Meeting

• Who: SecurityTeam

• When: Mon Dec 5th 2011 18:00 UTC

• End: 18:30 UTC

• Where: #ubuntu-meeting on irc.freenode.net

• Chaired By: JamieStrandboge (jdstrand)

Attendance

• jdstrand
• mdeslaur
• micahg
• tyhicks
• jjohansen

Not present

• sbeattie

Agenda

• Announcements
  • Thanks to the following people who helped Ubuntu Security last week:
    • Gabriel A. von Winckler (winckler) for the phpldapadmin debdiffs

    • Dominic Hargreaves <dom@earth.li> for the request-tracker3.8 debdiff

    • Arnaud Quette (Uzuul) for help in updating the nut qa-regression-testing script (LP: #894476)

    Your work is very much appreciated and will keep Ubuntu users secure!

• Weekly stand-up report (each member discusses any pending and planned future work for the week)
  • jdstrand
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • several pending updates
    • MIR audits
    • work items as have time
  • mdeslaur
    • Weekly role: community
    • pending updates
  • sbeattie (added after meeting)
    • Weekly role: triage
    • pending updates
    • continue with cgroups investigation
  • micahg
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • patch pilot
    • pending updates
    • Firefox rapid release migration for Lucid/Maverick
    • webkit 1.6 migration planning
  • tyhicks
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • pending updates
    • ecryptfs statfs() max filename length reporting bug
    • ecryptfs 'make check' for trunk tests
  • jjohansen
    • Weekly role: happy place
    • pending kernel updates
    • finish bug fixing in aa namespaces and get fake stacking up in a ppa
    • testing on the new d_path upstream api, adjust our patch for it, and write documentation surrounding this api
• Highlighted packages

  The Ubuntu Security team will highlight some community-supported packages that might be good candidates for updating and or triaging. If you would like to help Ubuntu and not sure where to start, this is a great way to do so. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/UpdateProcedures for details and if you have any questions, feel free to ask in #ubuntu-security. To find out other ways of helping out, please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/GettingInvolved. The highlighted packages for this week are:

  The Ubuntu Security team suggests that contributors look into merging Debian security updates in community-supported packages. If you would like to help Ubuntu but are not sure where to start, this is a great way to do so. See the available merges and SecurityTeam/UpdateProcedures for details on preparing Ubuntu security updates. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in #ubuntu-hardened. To find out other ways of helping out, please see SecurityTeam/GettingInvolved.

• Miscellaneous and Questions

  • Work items analysis - http://people.canonical.com/~jamie/wi/precise-canonical-security.html

Log

Logs available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2011/ubuntu-meeting.2011-12-05-18.06.moin.txt