Server Team 20110405 meeting minutes

[james.page at canonical.com]

Hi,

Here are the minutes of the server team meeting. They can also be found online 
with the irc logs here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20110405.        

==== Meeting Actions ====

* Daviey to submit UDS-O topic for translations and docs
* jamespage to helpout with verification of euca-dhcp bug
* jamespage to discover process/location for fixing ubuntu server
documentation

==== Review ACTION points from previous meeting ====

* Daviey to talk with wider docs team regarding translations (deferred, carry
over)
* Daviey to talk with docs team about new submissions (New documentation for
cluster stack)
* Daviey has discussed this with the documentation team; most Ubuntu
documentation is facing the same issue that the server documentation set is
(i.e. lack of resource).
* [ACTION] Daviey actioned to raise a UDS-O topic to discuss server team
documentation and the how this is taken forwards.

* Daviey to post another followup one euca-dhcp bug. (carry over)
* Progress on this issue; bug applied but needs verification.
* [ACTION] jamespage to help out with verification that this issue is
resolved.

* SpamapS to put his version of ubuntuserver-minutes in directions for writing
minutes
* DONE

* ALL: Please review the current documentation (for Natty release)
* Some review; however team are unclear on how to fix documentation for the
release.
* [ACTION] jamespage to find out and report back/email.

==== Natty Development ====

Focus is now on bug fixing rather than development.

* List of release bugs for server team:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=server-nrs
* Looking OK.
* Work Items for Beta-2: http://people.canonical.com/~platform/workitems/natty
/canonical-server-ubuntu-11.04-beta-2.html
* Looking OK.

Daviey asked that any blockers, issues or concerns be raised as soon as
possible in the run up to beta-2

Smoser raised two bugs that required MIR approval:
  
* Launchpad bug 726572 in cloud-initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) "[MIR] cloud-
initramfs-tools" [Undecided,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/726572
* Launchpad bug 727200 in lxc (Ubuntu Natty) "[MIR] lxcguest in main"
[Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/727200

==== Ubuntu Server Team Events ====

* SpamapS: Apr. 13,14 I will be at the MySQL Users' Conference in Santa Clara,
CA
* jamespage: I'll be attending puppet camp europe on the 28/29 April in
Amsterdam
* zul: Apr 25 - 29 I will be at the Openstack summit, Santa Clara, CA

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

* Current investigating:
* Launchpad bug 746751 in linux (Ubuntu) "kernel: [Firmware Bug]: the BIOS has
corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR 38d is 30)" [Critical,In progress]
https://launchpad.net/bugs/746751
* Kernel SRU tests are throwing up security failures, compiler stracktraces
etc...

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

* Launchpad bug 634487 in linux (Ubuntu Natty) "t1.micro instance hangs when
installing java" [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/634487
* Latest natty works fine on smb test rig; however not in ec2.
* The bug seems to be some interaction between xen hypervisor and the kernel.
And it looks like newer Xen works.
* Just need Amazon to upgrade.

==== Weekly Updates & Questions for the Documentation Team (sommer) ====

Not present

==== Weekly Updates & Questions from the Ubuntu Community ====

None

==== Open Discussion ====

None

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

* Tuesday, April  12th 2011 16:00 UTC