Previous ones in https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/foundations-team-updates-thursday-2025-04-10/
This covers a couple of weeks as I was (mostly) on holiday(ish) during release week
Plucky
- Release notes updates
- ISO testing
- Attempted to replicate upgrade issues when they first reared their head, but couldn’t (initially) on the Pi
- Reviewed and merged @r41k0u’s PR to add camera docs to the boards documentation
- Added plucky to the board documentation support matrix
- Prepped the next doc PRs to deal with forthcoming EOLs
Noble
- Supported Core debugging of PPP issue (LP: #2106751)
General
- Fixed up the plucky release notes
- An erroneous update deleted a pile of revisions
- Whipped up a hacky script to extract the revision and fix it, in the course of which discovered:
- Discourse doesn’t appear to provide any means to retrieve (or even view) a particular revision outright, only a diff of revisions (formatted in such a way as to make extraction of the actual source painful)
- I’m more convinced than ever, Discourse is entirely the wrong tool for release notes: it’s not a version control system (by any reasonable definition), it’s barely a wiki (if you squint), and it has none of the facilities you actually want in documentation (like a contents list)
- Patched up a couple of PRs (#373, #376) for the Sphinx doc starter pack
- Made a quick pass of the debcrafters list and made some alterations
- Some IRC support
- Take home tests
- Pi meetings
Here is my report since the last time. Sorry, you can’t read about my secret mission here. You have to wait for my memoir.
Distro
- Wrote tzdata entry for Plucky Puffin Release Notes
- tzdata: SRUs for 2025b ICU data update
- distro-info-data: SRUs for adding Ubuntu 25.10 “Questing Quokka”
Apport
Sponsoring
- Sponsored SRUs rdma-core 50.0-2ubuntu0.2 and rdma-core 52.0-2ubuntu2.2 for https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rdma-core/+bug/2100089
+1 maintenance
My +1 report can be found on +1 Maintenance Report 2025-04-07 to 2025-04-11
other
- grading THT
- compliance training
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- Out of office on Monday
- Hiring tasks
- Spec reviews
- GRUB2 SRU verification
- working on patch for Bug #2106208 “Relocation overflow in GRUB when booting with RISC...” : Bugs : grub2 package : Ubuntu
- (TODO) UC shim update
Short pulse due to Easter Holidays.
.NET
- Attended fortnightly .NET partners sync meeting.
- Addressed review comments on the new .NET plugin PR (feat: new .NET plugin (v2) by mateusrodrigues · Pull Request #1047 · canonical/craft-parts · GitHub).
PowerShell
- Finished setting up automatic releases for stable and LTS branches of the PowerShell snap.
Misc
- 25.10 Roadmap Discussions
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Go
- Finished cobra cli snap analysis, will work on a GUI snap for testing the plugin now
- Reviewing transitions, microreleases and fips processes to see if we have all the mechanisms in-place
Distro
- Updated MP after reviews on LP-2100266
- Working on fixing sagemath for Noble, will need 3 SRUs for brial, maxima-sage and sagemath to get it working as their ftbfs is now fixed on Noble
Misc
- Compliance training
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Updates for the last 2 weeks (which were pockmarked with public holidays)
- +1 maintenance: +1 Maintenance Report (14 April 2025 to 21 April 2025)
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- List of bugs opened:
- ISO Testing during release week
- Played around with automating hardware tests
- Documentation updates: https://canonical-ubuntu-boards.readthedocs-hosted.com/en/latest/how-to/rpi-camera/#workaround-for-the-imx500-ai-camera and https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/using-camera-modules-on-a-raspberry-pi-running-ubuntu-25-04-plucky-puffin
- Some cleanup of the next roadmap tasks
Working on EDK2 RngLib
Grub2 work on LP: #2106208
Work on automating serial tests for risc-v boards
Toolchains
- Practice
rustcupdate builds successfully, save for some Lintian issues which I’m currently working on.
Documentation
- Fixed some issues with Rust for Ubuntu docs, discovering a bug in the process.
Other
- Note-taking and study of the Debian Policy Manual and Guide for Debian Maintainers.
was out of office on Friday and Monday due to public holiday
.NET
- packaged .NET 10 preview 3
- reviewed CI: Add 'test' step to all PowerShell legs by mateusrodrigues · Pull Request #7 · canonical/powershell-snaps · GitHub
- Ubuntu 25.10 roadmap refinement
- .NET 9 and 10 both provide `microsoft.net.sdk.aspire` 8.2.2 · Issue #5049 · dotnet/source-build · GitHub
- Runtime release notes imply that a SDK is included · Issue #9862 · dotnet/core · GitHub
- working on chisseled .NET SDK images
Documentation:
- merged Review of PR #18 by rkratky · Pull Request #20 · canonical/ubuntu-for-developers-docs · GitHub
- fix ASP.NET runtime snap install instruction by dviererbe · Pull Request #25 · canonical/ubuntu-for-developers-docs · GitHub
- use hierarchical toc tree & remove redundant doc title anchors/refs by dviererbe · Pull Request #2 · ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs · GitHub
- https://github.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs/pull/3
- Add Ubuntu Diversity Policy by dviererbe · Pull Request #4 · ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs · GitHub
- Add Ubuntu mission statement by dviererbe · Pull Request #5 · ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs · GitHub
- https://github.com/ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs/pull/6
- Add reference/governance/ethos by dviererbe · Pull Request #7 · ubuntu/ubuntu-project-docs · GitHub
- continue working on feat: add Ubuntu releases reference by dviererbe · Pull Request #71 · canonical/ubuntu-packaging-guide · GitHub
for ubuntu-project-docs
Misc
- compliance training
Documentation
Subiquity
- (More debugging & bugfixing on:) Docs: Upgrade the Docs Starter Pack to v1.0.2
Docs Starter Pack
Ubuntu for developers
- Review/updates of .NET docs
- Review/updates of VCS docs
- Add article on Python dev env install and set up
- Add link to GH source to pages
- Review and conflict resolution of PR 17
- Add article on developing with Python
- Review: Fix required rust-gdb and rust-lldb packages