Launchpad at UDS-N

Launchpad engineers are attending UDS-N to participate in Ubuntu and Linaro planning, and to meet with partner and community representatives to discuss Launchpad issues.

Curtis (sinzui) -- Launchpad Registry team

• [/] Discuss the UI for LEP/ManagingDisclosure with stakeholders (linaro, u1, landscape, oem, hwe) and openstack.

  • [X] ISD: Stuart and the entire team provided important feedback over 2 hours.
    • [X] Need to revise mockup for the other stakeholders

  • [X] Monty from OpenStack (and Drizzle) discussed the revisions. Proposed that we avoid letter users with partial access to create owned private project branches to avoid subscriber/owner conflicts.

  • [X] Landscape. Jamu believes that there is a screen missing. The all users view rejected by ISD is still valid. Jamu want to switch between that which is granted and who actually has permission.
    • [X] Need to revise mockup for the other stakeholders
  • [X] OEM: Steve needs to see that factory projects cannot see other factories in a project group.

• [X] Discuss LEP/BugLinking with Deryck and stakeholders

  • [X] Need to update the LEP with bug-link management.
  • [X] HWE: Chris will provide copies of scripts used to report on the existing links.
  • [X] OEM: Steve noted he requires a master bug status.
  • [X] Landscape: Dependencies are wanted for bugs between client and server
• [X] The Managing Disclosure conversation reveal that the person picker cannot be confidently used.
  • ISD, Landscape, and OEM described the problem and offered several interesting suggestions.
• [/] Project groups with stack holders (linaro, u1, landscape, oem, hwe) and openstack.
  • Talked to ISD, HWE, Linaro, Landscape, OEM
  • Affiliation is needed as well as organisation. Nested project may solve the sku/platform problem.
• [X] Distribution Source Package administration with oem
  • Not a required feature for them!
• [/] Entitlement for stack holders (linaro, u1, landscape, oem, hwe)
  • Talked to OEM, ISD, Landscape
• [/] Private Answers with stackholders (u1, landscape)
  • Talked to ISD, HWE, Landscape
• [X] Privacy page presentation
  • ISD and OEM interpreted the current and proposed privacy stripe
• Stakeholders discussing privacy at UDS
  • [X] ISD: Stuart
  • [X] HWE: Chris (also Marjo)
  • [X] OEM: Steve (also Cody)
  • [X] Landscape: Jamu
  • [X] Linaro: Kiko (also Jamie)
  • [X] U1: Matt (also Joshua)

  • [X] A Commercial project: Monty speaking for OpenStack

• [X] launchpad project and planning page
  • [X] Call for contributors on project index does not say exactly what needs to be done. The timeline is not enough. Listing the proposed work is very important. /onehundredpapercuts harder than most because the work is bug fixing, not code planning, and there are 10 concurrent feature milestones
    • Show the current milestone summary and activity?
    • Replace the top contributors karma with top closed bugs, specs, answers for all time, series, milestone?
    • Bug tags will help users seeing the milestone to find similar bugs to work on?
  • [X] When a milestone is released, the RM needs to defer triage/in-progress bugs to the next milestone, or in /onehundredpapercuts, the next series.
    • Prompt to defer to an existing or new milestone?
• [X] mpt and barry both wanted to discuss the situation when Launchpad is the upstream bugtracker
  • Eg, Ubuntu's Desktop Janitor and the project of the same name really share bugs.
  • barry want a option to include Ubuntu's bugs in his bug listing to dedup and be certain he is seeing all of them.

Deryck Hodge (deryck) -- Launchpad Bugs team

• Catch up with Ubuntu people/teams about specific WIP or past work (Heat, Expiry, Subscriptions)
• Catch up with Robert (lifeless) about performance and production issues/work
• Wrap rotations with Brian (bdmurray) and Bryce (bryceh)

Julian Edwards (bigjools) -- Soyuz Team

• Derived Distros catch-up and progress check (Linaro and Ubuntu teams)
  • James Westby says that the current approach of not allowing a distro to be derived twice is probably OK; this simplifies our operations.
• Removal of Partner archive (Ubuntu Team)
  • Not a great deal for us to do here; the onus is on Software Center to support free apps.
  • We still need to support partner until Lucid/Maverick EoL.
  • Some questions remain over the scalability of the PPA publisher.
  • We need to finish the work that counts downloads. (It's currently OOMing the PPA machine when it runs there)

• Archive re-org (Ubuntu Team) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArchiveReorganisation/Components/Preparation

  • GOBBY: ubuntutheproject-soyuz-n-archivereorg-component-preparation
  • ACTION [bigjools]: define what the "default" packageset means
  • Distro policy will be set up outside of LP via packageset permissions
  • Need to override the packageset atomically at "queue acceptance time"
  • We need a way of doing OGRE style restrictions on build-deps for packagesets
    • Possibly we can put the packageset in the Packages files and use pinning on the buildd
  • Mirroring problem: Maybe write one Packages file per Packageset
  • ACTION [bigjools]: We need to put the packageset name wherever it lists the component in the UI

Paul Hummer (rockstar) -- Launchpad Code team

• Chat about U-D-D with all relevant parties

• Talk about merge queues with OpenStack folk

• Demo build-from-branch with as many people as possible.

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