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After a stable version is released, additional bugs will be found. Some
of them qualify for an SRU, but a lot of them won't. Perhaps they're not
critical enough, the risc of regression is too high, the bug is down in
the infrastructure, it's just a minor annoyance for a few users, etc.

Yet I believe fixing those bugs would make a lot of Ubuntu users happy.

Right now we deal with that situation mainly by letting our users search
around for a ppa where the bug is fixed. That's a little risky from a
security point of view, and perhaps not as user-friendly as we would
like.

Howdy-

I'm looking for a bit of advice from the ubuntu-devel audience...

As many of you are aware, KVM is the preferred, supported hypervisor
in Ubuntu, but that it takes a CPU with a particular feature (svm|vmx)
to use.

A few years ago, we used to point our users to documentation to
determine if their CPU was capable of running KVM. In Ubuntu, we
strive to do better than that. So we created /usr/bin/kvm-ok, a
simple posix shell script that will tell a user if their CPU is
capable of VT, and furthermore, if this has been either disabled in
BIOS or if the kernel module is not loaded.

Hi all its almost that time again,

The time where your inbox and IRC client are flooded with myself
and/or akgraner asking you to lead an OpenWeek Session. OpenWeek has
grown since it's inception, so much so that we even have a program
guide and want to ensure that everyone has an opportunity to run a
session if they'd like. We're going to be doing this in a "Call for
Papers" style Call for Sessions.

This leaves out the class of submitter that is currently very motivated around one or two bugs, but has no current intent to become an Ubuntu developer. I think this unfortunate for two reasons:

1. It misses a good chance to get a fix into the archive.

2. It misses the chance for people who think they don't think they want to become Ubuntu developers to discover they are wrong.

Scott K

=== Scott James Remnant ===

* In bed with Flu monday/tuesday :-(
* Fixed the rsyslog 100% CPU issue; due to the design of rsyslogd it wasn't possible to have it refuse to drop permissions, instead I had to make it disable the klog plugin if a zero-byte read() returned -EPERM
* Patched Upstart to mount /proc and /sys itself on boot, solving all the annoying issues where things like mountall and ureadahead need it
* usb-modeswitch discussion
* Helping OEM team out with issues related to Plymouth
* Been working on Plymouth's VT issues, and trying to understand the complex interplay between

So the choices are:

1. Tag it patch and it goes into the pile of 2,000 undifferienciated patches that someone will get today someday.

2. Subscribe the sponsors queue and we expect you're working on becoming an Ubuntu developer and to work all the way through to an uploadable package.

Do we really want to cast sponsorship that narrowly?

Scott K

I am glad to announce that Scott Howard (showard) has joined the
ranks of Contributing Developers. Scott has been working with
bugsquad for some time, with additional direct involvement in GNOME
and Debian. Recent work in Ubuntu has been with gnome-power-manager
and the MOTU Science team. He looks forward to working more with
science packages both in Debian and Ubuntu. Please welcome him to the
team!

= Meeting Minutes =
[[http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/03/02/%23ubuntu-meeting.txt|IRC Log of the meeting.]]

== Agenda ==
[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues, 03 March, 2010|20100203 Meeting Agenda]]

=== Outstanding actions from last meeting ===
* None

=== Release Metrics ===

* Bugs (Release Meeting Bugs / RC Milestoned Bugs / Release Targeted Bugs)
|| || Beta 1 Milestoned Bugs || Release Targeted Bugs ||
||linux || 8 || 18 ||
||linux-fsl-imx51 || 1 || 1

Hello Ubuntu Developers!

My name is Draycen, and I am currently working on bug triaging.

We're rapidly pushing toward an excellent Ubuntu 10.04 LTS release,
and we have made a few improvements in the way your Encrypted Home's
metadata is stored.

If you configured your Encrypted Home with Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) or
Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid), then no action is required, -- you may stop
reading here.

If you're not sure, and you want to check if you need to read this
email, take a look at your /var/lib/ecryptfs directory.

Hello all

Debian [1] is doing/done transition to hdf5-1.8.4. As per output on my
lucid machine various packages packages are not installable eg.
octave3.0-headers, hdf5utils etc. Got my attention because of the bug
[2].

Is the hdf5 1.8.3 -> 1.8.4 transition planned / started? If yes where
can I follow up and help? If not shall I start one by figuring out all
needed no-source change uploads and making a meta-bug for it?

Context:
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-<...> at lists dot debian.org/msg34030.html
[2] https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/h5utils/+bug/527110

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= Jamie Strandboge =
Role: happy place

== Issue Tracking ==
* bug triage
* CVE triage

== Updates ==
* firefox update: test, publish USN-895-1 and USN-896-1
* review sponsored uploads
* xmlrpc-c update:
- test, publish USN-890-5
- write test-xmlrpc-c.py for QRT

== Technology Development ==
* AppArmor
- on upgrades, prepopulate apparmor/homedirs if it is not preseeded.
Will check /etc/passwd for UIDs >= 1000 and < 30000 for unique
dirnames of home directories that are not /home.

= Meeting Minutes =
[[http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2010/02/23/%23ubuntu-meeting.txt|IRC Log of the meeting.]]

== Agenda ==
[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues, 23 February, 2010|20102302 Meeting Agenda]]

=== Outstanding actions from last meeting ===
* None

=== Release Metrics ===

* Bugs (Release Meeting Bugs / RC Milestoned Bugs / Release Targeted Bugs)
|| || Alpha 3 Milestoned Bugs || Release Targeted Bugs ||
||linux || 2 || 15 ||
||linux-fsl-imx51 || 3 || 3

Hi,

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online with
the irc logs here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20100217.

Hi,

Ubuntu includes several Perl module packages that do not adhere Debian's
naming policy[1]. Once Debian includes these modules in a differently
named package, there are problems if one tries to install both packages
at the same time. See [2] or [3] for examples.

It is cumbersome to solve these bugs: to correctly address these issues,
one would have to add an "Replaces: ", creating an
unnecessary diversion from Debian.

To avoid these problems, Ubuntu should rename the packages not yet
adhering to the naming policy.

Hi,
Yesterday i've tried to install lucid on my notebook (thinkpad T61 with
Nvidia Quadro NVS 140M graphics). I've installed it via the live image,
because I need during the installation, and i didn't get managed it to
get this work with the alternate disk (my preferred way, because of the
lvm support). First I tried the daily image. But if lucid switches in
graphic mode (X starts) the show was over.... just some colored pixels
all over the sceen... :( I was able to change the caonsoles but there
was no activated one...

After several months working on testing and integration, last night we
officially transitioned from -nv to -nouveau. If you own nvidia
hardware and are not using the proprietary drivers, you will be affected
by this change.

The principle reason we made this move is because -nouveau is more
actively developed upstream than -nv, and is as good or better than -nv
functionally.

Bonjour,

Ref. Rick's announcement "change #2 is changing the default search provider
in Firefox to Yahoo!", I understand the economics behind it, but, as it has
been voiced in forums, since Yahoo! now works hand in hand with Microsoft,
how can a main supporter of the Linux community like Canonical strike a
derive deal with Microsoft. Most upsetting. It's like IBM relying on Bing
for its search engines.

Because it not all about economics, but strategy also.

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Hi,

Here are the minutes of last week's meeting, sorry for the delay.

Dear colleagues,

Linux Verification Center at the Institute for System Programming of RAS
and the Linux Foundation have released a free unit test generator for
shared C/C++ library API. It helps to quickly generate simple ("sanity"
or "shallow"-quality) tests for all functions from the library API using
their signatures and data type definitions straight from the library
header files.

There was some dissension about the best way to handle a fakesync
in #ubuntu-motu today, and a few of us talked about why we might
fakesync, and what should happen to the package after fakesync. It
appears that the term "fakesync" is currently used in a couple of
different contexts, and that there are several different practices in
place on how to best perform a fakesync, which results in some
confusion when someone asks about them, and requires more intervention
in later review of the package than is strictly necessary.

Hi all,

Do you have Nvidia graphcis hardware? If so we need your help.

Nouveau is nearly ready for Lucid. Us Ubuntu-X guys have been testing
this on our own hardware with decent results. We need more people to
test this. We need you!

Paint-by-number directions for installing and testing nouveau are
available here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Testing/NouveauEvaluation

There is also a table at the bottom for you to list your testing
results.

Bryce

In an effort to address the volume of unfixed bugs with patches we have
created an Ubuntu Review Team[1] for reviewing them. I’ve written a
launchpadlib script that is subscribing the team to any bugs with
patches where the patch has been added after February 1st. Depending on
the throughput of that queue we will start subscribing the team to older
patches. You can view the bugs the team is currently subscribed in
Launchpad[2].

The team is also setup with a mailing list[3] for receiving bug mail. By
subscribing to the mailing list you will receive notification of these
bugs with patches.

Dear developers,

I want to contribute my idea: please make any change an option.

For example, you shouldn't make Yahoo the default search engine like
you plan in 10.4
(https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/sounder/2010-February/013860.html).
Instead, you should pop out a dialogue: "which is your preferred
search engine?" during or soon after the installation. Of course I can
change it later, but it's annoying to encounter a hateful thing which
you are expected to start using rich away.

Hi

Recenty the Debian PHP 5.3 packages entered unstable, which means that
the next release of Debian will have PHP 5.3 for their next release.

Hello everybody,

with some help of James Westby, I ported the sponsoring overview to make
use of package sets yesterday:

http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/

1. So in the "origin" column you will see which package set a bug comes
from (and branches once the branch for bug 411357 has landed). Ignore
the '-' for now, they are component mismatches or packages for stable
releases.

2.

= Jamie Strandboge =
Role: happy place

== Issue Tracking ==
* bug triage
* CVE triage

== Updates ==
* python-xml update: analyze, patch, build, test publish USN-890-4
* xmlrpc-c update: analyze, patch, build
* dhcp3: analyze, patch, build, test publish USN-803-2
* UST: add check to umt's compare-log to help catch things like the
dhcp3 issue

== Technology Development ==
* AppArmor
* libvirt
- merge 0.7.5 from Debian
- fix LP: #513544 (libvirt 0.7.5 crashed on first virt-manager
connection)
- fix crash on restart if domain is using PCI devices
- fix MAC_ADMIN

= Jamie Strandboge =
Role: triager

== Issue Tracking ==
* bug triage
* CVE triage

== Updates ==
* transmission
* develop patches for intrepid and hardy
* test, publish USN-885-1

== Technology Development ==
* AppArmor
* /usr alias
* clean up aa-decode
* rewrite apparmor-notify
* discover/file LP: #507069 (aa-status is wrong for unconfined
processes)
* test LP: #484148 (apparmor profile freezes Firefox when using Java)
on Lucid (still affected).

I was earlier able to install the nouveau drivers from the xorg edgers
ppa on lucid lynx but with the 2.6.33 daily mainline builds. However
since yesterday it seems it forces to install the 2.6.32 backports and
kernel and there is no way to use it with the mainline kernels 2.6.33
xxxx even tried building from the sources
can you advise me on this
please

Has there been any discussion about the creation of this team?

All I know is I'm getting mail about it in my inbox, it was apparently created
by someone who joined launchpad yesterday, and a very large stack of Ubuntu
teams have been invited to join:

https://launchpad.net/~bug-elevation-team/+members

https://launchpad.net/~r12056

Could we not do this?

Scott K

Hello everyone,

For those that don't know about it already, the "Server papercuts"
project aims at identifying and fixing Server usability issues and minor
annoyances that make the life of the Ubuntu Server sysadmin more
miserable than it should be.

Microsoft Support [2010-02-02 9:02 -0500]:

One question, was this just a slip in moderation, or do spammers have
a new way of circumventing the user filter on the list now?

Thanks,

Martin

Do you have a *nVIDIA* or *ATI* graphics card? Do you want to help
ensure users have a smooth experience if they choose to use the
proprietary drivers?

We are looking for committed volunteers to test nVIDIA and ATI
proprietary drivers on a weekly basis. The goal of this testing is to
catch regressions early in the cycle, and fix bugs before they reach a
major audience.

If you want to be part of the team you will need:

1. A computer with an ATI (R600 or newer) or nVIDIA (GeForce series 2)
graphics card
2.

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I wanna customize netbook remix for regional purposes.

I tried to download netbook remix source with:

*sudo apt-get build-dep ubuntu-netbook-remix *

and

*sudo apt-get source ubuntu-netbook-remix*

is gave a folder *unr-meta-1.171*

and i have faintest idea what to do with it.

If anyone can hint me a quick start for my goal i can proceed further with
my endeavor.

Thanks,

Parth J Joshi

Hi,

virt-manager, while being perhaps the only decent GUI for managing
KVM/Xen/QEMU guests in Ubuntu, is largely unmaintained. Bugs pile up
that we do very little about.
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virt-manager
* 113 bugs, 70+ untriaged

This is primarily due to the nature of virt-manager... It's *really*
a graphical desktop application (python-gtk), but mostly falls under
the domain of the Ubuntu Server Team, which does not deal with
graphical applications, and thus virt-manager does not get the
attention it deserves.

Review Action Points from Previous Meeting

The actions were assigned at the previous meeting:

Action: smoser to publish karmic cloud image refresh (done) Action:
Everyone: update status for your specs before the meeting starts (few
left to do) Action: ttx, zul to blog about papercuts, make sure UWN gets
the word (done) Action: ttx to send email about criteria and nomination
to ubuntu-devel, ubuntu-server Action: smoser to raise thread about the
no-ramdisk / -virtual config tradeoff (done) Action: zul, kirkland to
unassign themselves from "maybe working on one day" bugs (done)

Alpha3 s

Hi,

FeatureFreeze is less than a month away, so the discussion over
restaffing the current MOTU Release team, which is a short of members
[1], brought up the topic how best to deal with release decisions in
light of Permissions Reorg.

I've (only) talked to Daniel so far and we came up with the following possible
alternatives:

- Flavours like Kubuntu can approve their own members, so it would
make sense to let them make decisions in terms of freeze exceptions
too.

All -

I am writing to apprise you of two small but important changes coming to
Firefox in Lucid. I have asked the desktop team to start preparing
these changes to make them available in Lucid as soon as reasonably
possible. Probably on the order of weeks.

Change #1
In Lucid, the default home page will respect the search provider
settings that you have set in the "Chrome". (The "Chrome" is Mozilla's
term for the little search box to the upper right, reachable by
control-K, for instance).

2010/1/19 Chow Loong Jin <<...> at ubuntu dot com>:

Hi,

I reviewed around 50 of these reports and here is the result.

Firstly, nearly half of the reports are not in english. It's not easy
to find a pattern to identify and process those reports.

I haven't watched the video, but scanned over the slides and found them
interesting:

http://commonspace.wordpress.com/2010/01/18/learning-from-10-yrs-of-bugz...

"Diederik van Liere is a postdoc at Toronto’s Rotman School of Business. His
passion: finding out whether open source communities actually make software
better, faster. With this in mind he’s taken an in depth look at 10 years of
bugzilla.mozilla.org data to look for bug fixing patterns."

Is anyone up for doing (or arranging) a similar analysis of Ubuntu bugs?

Hi,

The machine which hosts the Ubuntu Community Team Wiki
( and its Kubuntu and Edubuntu variants)
requires some emergency hardware maintenance. As a result, these
wikis will be down from 10:00AM -> 10:30AM UTC, this Wednesday (27th
January).

We apologize for any inconvenience this causes.

The Ubuntu Documentation wiki () runs on
another machine and will be unaffected by this maintenance.

Thanks, /N

Hi,

this week the Lucid Alpha3 development phase has started. So in
following our Alpha2 announcement, below is what's on the horizon
for Alpha3; some of these are new blueprints for Alpha3, some are
continued work from Alpha2.

You can find the full release schedule for Lucid here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseSchedule

== Alpha3 Projects ==

Since the upcoming release is an LTS, a lot of this cycles work is
centered around stability.

It's just been pointed out to me that one of the possible implications of
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-lucid-new-fir...
support-model is that Ubuntu would ship xulrunner in Universe to support
rdepends that we don't want to remove.

The history of xulrunner in Universe is very poor in terms of maintenance and
security support. An LTS release is not the time for this. I think it either
needs to be in Main or removed.

Hey

libvirt-bin requires netcat-openbsd and ubuntu-minimal depends on
netcat. netcat is a transitional package since hardy which depends on
netcat-traditional, but netcat is also provided by netcat-openbsd and
netcat-traditional.

Hi,

Here are the minutes of the meeting.

Hi List,
I am facing problem with alacarte.