[Foundations] Release Meeting 2012-03-16

[Colin Watson]

I won't be in the meeting tomorrow due to being on leave, but I'll try
to arrange cover.  Otherwise, please ask questions by mail and I'll
respond there.

== What was done engineering wise? ==

 * Installer:
  * Do a better job of writing hybrid MBRs on Intel Macs (bug 856826).
  * Reuse existing swap partitions and EFI System Partitions rather than
    creating new ones (bug 311299).
  * Arranged for Ubuntu Studio images to reconfigure jackd on boot (bug
    923810).
  * Worked on several EFI partitioning bugs (bug 769669, bug 811485).
  * Bug-fix work on ubiquity, casper and wubi.
  * Suppressed suspend on lid close etc. during installation.

 * Crash database:
  * Progress on deployment: ported from Pika to amqplib, built out a
    configuration for retracing machines, and packaged several modules.

 * Networking:
  * Uploaded new isc-dhcp, converting to upstart and creating separate
    IPv4 and IPv6 jobs.

 * Boot and services:
  * Merged James' friendly-recovery branch adding support for LVM and
    APT status to the system-summary screen.
  * Working on Upstart test coverage in order to land some pending
    branches.

 * Toolchain:
  * GCC 4.4.7 release.
  * eglibc ARM getcontext/setcontext patch.
  * libgo fix for ARM.
  * Update Python 2.7 and 3.2 to release candidates.

 * Package management:
  * Transition soprano away from iodbc (bug 901638).

 * ARM:
  * Fixed armhf FTBFS of qtwebkit-source.
  * Reviewed armadaxp kernels for license sanity.
  * Review flash-kernel changes for Calxeda support.
  * Discussions with IS and webops about shuffling ARM buildds,
    upgrading some (or all) distro buildds to precise, etc.

 * Defect analysis:
  * Improved bug reporting guidelines (new screenshots, added
    'ubuntu-bug -w').
  * Created hottest bugs charts for package sets.
  * Modified hottest and recent package bug charts to have a date
    updated in them.
  * Made links bold if there is a spike in this week's bug reporting
    volume compared to last week in recent package bug tasks.
  * Created a team assigned bug report using cbd / arsenal.

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

The whole Foundations team will be in an installer virtual sprint (i.e.
no travel but syncing to the same timezone) from Monday to Wednesday
next week, which will hopefully result in a good chunk of installer
fixes as well as more knowledge sharing.

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

 * Bug 499557 ("Kernel packages don't have "Section: kernel", but other
   packages do")
 * Bug 508083 ("cron crashed with SIGSEGV in
   __pthread_initialize_minimal_internal()")
 * Bug 876626 ("Unlocking the second crypto disk (/home) echos password
   on console")
 * Bug 886111 ("apport gets update wrong")
 * Bug 911436 ("https crashed with SIGSEGV in
   lookup_or_create_bucket()")
 * Bug 935585 ("[kernel panic] init: log.c:786: Assertion failed in
   log_clear_unflushed: log->remote_closed")
 * Bug 939450 ("ubiquity crashed with TypeError: argument of type
   'NoneType' is not iterable in ubi-partman.py")
 * Bug 948163 ("System suspends upon closing the lid while
   installing/partitioning using a live CD")
 * Bug 950206 ("[UIFe] add LVM and APT information to system-summary")
 * Bug 950282 ("Installation failing with pop-up "The installer
   encountered an unrecoverable error and will now reboot."")
 * Bug 955386 ("regression: byte compiling failure on upgrade from
   lucid")
 * Bug 955617 ("ubiquity hangs (no activity forever) at configuring
   target system")

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

We're still waiting for lightdm-gtk-greeter to be packaged
(http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/03/09/%23ubuntu-meeting.html#t16:04).

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]