Foundations Team Updates - 2025-09-04

The following covers the last 4 weeks, including partial holidays (summer hols childcare coverage), and last week:

Questing

  • Prepared and uploaded patches for the remaining bugs in the A/B boot facility on Pi:
  • Uploaded merge for u-boot-menu (LP: #2120467)
  • Filed bug for wifi issue in questing daily on Pi 3+, 4, and 5 (LP: #2121560)
  • Investigated report of oem-config failure in Edubuntu daily
    • Found oem-config either took a long time to start or required some intervention in plymouth (timing of pressing Esc and oem-config suddenly appearing?)
    • oem-config then ran successfully, but without any window decoration, background, or top-bar (failure of window manager?)
    • oem-config completed, system rebooted, all appeared normal, but definitely something going on with first-time config

Noble

  • ISO testing for the .3 release

General

  • Patch pilot shift on Monday 11th Aug
  • Patch pilot shift on Monday 1st Sept
  • Pi meetings
  • Take home tests
  • Interviews
  • Re-built board docs to fix links to noble .3 and remove oracular links
  • Posted a docs PR with a stupidly complex chart attempting to explain Debian maintscripts
  • Writing explanation of A/B boot facility for ubuntu boards docs
  • IRC support
  • Release sync meeting
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