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.

Agenda

• Review ACTION points from previous meeting
  • hggdh and SpamapS to discuss SRU verification work for bug 750371 at next meeting or before
  • jamespage to look at bug 655533
  • Daviey, smoser, hallyn to follow up on bug 801494
  • Deadline for ODS is today
  • smoser, utlemming and smb to follow up on Bug 854050
  • utlemming to figure out qemu image situation
• Oneiric 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

Much of the team was away at ODS. Oneiric development is currently focused on final critical bug fixing.

The question was asked whether keystone would be shipped in Oneiric. There were concerns about its readyness. Daviey will follow up with ttx etc for guidance.

Meeting Actions

• hggdh and SpamapS to discuss SRU verification work for bug 750371 at next meeting or before (hggdh to test)
• jamespage to follow up with jhunt on udev/lvm bugs including 801494
• smoser, utlemming and smb to follow up on Bug 854050
• utlemming to figure out qemu image situation (carry-over)
• Daviey to talk to ttx and keystone honcho for guidance about oneiric package

Agree on next meeting date and time

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, October 11th at 16:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

Agenda

Review ACTION points from previous meeting
sommer and j1mc to look at doc presentation (continued x 3)
smb and utlemming to look at Bug #791850
Daviey and adam_g to address Bug #791850
Oneiric 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

Review ACTION points from previous meeting

As Somer has sadly announced he does not have sufficient time to continue his excellent work on the docs, kim0 is going to help us by working to create a new community around documentation.

Regarding oneiric images not booting on hvm instances, smb had a test image fixing that problem.

Oneiric Development

With everyone sprinting the previous week, our bug list had grown again. Both the triage report and server release bug lists needed work. Daviey said that feature freeze exceptions need to be raised for every feature not yet landed.

Ubuntu Server Team Events

lynxman and company are sprinting next week for openstack and orchestra. Linuxcon is this week.

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)

smb was wondering whether the rename of xvd to sd patch should be reverted on maverick as well. smoser was not comfortable with that, they will discuss further.

Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)

hggdh asked, (1) “are there any new tests we should run on the ISO tracker?” and (2) “what is the status of openstack & companions?”. Daviey said we need more tests, and hopefully Jamespage will be able to help with that soon. Jamespage started a list of openstack testing at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Oneiric/OpenStackTestPlan.

Updates & Questions from the Ubuntu Community

Daviey asked anyone in the community interested in helping to make Ubuntu server rock even more to ping him.

Agree on next meeting date and time

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, August 23d at 16:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

A large portion of the team was out, recovering from last week’s terrific sprint. Alpha2 is out this week, and Daviey asks that we all give it a try and report bugs. Handling our incoming bug count is a priority but we also need to focus on feature development. Ping Daviey if you are unclear on what should be your priorities.

The team welcomed new members m_3, utlemming and Ursinha, then adjourned.

Meeting Actions

• sommer and j1mc to look at doc presentation – carried forward

Review ACTION points from previous meeting

• sommer and j1mc to look at doc presentation – carried forward

Oneiric Development

See http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-oneiric/group/topic-oneiric-server-overview.htmlfor detail.

• Merges and syncs going great
• New bugs manageable
• Need to focus on new feature delivery

  • MIR’s for OpenStack – loads of them; all team to help out where possible – ideally all MIR’s should be raised by the end of the week.

Ubuntu Server Team Events

• zul – Linuxcon Augst
• SpamapS – OSCON, Portland next month

Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)

• SRU verification for TGT and NBD
• Automated testing toolsets will need updating for A2 to accommodate installer changes
• Ubuntu QA Lab setup continues.

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)

• Xen support – query around which kernel should be uses; must support blkback and netback; will be added to init.

• Hardy AMI (https://launchpad.net/bugs/705562) – solution identified – see bug report for details.

Weekly Updates & Questions regarding Ubuntu ARM Server (NCommander)

• NCommander not present

Weekly Updates & Questions from the Ubuntu Community

• No updates or questions

Open Discussion

• SpamapS: call for more ensemble formulas to be written.

• adam_g: OpenStack in Oneiric needs more testing – find time to try it out.

Agree on next meeting date and time

• Next meeting will be on Tuesday, June 28th at 16:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

Agenda

• Review ACTION points from previous meeting
• Oneiric Development
• Ubuntu Server Team Events
• Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)
• Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)
• Weekly Updates & Questions from the Ubuntu Community
• Open Discussion

Minutes

Meeting Actions

• All: spec peer reviews

Oneiric Development

Review blueprints!

• Thursday is feature definition freeze – We need peer reviews – See:
  • https://blueprints.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-o?searchtext=server-o
  • http://blueprints.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server/+specs?role=assignee
• Question the implementation and direction. – Give feedback in whiteboard. – Daviey will send a post to ubuntu-server ml today with further details.

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)

smb reminded the team about his email asking about iscsitarget.

Weekly Updates & Questions from the Ubuntu Community

cp1 asked what we might do to better keep up with security updates. He feels we were slow with the last exim update, particularly compared to debian. jdstrand, kees, and dholbach came back with suggestions:

• kees pointed us to http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/main.html
• jdstrand informed us that as part of the security-o-community blueprint, 10-15 packages per month will be put up for community contributions.
• dholbach pointed out that if you are aware of an embargoed issue and have a patch, you can file a private security bug.

Agree on next meeting date and time

Next meeting will be on Tuesday, May 31st at 16:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting.

Meeting Actions

• Daviey to submit UDS-O topic for translations and docs
• jamespage to helpout with verification of euca-dhcp bug
• jamespage to discover process/location for fixing ubuntu server documentation

Review ACTION points from previous meeting

• Daviey to talk with wider docs team regarding translations (deferred, carry over)
• Daviey to talk with docs team about new submissions (New documentation for cluster stack)
  • Daviey has discussed this with the documentation team; most Ubuntu documentation is facing the same issue that the server documentation set is (i.e. lack of resource).
  • [ACTION] Daviey actioned to raise a UDS-O topic to discuss server team documentation and the how this is taken forwards.
• Daviey to post another followup one euca-dhcp bug. (carry over)
  • Progress on this issue; bug applied but needs verification.
  • [ACTION] jamespage to help out with verification that this issue is resolved.
• SpamapS to put his version of ubuntuserver-minutes in directions for writing minutes
  • DONE
• ALL: Please review the current documentation (for Natty release)
  • Some review; however team are unclear on how to fix documentation for the release.
  • [ACTION] jamespage to find out and report back/email.

Natty Development

Focus is now on bug fixing rather than development.

• List of release bugs for server team: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=server-nrs

• Looking OK.

• Work Items for Beta-2: http://people.canonical.com/~platform/workitems/natty/canonical-server-ubuntu-11.04-beta-2.html

• Looking OK.

Daviey asked that any blockers, issues or concerns be raised as soon as possible in the run up to beta-2

Smoser raised two bugs that required MIR approval:

• Launchpad bug 726572 in cloud-initramfs-tools (Ubuntu) “[MIR] cloud-initramfs-tools” [Undecided,Triaged] https://launchpad.net/bugs/726572

• Launchpad bug 727200 in lxc (Ubuntu Natty) “[MIR] lxcguest in main” [Undecided,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/727200

Ubuntu Server Team Events

• SpamapS: Apr. 13,14 I will be at the MySQL Users’ Conference in Santa Clara, CA
• jamespage: I’ll be attending puppet camp europe on the 28/29 April in Amsterdam
• zul: Apr 25 – 29 I will be at the Openstack summit, Santa Clara, CA

Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)

• Current investigating:

  • Launchpad bug 746751 in linux (Ubuntu) “kernel: [Firmware Bug]: the BIOS has corrupted hw-PMU resources (MSR 38d is 30)” [Critical,In progress] https://launchpad.net/bugs/746751

• Kernel SRU tests are throwing up security failures, compiler stracktraces etc…

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)

• Launchpad bug 634487 in linux (Ubuntu Natty) “t1.micro instance hangs when installing java” [High,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/634487

  • Latest natty works fine on smb test rig; however not in ec2.
  • The bug seems to be some interaction between xen hypervisor and the kernel. And it looks like newer Xen works.
  • Just need Amazon to upgrade.

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Documentation Team (sommer)

Not present

Weekly Updates & Questions from the Ubuntu Community

None

Open Discussion

None

Announce next meeting date and time

• Tuesday, April 12th 2011 16:00 UTC

Meeting Actions

• Daviey to talk with wider docs team regarding translations (deferred)
• Daviey to post another followup one euca-dhcp bug.
• SpamapS to put his version of ubuntuserver-minutes in directions for writing minutes

Natty Development

• Nothing much to report here. The Work Items Tracker for beta1 seems to suggest we are a bit behind and need to postpone some items.

  • http://people.canonical.com/~platform/workitems/natty/canonical-server-ubuntu-11.04-beta-1.h

Ubuntu Server Team Events

• Texas Linux Fest, April 2nd, kirkland and RoAkSoAx will be presenting

• MySQL Users Conference, April 13,14 – SpamapS presenting.
• Noted that UDS-O is coming soon. Sponsorship nominations due March 29

Weekly Updates & Questions for the QA Team (hggdh)

• hggdh and Daviey are working on a problem with Eucalyptus and isc-dhcpd v4, no word yet on the final resolution
• SpamapS and jhunt will be proposing jenkins jobs to test boot/shutdown in a UDS-O session

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Kernel Team (smb)

• smb wondered how disappointed users would be if an SRU to the lucid kernel disabled NET_NS. hallyn believes that this is a popular component of LXC, even if it is somewhat buggy in lucid. SpamapS agrees that it would be a very unpopular move.

Weekly Updates & Questions for the Documentation Team (sommer)

• It would appear that sommer is no longer able to spend time working on the Ubuntu Server Guide or attend these meetings, and so we may need to seek more help with maintaining the server guide.

Weekly Updates & Questions from the Ubuntu Community

• kim0 noted that the virtual event, UbuntuCloudDays is happening March 23/24, and several server team members are presenting (soren, Daviey, SpamapS)

Open Discussion

• hally had brought up that the duplication required of the meeting chair to publish the meeting minutes was somewhat annoying. SpamapS pointed out his branch of Mathias Gug’s old ubuntuserver-meeting tool sends to multiple addresses at once, and allows the writer to create just one copy of the minutes.

Agree on next meeting date and time

• Tuesday, March 29 2011 16:00 UTC in #ubuntu-meeting

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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.

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).