[Foundations] Release Meeting 2012-06-22

[Oliver Grawert]

== What was done engineering wise? ==

* merges and syncs
* per-pocket upload permissions are working for -backports and -security
* finished LP API exports needed for new-style change-override
* Archive.copyPackage works for the security team now
* fixed an importer issue with DEB_VENDOR=debian packages
* the problem pages on errors.ubuntu.com were cleaned up and got 
  colored traces
* the bug duplicates database was discussed
* work on retracer integration with errors.ubuntu.com has started
* Started implementing errors from hanging applications in apport
* a new libwhoopsie version landed in trunk
* lots of work on liblxc, with a new python3-lxc as result
* some iso tracker fixes landed (the remaining requested items from the 
  QA team) and were deployed
* update-notifier is now completely ported to python3
* added in dist-upgrade tag to apport package failures in update-manager
* a new ubuntu-bugcontrol-tools branch was created
* flash-kernel fixes all over the place (including a fix for ac100 
  builds)
* new nvidia-tegra GLES driver for quantal 
* new python3 version of apturl landed
* upstart work on stateful re-exec
* we'll need json-c version 0.10 (currently beta) for new upstart 
  garbage detection features
* LVM ubiquity design is in progress
* merged latest mdadm
* merged latest autofs
* work on the new UTAH (ubuntu test automation harness) for automatic 
  testing
* some work on event driven initramfs
* partner archive work
* dpkg multiarch triggers syntax fix-up (bug #1015329)


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

* nothing known atm

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

bug 1006398 - (whoopsie) Bypassing ptrace restrictions for errors from 
              hanging applications
bug 1015080 - (whoopsie) Retrieve Python tracebacks from hanging 
              applications
bug 912137 - (launchpad) bug subscribers portlet sorted in reverse 
              order
bug 826864 - (compiz-fusion-plugins-main) Grid plugin + xterm = no size 
             cycling
bug 496922 - (net-snmp) Ubuntu snmpd package doesn't include all 
             net-snmpd modules
bug 933903 - (dropbear) Dropbear's initramfs scripts mount /dev/pts a 
             second time
bug 977964 - (libart-lgpl) Please transition libart-lgpl to multi-arch
bug 1015329 - (dpkg) dpkg fails to run after update ...

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

* waiting for a new kernel code dump from linaro for omap4 to solve the 
  display issues
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