#title #ubuntu-meeting Meeting Meeting started by slangasek at 15:02:26 UTC. The full logs are available at http://ubottu.com/meetingology/logs/ubuntu-meeting/2012/ubuntu-meeting.2012-05-23-15.02.log.html . == Meeting summary == *lightning round *Bugs *Blueprints *AOB Meeting ended at 15:40:37 UTC. == Votes == == Action items == * (none) == People present (lines said) == * slangasek (73) * cjwatson (43) * ogra_ (35) * stgraber (29) * xnox (28) * bdmurray (22) * infinity (17) * ubottu (14) * jodh (13) * barry (11) * jdstrand (5) * meetingology` (3) * mvo (1) == Full Log == 15:02:26 #startmeeting 15:02:26 Meeting started Wed May 23 15:02:26 2012 UTC. The chair is slangasek. Information about MeetBot at http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology. 15:02:26 15:02:26 Available commands: #accept #accepted #action #agree #agreed #chair #commands #endmeeting #endvote #halp #help #idea #info #link #lurk #meetingname #meetingtopic #nick #progress #rejected #replay #restrictlogs #save #startmeeting #subtopic #topic #unchair #undo #unlurk #vote #voters #votesrequired 15:02:33 [TOPIC] lightning round 15:02:37 $ echo $(shuf -e barry doko stgraber jodh ev bdmurray slangasek ogra infinity cjwatson xnox) 15:02:40 barry jodh infinity xnox ev cjwatson bdmurray ogra slangasek stgraber doko 15:02:48 * barry wins! 15:02:51 syncs: twisted, python-testtools, python-defer, subunit, dbus-python. reviewed py3 branch for testresource. started working on bug 1000801 (lazr.restfulclient port). started porting wsgi-intercept. reviewed glatzor's py3 branch for software-properties. patch pilot: reviewed xnox's python-couchdb merge, bkerensa's fix for bug 962974, takluyver's py3 python-tz branch (merged & uploaded), bug 1002861 (sync'd canto). dmb meeting. todo: 15:02:51 return to porting the lazr.restfulclient stack. done. 15:02:53 er, wait 15:02:53 Launchpad bug 1000801 in lazr.restfulclient "Add support for Python 3" [High,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1000801 15:02:54 Launchpad bug 962974 in landscape-client (Ubuntu) ""Management Service" is gratuitously vague" [Low,Opinion] https://launchpad.net/bugs/962974 15:02:55 Launchpad bug 1002861 in canto (Debian) "Sync canto 0.7.10-3 (universe) from Debian unstable (main)" [Unknown,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1002861 15:02:56 stokachu: are you here? 15:03:07 too late :) 15:03:08 $ echo $(shuf -e barry doko stgraber jodh ev bdmurray slangasek ogra infinity cjwatson xnox stokachu) 15:03:10 jodh bdmurray ev xnox stgraber doko ogra infinity stokachu barry slangasek cjwatson 15:03:13 new order ;) 15:03:15 * barry loses 15:03:17 barry: you'll just have to go twice ;) 15:03:20 * [misc/planning]: fleshed out work items (and sizings) for 7 blueprints. 15:03:20 * [boot/upstart]: 15:03:20 - wrote spec for stateful re-exec (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FoundationsTeam/Specs/QuantalUpstartStatefulReexec) 15:03:20 - evaluated a number of JSON libraries. 15:03:23 - wrote a basic JSON test prog to validate a fragment of the expected 15:03:26 JSON schema. 15:03:29 - started work on stateful re-exec. 15:03:32 - NIH blog post. 15:03:35 - drafted an Upstart blog post on logging. 15:03:39 ㄆ 15:03:55 * infinity wakes up. 15:04:04 modified apport to set importance of python tracebacks to Medium 15:04:05 modified apport to carry over release tags from duplicates to the master bug 15:04:07 wrote and ran launchpadlib code to copy tags over from duplicate apport-crash bug reports 15:04:10 apport branch to block 'not a debian format' archive bug reporting 15:04:13 put checks for corrupt packages for package install failures in apport instead of having apt check 15:04:16 update-manager merge for the fix to bug 999890 15:04:17 Launchpad bug 999890 in update-manager (Ubuntu Precise) "does not block follow up errors from earlier reports" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/999890 15:04:18 slangasek: oh, i get it: new order <- joy division <- warsaw 15:04:19 wrote lplib code to delete update-manager clone attachments due to security issue 15:04:22 modified bug bot to remove bad attachments from update-manager reported bugs 15:04:24 hah 15:04:25 modified bug bot to write to a log file for easier auditing of work done 15:04:27 modified search-bugs in bugpatterns to show count of duplicates for the master bug 15:04:36 modified lp-grab-attachments to have a --descriptions option 15:04:36 updating firefox-lp-improvements with the new version of lp_work_item_editor 15:04:39 arsenal branch to create a report of bug task with the most duplicates 15:04:41 \o/ 15:04:42 wrote a bugpattern for ubiquity bug 998492 15:04:43 Launchpad bug 998492 in ubiquity (Ubuntu Precise) "Fails to detect package download errors on architectures other than amd64" [High,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/998492 15:04:44 added a11y opportunity to harvest-data 15:04:45 moved harvest opportunity creation scripts from ubuntu-qa-tools to harvest-data 15:04:48 review of package install failures due to /etc/default/grub modifications gone bad 15:05:07 done‼ 15:05:45 bdmurray: That seemed out of order. :P 15:06:00 - worked on organising and tidying specs 15:06:00 - spent a lot of time looking into armel/armhf toolchain woes 15:06:00 - spent even more time looking into nscd/netgroups bugs 15:06:01 ... 15:06:10 ^-- Remarkably short this week. 15:06:26 infinity: I was following the new order 15:06:42 infinity: you are out of order =) 15:06:46 bdmurray: Oh, I completely missed the new new order. 15:06:50 infinity, i added a WI for you to https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/foundations-q-drop-preinst-images 15:07:02 (just for tracking purposes) 15:07:34 * infinity isn't all here today. 15:08:18 * xnox looks for ev 15:08:44 xnox, just move :) 15:08:44 ev: 15:08:53 software-raid: 15:08:54 * collaborating with kees on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ReliableRaid/History 15:08:54 * already from above, prepared some udev fixes for mdadm bug 957494 bug 968074 bug 1002357, pending sponsorship 15:08:54 * establishing access to bare metal machines in the QA lab 15:08:55 * ordered external quad HDD housing for RAID testing, being shipped from china 15:08:55 * next step to establish RAID Architecture Specification 15:08:55 ubiquity-lvm-luks: 15:08:55 * added workitems to the blueprint 15:08:56 * discussing requirements/roadmap/first steps with stakeholders 15:08:56 * next step to start building/modifying ubiquity 15:08:56 python-versions: 15:08:57 * tracker deployed at http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/onlypy3oncd.html 15:08:57 * next step finish up local py3 branch for apparmor 15:08:57 Launchpad bug 957494 in mdadm (Ubuntu Precise) "Missing added utility 'mdmon'" [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/957494 15:09:17 bug 968074 15:09:19 xnox: thanks for the tracker! 15:09:24 bug 1002357 15:09:37 xnox: you are doing the python3 porting for apparmor? 15:09:52 ev: you're not here 15:09:52 xnox: 15:10:24 jdstrand: well, i did a little work (there isn't much tbh) spotted a few things that were not bi-lingual 15:10:32 py2/py3 15:10:44 jdstrand: are you doing it as well? 15:10:46 xnox: ok, feel free to takl to me after the meeting 15:10:50 ok 15:10:58 xnox: we have work items for it, yes 15:11:24 xnox: did you give up on getting access to the lab machines for HD testing, then? 15:11:26 xnox: I might also mention that ufw is actively being ported 15:11:46 jdstrand: nice 15:12:02 * jdstrand has a work item for that 15:12:11 slangasek: I got VPN today, but don't have access to any machines behind the VPN yet. I still one both. Lab for automatic, local for troubleshooting/personal dogfooding 15:12:27 xnox: ok 15:12:30 s/one/want/ 15:13:36 stgraber: 15:13:47 Short week, was off on Monday: 15:13:47 - Networking 15:13:47 - Spent some time testing candidates SRU for an IPv6 bug in Network Manager 15:13:49 - SRU 15:13:52 - Verification testing of nagios-nrpe and lxc 15:13:54 - Started preparing the next lxc SRU 15:13:57 - Containers 15:13:59 - Reworked the lxc-ubuntu template to be much easier to maintain 15:14:02 (then no doko, so ogra_ next) 15:14:02 - Worked with Serge on API design for liblxc, worked on the initial structure of the python binding 15:14:05 - Fixed some races in lxc-start-ephemeral, made it consistently call sudo and dropped the separate 15:14:08 and complex lxc-ip for a simple call to the new "ip netns" instead 15:14:11 - ISO tracker 15:14:13 - Continued the work to get qa-q-isotracker-testcases implemented, all of the backend work is done 15:14:16 and most of the frontend work nears completion, there's some admin UI work left and API update 15:14:19 - Migration code works fine, result can be seen at http://iso.qa.dev.stgraber.org 15:14:22 If you don't see anything, that's fine, the idea was not to loose any history data and have the new cool 15:14:25 stuff show up only for the new products. 15:14:28 - Other 15:14:30 - Drafted and sent all my specs for review 15:14:33 - Patch pilot on Friday 15:14:35 - TODO this week 15:14:38 - Push an LXC SRU, cherry-picking the important fixes from the recent quantal uploads 15:14:41 - Get enough of the ISO tracker work done so that QA can test it and work on smaller changes 15:14:44 (DONE) 15:14:52 phew 15:14:56 done: 15:14:56 * ascension day on thu. 15:14:56 * filled WIs on foundations-q-embedded-rootfs, foundations-q-hwpack-integration and added two items to foundations-q-drop-preinst-images 15:14:56 (for tracking purpose only) 15:14:56 * finally MoM is back, worked on merges 15:14:58 * started looking into the gcc-4.7 FTBFS list on debian (on request from doko) 15:15:00 todo: 15:15:02 * more merges 15:15:06 * more FTBFS 15:15:08 * start looking into the armhf image situation in preparation for A1 15:15:10 (fells so small to go after stgraber) 15:15:12 .. 15:16:11 ogra_: you're just better at summarizing it ;) 15:16:17 haha 15:16:45 stokachu: here? 15:16:48 stokachu: no worries if not 15:17:07 * xnox the new new order is broken, we need an SRU 15:17:10 Yeah, I have to figure out how to expand more too. :P 15:17:22 looks like that makes it my turn 15:17:23 Or just mention every single AA, SRU, etc task. 15:17:30 lets hire a ghostwriter ;) 15:17:35 * fixing up update-notifier SRU, apparently our translators are too efficient and translate things that shouldn't be (bug #1003100) 15:17:37 Launchpad bug 1003100 in update-notifier (Ubuntu Quantal) "package-data-downloader: KeyError: 'paquetes'" [High,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1003100 15:17:38 * pushed a bug report to plymouth in Debian, requesting a backport for an API mountall needs 15:17:41 * mountall bug triage in preparation for uploading to Debian 15:17:42 * SRU processing generally 15:17:44 * sponsored sudo merge, and uploaded pkexec (bug #982684) 15:17:46 Launchpad bug 982684 in sudo (Ubuntu Quantal) "sudo, pkexec don't apply global environment settings from /etc/environment" [Medium,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/982684 15:17:47 * ia32-libs SRU for bug #1000541 15:17:48 Launchpad bug 1000541 in ia32-libs (Ubuntu Quantal) "ia32-libs-multiarch depends on gstreamer0.10-fluendo-mp3, causing problems when installing packages from partner" [Medium,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1000541 15:17:48 cjwatson: 15:17:51 * getting things organized for DebConf 15:17:53 (done) 15:18:01 Uploaded ubiquity Python 3 port. Fixed some resulting breakage (decoding Unicode at wrong point). 15:18:04 Landed per-packageset build scoring. 15:18:07 Started work on allowing per-pocket archive permissions. 15:18:10 Verified dh-make SRU. 15:18:12 Uploaded ubuntu-keyring with new archive and cdimage signing keys. Needs SRUs. 15:18:15 Resurrected merges.ubuntu.com, with help from IS. 15:18:18 Lots of merges. 15:18:20 Fixed stale files being left behind in ftpmaster's germinate output directory. 15:18:23 Arranged for buildd admins to be able to adjust per-archive build scoring (pending deployment). 15:18:26 Moved Ubuntu-specific publishing hooks out of Launchpad, in preparation for upgrading them to use the new archive signing key for >=quantal. 15:18:30 Made a couple of live-installer improvements requested by the server team. 15:18:32 Various adjustments to cope with recent kernel flavour renamings. 15:18:35 Removed "Essential: yes" from python-minimal. 15:18:37 Merged xdeb staged-bootstrap patch. 15:18:40 Opened main vs. universe discussion with kubuntu-devel (https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/kubuntu-devel/2012-May/006080.html). 15:18:43 Gave Daviey some basic archive admin training. 15:18:45 ☕ 15:19:05 is that a coffepot or something else that generates steam ? 15:19:15 U+2615 HOT BEVERAGE 15:19:19 ah 15:19:45 so not what my initial thought was then :) 15:19:54 * xnox ogra_: there is scribe team for ghostwritting ;-) hot beverage! I want an iced tea ;-) 15:20:10 infinity: FYI the per-archive scoring will basically be: 15:20:13 archive = whatever 15:20:40 archive.relative_build_score # fetch attribute to work around bug 662740 15:20:40 cjwatson: I was actually more interested in the bullet point about finally dropping python-minimal out of Essential. \o/ 15:20:41 Launchpad bug 662740 in lazr.restfulclient "Setting an attribute on a shim object without first reading an attribute causes a crash" [Low,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/662740 15:20:47 archive.relative_build_score = whatever 15:20:49 archive.lp_save() 15:21:13 infinity: it's still in prio required though ;) 15:21:20 Oh. 15:21:25 Less excited. 15:21:45 ogra_: pile of poo is a different unicode character 15:21:46 Though I guess dpkg won't complain if you remove it. 15:22:11 slangasek, heh, yeah, but its small enough to misread it in my xchat :) 15:22:20 bug #820034 15:22:21 Launchpad bug 820034 in Ubuntu Font Family "Expansion: Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs U+1F4A9" [Wishlist,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/820034 15:23:03 any more questions about any of the above? 15:23:04 *grin* 15:23:39 [TOPIC] Bugs 15:23:46 * ogra_ likes the elegant aspect in that bug :) 15:24:27 bdmurray: anything showing up yet to worry about for 12.10? 15:24:40 slangasek: no not yet 15:25:15 there are a few bugs jibel's been escalating to us based on the auto-tests... I need to pin down this debootstrap one today 15:25:24 I'm about to look at bug 1003443 15:25:25 Launchpad bug 1003443 in ubiquity (Ubuntu Quantal) "Ubuntu Quantal Desktop 21120523 failed to install" [Critical,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1003443 15:25:34 * slangasek nods 15:25:52 May be an HD fault as the error suggests, but might as well check 15:26:01 right 15:26:09 And I'm just fixing bug 1003440 now 15:26:11 Launchpad bug 1003440 in ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu Quantal) "Unicode characters in language list" [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1003440 15:26:18 the debootstrap bug is bug #1001460 15:26:19 Launchpad bug 1001460 in sysvinit (Ubuntu Quantal) "preinst fails in d-i" [Critical,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/1001460 15:26:34 which I still have no idea how that's happening :P 15:26:50 Have you had a chance to compare against a /var/log/bootstrap.log for precise? 15:26:53 (hints accepted, if someone knows) 15:27:00 cjwatson: hmm, no, good idea 15:27:38 The one I have to hand shows makedev successfully running insserv, so not just the set +e => -e thing I pointed out 15:27:46 But that dates from 2011-12-20 15:27:59 Aha 15:27:59 successfully *running* insserv? 15:28:08 Here's one from 2012-03-20: 15:28:14 Selecting previously unselected package makedev. 15:28:14 Unpacking makedev (from .../makedev_2.3.1-89ubuntu2_all.deb) ... 15:28:14 update-rc.d: using dependency based boot sequencing 15:28:14 Can't exec "insserv": No such file or directory at /usr/sbin/update-rc.d line 402. 15:28:17 update-rc.d: error: insserv rejected the script header 15:28:21 hmm 15:28:28 So this was happening in precise too and it's just the -e change 15:28:31 ah 15:28:37 ok, thanks 15:28:39 didnt stokachu fix that in latest insserv 15:28:40 There's proximate cause for you, not so much with the root cause 15:28:42 I'll fix sysvinit then :) 15:28:56 ogra_: what he fixed was to make insserv disappear from the path because third-parties mistook it for an interface 15:29:01 ah 15:29:21 * ogra_ just remembered something update-rc.d from precise 15:29:28 +related 15:29:55 so anyway, yeah, I should be able to work it out from there - thanks cjwatson 15:30:01 Robbie seems to have some valid points on the bug ~6h ago. 15:30:18 Robie, even. Silly people and their lack of Bs. 15:30:30 bdmurray: anything on the 12.04.1 front? 15:30:46 stgraber: or anything you know about for 12.04.1 that you need help with? 15:30:48 There are a lot of these kinds of loops in the base system 15:31:05 slangasek: not much their either yet 15:31:07 But yeah, possibly 15:31:27 slangasek: not at this time. I've been looking at the pending SRUs, trying to get them through quickly, but most of my time is currently going on trying to have the iso tracker work done ASAP 15:31:35 (so I can then focus more on 12.04.1) 15:31:38 ok 15:32:06 (I guess that includes the "iso" tracker work that gives us a framework for SRU verifications?) 15:34:22 [TOPIC] Blueprints 15:34:47 not much to say on my side... but figured I'd bring up the topic in case anyone has concerns to discuss 15:34:56 hopefully the drafting is all done by now 15:35:02 (anyone not done with drafting?) 15:35:08 slangasek: yeah 15:35:36 slangasek: (that yeah applies to the part about framework for SRU verification) 15:35:41 * slangasek nods 15:35:49 hardware-notifications needs drafting still on my side. 15:35:53 * xnox sorry. 15:36:00 depends where you draw the line 15:36:07 i still need pretty wikipages 15:36:15 Wis are there 15:36:25 xnox: 'sok 15:36:41 I've drafted the work items, but some can't be broken down into <= 2 day chunks without spending quite some time on the design and I'm not even sure we're planning to do some of them, so... 15:36:45 ogra_: WIs are a good start, as that gives us pretty graphs :) 15:36:52 :) 15:36:58 with the exception of the server installer bits, I think I'm pretty much done 15:37:03 ok 15:37:25 sounds like we're in pretty good shape overall then 15:38:09 jodh: that's still ok for this point in the cycle, don't worry about it - and yes, we'll drill down into the question of which ones to do 15:38:20 [TOPIC] AOB 15:38:28 slangasek: ok, thanks! 15:38:28 Anything else to discuss? 15:38:39 I'm out next monday 15:38:50 next monday is a usa holiday 15:38:52 yep 15:38:53 should we discuss the "on hold" music for next time? ;) 15:38:53 arent most of us ? 15:38:57 so I'm out too next Monday 15:39:07 german holiday too 15:39:12 ! 15:39:17 why does Germany get TWO holidays in May 15:39:19 I'm in Hong Kong next week. 15:39:23 so not fair 15:39:27 slangasek, merkel 15:39:31 haha 15:39:53 * xnox uk has Queens jubilee the week after a believe or something 15:40:00 * barry fondly remembers mlk day and presidents day :) 15:40:16 barry: I remember them being in a crappy season ;) 15:40:21 :-D 15:40:37 #endmeeting Generated by MeetBot 0.1.5 (http://wiki.ubuntu.com/meetingology)