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Server Team 20120103 meeting minutes

Январь 4th, 2012

The meeting minutes with full irc log can also be found here.

Agenda

  • Review ACTION points from previous meeting
    • No action items
  • Precise Development
  • Ubuntu Server Team Events
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)
  • Weekly Updates & Questions regarding Ubuntu ARM Server (NCommander)
  • Weekly Updates & Questions from the Ubuntu Community
  • Open Discussion
  • Announce next meeting date and time

Minutes

Meeting Actions

  • rbasak to try precise on pandaboard
  • hallyn to swap rbasak for NCommander in arm agenda section

Review Actions from previous meeting

There were no action items from the previous meeting.

Precise Development

Daviey pointed to http://status.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/ubuntu-server/release-bugs.html and http://status.qa.ubuntu.com/reports/ubuntu-server/triage-report.html need some love. rbasak agreed to take bug 906735 (“package installation should create /var/log/puppet”), and SpamapS thought bug 898340 (“mysql clients statically link libmysqlclient in”) should be on the release radar.

adam_g completed charms for openstack, and SpamapS will review.

jamespage is off the stable rotation now, and will have time to work on the CI lab.

Daviey asked that everyone look for good bug targets for next week.

Ubuntu Server Team Events

Next week, some of the server team will be sprinting in Budapest, and Fosdem

Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)

jamespage put a few new iso install tests live, so we now have daily testing. patrickmw has put up a new precise dashboard reporting daily testing results at https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com. Precise ec2 images are broken due to a kernel oops (bug 911204). smb believes xen guests were broken by some upstream rtc changes. Openstack automated testing should be picking up in the next few days.

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)

Bug 902951 (“CONFIG_VIRTIO_BLK shouldnt be a module”) was brought up, but appears to be stalled.

Weekly Updates & Questions regarding Ubuntu ARM Server (NCommander)

Daviey is concerned that ARM kernel bugs will be found late in the cycle. rbasak therefore agreed to try precise on a pandaboard.

Open Discussion

rbasak asked about bug 858878 (“lack of csrf protection in cobbler-web”). RoAkSoAx says it’s a security issue and therefore goes through a different process than SRUs, so he can’t do any more to kick it. adam_g asked zul to bake the next openstack snapshot in a ppa for a few days before the friday release.

Agree on next meeting date and time

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, Jan 17 at 16:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.



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Server team 20100629 meeting minutes

Июль 2nd, 2010

== Agenda ==

Please take responsibility for an item if you are adding it, thus we can turn to you when the item crops up. :)

Chair/Scribe will be: hallyn

Items we will be discussing:

* Review ACTION points from previous meeting
* ttx to coordinate testing for Alpha 2
* smoser to chase IS regarding cjwatson’s access and improving https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UEC/Images/Publishing
* jjohansen to ask kamal to email ubuntu-server mailing list with results of atop patchset
* jjohansen, tim or andy to email ccheney and Daviey with test kernels for bug #588861
* People to subscribe to the test coverage for http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/build/ubuntuserver/all
* hggdh to email interested parties about the results of the ppa euca build
* jjohansen to follow up on bug #TBC – EC2 kernel (lucid/maverick kernel ?)
* zul to mail the ubuntu-server mailing list with the SRU nomination process, and document his process from there
* Maverick development (ttx)
* Alpha2 [[http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/maverick/canonical-server-maverick-alpha-2.html|subcycle status]]: Specs should at 90-100% completion now (flag remaining work items needing to be postponed)
* Alpha2-milestoned [[https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+bugs?field.milestone=27560|bugs]]:
* Bug Bug:588410: dynamic block storage should use virtio
* Bug Bug:595421: Eucalyptus doesn’t start with latest stable version of “Groovy”
* Bug Bug:574554: tgtd needs init script or upstart job
* [[http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/maverick/canonical-server-maverick-alpha-3.html|Alpha3 subcycle]] starts Friday
* Alpha2 [[http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/build/ubuntuserver/all|ISO testing coverage]] (ttx)
* smoser: EC2 images
* kirkland/Daviey/ccheney: Maverick UEC topologies, UEC Maverick images (on Lucid UEC), Netboot tests
* hallyn/mathiaz/SpamapS/zul: non-UEC Ubuntu Server tests, Upgrade server
* ttx/hggdh: random testing, cover holes in testing, replace missing people
* Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)
* Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (jjohansen)
* Bug Bug:588861: “pad block corrupted” error with >=2.6.34 kernel
* atop kernel patch
* Maverick EC2 kernel issue (LP: #??)
* Bug Bug:576066: ums-cypress.ko missing from server installer
* Weekly Updates & Questions for the Documentation Team (sommer)
* Papercuts status (ttx)
* Alpha2 [[https://launchpad.net/server-papercuts/+milestone/maverick-alpha-2|iteration final status]]
* Alpha3 [[https://launchpad.net/server-papercuts/+milestone/maverick-alpha-3|iteration]] starts Friday, assign yourself
* Weekly SRU review: [[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/KnowledgeBase#SRU%20weekly%20review]] (zul)
* New [[http://people.canonical.com/~chucks/SRUTracker/sru-tracker-bugs.html|SRU Tracker]]
* New SRU process ?
* Open Discussion
* Announce next meeting date and time
* Tuesday 2010-07-06 at 1800 UTC – #ubuntu-meeting

Please feel free to add more items to the agenda for the next meeting. We will discuss them in turn when it arrives.

== Minutes ==

==== Review ACTION points from previous meeting ====

* ttx to coordinate testing for Alpha 2
* done
* smoser to chase IS regarding cjwatson’s access and improving
* done
* jjohansen to ask kamal to email ubuntu-server mailing list with results of atop patchset
* kamal did basic testing
* jjohansen emailed jos, and ttx, and sent an email to k-t for discussion
* [ACTION] jjohansen to send email regarding atop patchset
* jjohansen, tim or andy to email ccheney and Daviey with test kernels for bug #588861
* this was DONE and fixed.
* Daviey notes that the kernel team and ccheney rock
* hggdh to email interested parties about the results of the ppa euca build
* tests still being run on latest & greatest version of the patch. So far, so good
* right now, ~400 instances, no issue
* jjohansen to follow up on bug #TBC – EC2 kernel (lucid/maverick kernel ?)
* Launchpad bug 597387 in Ubuntu “pv-ops kernel only works in 3 or 4 zones in EC2″ [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/597387
* zul to mail the ubuntu-server mailing list with the SRU nomination process, and document his process from there
* done

==== Maverick development (ttx) ====
* http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/maverick/canonical-server-maverick-alpha-2.html
* Specs should be at 90-100% now
* Alpha2-milestoned bugs
* Launchpad bug 588410 in eucalyptus (Ubuntu Maverick) “dynamic block storage should use virtio” [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/588410
* Launchpad bug 595421 in eucalyptus (Ubuntu Maverick) “Eucalyptus doesn’t start with latest stable version of “Groovy”" [High,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/595421
* Launchpad bug 574554 in tgt (Ubuntu Maverick) “tgtd needs init script or upstart job” [Medium,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/574554
* Alpha3 subcycle starts Friday
* http://people.canonical.com/~pitti/workitems/maverick/canonical-server-maverick-alpha-3.html
* [ACTION] mathiaz to provide work items for Alpha3 on his specs by Thursday
* Launchpad bug 586638 in libmemcached (Ubuntu) “[MIR] libmemcached” [Undecided,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/586638
* SpamapS to ask kees whether it’s good to seed

==== Alpha2 ISO testing coverage (ttx) ====
* alpha2 milestone candidates should hit us RSN
* smoser will cover the EC2 images
* kirkland/Daviey/ccheney: Maverick UEC topologies, UEC Maverick images (on Lucid UEC), Netboot tests
* hallyn/mathiaz/SpamapS/zul: non-UEC Ubuntu Server tests, Upgrade server
* ttx/hggdh: random testing, cover holes in testing, replace missing people
* ttx will replace mathiaz

==== Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (jjohansen) ====
* Launchpad bug 588861 in linux (Ubuntu Maverick) “”pad block corrupted” error when trying to register an image with 2.6.34 kernel” [High,Fix committed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/588861
* atop kernel patch
* will send email to server list
* Maverick EC2 kernel issue
* at this point we’ll have Lucidish kernels in A2
* we will have a kernel for A3
* Launchpad bug 576066 in linux (Ubuntu) “ums_cypress missing from lucid server cd” [Undecided,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/576066
* jjohansen will prioritize appropriately

==== Weekly Updates & Questions for the Documentation Team (sommer) ====
* ttx: sommer: did you fix the refresh issue ?
* [ACTION] sommer to ping mdke again, through email this time

==== Papercuts status (ttx) ====
* 14 targets – 10 fixed, 2 postponed, 2 invalidated
* ttx processed the numerous nominations for A3 and decided to choose 18 among the 18 valid ones
* https://launchpad.net/server-papercuts/+milestone/maverick-alpha-3
* You should each have ~2 bugs assigned to you in that list
* [ACTION] everyone to assign themselves to 2 papercuts from https://launchpad.net/server-papercuts/+milestone/maverick-alpha-3

==== Weekly SRU review: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/KnowledgeBase#SRU%20weekly%20review (zul) ====
* http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/ubuntu-server-team/fixedbugs.ubuntu-server.latest.html
* Launchpad bug 576949 in mysql-dfsg-5.1 (Ubuntu) “[lucid] LOAD DATA INFILE fails in replication, simple patch available in 5.1.43″ [Medium,In progress]
* zul+ttx agree it is a candidate
* Launchpad bug 597818 in dovecot (Ubuntu) “Include files parsed in reverse order” [Undecided,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/597818
* zul says looks good to him
* Launchpad bug 589056 in net-snmp (Ubuntu) “snmpd fails to upgrade” [High,Fix released] https://launchpad.net/bugs/589056
* ttx will nominate for lucid

==== Agree on next meeting date and time ====

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, July 6th at 15:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.



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Server Team 20100407 meeting minutes

Апрель 8th, 2010

Beta2 milestone release (ttx)

  • Beta2 will be released tomorrow (Thursday 2010-04-08). Server is looking good.
  • Some Beta2 tasks still remain .

  • 531494 has been fixed, and we are going to give ramdisk-free UEC and EC2 images one last chance. The 20100107.1 build will not have ramdisks and testing should be done both on EC2 and UEC for that. If we run into issues that look related to lack of ramdisk we will revert to using ramdisks for beta-2 and release.

RC/Final preparation (ttx)

  • Release occurs at the end of the month. Priority until then is:
    • Release-critical bugs
    • Continued specs (eucalyptus-merging, uec-testing, puppet-ec2)
    • Lucid targets of opportunity
  • List of all critical bugs are available at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/ReleaseStatus

  • The FinalFreeze is next week. Please pay special attention during triaging to catch release-critical issues. Feel free to subscribe ttx to those bugs.

  • openldap is in need of some work, regarding update from hardy, per mathiaz “sticky point is the conversion from slapd.conf cn=config”

Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)

  • Test cases in iso tracker have been recently updated.

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (jjohansen)

Weekly SRU review: (mathiaz)

Call for Maverick blueprints (ttx)

  • Maverick UDS is in a bit less than a month.
  • To register a blueprint, name it server-maverick-* and set Jos Boumans as the approval.

Open Discussion

  • RoAkSoAx pointed out “Cluster Packages are getting into Debian. Those include ivoks changes… they should be hitting Debian unstable soon, though I’m not sure if they are going to do so in time for us to sync/merge”. In lucid, cluster-agents, cluster-glue, heartbeat are still in universe . RoaAkSoAx will be looking more into this.

  • [ACTION] ttx to follow up with ivoks/RoaKSoax on cluster stack state

  • Per zul, mysql-server-5.0 removal is ready to go in after freeze is lifted.
  • [ACTION] mathiaz to propose removal of dovecot-postfix on MLs

  • mathaiz proposal to drop the ubuntu-serverguide from the archive, was generally met with unhappyness. sommer is planning a SRU update to address the ldap changes, which is the most out of date.
  • Please sponsor packages : http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/sponsoring/

Agree on next meeting date and time

Next meeting will be on Wednesday, April 14th at 14:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.



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Ubuntu Server update for Lucid Alpha3

Январь 26th, 2010

Last week the Lucid Alpha3 development phase 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.

Alpha3 Projects

Since the upcoming release is an LTS, a lot of this cycles work is centered around stability. Currently, we’re broadly targeting the following 3 areas:

Software integration
Improving our UEC & EC2 experience
QA & testing

There are also a few community driven specs which are targeted for the Lucid release:

The full list of blueprints related to these targets and our progress can be found on the server team wiki or on our work item tracker.

Feedback & Involvement

If you have any suggestions for AWS libraries in PHP/Perl/Python or are interested in packaging/contributing a library in another language, please let us know in the RFC thread

To make the most of our Server Papercuts project, please participate in the email discussion and nominate papercuts and/or volunteer to fix them!

To help us track down bugs and crashes better, we’re adding apport hooks to several key pieces of software. If you’d like to implement any of those hooks or contribute your own, please let us know in
the blueprint.

The Ubuntu Cluster Stack spec has issued a call for testing and would love to hear about your experiences.


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The Ubuntu Server team looks at improving bug report quality with more apport hooks

Январь 18th, 2010

The big number of Ubuntu bugs can sometimes be overwhelming. Providing high quality bugs can help in getting the bugs triaged and fixed faster. This is where Apport comes into the game – a tool used to automatically generate crash reports for debugging. Apport can be extended via hooks to provide specific information on a per package basis. For example the Ubuntu Server team added hooks for MySQL during the Karmic release cycle. Relevant logs as well as configuration information are automatically added to every bug reported against the mysql package.

If you have ideas about adding apport hooks for other server related packages let the Ubuntu Server team know. Add it to the wiki page, look up how to write apport hooks and prepare a patch – or better a bzr branch. The Ubuntu Server team will review it and help you integrate your work into the archive.


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The Ubuntu Server team looks at improving bug report quality with more apport hooks

Январь 18th, 2010

The big number of Ubuntu bugs can sometimes be overwhelming. Providing high quality bugs can help in getting the bugs triaged and fixed faster. This is where Apport comes into the game – a tool used to automatically generate crash reports for debugging. Apport can be extended via hooks to provide specific information on a per package basis. For example the Ubuntu Server team added hooks for MySQL during the Karmic release cycle. Relevant logs as well as configuration information are automatically added to every bug reported against the mysql package.

If you have ideas about adding apport hooks for other server related packages let the Ubuntu Server team know. Add it to the wiki page, look up how to write apport hooks and prepare a patch – or better a bzr branch. The Ubuntu Server team will review it and help you integrate your work into the archive.


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