Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2025-04-03

[bdrung]

Previous status: Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 2025/03/27

[enr0n]

Distro

• SRU review
• Uploaded systemd to fix autopkgtest: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/257.4-1ubuntu3
• Various ubuntu-release-upgrader things, including SRU prep for oracular and noble
• Sponsored some lxd-installer uploads

Misc

• Hiring stuff

[bdrung]

Distro

• initramfs-tools: Merged 0.147 from Debian unstable. 68% of that release are merged changes from Ubuntu. The other 32% are useful changes to land. This version reduces the number of patches from 84 to 73 (and only 23 of those are from me).
• tzdata: 2025b release plus SRUs for it
• apport: catch ProcessLookupError in forward_crash_to_container (LP: #2080499)
• dracut 106-2ubuntu5: plymouth: Only pull in the SimpleDRM driver by default (LP: #2105377)
• rdma-core: Cherry-pick upstream patch for providers/mana: improve synchronization on the shadow queue (LP: #2105922)

Upstream work

Dracut

• feat: add simpledrm module (as subset of drm module)

Apport

• test: add unshare crash test case

Sponsoring

• Reviewed https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alsa-ucm-conf/+bug/2100732: Some minor nitpicks, but we need patches for oracular and plucky before fixing noble.
• Sponsored https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/2092158 to noble to plucky
• Sponsored plymouth 24.004.60-2ubuntu6 to fix bug #2103533
• Sponsored plymouth 24.004.60-2ubuntu7 to fix bug #2105377

[waveform]

Plucky

• Tested kernel fix for SD card operation on pre-Pi 4 models (LP: #2104371)
• Investigating WiFi not appearing on Pi Zero 2W after kernel fix for SD card boot landed
• Camera module testing after rpicam-apps landed
• ISO testing

Noble / Oracular

• Re-sponsored openvpn backport to fix target distro (LP: #2097688)

Focal / Jammy

• Re-sponsored uploads to fix install button (LP: #2068805)
  • Prior uploads had git cruft due to the package being v1 (!)
  • Noted @bdrung had fixed this in noble (moved to v3 native), so cherry-picked that back to focal & jammy too

General

• More touchscreen support on IRC
• Some core / watchdog support work on MM
• Pi meetings
• Interviews

[dviererbe]

I was out of office from March 27th and back on April 1st.

.NET

• reviewed (and approved) spec FO205 - .NET Snapcraft Plugin
• reviewed Add doc with steps to publish content snaps manually by mateusrodrigues · Pull Request #20 · canonical/dotnet-content-snaps · GitHub
• reviewed Version parsing: check if 'minor' is an empty string by mateusrodrigues · Pull Request #27 · canonical/dotnet-snap · GitHub
• finally finished .NET toolchain documentation – canonical/ubuntu-for-developers-docs PR #18
• working on initial packaging & release planning for .NET 10
• packaging & testing .NET April update
• Ubuntu 25.10 roadmap planning/refinement
• further investigation into how-to package .NET apps/libraries

Docs

• https://github.com/canonical/foundations-docs/pull/2
• https://github.com/canonical/foundations-docs/pull/3

Misc

• further experimentation with/learning about OmniSharp language server library / VS code extension development
• paperwork

[pushkarnk]

Short week. Public holiday on Monday.

Distro

• Merge proposals to break B-D cycle blocking 10 Python packages. Thanks ginngs for sponsoring.
• Merge request in Debian to fix maven-plugin FTBFS that’s now affecting 6 packages.

GraalVM

• Sanity tested graalvm-jdk snap. It is now public.
• Submitted a GraalVM abstract for the Polyglot Meetup, Bangalore

Misc

Code reviews.
Adoptium Workgroup meeting

[hyask]

autopkgtest-cloud

• Debugging riscv64 in PS7 on staging.
• Deployed one worker per arch in PS7 on production (still ongoing, but going well!)

Merge-O-Matic

• Many new commits: skia/fixes_for_deployment : lp:~hyask/merge-o-matic : Git : Code : Merge-o-Matic
  Among other smaller things:
  • Fix -manual.html page
  • Ship pychart as a vendored submodule
  • Convert from cron to systemd unit+timer

cnf-extractor / python-apt

• Digged into a weird oom-kill happening on cnf-extractor’s production machine. Here is the bug: Bug #2105503 “Uncontrolled memory usage” : Bugs : python-apt package : Ubuntu
  And here is an MP after @juliank provided feedback (thanks! ): Merge into master : skia/fix_oom_kill : lp:~hyask/command-not-found-extractor : Git : Code : command-not-found-extractor

misc

• Foundations bug triage
• Hiring
• Got scared by an almost bug

[rkratky]

Documentation

RISC-V Cookbook

• Big Starter Pack upgrade
• Use unshallow fetch correctly

Ubuntu Boards Docs

• Docs Starter Pack update

Subiquity

• Docs: Upgrade the Docs Starter Pack to v1.0.0

Ubuntu for developers

• Review: Rust doc suggestions
• Review (WIP): Initial .NET toolchain documentation

[juliank]

Pulled in more OpenSSL 3.4 patches for plucky
Quite a bunch of meetings this week

[uralt]

autopkgtest

• Prepared SRU to jammy and noble

autopkgtest-cloud

• Small MP cleaning up some outdated contact info
• Working on various misc improvements to the PPA endpoint

Misc

• New metrics now available for britney on the ubuntu metrics grafana
• Compliance training
• Travel prep

[maxgmr]

Toolchains

• Practice rustc maintenance
• Learn about structure and organisation of rustc packaging

General

• Learn about Jira organisation
• Learn about Agile development

[bdrung]

I forgot to mention the most important part: Announcing Ubuntu Stainless Steel Edition: A Corrosion-Resistant Alternative

[zhsj]

Go

• Update Go 1.24.2 & 1.23.8 releases for deb/snap packages.
• Continue enhancing devpack-for-go snap and doing tests.

Misc

• Compliance training

[adrianoco]

Risc-v cookbook:

• Add documentation to package kernels

Risc-v autopkgtests:

• Report various bugs from tests that succeed on arm64 and amd64 but fail on riscv64

Debian-cd:

• get rid of cd-boot-images-* for Noble

livefs-editor:

• add functionality to manipulate partitions

[levihackerman-102]

Go

• Working on improvements cobra-cli snap for craft-tools Go plugin testing
• golang-1.24 backports: uploaded and tested builds successfully in ppa
• Spent some time studying how to do microrelease updates

Distro

• Working on rustc-1.84 Bug #2100266 “Versioned cargo wrapper script points to default c…” : Bugs : rustc-1.84 package : Ubuntu, thanks to @schopin for reviews
• Started some exploration on updating sagemath in the archive for Noble

Misc

• Working on re-populating db with more robust rebuilds after I learnt that they are frequently purged

[r41k0u]

Short week, had a public holiday on Monday

I mainly worked on the 3D camera demo for RPi 5 this week. I am working on getting rpicam-apps in the debian archive right now.
Also had Pi roadmap planning for 25.10

[andersson123]

Pretty simple week:

iso testing

• adding tests for and testing said tests for plucky; we’ll now run tests for devel and supported releases as well as noble
• enabling new machines in the lab for this testing

That’s it! Apart from small things here and there, which I shan’t bother to mention

[vpa19771]

devpack-for-spring:

• spent a bit of time studying openrewrite
• added PR to enable adding plugins to gradle/maven builds. The first iteration configures rockcraft plugin.
• working on adding feature to run build plugins without configuring them in the build. The idea is to be able to do devpack-for-spring plugin rockcraft build-rock to export the chiselled rock image of the application. Raised PR that loads plugin configuration.