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gnomefreakwhat happened to the CC meeting? it was in the topic yesterday11:53
persiagnomefreak: The topic is subject to waffle.  It's supposed to start in 3 minutes.11:58
gnomefreakpersia: ok thanks but after looking at agenda it most likely wont happen11:58
persiagnomefreak: I expect it will happen, but be a *very* brief meeting.11:59
persiaJust in case any of the members of the CC have anything they want to introduce or discussi.11:59
gnomefreakah good point11:59
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kirklando/15:58
* mathiaz look around15:58
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* jdstrand waves15:59
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* mathiaz ooohhhs: people...15:59
zulhello16:00
sommeryo16:00
tarvidhere but already too much coffee16:00
mathiazhow is everyone doing today ?16:00
tarvidhappy to be far from wall street16:01
ogrado you expect a rain of people out of the windows ?16:01
mathiazogra: apparently my expectations are too high today...16:02
tarvidthe dogs have hit the ends of their chains16:02
ograheh16:02
mathiazlet's get started16:02
mathiaz#startmeeting16:02
Koono/16:02
sorenLet's.16:02
nealmcbMeeting started at 10:02:29. The chair is mathiaz.16:03
mathiazAfter its last week quick appearance MootBot is back on vacation.16:03
mathiazLast week's minutes: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/Server/2008090916:03
ogramathiaz, ping Seeker` about it (he said we should do that)16:03
mathiaz[TOPIC] Ubuntu VM builder16:04
mathiazsoren: ^^ ?16:04
sorenOoh, yes. Big stuff going on ehere.16:04
sorenErm... I've clearly neglected to send out the blog post.16:05
sorenI'll get right on that later today.16:05
sorenI've got a local version that deploys to EC2, so things are coming along very nicely.16:05
mathiazsoren: ok - you've uploaded a new version ?16:05
mathiazsoren: and you'll cover most of it in your blog post ?16:05
sorenMost of the stuff I've done pertains to EC2, but there are a few licensing tidbits that needs sorting out before I can push it to the archive.16:05
nealmcbooh - ec2 - cool!16:06
sorenmathiaz: Indeed I will. It's mostly written up, I just need to update it with the last couple of weeks' progress and post it.16:06
mathiazsoren: great.16:06
ScottK-laptopHello all.  I'm finally not on the road at meeting time.16:06
mathiaz[ACTION] soren to write a blog post about vm-builder once it's available in the archive16:06
* mathiaz waves at ScottK-laptop 16:06
mathiazsommer: still on the track to update the Server guide wrt to virtualization ?16:07
sommermathiaz: yep, I've updated the u-v-m section with what is currently in the man page... I'll update it again once the new version hits the archive16:07
mathiazsommer: great !16:08
mathiaz[ACTION] sommer to update the virtualization section of the server guide once vm-builder is available in the archive.16:08
mathiazsoren: anything else on the topic of vm-builder ?16:08
sorenI'm thinking no.16:09
tarvidI would like a link on requirements for a host for a VM16:09
mathiaz[TOPIC] Review ServerGuide for Intrepid16:09
mathiazsommer: ^^ ?16:09
sommertarvid: http://doc.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/serverguide/C/virtualization.html16:10
tarvidtnx16:10
mathiazsommer: I still owe a review of the openldap section.16:10
mathiaz[ACTION] mathiaz to review the ldap section of the server guide16:10
sommer:)16:10
mathiazkirkland: raid section ?16:10
kirklandmathiaz: i published the blogpost calling for testing a few minutes ago16:10
kirklandmathiaz: if sommer has some time today, i'll review the server guide in conjunction with him16:11
mathiaz[ACTION] kirkland to review the RAID section of the server guide16:11
sommerkirkland: sure, can you ping me this afternoon?16:11
mathiazsommer: anything else on the server guide ?16:11
kirklandsommer: yeah, will do16:11
mathiazsommer: I guess you're still looking for reviewers for the different sections?16:11
sommermathiaz: I had a quick question about the tomcat-server tasksel... is that going to be listed in the installer?16:12
sommermathiaz: sure, reviewers are always welcome :)16:12
Koonsommer: yes16:12
sommerKoon: cool, just wanted to make sure16:12
Koonsommer: you want a section in the guide for that ?16:13
zulsommer: already is16:13
sommerI added it to the list this weekend... in the installation section16:13
tarvidi presume one of the motivations for virtualization is to limit the competition between a LAMP stack and a Tomcat sack?16:13
sorenErr... Not really, no :)16:14
Koontarvid: the only motivation is that it's fun.16:14
mathiazsommer: Isn't it too late to add new material to the server guide ?16:15
nealmcbalong with lots of other motivations.....16:15
mathiazsommer: by material I meant brand new sections16:15
tarvidOooh16:15
sommermathiaz: ummm, I don't think it'd be a big deal... there's been some pretty large updates the last couple of days16:15
mathiazsommer: right.16:16
mathiazsommer: are you planning to write a section about tomcat ?16:16
mathiazsommer: or would require some help on that ?16:16
ScottK-laptopIs the server guide affected by string freeze?16:16
sommermathiaz: I wasn't planning to for Intrepid, but I'm not opposed to the idea16:16
sommermathiaz: help would be great16:16
sommerScottK-laptop: yes16:16
Koonsommer: I can help16:17
ScottK-laptopOK, so this'll all need freeze exceptions too.16:17
sommerScottK-laptop: why?16:17
mathiazsommer: hm - I'm not sure ScottK-laptop is refering to the same thing./16:17
nealmcbHmmm - the top two hits on google for ubuntu server guide are still very confusing, with no link to 8.04.   I'll have to revisit my bug about that16:17
sommerKoon: that'd be great, and much appreciated16:17
mathiazScottK-laptop: there is a documentation freeze at the begining of the month of october16:18
ScottK-laptopOK.  I guess that's the relevant one then.16:18
mathiazScottK-laptop: but now that we're in UI-Freeze, the doc team can review the documentation to make sure it's accurate16:18
tarvidsommer - nag tarvid about Netbeans and Tomcat16:18
Koonsommer: you prefer me to draft something or that we discuss together on what should be in there and you draft it ?16:18
sommerKoon: if you don't mind drafting it that'd be great... I've used Tomcat for some legacy stuff, but I'm not that familiar with it16:19
Koonsommer: will do16:19
mathiazKoon: I'd suggest that you branch the ubuntu-doc bzr repo - and submit it to sommer for merge16:20
sommertarvid: if you'd like to add some content that'd be great too16:20
mathiaz[ACTION] Koon to draft a section about tomcat for the Server Guide.16:20
tarvidI'd like to get a ball of Netbeans, PHP, Drupal and Tomcat running16:20
Seeker`sorry about the lack of bot; I dont have access to the server it runs on myself, and I cant always get hold of the person that does16:21
mathiazsommer: anything else ?16:21
nealmcbtarvid: a ball?16:21
tarvidWhich is one of the reasons I had the frail hope virtualization would constrain Tomcat from eating my PHP stuff16:21
mathiazSeeker`: no problem.16:21
sommermathiaz: I don't think so16:21
tarvidglob, pile, stack, heap16:21
mathiazsommer: ok - thanks for the work.16:21
mathiazlet's move o16:21
mathiazn16:22
mathiaz[TOPIC] Boot Support for Degraded RAID16:22
mathiazkirkland: ^?16:22
kirklandmathiaz: \o/16:22
nealmcbtarvid: hmm - what problems are you having?16:22
nealmcbtarvid: (maybe later in the meeting)16:22
kirklandmathiaz: we now have a question in the Ubuntu Server installer, if you have installed / or /boot on an md device, that will ask if you want BOOT_DEGRADED=true|false16:22
mathiaznealmcb: tarvid: could take this to #ubuntu-server ?16:22
kirklandmathiaz: no small feat, I might add :-)  kirkland pats himself on the back :-P16:22
nealmcbmathiaz: right - even better....16:23
tarvidit is a current but not top priority project16:23
mathiazkirkland: awesome - so nothing is left for this spec in this release cycle ?16:23
mathiazkirkland: except testing.16:23
kirklandmathiaz: actually, there was one regression introduced by adding dmraid to the default seed16:23
kirklandmathiaz: i solved that one late last night, and colin committed the fix this morning16:23
mathiazkirkland: ok.16:23
kirklandmathiaz: i think the active development on this one is officially done :-)16:23
mathiazkirkland: have you closed the bug  in LP ?16:24
kirklandmathiaz: there's a slew of them16:24
kirklandmathiaz: they have been appropriately referenced in various patches so as to auto-close16:24
kirklandmathiaz: the ones i've fixed anyway16:24
kirklandmathiaz: i should probably actually do a search for open duplicates16:24
mathiazkirkland: ok. There is a long bug thread also16:24
kirklandmathiaz: or related bugs that might have been fixed by these efforts16:25
kirklandmathiaz: the MOST relevant ones are listed at the top of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootDegradedRaid16:25
mathiazkirkland: ok.16:25
mathiazkirkland: anything else to add on that topic ?16:25
kirklandmathiaz: nopers16:26
mathiazkirkland: great - time to test now.16:26
kirklandmathiaz: true, as i said, blog post published16:26
mathiaz[TOPIC] Tomcat6 server stack support16:26
kirklandmathiaz: http://dustinkirkland.wordpress.com/2008/09/16/intrepid-call-for-testing-booting-degraded-raid/16:26
mathiazKoon: ^16:26
mathiazKoon: I've uploaded your tomcat5.5 changes16:27
Koonmathiaz: the tasksel is in, thanks to zul. Tested and works ok16:27
Koonso on the tomcat6 front development is complete16:27
Koonon tomcat5.5 you uploaded the intrepid fixes16:27
mathiazKoon: how are the dependencies going ?16:27
Koonthere is a security update for hardy in the pipe, a SRU is next to fix other things16:27
Koonabout deps, we are in a not too bad shape16:28
Koonsee http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-archive/germinate-output/ubuntu.intrepid/tomcat-server16:28
jdstrandfyi-- security fixes are uploaded and available (for hardy)16:28
mathiazKoon: seems great.16:29
Koonthe *gcj* + libasound2 packages are pulled in through recommends and are not needed16:29
mathiazKoon: right - have you filed bugs about it ?16:29
Koonbut that's almost as slim as it can get16:29
Koonmathiaz: yes, proposal was rejected for intrepid. Should be shot down in intrepid+116:30
mathiazKoon: good. Anything else on the tomcat front ?16:30
Koonnope16:30
mathiazlet's move on.16:30
mathiaz[TOPIC] landscape-client in Ubuntu16:30
mathiazI've been working on fixing landscape-client.16:30
mathiazI'm going to upload a new package that will use a Pre-Depends to make it work correctly.16:31
ScottKWhy is it even in Ubuntu, isn't it just a client for a proprietary Canonical product?16:31
jdstrandScottK: it's open-source and could be modified for anyone to use16:32
ScottKRight.  I said that wrong, in Ubuntu/in a standard install.16:32
mathiazScottK: landscape-client isn't install by default16:33
mathiazScottK: there is a choice in the install.16:33
ScottKOK.16:33
kirklandScottK: it does contain some useful, open, aspects, including landscape-sysinfo16:33
dendrobatesbut that functionality has been split out so it does not require the full client.16:34
mathiazdendrobates: so the pkg split is still under discussion. I'm hoping to get it working in alpha6.16:35
dendrobatesmathiaz: upload it as you have it.  We can make any changes as needed.16:36
mathiazThat requires a PreDepends change and promotion of update-motd to main.16:36
nealmcbis the protocol used by landscape-client documented?16:36
mathiazthe last part is taken care of by kirkland16:36
kirklandmathiaz: waiting on pitti or doko16:36
radixnealmcb: it's not documented.16:36
dendrobatesnealmcb: I don't know how much documentation, but the client is gpl, so it could be discovered.16:37
radixnealmcb: we'd like to have it documented, of course16:37
mathiazok - that's all I have on the landscape front.16:38
mathiazThat's all from last week minutes.16:39
nealmcbradix: thanks.  in the past there have been some discussions about how it might fit together with other server management tools.  having a protocol that is documented and some means of discussing changes to the protocol would help16:39
mathiazAnything else to add wrt to last week meeting ?16:39
sorenmathiaz: Have you in the process uncovered an Ubuntu policy for pre-depends?16:39
mathiazsoren: same as Debian - frowned upon16:40
sorenmathiaz: ...and needs raising on ubuntu-devel first?16:40
mathiazsoren: but in this case it seems that it's the best option in the available time frame16:40
mathiazsoren: cjwatson mentionned that I should open a bug about it to explain why it has been done.16:40
mathiazsoren: with the aim to fix it in the mid-trem.16:41
sorenmathiaz: Sounds reasonable.16:41
sorenright.16:41
mathiazsoren: once the underlaying issue is fixed, we can remove the Pre-Depends.16:41
sorenRight, right.16:41
mathiazLet's move on.16:42
mathiaz[TOPIC] Drupal install script16:42
mathiaztarvid: ^^ ?16:42
tarvidhere16:42
tarvidI kept track of the work flow I do repetitively installing Drupal for clients16:43
Adri2000(I'm sorry guys, I have to run, I should be back in ~15 minutes for the vsftpd item)16:43
tarvidit involves creating users, databases, dns zones and apache config files16:43
mathiaztarvid: is this workflow documented somewhere ?16:44
cjwatsonI just applied http://paste.ubuntu.com/47486/ to policy so that it recommends discussion on ubuntu-devel rather than debian-devel.16:44
tarvidperhaps by the script itself http://drupal.ls.net/node/4716:44
tarvidI have older svg files built with "dot"16:45
mathiaztarvid: what's the current state of the drupal package ?16:46
mathiaztarvid: we should try to aim at integrating your common tasks in the postinstall scripts.16:46
mathiaztarvid: or may be create a package that would do this for you.16:46
tarvid6.4  and still struggling to update the contributed modules from 5.x16:46
tarvidthere were 6 minor and one major upgrade in the past 12 months16:47
tarvidstaying secure is a challenge16:47
tarvidthe same is true for all large PHP apps16:47
mathiaztarvid: it seems that you have a good use case for the web framework specification.16:47
tarvidinstalling them in /var/www does not improve the security situation16:47
tarvidif I knew what that was16:48
tarvidI am a long time Linux Ubuntu server user16:48
tarvidbut my bash skills are modest16:48
tarvidI can spot many issues in a shell script16:49
tarvidsome are easy like checking the number of parameters16:49
tarvidI'd like to reuse existing scripts but I can find much to build on16:49
mathiaztarvid: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/improved-web-application-framework16:49
mathiaztarvid: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WebAppsPackaging16:49
tarvidthat sounds appropriate16:49
mathiaztarvid: you may wanna have a look at these page and provide input there.16:49
mathiaztarvid: anything else ?16:50
tarvidsimple issues like creating a new DNS zone are hard to find16:50
tarvidThis may be of more interest in the Drupal world than Ubuntu16:51
mathiaztarvid: that should be documented in the Ubuntu Server Guide then.16:51
mathiaztarvid: if you could add your input to the spec mentionned above it would be appreciated.16:52
mathiazLet's move on.16:52
mathiaz[TOPIC] nagios3 in main.16:52
mathiazKoon: have you been working on that ?16:52
Koonmathiaz: no. apparently it wouldn't need a MIR so I'm trying to get ahold of someone that could fix it16:53
mathiazKoon: IIRC there is also the fact that nagios is not in main for hardy.16:53
mathiazsoren: ^^ ?16:53
sorenThat seems to still be the case, yes.16:54
soren...which is a mistake, by the way.16:54
soren..and might actually get fixed (magically).16:54
Koonhmmm.16:54
sorenIt *has* been approved.16:54
mathiazright16:54
sorenAnd nagios3 isn't a rewrite (AFAIK), so getting it promoted should be a formality.16:55
Koonno it's pretty much the same thing, it's just that some plugins API is broken16:55
sorenOh, really?16:55
zulKoon: like which?16:55
Koonit exposes more macros and changed a few of them iirc16:56
Koonthat was the rationale for the major revision number16:56
* Koon looks it up16:56
Koonanyway, it's a very specific case so I'd like to solve it directly with someone with superpowers16:56
mathiazKoon: right - ask an archive admin and refer to the bug16:57
sorenhttp://nagios.sourceforge.net/docs/3_0/whatsnew.html16:57
mathiazKoon: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nagios2/+bug/21132316:57
ubottuLaunchpad bug 211323 in nagios2 "MIR for nagios" [Medium,Fix released]16:57
zulthose bugs reports should be moved to nagios3 once its done16:58
sorenKoon: Grab pitti. I've talked to him about it previously.16:58
* Adri2000 is back16:58
Koonsoren: that's the one I've tried and failed to reach so far16:58
mathiazKoon: will take care of this ?16:58
mathiazKoon: will *you* take care of this ?16:58
Koonthat's on my todo list yes16:58
sorenKoon: Ah. I've explained the issue to slangasek as well.16:59
mathiaz[ACTION] Koon to ask an archive admin to promote nagios3 to main.16:59
mathiaz[TOPIC] vsftpd 2.0.716:59
mathiazAdri2000: ^ ?16:59
Adri2000yep16:59
Adri2000basically, what I said in my email :)16:59
mathiazhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-server/2008-September/002231.html17:00
Adri2000vsftpd 2.0.7 has an interesting bug fix for FTPS, which makes it not work anymore with clients like filezilla17:00
mathiazhttps://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vsftpd/+bug/25490517:00
Adri2000there is not a lot of changes, and they look pretty safe17:00
ubottuLaunchpad bug 254905 in vsftpd "FTPS doesn't work with clients such as FileZilla" [Medium,Confirmed]17:00
mathiazSo you're asking whether that requires a FF exception ?17:01
Adri2000it does I think, but I wanted the opinion of the server team before requesting one17:01
zulit does imho17:02
mathiazIt's a new upstream - so you'd need a FFe.17:02
sorenNot if it's bugfixes only..17:03
mathiazsoren: hm.. true17:03
sorenAt least, that's my understanding. I can't seem to find a reference to back it up right now, though.17:04
Adri2000there are two "Add option" and one "enhance" in the changelog, suggesting there are not only bugfixes but also a few enhancements17:04
sorenOh, that might just be for universe.17:04
mathiazAdri2000: if you're not sure, ask for a FFe.17:04
mathiazAdri2000: I think you've already talked about with slangasek17:04
Adri2000yes17:04
ScottK-laptopsoren: Bugfix only is Main and Universe, I'm pretty sure.17:04
Adri2000but, am I wrong thinking vsftpd is in main and the recommended ftp server? and on the cd maybe also?17:05
Adri2000that's why I'm asking you :)17:05
mathiazAdri2000: you're correct.17:05
sorenAdri2000: No, that's correct.17:05
Adri2000ok17:06
mathiazAdri2000: so go ahead - ask for a FFe. And then you can work on providing an updated package.17:06
mathiazAdri2000: and seek for sponsoring via ubuntu-main-sponsor.17:06
Adri2000okay, will do17:06
mathiazAdri2000: great.17:07
mathiaz[TOPIC] Open Discussion17:07
mathiazanything else ?17:07
ScottK-laptopSince I was last at one of these meetings, clamav and spamassassin have been promoted and are seeded in server-ship/17:07
mathiazScottK-laptop: awesome!17:08
mathiazScottK-laptop: do you plan to have a mail-server task ?17:08
ScottK-laptopclamav is up to date with 0.94 and once I have some feedback on testing I'll upload it with the apparmor profile that jdstrand did.17:09
* nealmcb cheers for ScottK17:09
nealmcb(and all the helpers)17:09
ScottK-laptopAlso Debian has created a pkg-clamav team which I'm a part of and I'll maintain our packaging branches jointly with them in their Git repo.17:09
ScottK-laptopOn amavisd-new, I got some input from ivoks and I'm going to do some slight refactoring/improvement of default preferences after this alpha is out.17:10
nxvlit's awesome see so many new people on the meetings :D17:11
mathiazScottK-laptop: do you think about adding clamav and amavisd-new to the mail-server task ?17:11
ScottK-laptopThe Debian defaults are not entirely friendly IMO (defaults to mailing virus detection reports back to the send, for example).17:11
ScottK-laptopmathiaz: I considered it, but wasn't sure.17:11
ScottK-laptopmathiaz: I thought it needed some discussion first.17:11
ScottK-laptopmathiaz: Spamassassin too.17:12
ScottK-laptopAny objections to that?17:12
mathiazScottK-laptop: yop. ubuntu-server@ seems like a good place to start.17:12
ScottK-laptopOK.  I added them to server-ship to get them seeded so they'd stay in Main.17:12
ScottK-laptopmathiaz: I'll start a discussion and see if we get consensus and make the change after the alpha if one is wanted.17:14
mathiazScottK-laptop: seems like a good plan to me.17:14
mathiazanything else ?17:14
ScottK-laptopNot from me.17:14
mathiaz[ACTION] ScottK-laptop to start a discussion on ubuntu-server@ about adding spamassassin, clamav and amavisd-new to the mail-server task.17:15
mathiaz[TOPIC] Agree on next meeting date and time.17:15
mathiazsame place, same time, next week ?17:15
sommer+117:15
ScottK-laptopI'll be on vacation next week, so it'll probably be the week after I make any changes.17:16
mathiazAllright then. See you all next week here. Happy Alpha6 testing !17:17
mathiaz#endmeeting17:17
sommerthanks mathiaz, later on all17:17
kirklandsommer: ping me when you have time later17:22
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