Server Team 20090929 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/20090929.        

==== Virtual appliance ====

kirkland mentioned he moved away from a moodle to a gobby server appliance. He
also added that we needed to figure out how to make appliances out of packages
that had critical debconf questions. It's a generic problem and requires admin
input on package installation. For the appliance to be useful all
configuration should be web driven after instantiation. He asked whether the
debconf web frontend could be used for that. cjwatson acknowledged that there
was one although it wasn't very good.

niemeyer reported that the proxy was in a pretty good state now. Work on the
server side is required and he is waiting on the server infrastructure for
this. He also noted that the server side can be faked with fakestoreapi.py for
testing purposes.

ACTION: niemeyer to send mathiaz and nurmi a mail with details on how to test
the image-store-proxy integration with fakestoreapi.py.

==== Asterisk stack ====

Daviey reported that Asterisk 1.6rc2 had been uploaded to karmic.

==== vmbuilder ====

smoser reported that vmbuilder used the seeds to build the list of packages to
include in the UEC images. mdz asked that vmbuilder's version be included in
the manifest. This turns out to be less straightforward as vmbuilder trunk
branch is currently used to build images.

==== Automate image publishing and ec2-version-query refresh ====

smoser reported that the image publication process [1] was somehow automated.
He started to write some scripts [2]. The goal is moving towards being ready
to work right away on image publication automation as soon as we get some
access to amazon from data center.

ACTION: ttx and smoser to review the automation of the image publication
process.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEC/Images/Publishing
[2]: http://smoser.brickies.net/git/?p=misc-starter-tools.git

==== Roadmap review / Eucalyptus ====

kirkland put a huge effort into triaging eucalyptus bugs [3] - the list is
usable again.

ttx mentioned that the Eucalyptus help page [4] was outdated especially in the
Installer integration section. He asked for help on refreshing the content
based on the test cases [5]. alexm offered to review the doc while Daviey will
try to update parts of it.

ACTION: kirkland to fix bug 438747, maybe bug 438602, package and push a
respin with that package in

[3]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eucalyptus
[4]: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Eucalyptus
[5]: http://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/Install/ServerEConfig

==== Roadmap review / UEC - EC2 bugs ====

smoser reported that all bugs targeted to beta with ec2-images or uec-images
in a tag [6] were fixed as far as he knew.

zul mentioned that amazon had released a new version of ec2-api-tools which
added better ebs and vpn support. ttz suggested it was probably too late for
the karmic release cycle. zul could just make them available in a ppa and
upload it for lucid.

ACTION: smoser to open bugs to cover kernel/ramdisk GPL reqs and renaming

ACTION: ttx to test UEC images + UEC kernel/ramdisk on karmic UEC

[6]: http://tinyurl.com/yazgzzf

==== Assigned and to-be-assigned bugs ====

ACTION: ttx to see if some bugs assigned to soren need urgent reassignment

==== Weekly SRU review ====

mathiaz conducted the weekly SRU review and relevant bugs have been accepted.
He also reminded that the updated SRU workflow [7] in the Ubuntu Server team
was using package branches to prepare SRU. sbeattie mentioned he was
interested in participating at the review stage making sure that both the
package changes (via a merge proposal) as well as the SRU report were in good
shape before the upload to the archive.

[7]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/KnowledgeBase#SRU%20resources

==== 2009 Server survey status and call for action ====

nijaba announced he had updated the 2009 Server survey. A test server [8] is
available for reviewing the updated questions. Bugs should be filed in LP [9]
against the server-survey project.

[8]: http://admin.barcet.com:8084/limesurvey
[9]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/server-survey/+filebug

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

soren started a discussion [10] on the ubuntu-server mailing list about a new
time and date for the meeting. Daviey suggested to use doodle [11] to conduct
a poll.

ACTION: Daviey to setup a doodle poll and send the url to the ubuntu-server@
mailing list.

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 6th at 15:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

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