FoundationsTeam/Meetings/2009/1007

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Present

Apologies

SteveLangasek

Agenda

Status Updates on Karmic
- Ubuntu 9.10 Deliverables
- Boot
  - console messages
  - enabling usplash by default
- RC Bugs that folks want to highlight or need help on
AOB

Actions from this meeting

Robbie to prioritize RT ticket (#35783), with the important part being screenshots.u.c
Lars to "dust off the API design he did long ago", and write up a prototype and a sample cli app for querying from the new Debian copyright format
- http://dep.debian.net/deps/dep0/

Activity reports

Colin Watson

Foundations developer interview.
Installer bug fixes:
- Finally fixed apt-setup #172879 (Unable to skip network access
  - during installation).
- console-setup #416949 (Arabic layout broken in karmic). Some other
  - keyboard layout updates.
- Restored ntfs-3g syncio patch in the hope that it'll fix Wubi.
- partman-iscsi #435290 (does not prompt for iSCSI install).
- grub-installer #427048 (install the bootloader to each disk in a
  - RAID1 array providing /boot).
- Backported the linux-swap fs name reorganisation I got applied
  - upstream ages ago to fix parted #399428.
- Fixed grub-installer #444583 (breaks on disks with dmraid metadata
  - but only one disk).
- Fixed partman-partitioning/ubiquity #421407 (wrong auto-resize
  - default).
- Fixed partman-partitioning #441242 (Ubiquity generates bad fstab
  - with NTFS partitions).
Other bug fixes:
- klibc #416636 (fstype detects ext4 w/o journal as ext2), including
  - fighting to get klibc to build.
- Backported fix for debconf #387112 (unused 'use I18N::Langinfo'
  - causes upgrade failure).
- Wrote a vmbuilder patch to install grub inside the chroot rather
  - than relying on tools in the host, and thus stop breaking when the host is using grub2 (#410886). Along the way, backported the upstream patch I did ages ago for parted #399428 (parted can't create swap partitions in vm images), and adjusted gnu-fdisk, gparted, and partitionmanager to cope with this.
- Fixed ntfs-3g #395079 (ntfs-3g mount errors in KDE). Along the way,
  - made hal stop crashing all the time (#440797).
- Fixed bash-completion #419509 (no tab completion on path that
  - contains a space).
Sponsorship:
- casper #385305.
- grub2 #440879.
Fixed build failures: grub, netpbm-free, gettext (merge), kexec-tools, elilo

Evan Dandrea

usb-creator

Tested, fixed, and merged Cody's changes to process all syslinux configuration files, not just a whitelist.
Lots of bug triage. Merged a patch from John Gruber.
Released two new versions.

ubiquity

Lots of bug triage.
Fixed returning to partitioning not working on a partman crash in the KDE frontend.
Sorted out the reiserfsprogs issue once and for all by having ubiquity explicitly depend on it.
Added support to ubiquity and installation-report to copy the .disk/info file to the target system.
Debugged 438155 for Roman, only to find that it was actually a console-setup bug that cjwatson fixed.

misc

Released a new slideshow.
Started working with the Ubuntu One team to get a slide for their project in the slideshow.

James Westby

Distributed Development

Not much activity as hold on new branches still in place.
Discussions with LP developers about build-from-branch.

Daily Builds

Working on a single command to build a bunch of recipes,
- to make cron easier.

Distro Tasks

Squished a nasty D-Bus bug with activation. Thanks to Chris and Scott for their help.
Helped debug the /tmp clearing issue.
Archive admin tasks.
Sponsoring.

Lars Wirzenius

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/totem/+bug/421318 (totem Python crash on exit). Helped get a patch from upstream.
Upgraded laptop to karmic. Total failure. Installed karmic from scratch. Too many essential tools (e.g., epiphany, evolution, gnome-terminal). Re-installed jaunty.
Computer Janitor i18n bug fixing.
Heard that Michael will be taking over CJ in lucid. Expressed my sympathies.
Bug triage (CJ, update-manager, general).

Matthias Klose

around 20 uploads to fix build failures
look at build failures which looked suspicious to wrong-code generation, filed bug reports for affected packages and the toolchain.
twisted bug fixes for plugin registrations
openjdk-6 update to accept all certificates provided by ca-certificates
OOo upload to work around problems on armel, "some" test builds
python2.6.3 update
starting to work on GCC PR 40521

Michael Vogt

software-center

add basic analysing functionality of the db to identify duplicates in the desktop data (utils/stats.py)
detect duplicated entries and append a (pkgname) in this case (can happen for generic app names like Terminal or System Monitor)
add auto-switching back from the progress view (#431907)
look into 404 handling of thumbs/images with JS/xmlhttp, not a workable solution as the webkit security gets in our way
aptdaemon bug triage
aptdaemon: improving the transaction tester script,
debugging a race when two transaction connectto the debconf socket
add patch for #432607 that hopefully avoids the race with aptdaemon and its debconf frontend
aptdaemon: new upload with fix for debconf race (#432607)
aptdaemon: debug/fix lock bug when the release upgrader is running
Aptdaemon: package new bzr snapshot (lots of fixes, thanks to Sebastian Heinlein)
ensure the UI is kept alive while the auth dialog is up
work on 404 handling and ubuntu branding for not-found images (lp:~mvo/software-center/ubuntu-404)
Software-center: status call
fix duplicated data entries from thunar
general cleanup of the app-install-data duplicates found by the stats.py script (feels like cleaning the stables of Augean)
Aptdaemon: add locking fix, add _syslog_handler crash fix, upload new version
lots of triage/bugfixing in software-center
debug/fix locale.setdefaultlocale bug (#444316)
Debug/fix issues with popcon data for meta-packages that results in poor search results for certain strings like flash

update-manager

work on langauage-suppport-translations transition (#439296)
add support for hardy->karmic upgrades (for kubuntu, also useful for early testing of th lts->lts upgrades)
add workaround for -x permission problem on kde
Auto-upgrade tester: add lts-kubuntu profile (for riddell)
commit stepped upgrade functionatlity for the OEM team to
- lp:~mvo/update-manager/hardy-oem

beta

App-install-data-ubuntu update for beta
finally uploaded the app-install-data-ubuntu update, extraction took ages this time, sorry for that. the next cycle should switch to a extract tool based on launchpadlib
Upgrade testing (ubuntu-desktop, server, manual and automatic), putting results into the isotracker
Review/upload new command-not-found data

misc

Travel planning/booking to UDS lucid
Look into soyuz bug with a openoffice.org upload that caused a double newline in the Sources.gz (#436182)
fix locking in the extrace_changelog script on rookery
python-apt: work on improved locking
fix kpackagekit crash (#438279)
Merge gnome-codec-installer (in bzr), not uploaded yet
loking into /tmp clean issue #444252 on upgrade

sponsoring

Review/sponsor compiz upload with a bunch of fixes

Scott James Remnant

Returned from Linux Plumber's Conference, lost Monday due to
- travelling and jet lag, lost Tuesday due to ADSL downtime (took this as a swap day in the end)
Interviewed candidate for Foundations Team role
Debugged and fixed issue with partitioned MD devices
Created /dev/VG/LV symlink from udev for LVM2 devices
Improved method to have Upstart reconnect to D-Bus so that it doesn't
- cause Upstart to forget all event state, and now happens as part of the dbus job's post-start
Improved the initramfs PID transition to recover from common errors
- such as the PID not existing
Set the console of the rc scripts to /dev/null again
Further fixes to initramfs framebuffer console loading
Fixed gdm to stop when entering single user mode

Steve Langasek

Release management

beta release
manually seed libgd2-xpm in the desktop to resolve an edubuntu conflict
FFe processing
publishing fixes for zsync files on releases.ubuntu.com
fixes to UEC test plan links

Packages

fix brightness notification on recent thinkpads in hal. (372874)
debhelper: fixes to make dh_installinit snippets for upstart both robust and policy-compliant
fix boot-time nfs mounting for upstart (431248), and clean up a few bugs that fell out from this (364861, 441055, 441855).
fix mutt regression in handling of text/html mime type
software-center build fix (.PHONY vs. debhelper 7)
acpi-support: prune some more redundant code
hdparm, pm-utils: support for respecting /etc/hdparm.conf when setting apm options on power events (238555)

Sponsorship

pm-utils (437796)
acpi-support
laptop-mode-tools (384875), because Tormod is awesome

Misc

Monday archive duties

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