Scheduling for UDS

[Dave Walker]

On 26 August 2013 21:55, Chuck Peters <cp at ccil.org> wrote:
>
> I would like to see someone take the lead on making sure we have latest
> stable releases of some software.
>
> After having some issues with a bot attack to our Mailman server the Server
> Team and the Debian Developers have been very helpful in my efforts to get
> 2.1.16~rc2 into saucy.  One thing led to another and I started checking on
> other software that could be updated.
>
> bind9 9.9.3.3-P2  LaMont Jones is working on it.
> dnsruby 1.54 now supports IPv6 and Ondřej Surý updated it and it's now at
> incoming.debian.org.
> nsd3 3.2.16 is the new version and it appears this is an easy package update
> of 3.2.15-1.  [1]
>
>
> Other software I plan to look into more:
> pdns-server - 3.3 is stable and Debian and Ubuntu have 3.1-4
> dovecot - 2,2,5 is stable and Debian and Ubuntu have 2.1.7-7
> dns-flood-detector - 1.20 is stable and Debian and Ubuntu have 1.12-7
>
>
> I looked at the UDS schedule and I don't see an appropriate meeting to bring
> this up,   Any suggestions?
>
> Should I write a brief blueprint and make a list of software that should be
> checked and when someone should do the checking?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Chuck
>
> 1. dnsruby and nsd3 are updated in my ppa
> https://launchpad.net/~cp/+archive/misc
>

Hi Chuck,

Thanks for raising a really good point about the development process.

We don't do a perfect job, but currently we do the following for the
current development series (saucy, currently)

This is something that is tracked as part of general Ubuntu development via:
https://merges.ubuntu.com/main.html
https://merges.ubuntu.com/universe.html
(& multiverse and restricted)

Each thing that has a Ubuntu delta should be merged at least once, each cycle.

This is quite unwiedley, so we've picked a subset, which is stuff that
the server team officially declared support for - and things which are
part of the server cd and produce a merge report:
http://reqorts.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/ubuntu-server/merges.html

Note, that if you raise a 'please merge bug' - it has a greater chance
of getting solved

HTH

-- 
Kind Regards,

Dave Walker <Dave.Walker at canonical.com>
Engineering Manager,
Ubuntu Server