Server vendors provide additional tooling for analysis of system crashes. This session is to discuss how these vendors can best integrate their tools into apport.

Discussions on euca2ools, the new features in Eucalyptus 3.0, and the soon to be released Open Source Eucalyptus 3.1.

Discussions on the likely mainline kernel version and appropriate kernel flavors for Q. The current list of arch's and flavor's for Precise are listed below. Distro - Precise 12.04 Arch: Flavour -- Description i386: generic -- kernel for desktop machines with less than 4GB of ram i386: generic-pae -- kernel for desktop machines with more than 4GB of ram i386: virtual -- kernel for virtual machine use (KVM/EC2) amd64: generic -- kernel for desktop/server machines amd64: virtual -- kernel for virtual machine use (KVM/EC2) armel/armhf: omap -- kernel for ARM OMAP-3 hardware armel/armhf: omap4 -- kernel for ARM OMAP-4 hardware Ports - Precise 12.04 Arch: Flavour -- Description powerpc: powerpc-smp -- PowerPC with SMP support powerpc: powerpc64-smp -- PowerPC64 with SMP support

The goal of this blueprint is to ensure OpenStack is able to be deployed on ARM server hardware.

The $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR fd.o spec has received criticism on the FHS mailing list due to implementation bugs that allow non-root users to DoS the /run directory. Discuss what's required for a solution in Ubuntu.

List of features and improvements for the Firmware Test Suite for Ubuntu 12.10

Robbie Williamson

QML/Qt5 in use, example discussion, graphical effects, etc.

Sound settings redesign review and discussion around further improvements and limitations of current implementation.

Review the current state of hybrid graphics and what's feasible for 12.10. - base prime/dma_buf -support is now in 3.4rc - prime sharing support for ttm/nouveau/i915 is queued for 3.5 - preliminary work towards a new driver api in the xserver has been submitted for review on 2012-05-05 (scrn->screen), 'drvmodelv3' staged in git - randr api still being worked out, preliminary work in git http://airlied.livejournal.com/75555.html old blueprint for reference: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-hybrid-graphics

Server vendors, like HP, provide additional tooling for analysis of system crashes. This session is to discuss how these vendors can best integrate their tools into apport.

Catch up with significant btrfs consumers (particularly the server team) on their requirements for btrfs in Quantal, in light of upstream activity. Figure out areas where we might be able to help.

Come and calibrate your monitor using the Colorhug open source hardware and Ubuntu 12.04

We would like automated integration testing of our bootloader for 12.10. Foundations will probably need to write these tests, with QA team providing guidance on the kind of tests to run.

Discussing improvements as to how, when, and why we iso test. Additionally defining and understanding the communities enhanced role in iso testing

A roundtable to discuss any issues, improvements, ideas around the Ubuntu Translations community

It is a release goal to have only Python 3 on the desktop CD image for 12.10.

Review the current set of Mandatory, Run Once, and Optional tests for Ubuntu Server on http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/, and make changes as needed to fit the current Ubuntu Server product.

Identify ways to involve community in the design and implementation of the Ubuntu TV project

In 12.04 we have a fairly simple bucketing algorithm. Taken from apport, it merely concatenates the top of the stack trace with the signal and binary path [1]. It does not make use of apport's bug patterns [2] or hooks [3]. In 12.10, we should provide server-side hooks that in some cases provide additional information to diagnose the issue and in other cases provide part of the unique identifier for the aforementioned set of instances that form a bucket. Developers will be able to set flags in the crash database service that require clients reporting future instances of a crash that matches a pattern to attach specified additional information. Care will have to be taken to notify the user that additional information may be collected, while still ensuring that in the absence of an Internet connection, crashes can be processed by the user immediately but uploaded later. The process of attaching additional information cannot provide an interactive UI. 1: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/view/head:/apport/report.py#L1142 2: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/view/head:/apport/report.py#L793 3: http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~apport-hackers/apport/trunk/view/head:/doc/package-hooks.txt

- zeitgeist 1.0? - libzeitgeist 2.0? - what applications are still missing zg integration? - changes needed for "activity-log-manager" aka "Privacy" panel? Items postponed from P: - unity quicklists - contacts lens - disabling reading from DB (while still logging)

taking the successes on juju to use the hud to search and find computing tasks. users could open the hub, and using natural language, type a question or describe a problem and an appropriate juju "charmling" will help the user solve the problem without the need for appreciable computer knowledge. this would use heuristics to determine possible solutions, choose the most likely correct "charmling", and assist the user. use cases could extend to any desktop usage, including very complex tasks requiring multiple steps and settings. examples might include: * fix a broken wireless connection * install packages * add a printer * connect to a print server for example, a user needs to add a printer. the user would open the hud and type, "how do i add a printer?". heuristics would determine the most probably answer, and start the "charmling" which would open an informational dialogue box telling the user, "The printer dialogue box is being opened. You probably want to select the "+ Add" button" and then opens the printer dialogue box. another example might be a user wanting to create a pdf. user opens the hud, types the question, heuristics are employed, and "charmling" is deployed which opens up a sane tutorial with examples.

UDS Q Desktop Recap

During Ubuntu precise, packages for hadoop, hbase, hive, zookeeper and pig where delivered via PPA for use in associated charms which are now avaliable in the charm store for Ubuntu 12.04. The packaging is based on Apache Bigtop with relevant patches to support building on Ubuntu precise and for ARM. This session will discuss where we take this work next.

A lot of our development processes involve a review or approval step. Let's review how we've done in the P release and see what we can improve for Q.

Ubuntu 12.10 should be fully proxy compatible, what means that every app should work with proxies for http, https, ftp, etc. So please add proxy support for: add-apt-repository, see bug #994569 gpg, see bug #443404 bzr, still searching for bug report