[Foundations] Release Meeting 2012-01-06

[Oliver Grawert]

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

* arm live builders are building images again
* flash-kernel was synced from debian and support for the arm-server
arches was added
* over 80 gcc-4.7 FTBFS fixes in debian
* grub fixes for EFI systems
* daily installer uploads were dropped from LP (bug 827965)
* LP custom upload code saw fixes (bug 827973)
* fixes to the LP queue API (bug 1006173)
* fixes for PAS
* progress on lazr.restfulclient stack
* tracked down incompatibility in py3 version of httplib2
* removal of migration-assistant
* errors.ubuntu.com saw code changes to hide bugs that it belives are
fixed in trunk (to be enabled soon)
* whoopsie: redesign of the diagnostic settings page
* split libwhoopsie out of whoopsie
* researching the server side apport hooks started
* moving of the Launchpad retracers onto the crash database system
* work on creating crash reports from unresponsive applications
* usb-creator partitioning fixes
* help with the move from jockey to ubuntu-drivers
* work on stateful re-exec blueprint for upstart
* mountall fixes
* makedev preinst fixes (bug #1001460)
* python-pam port
* bugfixes for isc-dhcp in quantal and isc-dhcp SRUs for precise
* UI for testcase management changes on the iso tracker were finished
* python-qatracker was updated
* ubiquity-lvm-luks UI design work
* new btrfs-tools in quantal
* work on boost1.49 transition
* plenty of bug bot improvements
* bug pattern fixes for update-notifier (bug 1003100)
* the whole team did syncs and merges

 
 === What's about to land that might impact the other
teams and release as a whole? ===

* py3 transition (as usual)

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

* bugs like bug 985636 where the actual issue is hidden due to a
trigger running (which then results in auto reports to the package
running the trigger) will be turned into package manager bugs in the
future.
* bug 974054 (dhcpd attempts to use /var/run/dhcpd.pid, AppArmor errors)

MIRs needing processing:
* bug 904014 (netcf)
* bug 1006717 (linux-base)

=== Dependencies on other teams to make deliverables, blocking items,
release wide concerns? ===

* none atm

== Other notices from foundations ==

The foundations team will have a virtual python3 porting sprint from
June 11 to 13
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