The previous status is here: Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 13 April 2023
23.04 release
- Test RISC-V images
Documentation
- Update RISC-V wiki pages
- Prepare updated RISC-V download page (currently worked on in web-team)
23.10 roadmap
- Update RISC-V planning in Jira
zfs-linux
- The package is used by snaps which are still on core20.
- Identified the missing patch for building for riscv64 in Focal LP: #2016881
Other
- Review written interviews
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- Lots of research around the CI status of the upstream glibc project, last step before starting a thread on ubuntu-release regarding a SRU policy for glibc regarding its stable release branches
- Hiring: take-home tests
- Release: some ISO testing
- Usual bunch of reviews on apport.
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Distro
- +1 maintenance, https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2023-April/042551.html
- tinyssh (cc @enr0n \o/)
- clasp
- elementpath
- ubuntu-archive-assistant
- node-address
- eztrace
- rust-zram-generator
- a2jmidid
- python-structlog
- markdown-it-py
- bbswitch
- libuninum
- matplotlib
- dtfabric
- CPC/Azure debugging
- UC20 NetworkManager internal DHCP client leases investigation
-
nmcli c show <CON_PROFILE> | grep "DHCP[4|6].OPTION"
to the rescue
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- systemd no-i386 (cc @enr0n)
Netplan
- merge MiB vs GiB, https://github.com/canonical/netplan/pull/340
- netplan status --diff spec review + UX discussions
- python bindings (cloud-init integration) spec-work
Misc
- sbc/rpi-config spec review + approval
- take-home-test reviews
- candidate interviews
- HR stuff
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Distro
- Fixed LP 2015778 “conffile prompt during release upgrade”
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LP 2011458 “ssh fails to rebind when it is killed with -HUP”
- Prepared SRU paperwork, and proposed debdiffs to fix Kinetic and Lunar
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dotnet
- Wrote a Snapcraft documentation on creating a snap package for .NET applications
- Investigated more on the current state of the Snapcraft
dotnet
plugin - Currently working on a .NET 8 preview 3 bootstrap package
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Distro
- update-manager:
- Moved code to git: https://code.launchpad.net/update-manager
- Merged https://code.launchpad.net/~orndorffgrant/ubuntu/+source/update-manager/+git/update-manager/+merge/440532
- Released update-manager 1:23.04.2 to lunar
- tzdata: Verified SRUs for pre-1970 timestamps (LP: #2003797)
- apport:
- Triaged and heavy investigation on Ubuntu bug #2015857. If reading the core dump file from the stdin pipe takes too long, it will be truncated. This only happens for crashes on log-out.
- Tried to reproduce Sound/audio related problems option never completes. apport-symptoms do not support pipewire.
Apport
- fix(apport-unpack): Catch MalformedProblemReport on extraction (LP: #1997912)
- fix(apport): Demote debug gdbus log to debug level
- feat: Already add package info during Python crashes
- refactor(apport): Move get_core_path out of write_user_coredump
- refactor: Increase pylint’s max args to 6
- refactor(apport): Make cwd a private variable
- refactor: Increase pylint’s max attributes to 9
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