Ubuntu Kernel Team: Kernel Team Meeting Minutes – April 10, 2012

Meeting Minutes

IRC Log of the meeting.

Meeting minutes.

Agenda

20120410 Meeting Agenda

ARM Status

nothing new to report this week

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 and I are aware of our work items, we’ll get them closed before final.

Status: Precise Development Kernel

The Precise kernel is currently frozen and Final Freeze is this Thurs
Apr 12. We have coordinated one additional upload scheduled for today
(likely to occur after this meeting). At this point in time, all
patches are subject to our SRU policy and uploads will only be granted
at the discretion of the release team.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/StablePatchFormat

Important upcoming dates:

• Thurs Apr 12 – Final Freeze (~2 days)
• Thurs Apr 19 – Release Candidate (~1 week)
• Thurs Apr 26 – Final Release (~2 weeks)

Status: CVE’s

Currently we have 72 CVEs on our radar, with no new CVEs added this week.
See the CVE matrix for the current list:

• http://people.canonical.com/~kernel/cve/pkg/ALL-linux.html

  Overall the backlog has decresed very 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 – Oneiric/Natty/Maverick/Lucid/Hardy

Here is the status for the main kernels, until today (Apr. 10):

Oneiric has been somewhat problematic. We ran into a couple of very bad regressions
that were pretty quickly identified. Our policy is to “revert aggressively” however
our number one rule is to “Use our best judgement and do the right thing”. In this
case we are also running into the end of the Precise development cycle when testing
resources (human) are scarce. After discussing this with a number of people we have
decided to fix these known regressions and also pull in the stable release that was
sitting on master-next and crank that out. The cycle will be extended with regression
testing happening the week of May 1st.

• Hardy – 2.6.24-31.101 – Nothing this cycle
• Lucid – 2.6.32-41.88 – Verification; 52 commits in total.
• Maverick – 2.6.35-32.68 – Ready for -updates; NOTE: THIS IS THE LAST MAVERICK KERNEL!
• Natty – 2.6.38-14.58 – Ready for -updates; 12 commits in total. Mostly eCryptfs and KVM.
• Oneiric – 3.0.0-19.32 – Verification;

Current opened tracking bugs details:

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