[Foundations] Release Meeting 2012-09-14

Fri Sep 14 11:15:18 UTC 2012

== What was done engineering wise? ==

* some work on foundations-q-event-based-initramfs
* upstart:
 - wading through kernel code and writing tests both confirm that
   if a "debugger" re-execs, it retains its debugger status over
   ptraced children. This behaviour appears not to be documented.
 - allow unflushed log data to include null bytes in serialised data.
 - fixed issue where 2nd and subsequent re-exec stopped log data 
   serialisation
 - reviewed and merged lp:~jconti/upstart/fix_empty_chroot
 - reviewed lp:~cjwatson/upstart/stateful-reexec-ptrace
* btrfs-tools mark quantal task as fixed released, due to merging new 
  upstream release back in may
* partman-auto-lvm fixed 154086 in precise & quantal, patch send to
  debian as well
* good progress on hooking up manual crypt UI
* more consumption of gwibber spaghetti, but it's getting progressively 
  more gluten-free as we're nearing completion of the py3 port
* worked a bit on support for the py3 port of twisted (buildbots, ppas)
* Working on GRUB 2.00 packaging; FFe approved
* plenty of ac100 testing, fixing etc
* held panda install hangout talk   
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsIW7EF103A
* flash-kernel: worked on hiding boot devices post install
* started on updating the arm install wikis
* looked into lshw, it defaults to run dmidecode as first test on all 
  arches, started looking into a fix
* LXC
 - Worked on upstream repository, got daily builds setup, soon to be 
   integrated with the test suite (Serge is working on that part)
 - Announced the upstream staging branch, reviewed and merged quite a 
   few more changes
 - Rewrote lxc-start-ephemeral in python3 using the API (used to be 
   shell) and pushed upstream
 - Reviewed Serge's changes to the server guide (covering apparmor 
   changes, seccomp, hooks and API)
 - Started preparing a blog post on the API
* Beta-1 release with the usual tweaks to lp:ubuntu-archive-tools
* Re-added missing dhclient-script code checking for /etc/resolv.conf 
  writability (when not using resolvconf), forwarded to Debian
* Tested new grub2 from cjwatson's PPA
* openjdk-7 backport for precise
* binutils and gcc-4.7 updates (toward the 2.23 and 4.7.2 releases)
* worked on component mismatches, filed outstanding bug reports, 
  pestered people, and processed some MIRs
* cleaning up NBS, bug fixes, package removals
* Massive http://errors.ubuntu.com deployment
 - We've now gone live with our own handling of openid
 - The coloring should be a bit more obvious
 - The graph finally has a denominator of the number of unique systems 
   over a 90 day span
 - The graph now changes to reflect what packages and Ubuntu version 
   you've selected
 - You can create bug links where they don't already exist
 - The Loading of the most common problems table has been sped up again
 - The coloring of the most common problems table actually reflects the
   selected release
* Started testing Cassandra authentication on behalf of the webops team
* utouch->oif rename SRU reviews/shepherding
* discussions about offspring and cdimage mating
* discussions with IS about the state of buildd upgrades
* worked on livefs-in-soyuz stuff a bit
* research into package install failures and less useful dpkgterminallog
  files - 'can not write log'
* added patch / branch information to rls-q-tracking and incoming 
  reports
* added count per team to rls-q reports on cranberry
* errors.u.c branch to display Launchpad bug report on a bucket page
* errors.u.c branch to sort package versions on a bucket page
* errors.u.c branch to display the release(s) a package version is in on
  a bucket page
* modified needs-packaging wishlisting code to be more lenient regarding
  bug title renaming

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

* the XDG_RUNTIME_DIR implementation

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

bug 1049820 "Using kill signal SIGPWR results in system crash"
bug 488696 "syntax error in nsswitch config near [ syntax error ]"
bug 1027648 "ubiquity crashed with ValueError in command(): I/O 
            operation on closed file."
bug 792652 "ubiquity crashed with ValueError in command(): I/O operation
            on closed file"
bug 1048712 "FFe [kde] add LVM and LUKS options" 
bug 1048710 "Regression in argparse for Python 2.7, 3.2 and 3.3"
bug 887699 "python-mkdebian: Support python3 projects"
bug 1028453 "Quantal Ubuntu Server minimal install oversized"
bug 1049011 "Quantal server installation fails to install kernel"
bug 1038468 "data loss on sort -u"
bug 1045491 "Moving mouse messes up the desktop"
bug 1003656 "bridge-utils/vlan udev hooks prevent execution of upstart 
            hook, slowing down boot"
bug 1035076 "dnscache resolvconf update script still 
            accesses /etc/resolvconf/run/"
bug 994575 "/etc/ppp/ip-up.d/000resolvconf should "exit 0" if pppd was 
           run by NM, since NM will register the nameserver addresses 
           itself"
bug 752481 "networking is not actually brought down/up when moving 
           to/from runlevel 1"
bug 624877 "INFO: task dpkg:23317 blocked for more than 120 seconds."
bug 833706 "Show pending SRU nominations"
bug 875879 "update-manager crashed with AttributeError in show_diff(): 
           'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'"
bug 1039220 "don't report crashes for programs that don't match the file
            on disk (like for kernel crashes)"
bug 988583 in grub2 (Ubuntu) "grub-mount hangs when update-grub is ran"
bug 1045201 "Precise to Quantal: cdromupgrade of Ubuntu Desktop failed 
            with cannot calculate dependencies" 
bug 1013681 "make apt-key net-update secure"

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

none atm
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