For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

Present

• RobbieWilliamson - chair

• ColinWatson

• EvanDandrea

• JamesWestby

• LarsWirzenius

• MatthiasKlose

• MichaelVogt

• MikeTerry

• MuharemHrnjadovic

• ScottJamesRemnant

• SteveLangasek

Apologies

Agenda

• 8.04.3 LTS 07/09

• Karmic
  • Status and Roadmap

    • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/ReleaseStatus/Karmic

• Doko's topics
  • handling of component mismatches: Currently no action is taken for build failures due to component mismatches (selfish examples: jinja2, llvm).
  • handling of the new queue (selfish example: python3.1)
  • handling of MIR's (selfish example: llvm).
• Sponsorship queue
• Good news
• AOB

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Actions from this meeting

Activity reports

Colin Watson

• Finished removing the old timezone map from ubiquity, and replaced gdm-signal with a D-Bus call, thereby making ubiquity's GTK frontend architecture-independent.
• Merged: choose-mirror, user-setup, refit, kbd, cdrom-detect, apt-setup, parted, partman-base, partman-partitioning, partman-ext3, scim-bridge, libdebian-installer
• Sponsorship:
  • fakeroot #389591.
  • bash-completion #370611 (nothing to do in Karmic, declined Jaunty SRU).
  • ecj #347393.
• Feature work:
  • foundations-karmic-server-installer-improvements:
    • Wrote online help text code for cdebconf. Debian seems to like it, so I should get that committed towards the end of this week.
  • archive-reorganisation:
    • Worked on constructing initial package sets.
  • foundations-karmic-grub2:
    • Fixed grub-installer #393432 (LILO rather than GRUB 2 still used for /boot on LVM).
• Dropped ant's JDK recommendation to a suggests, at the server team's behest (#389470).
• Fixed gnu-efi build failure.
• Fixed memtest86+ to install properly in chroots (e.g. live CDs). Dealt with #384627 (20_memtest86+ uses deprecated update-grub_lib in Karmic) while I was there.
• Synced: twisted-lore, twisted-names, twisted-runner
• Updated tasksel to karmic, including recent UNR task changes.
• Figured out why d-i was completely broken (busybox printf's exit code was wrong), and fixed it.
• IS/platform review meeting.
• Fixed w3m #283975, #353900 (formatting problems with w3mman, affecting manpages.ubuntu.com).
• Fixed horrendous grub bug #185878 (GRUB installation fails if installing to certain non-ext* filesystems).
• Technical Board meeting.

Evan Dandrea

• Short week. On vacation Thursday through Monday.
• Merged partman-efi.

• Reviewed usb-creator 0.2.0 for upload. The KDE frontend is ready, but I'm keen to get the DeviceKit-disks backend done before we upload.

• Started a conversation with Andrew Sayers on him helping with Migration Assistant and incorporating his idea to install applications that serve as replacements for applications installed on other operating systems (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallProgramsFromMigrationAssistant).

• Started working on a unit test framework using twisted's trial and worked towards creating a fake DeviceKit-disks to test the respective usb-creator backend.

• Discussed a proposal from a community member to create a GRUB recovery option on the live CD.

• Finished another draft of the Migration Assistant DBus API (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/MigrationAssistant/Karmic/DBusService). Comments/suggestions welcome.

James Westby

Distributed Development

• Reached 10,000 source package branches on LP.
• Fixed the issue that was causing the most failures. Need to retry all of those failures and finish the import of main.
• Call with Martin Pool about the best way to start a discussion on parallel imports. Need to write up a wiki page with our requirements.

Daily Builds

• Belatedly finished drafting the spec.

Kerneloops

• Mailed the kernel team asking whether they would like OOPS reports as bugs. Mail is waiting in their moderation queue.

Distro tasks

• Only managed to sponsor one item this week.

Lars Wirzenius

• Back from vacation.
• Processing of e-mails, and stuff.
• Tested flegita, compared with gscan2pdf. Neither is good. Told Ken van Dine I'm OK with flegita replacing xsane as default.
• Planning of implementation of specs.
• Started prototyping Compter Janitor new UI.

Matthias Klose

Michael Vogt

AppCenter

• Debugging aptdaemon hang in gio code
• Fix gio hang n aptdaemon client
• Work on apt-daemon packaging (lp:~aptdaemon-hackers/aptdaemon/ubuntu-karmic)
• Add aptdaemon backend to g-a-i(lp:~mvo/gnome-app-install/aptdaemon)
• Port add/remove to Gtkbuilder

update-manager

• Work on the auto-upgrade-tester
• Work on main-all profile

• Analyze held-back on release-upgrade from gnome-bluetooth<>bluez-gnome and discuss with asac

• Work on the EC2 upgrade tester (with andreash) and fix issues in trunk, a bit of code cleanup too
• Port update-manager to gtkbuilder
• Merge official-ec2 support branch from andreash into update-manager (many thanks!)
• Add warning when running on battery to update-manager (#377697)

apt

• review/merge patches from lp:~donkult (quite a few!)

kernel-crashdumps

• Look into grub2 and crashdumps
• Add crashdump= support to grub2
• Upload new grub2 with crashkernel feature
• Forward patch to grub-devel
• Update linux-meta diff for grub2 support (kernel crashdump)
• Kernel-crashdump spec work
• Work on prototype apport-retrace for kernel crashdumps

command-not-found

• Re-generate command-not-found database
• Work on command-not-found, fix bash crash (#127399)
• Implement spelling suggestions to command-not-found
• Analyze why alpha-2 command-not-found data was wrong, add scripts to ensure operations are more smooth

misc

• Debug apt ddtp problem with dpm
• move data from rookery to new people.u.c
• Synaptic i18n updates
• App-install-data-ubuntu fixes (lxde description, nvidia-glx-180)
• Add information around spec foundations-karmic-upgrade-support-in-landscape
• Target features to milestones
• release meeting
• Review/merge/upload lp:~seb128/update-notifier/gtkbuilder
• Update-notifier: add gconf key to hide reboot required messages
• Merged libgksu from debian (for the gtkbuilder fixes)

sponsoring/merging

• Sponsor gawk via a sync request
• Sponsoring python-geoip
• Sponsoring tuxtype (via review/sync request)
• Merge rsync and forward changes upstream
• Look at acpica-unix merge and request sync
• Merge djvulibre, elinks, planner, rpm

Mike Terry

Ubiquity

• The oem-config merge continues apace. I'm now testing code, rather than porting.

Rsyslog

• Sent mail to devel list about change
• Rebased on 4.2.0 which made the import freeze

Power cleanup

• Finalized details of who calls pm-powersave with upstream
• Tweaked bzr branch as a result
• Steve pushed this in, so we no longer have ac.d and battery.d directories! Yay

Muharem Hrnjadovic

Scott James Remnant

• Booked Dublin tickets
• Installed SSD into Dell D620 received from Pete for SSD testing
• Meetings with Desktop Experience Team about Boot Experience
• Updated udev to 143, and then GIT head, more changes were required and Martin finished them off for me
• Working on Upstart 0.6.0, fixing initctl and telinit
• TB Mono Position statement draft
• Developer Application Board announcement draft

Steve Langasek

Release management

• release meeting
• Ubuntu 8.04.3 work

Specs

• follow up on multiarch spec with Debian
• follow up on Debian LTS coordination

Misc

• Monday archive duties
  • fix syncbugbot to work with current launchpad (python-launchpadbugs)
• epic battle with Spanish rail