Release Meeting 2012-10-05

Fri Oct 5 12:57:26 UTC 2012

== What was done engineering wise? ==

* handed off most of the remaining work on the gwibber py3 port
* followed up with the folks doing the twisted py3 port; looks like 
  13.04 availability is a possibility, but more details have been  
  requested
* uploaded python-mode 6.0.12 to sid
* ev attended a webops sprint all week
* been charming the errors.ubuntu.com infrastructure and unbreaking the 
  retracers (damn you dpkg -x)
* working on moving daisy.ubuntu.com to backing to S3 instead of NFS
* fixed various cdimage publishing bugs exposed by beta-2
* lots of rls-q-tracking bug work, too many to list
* still trying to sort out d-i lowmem issues
* sponsoring various arm64 config.guess/sub fixes from Wookey.  More to 
  come
* progressive rebuild of remaining packages in armel/main for ARMv5t
* gtkhtml4.0 transition, linux-armadaxp license review, dpkg bugfix, 
  vmware-view and sbsigntool version bumps, etc
* working on a new eglibc SRU to replace the one superseded by the last 
  security update
* ubiquity adv-lvm: almost done, going through all the different paths 
  of vg/lv manipulation. merge proposal will come soon.
* blocked on combination of orca / at-spi / gtk / ubiquity-dm being 
  broken, See bug 1056300
* bug triage of update-manager / ubuntu-release-upgrader bugs
* ubuntu-release-upgrader upload fixing apport and apt-clone attachments
* apport modification to include python env variables
* discovered an issue with DistUpgradeApport.py and assertion errors due
  to / in key names for attachments
* pam-xdg-support: landed, has been seeded, ubuntu-meta upload needed
* ironed out final details on SB signing
* fielded some new bugs after the asynchronous mountall upload
* SB shim: still in progress, should have been uploaded wednesday
* input issues for d-i were fixed (thanks paolo for adding the udeb to 
  omap3)
* worked on an nvidia-tegra driver update, sadly the upstream release is
  broken (no versions in SONAMES), waiting on a fix from nvidia and 
  pondering to upload a driver without GLES support for better 
  SRU-ability (this upload happened today, along with a new tegra3 
  package)
* fixed upgrade issue with software-properties-gtk
* Fixed a bug in the time range filterof the isotracker, got IS to 
  deploy in production.
* Upstream work on LXC, reviewing patches, maintaining staging branch. 
  Starting cherry-pick of fixes for 0.8 upstream release.
* Blogged about the new API:
http://www.stgraber.org/2012/09/28/introducing-the-python-lxc-api/
* Helped utlemming setup a script similar to post-qa but for the cloud 
  images
* Some more thoughts on getting NM to talk to unbound, looked at the 
  API, may try to write a plugin later
* Fixed madwimax's broken dhclient handling in quantal and precise (was 
  messing with resolvconf)
* UIFe for the slideshow, reviewed the changes, re-generate the 
  templates, imported the new translations and uploaded
* Started preparing the next set of casper fixes (uploaded wed.)
* Briefly discussed foundations-q-autocreate-preseed with Colin

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

nothing

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

bug 1060249 "frontend crashed with signal 5 in g_node_copy_deep()"
bug 1016040 "apt_check.py crashed with SIGSEGV in FileName()"
bug 1030278 "Quantal failed to install: ubiquity crashed in 
            apt/progress/text.py in pulse: OverflowError: Python int too
            large to convert to C long"
bug 1056820 "feedparser ftbfs in quantal,test suite failures"
bug 1031882 "precise->quantal upgrade fails, with a UnicodeDecodeError"
bug 938869 "lsb_release crashed with SIGABRT in Py_FatalError()"
bug 1057886 "dpkg-source regression when a patch removes all files from 
            a directory"
bug 935516 "genshi version 0.6-2 FTBFS on i386 in precise"
bug 1060489 "FTBFS due to build-dep conflicts"
bug 1056350 "build failure on quantal"
bug 1015567 "upgrade failed: mixed non-coinstallable and coinstallable 
            package instances present"
bug 1057367 "please upgrade status database to remove mixed 
            non-coinstallable and coinstallable packages"
bug 1046627 "Install Ubuntu XX.XX alongside SYSTEM YY screen missing"
bug 1056728 "git-svn needs an update for subversion 1.7.x (build-time 
            test suite failure)"
bug 1050562 "Reuse recipe (in-place upgrade/reinstall) isn't given as an
            option"
bug 1056707 ""Unsafe swap space detected" dialog displayed too late if 
            swap is created after an encrypted partition and makes 
            manual partitioner unusable"
bug 1058102 "The strings in "ubuntu-release-upgrader" is not translated 
            in UI"
bug 1059172 "update-manager crashes when displaying error dialog"
bug 1056895 "ubiquity apport hook crashes"
bug 1039484 "Accents in sources.list breaks do-release-upgrade"
bug 1060353 "DistUpgradeApport.py causes an apport assertion error"
bug 1045579 "software-properties-gtk makes a change resulting in a conf 
            file prompt on upgrade that's unnecessary"
bug 1059403 "dist-upgrade.py returns 1 due to /var/log/dist-upgrade/* 
            not found in P2Q server upgrades"
bug 1056468 "monitor inactive during plymouth animation (radeon, 
            fallback to /dev/fb0)"
bug 1059471 "2.41 fails to mount root partition"
bug 1060296 "'df /' reports Filesystem '-'"
bug 977959 "Please transition libgnome to multi-arch"
bug 1036834 "gdb should be marked "Multi-arch: allowed""
bug 1013211 "[FFe] Please transition libgnomecanvas to multi-arch"
bug 683640 "status_of_proc is returning incorrect error code"
bug 1053306"iscsiadm hangs in recvmsg()"
bug 932860 in appmenu-gtk (Ubuntu Precise) "Broken (or missing) 
           multiarch support"
bug 1028905 "cdrom-detect in quantal omap4 hangs trying to look for 
            install media on an extended partition"
bug 984276 "installing casper on a non live system causes 
           update-initramfs to fail"
bug 898787 "(k|l|x)ubuntu 11.10 failed to install with error in 
           install_misc.py assert cache._depcache.broken_count == 0"
bug 946406 "suspect race condition Keyboard layout, oem-config not set 
           on persistent USB image"
bug 984276 "installing casper on a non live system causes 
           update-initramfs to fail"
bug 423616 "casper boot doesn't work with some boot options"
bug 476208 "casper booting from nfsroot doesn't respect nfs filesystem 
           options correctly"
bug 747888 "casper script 25configure_init clobbers 22serialtty, serial 
           console nearly unusable"
bug 740390 "libdbus-1-3 upgrade does not respawn init, resulting in 
           unclean shutdown"

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

bug 1056300 in ubiquity (Ubuntu Quantal) "orca quits reading after the
welcome screen in ubiquity"
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