Minutes from the Ubuntu Kernel Team meeting, 2012-08-14
 

= Meeting Minutes =
[[http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2012/08/14/%23ubuntu-meeting.txt|IRC Log of
the meeting.]]

[[http://voices.canonical.com/kernelteam|Meeting minutes.]]

== Agenda ==
[[https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelTeam/Meeting#Tues, 14 Aug, 2012|20120814
Meeting Agenda]]



=== ARM Status ===
o/
Q/omap4: porting of tilt-3.4 [1] on top of Q 3.5 is done, i'm
consolidating the code now.

The resulting kernel is available here:
http://people.canonical.com/~ppisati/ti-omap4-tilt-34-on-35/linux-image-3.5.0-205-omap4_3.5.0-205.10_armhf.deb
and here is the git tree:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ppisati/ubuntu-quantal.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ti-omap4-tilt-34-on-35
The entire patchset is available at
http://people.canonical.com/~ppisati/ti-omap4-tilt-34-on-35/tilt-3.4/
There's a tracking bug following kernel consolidation here:
http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1035289
Right now i'm cleaning up the boot process(WARN_ON()&c), rebasing on
latest Q/master, importing latest Q/omap4 config changes, etcetc

i'll start tackling the analog audio in the next few days.
[1]:
http://git.linaro.org/gitweb?p=people/andygreen/kernel-tilt.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/tilt-3.4


=== Release Metrics and Incoming Bugs ===
Release metrics and incoming bug data can be reviewed at the following
link:

* http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/kt-meeting.txt

=== Milestone Targeted Work Items ===
|| apw || hardware-q-kernel-config-review || 3 work item ||
|| || hardware-q-kernel-delta-review || 4 work items ||
|| || hardware-q-kernel-misc || 1 work item ||
|| || desktop-q-clean-old-kernels || 1 work item ||
|| cking || hardware-q-kernel-misc || 1 work item ||
|| ogasawara || hardware-q-kernel-misc || 4 work items ||
|| tgardner || hardware-q-kernel-misc || 1 work item ||
If your name is in the above table, please review your Beta-1 work items.

=== Status: Quantal Development Kernel ===
We've recently uploaded the 3.5.0-10.10 Quantal kernel to the release
pocket. This upload most notably provides a rebase to the first
upstream stable v3.5.1 release. This was also uploaded to the
q-lts-backport [1] PPA to help facilitate testing of the 12.10 kernel in
12.04. We welcome anyone to please install, test, and let us know your
feedback.
[1] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat/+archive/q-lts-backport
Important upcoming dates:
* Thurs Aug 30 - Beta 1 Freeze (~2 weeks)
* Thurs Sept 6 - Beta 1 (~3 weeks)

=== Status: CVE's ===
== 2012-08-14 (weekly) ==
Currently we have 98 CVEs on our radar, with one CVE added and one
CVE retired this week.

See the CVE matrix for the current list:
* http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/ALL-linux.html
Overall the backlog has decreased slightly this week:
* http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/status/cve-metrics.txt
* http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/CVE-linux.txt

=== Status: Stable, Security, and Bugfix Kernel Updates -
Precise/Oneiric/Natty/Lucid/Hardy ===

Here is the status for the main kernels, until today (August 14):
* Hardy - Nothing in this cycle
* Lucid - In Preparation; 3 CVEs; (6 commits)
* Natty - In Preparation; 1 CVEs; (4 commits)
* Oneiric - In Preparation; 1 CVEs; 2 upstream stable release(s); (98
commits)
* Precise - In Preparation; 0 CVEs; 3 upstream stable release(s);
(166 commits)


Current opened tracking bugs details:
* http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/kernel-sru-workflow.html

For SRUs, SRU report is a good source of information:
* http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/reports/sru-report.html

Future stable cadence cycles:
* https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QuantalQuetzal/ReleaseInterlock

The week of Sept. 6 is the week the last Natty kernel will be built.

=== Open Discussion or Questions? Raise your hand to be recognized ===
No discussions.

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