Server Team 2008-02-27 meeting minutes

[Mathias Gug]

Hi,

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online, with
the irc logs, here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20080227.

=== Status report ===

mathiaz reminded that the Reporting Status wiki page [1] should be updated. He
also added that each section should be expanded each week.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/ReportingPage

=== Mentoring program ===

mathiaz asked whether the name of the program should be changed. For now it was
decided to keep the program named mentoring. He updated the mentoring page [2]
with a description of the program.

[2]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Mentoring

=== Forum reporting ===

faulkes- started a project [3] to help categorize, summarize and visualize
forum questions, from a broad level narrowing it down. The backend is written
in perl, it connects to the forum and slices out the forum subject/topics.
faulkes- will publish the code in a LP by next week.

[3]: http://ubuntu.oss-mgmt.com/

ACTION: faulkes- to setup a LP project for the forums analyser.

=== Server survey ===

nijaba has received a lot of good feedback on the test survey. Users can still
help in testing by contacting nijaba [4]. Improvements and bugs are tracked
within the server-survey project in LP [5].

nijaba reported that hosting the real survey hasn't been figured out. faulkes-
wondered where the server survey could be announced.

ACTION: owh to draft a wiki page with a list of resources where we can announce
the survey. He will also draft an announcement email.

[4]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NicolasBarcet
[5]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/server-survey/

=== libdb migration ===

ScottK listed all the packages that still relies on db4.3. He added that this
task is easy to do: 
  * grab the source.
  * check that transactions are not used (grep'ing the source is enough).
  * if transactions are not used, update the build-dep/depends. Otherwise, 
    mark the package and leave it for someone else. Those are harder.

=== Documentation ===

sommer finished the likewise-open section in the Server Guide [6]. Reviews are
welcomed. He added that he'd like to have sections about virtualization, bacula
and ebox. mathiaz suggested to concentrate on virtualization first. He started
a section but doesn't have any hardware supporting KVM, and thus cannot test
it.

[6]: http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/likewise-open.html

sommer also added that the ServerGUI page [7] has been written. Comments are
always welcomed.

[7]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ServerGUI


=== Virtualization ===

soren hijacked #ubuntu-virt IRC channel. This is now the canonical place for
virtualization development and support.                            
                                                                                
He also created ubuntu-virt team on Launchpad for:
 1. having a PPA for backporting stuff to get more testers
 1. having a team as bug contact for all the cool (i.e. virtualisation related)     packages.             

He disabled non-accelerated kvm. This enabled it to build with gcc 4.x,  so
that it could get promoted to main.

ubuntu-vm-builder accepted into the archive with a fix for new qemu-img sanity
checks.

soren prepared kvm-userspace-62 for upload.  The kernel needs to be updated as
well before pushing it. soren also needs to ask the release team for an ffe. 

=== AppArmor profiles ===

jdstrand migrated/created AppArmor profiles for mysqld, named, and slapd.
These have been uploaded to hardy.

=== Security hardening ===

kees continued hardening-wrapper testing. He uncovered issues with
assembly-using source packages not being PIE-sane.

=== MIR for server packages ===

zul fixed initscripts as a result of the MIR comment. He also assigned Ubuntu
Server Team as contact address for bug reports for all the packages that have
been moved to main as part of this Spec.

He uploaded new versions of openvpn, aoetools, and openipmi.

=== Ebox ===

zul has uploaded a new version of ebox in his PPA [1]. More testers are
welcomed.

[1]: https://launchpad.net/~zulcss/+archive

=== Agree on next meeting date and time ===

Next meeting will be on Wednesday, March 5th at 21:00 UTC in
#ubuntu-meeting.

-- 
Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer  http://www.ubuntu.com