Server Team 20100525 meeting minutes

[Clint Byrum]

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online with
the irc logs here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20100525

==== Review ACTION points from previous meeting (ttx) ====

 * ttx to confirm spec submission deadlines with Jos: DONE
 * ttx to walk SpamapS through the spec proces: DONE

==== Maverick Alpha2 subcycle and specs ====

 * specs need to be set to review by EOB May 26 (Extends deadline by 1
day)
 * design mandatory, implementation (work items) should have a full
rough plan, user stories can be filled in later.

==== Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh) ====

 * zul needs help getting back ability to nominate bugs for lucid
 * QA workflow spec to remain as server team's responsibility
(jiboumans)

==== Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (jjohansen) ====

 * status update on ec2/uec kernel upgrades
   * built many, none have booted, will check vmlinuz stripping/xen
settings (jjohansen)
 * CEPH will be enabled in next upload to maverick

==== Weekly status for Server documentation (sommer) ====

 * Server guide for lucid had a broken PDF, fix committed and awaiting
upload to "h.u.c" (sommer)
 * documentation specs to be moved under Ubuntu launchpad project to
allow usage of work items tracker (sommer)
   * [ACTION] sommer to try to move server doc spec to Ubuntu specs

==== Maverick Papercuts: Start of the alpha-2 round (ttx) ====

 * All should blog/announce papercuts (ttx)
 * Minor features / wishlist are included because not LTS cycle (ttx)
 * nominate by marking bugs as affecting 'server-papercuts' project
 * nominations will be reviewed next week, sub cycle begins Jun 2nd,
ends week before Alpha2 release

==== Weekly SRU review:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/KnowledgeBase#SRU%20weekly%20review
(mathiaz) ====

 * Two bugs nominated, 567179 & 583542, to be declined pending more
information
 * New SRU review process spec revealed with shiny pictures
[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerMaverickSruProcess]]

==== Open Discussion ====

 * EC2 AMI-API tools in multiverse are out of date whenever amazon adds
services/regions/etc.
   * PPA vs. backports discussion results in PPA *and* backports upload
as way to get latest tools to users.

==== Announce next meeting date and time ====

 * Next meeting will be Tue, Jun 1 18:00 UTC 2010