[Server] Release Meeting 2012-03-30

[Antonio Rosales]

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

=== What was done engineering wise? ===
* Server MIRs continue to progress

* OpenStack Essex updated to RC1 state.

* Improvements to machine deployment orchestration.

* KVM is now at version 1.0. It additionally has nested KVM enabled by
default for x86, allowing virtualisation experience within cloud instances.

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

=== Release Notes ===
Eucalyptus removed from Precise Universe (Bug:953405).

=== Summary of bugs working on by team  ===
* http://status.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/ubuntu-server/release-bugs.html

* 2 critical bug
  - A bad AMI can hang an entire compute noded (LP: 960276)
  	-  Bug is confirmed and discussing if patch to LP bug 8322507 needs
to be fixed of  backed out.
  - nova + glance services die if started before db is reachable (LP:959426)
	- Patch propsed

* Resolving a few OpenStack bugs (LP: 883988, 907197, 850443, 901881,
966069, 959426).
* Squid update to 3.2 fails as config file moved and 2.7 features not
supported (LP: 924739).
* AppArmor profile needs update (LP: 880339)
* amavis start-stop script fails to stop amavisd (LP: 930916)
* apparmor makes it impossible to install postgresql-common on Precise
(LP: 925024)
* [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/www/.novaclient' (LP: 959262)
* [Cloud] fsck / dirty filesystem on instance is death (LP: 928990)


=== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items? ===
* MIR reviews (apologies for the inundation).

=== Issues? ===
* None


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