Foundations Team Updates - 2025-10-16

Project Discussion Foundations
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Hello everybody,

It’s time for a weekly update from Foundations :sparkles:

Courtesy ping:

Please, post your updates. Thanks!

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Rust Toolchains

  • Work on LP: #2100266 (versioned Cargo wrapper script points to default Cargo)
  • Work on LP: #2119014 (/usr/lib/rustlib file conflict)
  • Added rust-defaults 1.88 to Resolute proposed
  • Work on the 1.89 Rust toolchain update

Other

  • Peer Buddy correspondence
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sudo-rs

Specifications

  • Wrote implementation plan for proposed feature

Planning

  • Sprint planning for current pulse
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Java

  • Automation of Swing UI tests from TCK ( 9 / 46 done)
  • Demo: VSCode devcontainers using build rocks
  • Posts about devpack-for-spring on personal blog 1 2
  • Code reviews for vpa1977

Misc

  • Lightning talks prep for the Gothenburg sprints
  • Greenhouse
  • Adoptium WG meeting
  • 26.04 Roadmap refinement
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Resolute

RISC-V

Misc

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Rust Toolchain

  • Refine and Finalize 26.04 Roadmap items
  • rustc updates to Noble and Jammy deploying soon

Manager

  • Roadmap review meetings
  • Team Sprint readiness checks
  • New hire onboarding tasks
  • 1:1 meetings

Documentation

  • Review and update GCC development setup docs
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Resolute Raccoon archive opening

Error Tracker

misc

  • Hiring
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.NET

PowerShell

  • Published PowerShell 7.6.0-preview.5 to the Snap Store

Misc

  • Written interview grading
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Very short week due to holiday, plus time spent on new laptop setup

Rust

  • Finished rustc-1.85 backport for Noble
  • Started backporting rustc-1.85 for Jammy
  • Helped with 26.04 roadmap planning

Documentation

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Documentation

SRU

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Rust

  • Continued work on adding cargo-auditable support. Unfortunately this has been slow due to LP# 2100266 (but Max is working on it – thanks Max!)
  • Helped with 26.04 roadmapping

Etc

  • Continued matching feature parity in a Rusty rewrite of mk-origtartgz
  • Bunch of admin stuff to prepare for the sprint
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openjdk:

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Resolute

  • Report from IRC about keyboard settings in questing not persisting (LP: #2127782)
    • Quite a serious issue as this potentially breaks login for certain passwords!
  • Triaged an issue with piboot-try (LP: #2127780)
  • Lots more prep work for 26.04 (mostly reading documentation!)

General

  • Patch pilot shift on Monday
  • Uploader meeting
  • IRC support