[Server] Release Meeting 2012-06-22

[Antonio Rosales]

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

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

* Juju Charm Store policy under review[1].
* Juju release process under implementation.
* Documentation available for folks interested in investigating running 
Juju on other OSes[2].
* Work done on Jitsu watch to aid in automated Charm testing.
* Working on implementing a transitional Charm format to support Go and 
Python.
* Good progress made on apt using hash matches from release files to 
improve stability in mirror queries and cloud deployments.
* OpenFlow controller package add progressing well. Also working with 
Big Switch and Debian to get Flood Light in.
* Java7 packaging making good progress.
* Tomcat7 (replace Tomcat6) in main, should be available for Alpha 2.

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

* Ubuntu archive mirrors migrating to S3 [3].

=== 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
     -hallyn has a fix in tested and working in debootstrap. Targeted 
for Alpha 2

920197: [SRU] webob last stable version 1.1.1 response header bug
     -proposing Quantal fix for 12.04.1

1001846: cobbler fails to install with error code 1
     -Andres (roaksoax) currently investigating.

1008537: [FTBFS]Segmentation fault during tests
     -Potential fix from christopherarges, however still some FTBFS 
questions.

1009579:  [MIR] tomcat7 (replaces tomcat6)
     -under security review

993291: [SRU] package nis 3.17-32ubuntu1.2 failed to install/upgrade: 
invoke-rc.d: unknown initscript, /etc/init.d/nis not found.
     -more robust pre-init script targeted for 12.04.1

920197: [SRU] webob last stable version 1.1.1 response header bug
     -Targeted for 12.04.1

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


[1] 
https://code.launchpad.net/~clint-fewbar/juju/docs-charm-store-policy/+merge/111307 

[2] https://juju.ubuntu.com/docs/operating-systems.html
[3] 
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-cloud-announce/2012-June/000026.html

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