For minutes of previous meetings, please see FoundationsTeam.

Present

• ColinWatson - chair

• BarryWarsaw

• EvanDandrea

• GaryLasker

• JamesWestby

• LoïcMinier

• MatthiasKlose

• MichaelVogt

• ScottJamesRemnant

• SteveLangasek

Lightning round order

   1 from random import shuffle
   2 team = [
   3     'Keybuk',
   4     'barry',
   5     'cjwatson',
   6     'doko',
   7     'ev',
   8     'james_w',
   9     'lool',
  10     'mvo',
  11     'slangasek',
  12     'tremolux',
  13     ]
  14 order = team[:]
  15 shuffle(order)
  16 print ', '.join(order)

Apologies

Agenda

• Lightning Round
  • 2-4 sentences on current work/roadblocks
• Outstanding actions from last meeting
• Outstanding feature freeze exceptions
• Farming out tasks that aren't being handled

  • Milestoned bugs

  • Targeted bugs

• Sponsorship queue

• Any business from activity reports
• Good news
• AOB

Outstanding actions from last meeting

Actions from this meeting

Chair for next meeting

Activity reports

Barry Warsaw

• computer janitor dbus refactoring; ready for review
• python-argparse MIR and 1.1 update
• ratings and reviews server for software center
• update-manager bug 537250
• review of doko's pycompile patch for 2.7 and 3.2

• pep 3147 work - first simple support for pycache working! (lp:~barry/python/pep3147)

• prep for python 2.6.5 final (due out on friday)

Colin Watson

• Sponsorship:
  • vim #509900.
  • hostname #523588.
  • emacs23 #444094.
• Migrated to parted 2.2, in both Debian experimental and Lucid. (Awaiting Debian release team approval before putting it into Debian unstable; looks like it could take a while.) Based on this, arranged for partman to use optimal alignment constraints when creating new partitions or maximising an extended partition (#530071).
• Fixed grub-installer partition offset handling for GRUB Legacy.

• Tried a hardy->lucid upgrade, and fixed a couple of bugs that showed up, including a messy libc6/findutils/dpkg dependency loop which I avoided in findutils.

• Upgraded to grub2 1.98.
• Fixed klibc (#534281) and libtommath (#534293) build failures.
• dpkg performance/reliability/security backports (#442114, #512096, #532445). (The fsync change turned out to regress performance; discussing upstream.)
• Various ubiquity bug-fixes (#531864, #535630, some small unfiled ones).
• Ported console-setup to udev/upstart (#524439). This included extending loadkeys to try to find a non-raw-mode console by itself.
• Updated installation-guide for Lucid (#501572, #415469, #496554).
• Fixed an infinite loop in blkid (#528073).

Evan Dandrea

• Fixed a bug in usb-creator that surfaced with the move to parted2.1.
• Brought back the resize progress dialog in ubiquity that went away when we hid all progress dialogs on the automatic partitioning page.
• Made the strings for the keyboard query widget translatable.
• Fixed the focus grab on the next button on ubiquity startup.
• Hunted down bug 534473 (apt-setup selecting the wrong CD mountpoint), thanks to sabdfl lending me his usb disk.
• Looked into a bug for bigjools that turned out to be 528667.
• Michael Forrest is working on a simplified version of usb-creator for Mac, but separate from the usb-creator codebase. Helped him with that a bit.

• Created a new LabelledEntry subclass of GtkEntry to provide hints on the user setup page. Freeze exception request filed as bug 537986.

• Working with Michael, Ken, and Otto to get the time zone map updated and fixed around India.
• Imported translations from gnome-panel to let us strip the seconds from the time zone map time. Freeze exception request filed as bug 538156.
• Created a password strength meter for the user setup page. Freeze exception request filed as bug 537995.
• Fixed the bug whereby we weren't setting the language for the live environment when exiting ubiquity.
• Fixed some small bugs in ubiquity (thanks pycheck).
• Worked on moving the partition bars on the automatic partitioning page to sit directly under the option they reflect. Still a work in progress.

Gary Lasker

• Was pulled in for OEM tasks for much of the week:
  • Time allocation: 80% OEM, 20% platform
• Software Center
  • Bug work, triage, fixes
  • Cleaned up some fixme's in partner channel code
  • Weekly call with mvo and mpt

James Westby

Distributed Development

• Quiet on the bugfixing front, there seem to be few problems that people are hitting currently.
• Got the latest code in to lucid (thanks Jelmer).
• Have a couple of branches to merge.

Other

• A chunk of sponsoring.
• Launchpad hacking to fix a few important issues for us.
• Spoke with Jos about opportunities on the server.
• Archive admin duty.

Loïc Minier

Matthias Klose

• two new lucid test installations
• llvm, clang, llvm-gcc-4.2 updates from the 2.7 branch
• again, some toolchain updates, too many test builds
• openjdk update to the icedtea6 trunk; will become the 1.8 release; volunteered as 1.8 release manager.
• python bug triage
• python bug fixes and updates in preparation for the coming subminor release 2.6.5 and 3.1.2.

Michael Vogt

software-center

• work on ec2 rnr instance (setup, debug failures)
• upload reviews branch into software-center PPA and make it work against reviews ec2 instance
• add gnome-app-install transitional package
• work on review-stats branch (lp:~mvo/rnr-server/reviews-stats)

• Prepare ratings&reviews call

• upload new version with new theme and notifiy ubuntu-docs
• cherry-pick progress bar improvements from michaelforrest (thanks!)

update-manager

• debug/fix #415026 (fold do-release-upgrade --check and check-release-upgrade into the same program)
• work on "do-release-upgrade"
• test upgrade on real HW
• document "nomodeset" kernel cmdline workaround in ubuntu wiki
• analyize failure
• Debug/report i830 based graphics failure #534375
• move XF86Config-4 away on upgrade (really really outdated)
• merge fixes from Wesley Schwengl (thanks)
• import updated translations from rosetta
• Debug/fix(?) update-manager/apport issue #369951

apt

• Apt: add "oldlibs" to Apt::Never-Mark-AutoRemove

• review/sponsor SRU for python-apt (#531876) with persia
• Python-apt: debug/fix FTBFS

• look at download problem with > 4GB (#510543)

• debug timeout failure (#517797)
• Python-apt: review/merge latest debian-sid changes and upload to PPA
• Python-apt: test new merge (in ppa:mvo/python-apt)
• Apt: debug/fix #502641 (apt-get source version selection)
• fixe three letter language codes
• fix sudo/http_proxy interaction (#432631, #391409)

beta-1

• run app-install-data/command-not-found updates

misc

• comment on Mirrors RT #9459
• Apturl: port from gtkhtml2 to webkit (part of lucid-depulication)
• Kvm: ran into #531823 and test fix
• Gdebi: new 0.6.0 version ready for lucid (fixes only)

review/sponsoring

• Ubumirror: review/sponsor upload
• Review/sponsor/upload app-install-data-partner package
• Review/merge update-manager dpm, barry branches
• Review/merge update-manager LTR fix
• Review/sponsor computer-janitor UI fix (#536908)

Scott James Remnant

Steve Langasek

Release management

• FFe processing
• Preparations for beta-1

Packages

• sync pinyin-database to get pinyin packages installable on DVD again
• mass-rebuilds for NBS: libhdf5-openmpi-1.8.4, libhdf5-serial-1.8.4
• transfig: FTBFS fix

• x11-apps: fix conffile prompt on upgrade from hardy (518045)

• handhold plymouth for soname change
• plymouth bug triage in preparation for beta

• fix casper to work with plymouth (506418; 500198)

• tweak ruby-pkg-tools so it's suitable for MIR

Misc

• archive admin duties
• look into the Kashmir map question