07-20

[Antonio Rosales]

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

=== What was done engineering wise? ===
* [tomcat7] Transitioned servlet2.5 dependencies in main to 3.0
* [cloud-utils] Integrated cloud-init sysv init scripts for rh
* [juju] MIR put on hold while Go port is evaluated for inclusion.
* [charms] Charm Store policy communicated to juju mailing list.
* [OpenStack] Setup testing of juju against deployed openstack in the lab.
* [OpenStack] Support added for ARM to euca2ool.
* [OpenStack] libvirt pactch acked by upstream[1] and tested on ARM.
* [MAAS] IPMI support addded.
* [ceph] updated to 0.48
* Server bug triage process refined based of feedback and documented[0].


=== 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

974584: Semaphores cannot be created in lxc container
     -Fixed in Debian, coordinating bringing in patch or merging 2.88dsf-28.

1023066: python-quantum fails to install due to python syntax errors
     -Adam Gandelman patch acked by upstream and working on inclusion in 
Ubuntu.

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.

858867: XMLRPC allows unauthed users access to various methods (which it 
shouldn't)
     -Looking like will be marked as wont fix and documented.

1020313: openstack-dashboard hijacks the web root
     -Triaged

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

=== Dependencies on other teams to make deliverables, blocking items,
release wide concerns? ===
* Squashfs based iso migration wedged, Colin unblocking.
  * Arm server images not currently being built, and issue with image 
creation.  Blocking on squashfs migration before investigating.
* MIR's are becoming worrisome.



[0] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/KnowledgeBase
[1] 
http://libvirt.org/git/?p=libvirt.git;a=commitdiff;h=db4eba91a762a69d3e3608aa10ff3f409f3897dd;hp=102c69414c2bd5dc23474a156908423e8b820af4


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