Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 27 October 2022

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Last week’s status can be found here: Foundations Team Updates - Thursday 20 October 2022

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ubuntu-image

  • Lots and lots of beta testing
  • Created a branch in the snap store: “beta/classic-image-redesign”
    • Set up a recipe in LP to automatically rebuild this whenever there are changes to the feature branch
  • Began breaking down 23.04 tasks
    • Discussions with cloud team about the secret sauce that makes cloud images
    • Downloading and playing around with cloud images

Misc

  • Lots of take home tests
  • Reviewing openssh patch for @enr0n
  • SRU verification of flash-kernel chroot fix
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subiquity

  • spec work and brainstorming on how to make Subiquity cleanly handle APT failures
  • updated and published autoinstall documentation on the wiki
  • spending more time reworking how Subiquity handles its event loop. Also affects system_setup and console_conf.
  • code review
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systemd

  • Continuing to investigate a NIC renaming issue on Focal

Other

  • Prepared SRU for LP 1993478 “package openssh-server 1:9.0p1-1ubuntu7 failed to install/upgrade: postinstall script returned 1”
    • This bug is due to the socket migration logic not handling ListenAddress values from /etc/ssh/sshd_config that specify a port number
    • Attached a patch, which I tested against the test cases I listed in the SRU template
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  • Lots of take-home tests
  • Candidate interviews
  • Roadmap work
  • Bug triage
  • +1 shift focused at looking into FTBFSes from late Kinetic
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Distro

Netplan

  • Jammy v0.105 SRU verification, https://pad.lv/1988447
  • netplan status + unit-test, ready for review, PR#290
  • more Jira/roadmap grooming
  • bug grooming

Misc

  • Take home test review
  • Sprint travel prep
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  • subiquity
    • PR: 1461 - update docs to help clarify what happens between Autoinstall and Cloud-init.
    • PR: 1465 - after reviewing PR: 1459, add a matching test for issue with swap files and swap partitions
    • Start updating the subiquity hook in apport, it’s very out of date
    • Roadmap finalization
    • Proof of concept of hfs+ resize using libparted
    • Specifications
  • cloud-init
    • PR: 1797 - fix apport collection of Subiquity data
  • probert
    • PR: 124 - test this and confirm that it fixes the reported problem.
    • PR: 126 - add CLA check
  • Candidate code reviews
  • Bug triage
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Distro

  • Uploaded rdma-core 43.0-1 to Debian unstable (will sync to l-series)
  • bdebstrap: Replaced distutils by setuptools to fix build failure with new setuptools

Other

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