Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/05/09

[slyon]

Previous status: Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2024/05/02

[slyon]

Summary for two short weeks, due to multiple public holidays & PTO.

Distro

• MIR coordination
• sponsor Netplan SRUs
  • Merge into ubuntu-mantic : mantic_0_107_1_sru_changelog_fix : lp:~danilogondolfo/netplan/+git/ubuntu : Git : Code : Netplan
  • Merge into ubuntu-jammy : jammy_0_107_1_sru_changelog_fix : lp:~danilogondolfo/netplan/+git/ubuntu : Git : Code : Netplan

Netplan

• review of static analysis overview
• bug grooming
• Security review
• refresh networkd restart PR, apply: make sure that networkd is restarted when needed by alfonsosanchezbeato · Pull Request #449 · canonical/netplan · GitHub
• fixing DebCI check, CI: Fix DebCI check, using newer 'meson' from unstable by slyon · Pull Request #467 · canonical/netplan · GitHub
• review parser flags PR, Ignore bad NetDefs and files via parser flags by daniloegea · Pull Request #412 · canonical/netplan · GitHub
• review IPv6 RA overrides PR, feat(networkd): add ipv6 ra overrides (LP: #1973222) by KhooHaoYit · Pull Request #461 · canonical/netplan · GitHub

Misc

• hiring
• preparations for Engineering sprint & travel
• learn more about pebble
• prepare lightning talk

[vpa19771]

Distro:

• universe syncs for plantuml, iraf-fitsutil, libmatthew-java, ncrack, android-platform-tools-apksig, sniffit, libnb-platform18-java, spotlighter
• merges for munin, gnome-system-tools, procyon
• sponsoring for: needrestart, pct-scanner-scripts, ruby-mongo, st, ruby-fusefs, pike8.0, xbill

needrestart vs. toolchains:

• prepared testsuite to illustrate issues for Java, Python and dotnet.

OpenJDK:

• Fixed i386 link failure

Misc:

• research for engineering sprint

[andersson123]

Short week due to bank holiday

autopkgtest-cloud

• Investigation into behaviour of seed-new-release
• running seed-new-release to seed oracular results
• running download-all-results for oracular results
• Removed all duplicate results from the database
• Modifying the KPI r.e. recent alerting introductions
• Ongoing work for a big MP which will transition our deployment from mojo to terraform
• Cleaning up zombie instances
• Liaising with IS for multiple s0lp4 restarts
• Liaising with IS r.e. PS6 s390x instances - we should get some soon! Yay for moving away from scalingstack (hopefully)
• Reported a bug against the terraform juju provider
• Queue cleanup
• MP fixing a bug in the admin page
• FIxed a bug in the web charm at initial deployment stage

meta-release

• Made an MP updating meta-release-development

release team jira templates

• MP replacing mentions of cranberry
• MP expanding on the steps required by the QA/Release Management Team

misc

• Getting involved with contributing to Ubuntu Studio - sent a message to the lead and I’ll start helping out wherever I can!
• Made a couple MP’s with minor amendments for the release team jira templates

[danilogondolfo]

Netplan

• Tested netplan with the new iproute2 6.8 and fixed a couple of autopkgtest that broken with the new version PR#469
• Fixed some issues caused by the ignore_errors flags PR#468
• Working on some improvements/bug fixes for status --diff PR#

[enr0n]

• Working on a fix for Bug #2064096 “Services fail to start in noble deployed with TPM+...” : Bugs : rsyslog package : Ubuntu
  • switch-root: use MS_MOVE again when SWITCH_ROOT_RECURSIVE_RUN is set by enr0n · Pull Request #32645 · systemd/systemd · GitHub (working on new approach now)
  • systemd SRU to follow
• Uploaded initial ubuntu-release-upgrader for oracular
• Working on ubuntu-release-upgrader quirk for Bug #2065229 “Upgrades to 24.04 LTS should be temporarily preven...” : Bugs : ubuntu-release-upgrader package : Ubuntu

[dbungert]

• pam
  • do testing for my SRU, do test reclicks for proposed migration
  • many test reclicks as well for oracular upload
• curtin
  • cleanup on a spec for improving kernel location on install ISO and overall ISO size
• WIP on mini.iso fixes
• sprint prep
• greenhouse
• sponsor two syncs for @liushuyu-011
• snapcraft 8.2.1: `snapcraft pack` not respecting `<directory>` arg to find `snapcraft.yaml` · Issue #4769 · canonical/snapcraft · GitHub - retest, snapcraft 8.2.6 fixes the issue I reported

[mateus-morais]

dotnet

• Investigated .NET 8 ppc64el autopkgtest failure and updated the dotnet-test-runner used in the autopkgtests to add support for ppc64el (PR #4)
• Started working on the .NET may releases for snaps (.NET 6, 7, and 8) and the archive (.NET 6).
• Worked on bootstrapping .NET 8 on Focal to match Microsoft’s support and broaden our own .NET snap support on older releases (still investigating feasibility).
• Investigated enabling use of system libunwind on .NET 7 and 8 in PPA

[waveform]

• Patch pilot on Monday
• Spent time re-testing fix for LP: #2064208 on as much hardware as possible; all good so far
• Awaiting fix for LP: #2037015 to land before SRU and potential image re-spin
• Branch adding new cases covering USB and NVMe boot to ISO test list was merged; thanks to @eeickmeyer
• Prepped branch with quirk to migrate upgrading Pi server users to KMS (LP: #2065051)
• Ran some benchmarks for @bdrung related to LP: #2065180

[zhsj]

Go

• Update Go 1.21.10 & 1.22.3 releases

Misc

• Prepare sprint & travel (flight is changed but luckily not canceled)

[pushkarnk]

• Prepared for lightning talks on FIPS-compliant OpenJDK and CRaC-enabled OpenJDK
• Wrote a blog-post with instructions to demonstrate the quick startup of
  a sample SpringBoot application using CRaC
• Fixed autopkgtest failures in jtreg7 (bug, MR). Thanks to @vpa1977 for the rebasing work.
• Found javaparser ftbfs with openjdk-21. Created a bug report. Working on a fix.

[liushuyu-011]

Rust

• Investigating and drafting a spec for an upcoming container image

Distro

The following is part of the +1 maintenance.

universe syncs

• st
• ruby-fusefs
• pike8.0
• xbill
• abi-monitor

universe merges

• pct-scanner-scripts
• ruby-mongo
• gammaray
• lxqt-metapackages
• vinagre
• cfingerd
• cachefilesd
• vitrage-tempest-plugin
• pppoeconf
• nagios-plugins-rabbitmq
• ruby-rails-assets-jquery-textchange
• policykit-1-gnome
• hasciicam
• python-ldappool
• libnss-ldap
• xorg-gtest

[cpete]

Subiquity

• More Engineering Sprint / travel planning
• PR #1972 - Fixes an autoinstall bug that causes “reset-partition: true” to crash the install LP: #2061042
• PR #1989 - Fix a bug with our pre-commit hook that will cause it to fail on new files
• PR #1994 - Drops logic that writes any wifi config to a separate file since now all network config files written by the installer have the same permissions
• Continued work on PR #1965 - Make Subiquity fail early if the provided autoinstall violates the user creation rules, instead of mysteriously hanging later in the install (LP: #2060547)
• More work on the validation script – PR #1901

Distro

• Finally did my first merge (needrestart: LP #2064680 ). Thank you @vpa19771 for the sponsorship (and also @dbungert for review)

[hyask]

Very short week, as I only worked two days.

autopkgtest

• Investigated Bug #2056461 “autopkgtest-virt-qemu on noble images sometimes ha...” : Bugs : autopkgtest package : Ubuntu
  Ended up suspecting the 9p part of the kernel, then @arighi took over for the kernel part. Thanks!

autopkgtest-cloud

• Redeployed all armhf workers to include oracular image building after the killing of armhf was reverted.