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Server Team 20110315 Meeting Minutes

Ubuntu Server Team Blog - Wed, 2011-03-16 18:31

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online
with the irc logs here.

Agenda

  • Review ACTION points from previous meeting
  1. Daviey to talk with wider docs team regarding translations
  • Natty Development
  • Ubuntu Server Team Events
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the Documentation Team (sommer)
  • Weekly Updates & Questions from the Ubuntu Community
  • Open Discussion
  • Announce next meeting date and time

Meeting Actions

  • ACTION: Daviey to talk with wider docs team regarding translations (deferred)
  • ACTION: Daviey to post another followup one euca-dhcp bug.
  • ACTION: smb to look into kernel fs modules config for bug 732046

Review ACTION points from previous meeting

  • ACTION: Daviey to talk with wider docs team regarding translations (deferred)

Natty Development

Apart from a few issues, in particular a dhcp bug in eucalyptus, and broken lxc container support with the latest openstack updates, Natty development is going well. ‘no OMG! issues…at least not yet ‘

Ubuntu Server Team Events

Planning is under way for an LXC development mini-conf. Location is undecided as yet. SpamapS will be speaking about ‘Run Drizzle on Your Narwhal’ on the 13th at http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2011/public/schedule/detail/17640. Ubuntu Cloud days (http://en.oreilly.com/mysql2011/public/schedule/detail/17640) are next week Wednesday and Thursday, Mar 23-24. Open Stack summit is next month, zul will likely be there.

Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)

Still blocked on euca (bug 717166). Daviey will post another followup one euca-dhcp bug.

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)

Last week smb was mainly working on multipath debugging and looking at proposed xen patches. There is some work to do for -virtual config work. The config needs to be improved to include filesystem modules. smoser and smb will discuss further offline.

Weekly Updates & Questions from the Ubuntu Community

kim0 mentioned Ubuntu Cloud Days is next week (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuCloudDays). We can add days to add more slots, so don’t be shy about proposing a topic. SpamapS may propose ensemble topics, with and without the ensemble team. ivoks mentioned that it would be nice to add vlan package to CD and possibly installed by default. This should be discussed at next UDS. ttx asked about the “Ubuntu Server Task Forces” (https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntutheproject-community-n-server. Daviey is says he absolutely is still looking at that.

Open Discussion

SpamapS feels that the meeting format could use streamlining. Perhaps this should be discussed at the next meeting. Please feel free to add it to the Agenda if you concur.

Agree on next meeting date and time

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, Mar 22nd at 16:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.


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Jenkins for Ubuntu: Call for Testing

Ubuntu Server Team Blog - Wed, 2011-03-02 21:17

(Reproduced from James Page’s blog post, a member of the Ubuntu Server Team)

Many of you may have wondered what I [James Page] have been doing since UDS-N; some of you may have know that I have been working on packaging Jenkins (nee Hudson) from source along with all of its build dependencies (all 80 of them).

After just over 3 months I’ve managed to get a 99% built from source Jenkins into the Hudson Ubuntu Testing PPA; this is core Jenkins only at this point in time; no plugins come bundled (although you can still install them using the Plugin Manager).

If you want to help out with testing, read on….

Getting started

So first things first; lets add the Jenkins testing PPA and install the jenkins package:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hudson-ubuntu/testing
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install jenkins

Wait some time and Jenkins should be up and running.

Accessing Jenkins

Once the package has installed you should be able to access Jenkins on http://localhost:8080 (or whatever server you installed it on).

Jenkins comes completely empty; no jobs, minimal configuration, no security.  Follow the normal Jenkins ‘Use Jenkins‘ guide to get started.

Reporting problems

This is a testing package so it ain’t going to be perfect. Please join the hudson-ubuntu-users team and subscribe to the mailing list on launchpad to discuss general issues and report problems.

You can also find me (jamespage) in #ubuntu-server on Freenode if you like to use IRC.

Whats still todo?

Well as I said this is 99% built from source; a few packages are either binary packages (built from jars) or packages that bundle their dependencies in the upstream source bundle. I’m working with upstream(s) to get these issues sorted.

That said, everything that is installed on your server or desktop in the jenkins package IS built from source. Offending packages are either used for testing or generating documentation during library builds.

I’m also going to start working on packaging a few core plugins from source (see the associated blueprint for details); for the time being you can download and install from within Jenkins. I will also create a patch so that this feature can be disable if required.  Please feel free to apply to join the team if you want to package a plugin.

The Future

Well ultimately probably the main Ubuntu archive and Debian; but lets leave that until next release….

And if you were wondering, Hudson renamed itself to Jenkins in late January (hence the Hudson name keeps creeping into this post).


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Main frozen for Natty Alpha-2

Ubuntu Release Blog - Tue, 2011-02-01 11:31

We’re due to release the second milestone of Natty on Thursday, and as usual have placed main in a “soft freeze”. Please be considerate with your uploads, try to improve the uninstallability situation, and work on targeted bugs. Thanks!

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Server Team 20110125 meeting minutes

Ubuntu Server Team Blog - Tue, 2011-01-25 19:16

Here are the minutes of the meeting. They can also be found online
with the irc logs here.

Meeting Actions

Other Topics

  • Reviewing the action for ALL to check for verification-needed bugs, the list has remained managable and the process seems mostly to be working.
  • Natty Development – Alpha2 is close, some WI’s may need to be postponed but nothing specific yet.
  • Kernel Team (smb) – EC2 t1.micro and i386 fixes for natty kernel are pending – should be in next kernel
  • SpamapS suggested adding an “Upcoming Events” section to the agenda for Ubuntu Server interested people to talk about and coordinate events they’ll be attending.
  • QA Team (hggdh), Community Team (kim0), and Documentation Team (sommer) representatives were all absent.

Agree on next meeting date and time

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, February 1 at 16:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.


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Alpha-2 coming next week

Ubuntu Release Blog - Tue, 2011-01-25 08:44

Next Thursday we are aiming for releasing the second Alpha milestone of Ubuntu Natty. Please help us to resolve the numerous targetted bugs.

Update: Originally announced for this week, I mixed up the schedule. Sorry about that!

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Ubuntu Server Meeting Minutes from 2011-01-18

Ubuntu Server Team Blog - Sat, 2011-01-22 01:00

Agenda

Review ACTION points from previous meeting
ALL: please check the SRU tracker for ‘needs-verification’ bugs

http://people.canonical.com/~chucks/SRUTracker/sru-tracker-bugs.html

Natty Development

Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Documentation Team (sommer)

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Ubuntu Community Team (kim0)
Open Discussion
Announce next meeting date and time
Tuesday, February 1 2011 16:00 UTC

Minutes

The last full meeting had resulted in no new actions. The only action item was “ALL: please check the SRU tracker for ‘needs-verification’ bug” at http://people.canonical.com/~chucks/SRUTracker/sru-tracker-bugs.html. This is carried forward at SpamapS’s suggestion. robbiew announced that Natty development is goin gwell and we’ve made great progress on work items.

smb is working on bug 686692 (natty kernel does not boot on ec2 t1.micro), but had not yet found a final solution. He also pushed a lucid SRU for bug 614853 (kernel panic divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP). Some discussion ensued on bug 704022 (“xen_emul_unplug=unnecessary on kernel cmdline is required in ec2 hvm”), to be continued offline.

Finally, the channel as a whole skillfully evaded the question “should ubuntu try to look like windows or Mac or neither?”.

Meeting Actions

ALL: please check the SRU tracker for ‘needs-verification’ bugs (carried over)

http://people.canonical.com/~chucks/SRUTracker/sru-tracker-bugs.html

Agree on next meeting date and time

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, January 25th at 16:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

Log

[16:01] #startmeeting
[16:01] Meeting started at 10:01. The chair is hallyn.
[16:01] Commands Available: [TOPIC], [IDEA], [ACTION], [AGREED], [LINK], [VOTE]
[16:01] *\o/* gooooo rally!
[16:01] hallyn: err, ok you can do it if you want.
[16:02] [TOPIC] Review ACTION points from previous meeting
[16:02] New Topic: Review ACTION points from previous meeting
[16:02] ALL: please check the SRU tracker for ‘needs-verification’ bugs
[16:02] http://people.canonical.com/~chucks/SRUTracker/sru-tracker-bugs.html
[16:02] LINK received: http://people.canonical.com/~chucks/SRUTracker/sru-tracker-bugs.html
[16:02] everyone rais your hands if you’re NOT guilty
[16:03] That one should, I think, roll forward for a bit longer so we remember that its important.
[16:03] at least until 10.04.2
[16:03] [ACTION] ALL: please check the SRU tracker for ‘needs-verification’ bugs
[16:03] ACTION received: ALL: please check the SRU tracker for ‘needs-verification’ bugs
[16:03] SpamapS: sounds good, i’ll try to remember to keep the link in with the action when i carry over
[16:04] robbiew to review ServerTeam wiki [carried over]
[16:04] i thought that was done?
[16:04] hm, is robbiew in?
[16:04] I recall him claiming he’d done it as well.
[16:04] o/
[16:04] hm, didn’t get updated on the meeting page…
[16:05] robbiew: ^ ServerTeam wiki all reviewed and uptodate?
[16:05] yeah i totally missed the boat on the server page
[16:06] yup…at least the external one
[16:06] zul: meaning action items aren’t updated? in that case let me search the logs for the real ction items
[16:07] Hi everyone!
[16:09] ShootEmUp: welcome!
[16:09] glad to be here
[16:10] feh, there, jan 4
[16:10] yay, there ARE no actions from the jan 4 meeting
[16:11] \o/
[16:11] so, barring objections (i.e. if i’m mistaken), i’ll move on
[16:11] none? what do they do in those meetings?
[16:11] [TOPIC] Natty Development
[16:11] New Topic: Natty Development
[16:11] ShootEmUp: play duke nukem
[16:11] robbiew: ^ over to you
[16:11] hallyn, what?
[16:12] * robbiew wonders why he covers the one topic he doesn’t do
[16:12] heh
[16:12] so we made great progress on work items
[16:12] charlie-tca!
[16:12] lots of Done’s, Postpones, and dropped
[16:12] all goodness
[16:12] I haven’t checked bugs yet
[16:13] but I usually know of the serious ones…from the irc pings and email
[16:13] that’s it!
[16:13] Thanks Mr. Narwhal!
[16:13] I have a topic to debate
[16:13] [TOPIC] Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)
[16:13] New Topic: Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)
[16:13] ShootEmUp: if its not related to the current topic please hold it until Open Discussion
[16:13] ShootEmUp: wait till the end of the meeting for Open Discussion
[16:13] okay
[16:14] didn’t actually see hggdh today, is he around?
[16:14] guess not, moving on, i know smb is here
[16:14] [TOPIC] Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)
[16:14] New Topic: Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)
[16:15] So I did some little stuff last week but have no paper records, hence I am not sure anymore what that was
[16:15] Currently working on bug 686692
[16:15] Launchpad bug 686692 in linux (Ubuntu Natty) “natty kernel does not boot on ec2 t1.micro” [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/686692
[16:16] which I can locally reproduce but not yet found a final solution
[16:16] smb, Is that the bug that only happend on t1.micro i386′s?
[16:16] just that it would boot if the mem= is a multiple of 4
[16:16] Daviey, t1.micro but I believe both i386 and x86_64
[16:16] ah
[16:17] They are doing something different with memory layout too. Just not sure this is just something that happens too or related
[16:17] any questions for smb?
[16:18] Other thing I pushed for SRU in lucid is the paper over approach for bug 614853
[16:18] Launchpad bug 614853 in linux-ec2 (Ubuntu) “kernel panic divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP” [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/614853
[16:18] To keep until we found/got a real solution
[16:19] smb, What nasty effects does it have?
[16:19] The current patch just avoids the divide by zero. While the variable in question is supposed to never be zero in the first place
[16:20] So I sent two patches for sru, the one preventing the divide and one sort of debug patch to yell when the variable is set/left zero
[16:21] smoser, Are you arround?
[16:21] o/
[16:21] yeah, smb, i agree with that.
[16:22] Just saw your bug 704022
[16:22] Launchpad bug 704022 in linux (Ubuntu) “xen_emul_unplug=unnecessary on kernel cmdline is required in ec2 hvm” [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/704022
[16:22] one thing i had considered would have been to just add the debugging bit, and let it crash
[16:22] Though I am a bit confused by the logs as the ones which say with option and working seem to contain drops into busybox as well
[16:22] even with info like “if you see this message, please add to bug at https://launcpad.net/…”
[16:23] smb i may have uploaded incorrect (un-trimmed) logs
[16:23] but it does fail
[16:23] smoser, What made me rethink a bit is that those affected people seem to run production severs with that and so maybe a avoid and complain is preferable
[16:24] yeah, so the reboot with argument i sjust not trimmed
[16:24] so it contains the previous boot log (thats why the busybox in the middle of it)
[16:24] http://launchpadlibrarian.net/62372677/restart-with-unplug-arg.txt
[16:24] LINK received: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/62372677/restart-with-unplug-arg.txt
[16:24] smoser, Ah ok. That xvd* does not show up without the option is ok. Though one would think the sd* devices should always
[16:25] smb, yeah, i agree, getting people actually fixed is good, but if you fix the problem you’ll never get debug info
[16:25] they wont send it becuase they wont know they have a problem
[16:25] so do you want it changed? (let’s either make a decision, or move offline?)
[16:25] * SpamapS wonders if this couldn’t be discussed further offline?
[16:26] * SpamapS apologizes for smashing hallyn’s toes
[16:26] i can defer to smb’s decision.
[16:26] grrr
[16:26] ok – any other questions for smb?
[16:26] (or from)
[16:26] if not,
[16:26] I am done
[16:26] thanks, smb
[16:26] [TOPIC] Weekly Updates & Questions for the Documentation Team (sommer)
[16:26] New Topic: Weekly Updates & Questions for the Documentation Team (sommer)
[16:27] sommer is not around
[16:27]
[16:27] yup
[16:27] [TOPIC] Weekly Updates & Questions for the Ubuntu Community Team (kim0)
[16:27] New Topic: Weekly Updates & Questions for the Ubuntu Community Team (kim0)
[16:27] kim0 is also not around
[16:27] and so, we move on to
[16:27] [TOPIC] Open Discussion
[16:27] New Topic: Open Discussion
[16:28] ShootEmUp: your turn
[16:28] should ubuntu try to look like windows or Mac or neither?
[16:28] lol
[16:29] ShootEmUp: you may want to ask that in #ubuntu
[16:29] like my old palm V
[16:29] ShootEmUp: indeed. This is the Server team meeting
[16:29] lol
[16:29] okay
[16:29] SpamapS: for some reason i thougth there was something you wanted to discuss?
[16:30] why does everybody always assume I want to TALK?
[16:30] no I’m good
[16:30]
[16:30] wow, first time for everything!
[16:30] anybody? going once…
[16:30] SpamapS: because you are a chatty cathy
[16:30] zul: whatever you nervous nelly
[16:30] going twice…
[16:31] SpamapS: i know what you are but what am i?
[16:31] [TOPIC] Announce next meeting date and time
[16:31] New Topic: Announce next meeting date and time
[16:31] hm, the meeting page says feb 1
[16:31] i dont’ think that’s right
[16:31] I would have assumed:
[16:31] 25th
[16:31] Tuesday, January 25 2011 16:00 UTC
[16:32] ok, another almost action-free meeting.
[16:32] thanks all
[16:32] #endmeeting
[16:32] Meeting finished at 10:32.

MeetingLogs/Server/20110118 (last edited 2011-01-21 17:57:47 by Serge Hallyn)


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How To Sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct

Ubuntu Screencasts - Wed, 2010-12-22 14:23
How To Sign the Ubuntu Code of Conduct


This screencast goes through the steps of signing the Ubuntu Code of Conduct. This is often some ones first time to use a key, so this screencast will take you through the whole process from creating the PGP Key to signing the Ubuntu Code of Conduct.

Commands Used in this Episode
gpg --decrypt yourTextDoc.txt
gpp -- clearsign yourTextDoc.txt
Links Used in this Episode
http://keyserver.ubuntu.com:11371
http://keyserver.ubuntu.com
htps:launchpad.net/codeofconduct

Download
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640x360 h.264

Comments/feedback/requests welcome!

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Ubuntu Server Meeting Minutes from 2010-12-07

Ubuntu Server Team Blog - Tue, 2010-12-14 17:36
Agenda
  • Review ACTION points from previous meeting
  • Natty Development
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the Documentation Team (sommer)
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the Ubuntu Community Team (kim0)
  • Open Discussion
  • Announce next meeting date and time
Minutes
  • Review ACTION points from previous meeting
    • ALL: please check the SRU tracker http://people.canonical.com/~chucks/SRUTracker/sru-tracker-bugs.html for ‘needs-verification’ bugs
    • robbiew to review ServerTeam wiki
      • got status page up, but still reviewing
    • SpamapS to email a concrete proposal for addressing SRU verification backlog
      • done
    • Kernel team to follow up on bug 661294
      • still in progress
    • SpamapS to setup trend line for server team natty work items
      • done
    • JamesPage to arrange URL for Hudson CI Server
      • still in progress
  • Natty Development
    • Alpha1 released
    • robbiew doesn’t have much here for this week
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)
    • 684304 is blocking UEC testing
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)
    • working on a hard-to-reproduce nfs bug
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the Documentation Team (sommer)
    • not much to say, more next week
  • Weekly Updates & Questions for the Ubuntu Community Team (kim0)
  • Open Discussion
    • RoAkSoAx working on MIRs for the cluster stack in Natty
    • zul to request feedback on the install-service blueprint to the mailing list
  • Announce next meeting date and time
Meeting Actions
  • ACTION: robbiew to review ServerTeam wiki
  • ACTION: Kernel team to follow up on 661294
  • ACTION: JamesPage to arrange URL for Hudson CI Server
  • ACTION: spamaps to talk to his friend to try and get more info on Bug #684304
  • ACTION: zul to request feedback on the install-service blueprint to the mailing list

Detailed log at:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/20101207


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