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james_whi all15:55
evandgood morning/afternoon/evening everyone15:57
cjwatsonhello15:59
liwhi15:59
ArneGoetjehi16:00
calchi16:01
cjwatsonso, we have a few outstanding actions, but mostly I want to talk bugs this meeting16:01
cjwatsonoh yes, let's get this logged16:02
cjwatson#startmeeting16:02
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cjwatson* liw to give calc access to desktop machine for OOo builds16:02
cjwatsonI think that became irrelevant?16:02
liwyeah16:02
cjwatsoncalc: remember, by the way, that you should have access to the porting machines in the datacentre16:02
TheMusoUUUUUuUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSSSSSSS/C16:03
TheMuso.C16:03
cjwatsoncalc: I was wondering if it would be worth setting up some kind of shared ccache arrangement there so that multiple people could work on OOo without each having to invest substantial local facilities16:03
TheMusoOOPS16:03
cjwatson* calc to upload 3.0 to PPA by end of week16:03
cjwatsonI believe that is now done, thank you16:03
calcyes that is done16:03
calcyea at the time i was still evacuated, but got home later that day (iirc)16:04
asacoops. hi!16:04
calcbut point taken for future use :)16:04
cjwatsoncalc: re backports: yes once 3.0 is the default in jaunty; otherwise it's at the discretion of the backports team16:05
calcok16:05
cjwatsondoko to extract information about what we lose by targeting Java 1.4 and report back16:07
cjwatsondoko: did you get anywhere on this?16:07
dokoyes, on the phone, 10min16:08
cjwatsondoko: ok, we'll come back to you16:08
cjwatsonhmm, I forgot roll call :-)16:08
cjwatsonasac,slangasek: ping?16:08
cjwatsonbryce seems to be offline16:09
asac17:04 < asac> oops. hi!16:09
asac;)16:09
cjwatsonoh yes16:09
* TheMuso wipes his eyes. Yay for changing time differences. :)16:09
cjwatsonlooks like the Portland mafia had a good night last night16:10
cjwatsonok, in the meantime, the main thing I'm concerned about at the moment is getting the 8.10 bug list down16:11
cjwatsonI recently discovered https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+nominations which sort of scared me, although since anyone can nominate I'm not clear on how much I should actually be scared by that16:12
* asac looks16:12
james_wthere are a lot of things on there that could be rejected in my opinion16:12
liw556? ouch16:13
cjwatsonI agree, we need to process it but it's not necessarily a matter of adding that all to the intrepid-targeted list16:13
cjwatsonanyway, in the meantime we have the milestoned and targeted lists which are quite long enough16:13
cjwatsonfirst off, mdz noted that there are quite a few things on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=1326 which aren't on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+bugs?field.milestone%3Alist=1326; now that's sort of by design, but the list also includes things at high/critical importance which seems rather odd16:14
* liw adds #278963 to the nominated list16:14
asacis there an easy way to see the diff?16:15
cjwatsonso this is a reminder, if you're using milestones, please consider whether the bug also needs to be targeted to intrepid - it will only be considered release-critical if it's targeted, otherwise the milestone is just for your own organisational reference16:15
cjwatsonasac: not that I know of ...16:15
cjwatsonthere is a long kernel list; while I'm told they believe they can handle it, if there's anything you feel you can help with there, don't be inhibited16:16
cjwatson268674 seems in-progress, so I've set it accordingly16:17
cjwatsoncalc: I think somebody mentioned 272772 earlier, but it should be a one-liner16:18
calccjwatson: ok16:19
cjwatsonasac: summary of 259157?16:19
cjwatsonoops16:19
calci'll be doing a new upload for 2.4.1 in the next day or two16:19
cjwatson[TOPIC] Milestoned bugs16:19
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asaccjwatson: i had a short conversation with rtg about driver status yesterday16:20
cjwatsoncalc: ok, please set things to fix-committed in the interim so that we know where you are and can avoid bugging you about things you've done :)16:20
asaccjwatson: we decided that he will look into disabling all "hardware-auto-magic" default parameters for intel drivers16:20
asaccjwatson: ath8k and ath9k should be in proper shape16:20
asaci will get more details from him about what that actually means in real life16:21
cjwatsonasac: oh, this is more on the "auto-association in the kernel is bad, mkay" story?16:21
asacyeah its part of the general discussion we had.16:21
asaccjwatson: this particular bug was about madwifi/atheros and orinoco16:21
asacmadwifi is now supposed to work with wext16:22
asac(and not the special madwifi wpasupplicant module)16:22
cjwatsonyeah, it wasn't clear whose court the ball was in from the bug16:22
asacand rtg said taht hsould be ok16:22
asacorinoco is most likely not ok. but i am not sure how much effort we should put into these not so widely used cards16:22
asaccjwatson: its all kernel. and if kernel team says, that they cannot fix something we might need to try to add tweaks in NM ... which isnt really great and there is no guarantee that we can find tweaks that will help more than they break16:23
cjwatsonI have an orinoco in my server :) I don't use NM there though ...16:23
asaccjwatson: you could at least try. maybe the driver has improved and we dont know :)16:24
cjwatsonwe used to have tweaks for those devices, didn't we? so these are regressions16:24
asaccjwatson: are you using wpa and wext?16:24
asaccjwatson: well. madwifi tweak isnt possible anymore because wpasupplicant doesnt have that module anymore16:24
cjwatsonasac: neither, and let's just say that arranging to run Ubuntu desktop + NM on that machine would be ... nontrivial16:24
cjwatsonerr, sorry, I am using wext16:24
cjwatsonanyway, it's an ancient machine on an old kernel16:24
asaccjwatson: orinoco tweaks we could look at. but first i want to see a bug about that being reported16:25
asaccjwatson: it was me who filed this bug when i didnt ported the tweaks ;)16:25
asaccjwatson: right. i think orinoco is too ancient. if i get complains i will look. but so far i havent seen complains16:25
cjwatsonI know, I'm just noting in general that regressions are the highest-priority category of bugs16:26
asaccjwatson: right. which is why i created this bug ;)16:26
cjwatsonevand: did anyone get anywhere with 270423?16:28
evandcjwatson: not yet.  My attention has been focused elsewhere, but I'll give it another look.16:29
evandvery odd bug16:29
cjwatsonasac: do you need help on 247281? the bug doesn't seem to be conclusive16:29
cjwatson(on what you need a decision on)16:30
asaccjwatson: yeah. i just made the decision. we cannot have the "real" solution in xulrunner. I will add a hook in ubufox that allows admin to overwrite preferences set in ubufox in /etc/16:31
cjwatsonjust made the decision> :-)16:31
asacthats as simple as adding a link16:31
asace.g. /etc/firefox-3.0/pref/ubufox.js -> /usr/lib/ubufox/defaults/preferences/000system-pref.js16:32
cjwatsonhmm, /etc -> /usr symlinks are awkward. It's going to be very tempting for a sysadmin to try to edit that without noticing it's a symlink16:33
liwthe other way around might work better?16:33
asaccjwatson: sorry it was wrong direction ;)16:34
cjwatsonasac: ah, ok, in that case yes that sounds reasonable16:34
asac;)16:34
slangasekah, so there is a meeting today :/16:35
cjwatsonevand: 180309 seems to have a patch, although it's risky as it stands because of its use of popen16:35
cjwatson~/wg 2316:35
cjwatson(oops)16:35
evandIndeed, I talked with the guy from Mandriva a while back about this16:36
evandIs it appropriate to add that dependency to m-a when it could potentially be included on the alternate CDs some day?16:36
cjwatsonevand: it would have to have a fallback16:37
cjwatsonor argue with the people who decided that localised directory names were a good idea in the first place :)16:37
liw"16:37
liwYet another reason why localised directory names are a daft idea and should be abolished, IMO." -- +116:37
evandI suspect the second option would result in a lot of yelling and not any amount of progress :/16:38
cjwatsonwell, they should be localised in the UI not the filesystem16:39
evandcjwatson: fallback>  Do you mean recommends and type?16:39
cjwatsonor words to that effect in C16:39
evanderr type /usr/bin/xdg-user-dir16:39
evanderr right16:40
evandok, will do16:40
cjwatsoni.e. use the unlocalised version if calling xdg-user-dir fails16:40
cjwatsonit's not ideal but would probably help16:40
liwis there no C library to do what xdg-user-dir(1) does?16:41
cjwatsonok, those are the major bugs I'm concerned about; does anyone have anything else on their packages that they think should be on the list?16:41
evandyes16:42
cjwatsonevand: ...16:44
evandthe remaining bits for proper usb disk support> uuids in grub/grub-installer, filtering out the /cdrom device, not writing /cdrom to fstab, and handling the grub install target better in ubiquity16:44
evandnot all of those have bug numbers yet, but I'll take care of creating a few16:44
cjwatsonwhere are we on the UUID work?16:44
liwwhy not write /cdrom to fstab?16:44
cjwatsonwe have to write /cdrom to fstab for apt16:45
cjwatsonit could be done by uuid if appropriate though16:45
evanda bit stuck.  KVM USB disk support is broken, so I'm going to have to switch to real hardware to continue developing this, but I should be able to tackle that today.16:45
cjwatsonat least some of the uuid bit should be applicable to hard disks too, I expect16:46
evandI thought to do it only for USB disks as it would be less risky this late in the cycle16:46
evandshould I shoot for all disks instead?16:46
cjwatsonI would suggest that it'll be quicker to develop it for everything, and then relatively easy to limit it to USB disks only if that's what we choose16:48
evandnoted, will do16:48
cjwatsondoing it for everything would close about a million bugs16:48
mvoif /cdrom and apt is a problem we should discuss this on the next UDS, a hal based helper would probably a good idea to bring some freshness into the cdrom method16:48
evandOh and I've missed 274076 - nominating now16:49
evandcjwatson: lol, indeed16:49
cjwatsonoh, of course we can't use a UUID for /cdrom, I'm on crack16:49
cjwatsonwe may just have to live with that breakage for the moment16:49
evandok16:49
cjwatsonmvo: yeah, I agree16:50
cjwatsonapt should definitely autodiscover it16:50
calcif we could pull some sort of device id to base the mount point off of it could work, but yea removable media doesn't work too well for that :)16:50
cjwatsonby-path, I suppose16:50
calcprobably based off serial number of device or something like that?16:50
cjwatsonas long as it's of the drive not of the disk16:51
calcyea16:51
mvoapt-cdrom add/the cdrom method could just try all cdroms via hal16:51
cjwatsonwe could do *that* for USB disks only if by-path in sysfs is reliable16:51
mvo"just"16:51
evandCan we just not write that line for installation from USB in Intrepid then?  I suspect the lack of functionality will be far less painful than the bug.16:51
evandah16:51
cjwatsonevand: that sounds feasible too, yes; it's in partman-target16:51
cjwatsonwell, hmm16:52
cjwatsonno, we'd have to remove it at the end of installation instead - /cdrom is used during installation16:52
cjwatsonanyway, we're approaching time16:52
cjwatsondoko: are you off the phone? :)16:52
dokoversion for class formats: 1.4, 1.5, and 1.6 do have different class versions, which means that a class file built with a newer class version format cannot be used by older vm's. free vm's like gij or cacao are usually sloppy about this and continue to work as long as no unknown bytecode is seen. but sun's own older vm's are unhappy with this. now fixed by setting the class target version explicitely when building ant (so that16:52
doko people can build there own code with a non-Ubuntu vm and the ant binary from Ubuntu). So in the short term nothing is broken in Ubuntu when using our default vm (or gij), but in the long term, every package should explicitely set the minimum source and target format and not use the default target format of the vm. imo, it should be enough to do this for jaunty.16:52
dokoyes16:52
asacdoko: what was the topic again? drop compilers that can produce 1.4 compatible code or drop VMs that can run that code?16:54
cjwatsonthe question was the bytecode for which our java packages should be built, and how to achieve that16:54
dokoasac: we had .class files which didn't work with sun-java5 and sun-java-1.4 (aka blackdown)16:54
cjwatsonsince openjdk generates 1.6 by default16:54
cjwatsondoko: ant itself, or the cdbs ant task?16:55
dokochanging openjdk-6 isn't an option, upstream doesn't like it16:55
dokoant itself16:55
asacyeah ant default would make sense ... have we tried howmany build failures we would get (e.g. because a package needs 1.6, but doesnt say so in ant)?16:56
dokowe maybe could inject the source and target format in the ant task or in cdbs, but again, then will break packages which require 1.5, and not just 1.4.16:56
cjwatsondoko: ok, I agree with you that that's fine for intrepid, but we should include a mention in the release notes16:58
cjwatsondoko: could you write up something for Steve?16:58
dokook, will do16:58
cjwatson[ACTION] doko to write up release notes item about Java bytecode generation16:58
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cjwatsondo we have any?16:58
james_wI've got a couple16:58
asaca couple for two minutes ;)16:59
cjwatsonjames_w: go ahead16:59
james_wfirst one is a quick one, if you have any skill at debugging crashes in threaded C code and a spare hour or two please look at the consolekit bug list16:59
james_wit's plenty crashy it seems, and when it does the user has to restart their session to get things like suspend and some admin access back17:00
james_wsecond was something jcastro brought up yesterday, though he's not around right now17:00
james_wand is something kees brought up a while ago: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2008-September/026460.html17:01
brycemorning17:01
james_wwe could be releasing Intrepid with regressions in a lot of webcams17:01
asacjames_w: what are the crashes with most dupes?17:02
james_whttp://lwn.net/Articles/291036/17:02
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james_wunfortunately I don't know what needs to happen beyond getting the lib in to main for Intrepid, which is already enough work at this point17:03
slangasekjames_w: is consolekit really all that crashy still?  It hasn't crashed for me since the last upload17:03
slangasekjames_w: workaround for this, if you don't know, is to run 'ck-launch-session' again from a terminal17:04
TheMusoYeah a recent ck upload actually allowed the use of sound from the console without being logged tinto GNOME.17:04
asacslangasek: i cant tell for sure, but yesterday i debugged NM for a while only to find that the issue came from policykit not liking consolekit having crashed at some point17:04
cjwatsonkees' comment is (a) library in main (installed by default?), (b) gstreamer preload patches17:04
james_wslangasek: no, pitti's done a good job with it, but I still think it could be problematic, and the crashes are beyond my skill.17:04
asacslangasek: ck-launch-session will make the XDG_SESSION_COOKIE valid again?17:05
james_wslangasek: I thought that only gave you a bash shell in with a ck session, your desktop session doesn't have the correct key to access things.17:05
james_wer yeah, cookie, not key17:05
ograerm, what in the installer creates the cdrom lines in fstab ??17:06
cjwatsonogra: partman-target17:06
slangasekasac, james_w: I don't remember testing NM, but ck-launch-session fixes pulseaudio for me17:06
james_wslangasek: ok, thanks17:06
ograapparently mobile users end up with /dev/sdb /dev/cdrom lines in their installs17:06
ograerr, /media/cdrom17:06
cjwatsonogra: #ubuntu-installer or #ubuntu-devel?17:07
ogracjwatson, well, apparently -installer17:07
asachmm. lets see. anyway, consolekit crashing is really something we should get sorted for release (if its really an issue)17:07
cjwatsonck-launch-session really looks like it will set a new XDG_SESSION_COOKIE ...17:07
asacsomeone should monitor the bug list a bit and see if new crashes come in :).17:07
james_wasac: bug 269651 is one of the common ones (27 duplicates)17:07
ubottuLaunchpad bug 269651 in consolekit "console-kit-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_str_hash()" [Medium,Confirmed] https://launchpad.net/bugs/26965117:07
asacjames_w: does any of the dupes have a way to reproduce?17:08
cjwatsonI'll put it in the meeting report (and try to get that out in a slightly more timely fashion), but giving it its own thread would probably get it more attention than that17:08
cjwatsonanyway, feel free to continue discussing it on #-devel17:08
james_wasac: that's the main problem, I have yet to see a ck crash with a way to reproduce, except when pitti gave one when fixing one of the crashes17:08
ograwhoops17:09
asacjames_w: is that the daemon that is crashing?17:09
asacjames_w: lets move to -devel17:10
* ogra aplologizes, thought i was in -devel 17:10
cjwatsonok, we're over time17:10
cjwatsonanything else?17:10
TheMusoOnly the desire for more sleep. :p17:11
james_wgood news?17:11
cjwatsonI figured we were out of time for that, but feel free17:12
cjwatson[TOPIC] Good news17:12
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james_wsorry17:12
TheMusoheh17:12
liwgood news: I've done a successful upgrade of my desktop to intrepid, and apart from an fglrx snafu, everything works17:12
asacgood news: we found another bug affecting the save settings feature of the NM keyfile plugin and fixed it upstream17:13
james_wgood news (for me at least): since the last meeting I am a MOTU17:14
TheMusoCongrats james_w.17:14
asacso next upload will hopefully have a working system settings read/write backend (again)17:14
cjwatsongood news: intrepid now supports dirac video by default17:14
* asac hugs james_w 17:14
james_wgood news: Intrepid looks like it will ship with a good sugar stack17:14
asacjames_w: is the python-xpcom thing part of that stack?17:15
brycecongrats james :-)17:15
james_wasac: yeah, I think we've got that cracked, morgs is going to test later17:15
james_wthanks all17:15
mvoliw: you had fglrx installed? did it warn you about it and transition you to something else (u-m)?17:15
liwmvo, I did not have it installed17:15
liwmvo, well, not in use17:16
liwmvo, https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24/+bug/278963, but let's discuss that elsewhere17:16
ubottuLaunchpad bug 278963 in linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24 "fglrx kernel module crashes system hard during hardy to intrepid upgrade" [Undecided,New]17:16
cjwatsonall right, I think we're done for now, thanks all17:16
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liwthanks17:16
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james_wthanks all17:16
evandthanks17:17
asacthanks!17:17
ArneGoetjethanks17:17
slangasekthanks17:18
davmor2Hi all17:59
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henoBeta is out, thanks to everyone who helped with that!18:02
heno[TOPI] Bug fallout from Beta18:03
henodumb bot :/18:03
heno[TOPIC] Bug fallout from Beta18:04
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cody-somervilleheno, you mistyped TOPIC :P18:04
henowe need an AI bot thatis resiliant to speling erorrs18:04
* cody-somerville nods.18:04
henoI just wanted to hear what the bug impact from beta has been18:05
henoesp on the kernel which is scheduled to freeze next thursday18:05
henoogasawara: btw, how was the bug day yesterday?18:05
ogasawaraheno: was excellent.  good participation and a lot of bugs got looked at18:06
henoogasawara: are we forming a clear list of things that really should be looked at for intrepid?18:07
stgraberhey there18:07
henohey stgraber18:07
ogasawaraheno: yes, most of those get put on my weekly bug list and I also raise bugs on the kernel team call18:08
henoogasawara: ok, let me know if there are some I should lobby for18:08
ogasawaraheno: being that kernel freeze is almost upon us, we really need to get as many fixes in asap18:08
stgraberheno: I won't be in front of my lappy for the whole meeting, I'd just like to add a topic to the agenda: Having the testcases list updated ASAP18:08
henowe should also raise them on Friday's release meeting18:09
stgraberheno: I updated a bit the /Cases page with the list of testcases I plan to add and those I need more information to add/update18:09
ogasawaraheno:  I've also started dropping patches for bugs directly to the kernel team ml and they're getting good response (ie getting applied)18:10
henocgregan: are you still responsible for the MID/mobile cases?18:11
henolooks like they need more info18:11
cgreganheno: Not really18:12
henodavmor2: could you try making a mythubuntu alternate case?18:12
sbeattiepersia was the one who added them to the page to be added18:12
cgreganI will advise people on updating, but that is about it18:12
davmor2heno: np's18:12
henodavmor2: can you work with persia on adding some MID/mobile cases too?18:13
cgreganheno: What info, other than the fact that UME is now a netbook release, do they need?18:13
davmor2heno: this is the new version correct?18:14
persiaReally, the only thing we wanted was the base install cases to start.  The functional cases are not needed at this point.18:14
henosbeattie, bdmurray: can you work together again on preparing for the release meeting? that went well last time18:14
sbeattieheno: sure.18:14
davmor2persia: when you on-line tomorrow?18:14
bdmurrayheno: yep18:15
henodavmor2: it sounds like just adapting the desktop install cases should be fine18:15
henothanks sbeattie, bdmurray18:15
persiadavmor2, Probably something like 2:00 - 16:00 UTC, but maybe later.18:15
henook, that should cover the tracker changes18:16
heno[TOPIC] Regression bug triage18:16
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davmor2heno, persia: Okay I'll get the info off you tomorrow and build that up18:17
henoa topic for a few weeks, since we started this tracking18:17
persiadavmor2, OK.  Earlier in your morning is probably better.18:17
henohow is that looking now?18:17
davmor2persia: np's18:17
henothanks davmor2, persia18:17
bdmurraywe are making some progress but there are still a lot out there18:18
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henoright. not surprising as it's our first go at this and we started quite late in the cycle18:19
bdmurrayI've personally started milestoning some bugs for later that should be looked at for Jaunty18:20
henospeaking of such bugs; cr3: could you test and give feedback on bug 271370 please18:20
ubottuLaunchpad bug 271370 in linux "Dell Dimension 9200 stalls when rebooting after installing 20080917" [Undecided,Incomplete] https://launchpad.net/bugs/27137018:21
sbeattiebdmurray: what criteria are you using to decide that?18:22
bdmurraysbeattie: a bug that isn't really important enough to get resolved for Intrepid but should still be fixed - so usually low or wishlist importance ones18:22
henosbeattie: you were planning on splitting the list up by importance or release, any news on that?18:22
heno(not always so easy to pin to a release of course)18:23
sbeattieheno: sorry, I haven't gotten to that yet; I'll make it a priority.18:23
henook, thanks18:23
henosbeattie: np - I know other random things have landed with you as well18:24
heno[TOPIC] Upgrade testing in VMs18:25
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henoI've prepared some kvm images that can be used for upgrade testing18:25
henoI'll upload them somewhere soon18:25
bdmurrayheno: hardy kvms?18:26
henodoes anyone want to take charge or runing and reporting from those?18:26
_persiaFor upgrade testing, is a piuparts run across main not scheduled already?18:26
henobdmurray: yes, ubuntu, kubuntu 32 and 64 bit18:26
davmor2heno: I can start running upgrades on hw tomorrow18:26
heno_persia: I'll ask liw if he can do a run - it didn't find much last cycle actually18:27
davmor2heno: I can through a smoke test upgard18:27
davmor2upgrade page together18:27
davmor2even18:27
heno'real' upgrade tests often find a few issues though18:27
henoesp with lots of packages installed18:28
persiaheno, Understood, I'm just thinking both types are useful, so we don't miss a corner case.18:28
henodavmor2: that's great, thanks - do you have flashable hardy images?18:28
henopersia: agreed18:28
davmor2heno: I've got partimages of hardy on both my test boxes18:29
henocool18:29
cr3heno: I haven't had time to test the workaround of reboot=b provided by ogasawara, but I could do that as part of my testing this afternoon18:29
davmor2heno: I'll only be running in the morning though :)18:30
henocr3: that's great thanks. the kernel freezes next week, so we have limited time to get such fixes in18:30
henodavmor2: have you tried using the Virgin package mirror? that may have better speed18:31
heno(we have the same ISP which does some strange bw capping in the afternoon)18:32
sbeattiehrm, is there a tool that lets one mirror only a part of the archive?18:33
henoschwuk: if I get those kvm images to you can you extend them a bit and run them?18:33
henosbeattie: probably ask cjwatson, mvo or liw18:34
cr3sbeattie: what part do you mean?18:34
henothat's it from me. any other business?18:34
cr3heno: I'd like to propose extending wireless testing which is weak at best in my lab :(18:35
sbeattiecr3: a consistent subset of packages+dependencies, so that I don't have to try to mirror the entire archive but still have a locally useful cache.18:35
schwukheno: sure18:35
cr3sbeattie: apt-cacher?18:35
davmor2cr3: what do you propose?18:35
henocr3: as in better coverage in the lab or in the community?18:36
henodo we have any suitable tools for wireless stress testing?18:36
cr3davmor2: some decent access point capable of supporting A/B/G, WEP/WPA, TKIP/CCK/etc. all at the same time. then, writing automated tests either using wpa-supplicant or using ara's suite for network manager testing18:36
henowe already get 'my wireless is broken' reports :)18:37
cr3heno: if written properly, this could certainly benefit the community18:37
henoara: have you looked at nm testing yet?18:37
cr3heno: what we have is "can you connect to a wireless network" :(18:37
araheno: nop18:37
araI agree, there are too many hw x cases between ethernet hw and ap hw...18:38
cr3ara: something to do when you visit :)18:38
aracr3: cool :)18:38
henosounds like a plan18:38
davmor2cr3: I can switch mine about and test manually for now and get wifi in for jaunty18:38
cr3heno: I'll move this forward in parallel with other stuff18:38
cr3davmor2: for my use case, I can't afford to switch mine about like that :(18:39
henocr3: can you draw up a table of modes to test against so davmor2 can test manually in the short term?18:40
davmor2cr3: most of my machine are wired so it's not so much of an issue for me :)18:40
cr3heno: sure, I'll be drawing up such a table for myself anyways, so I could glagly share it18:41
davmor2cr3: ping me with the link dude18:42
henocr3: thanks. somewhere on https://testcases.qa.ubuntu.com/ would be good18:42
henook, let's wrap it up - anything else?18:42
heno#endmeeting18:43
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henothanks everyone!18:43
arathanks!18:43
davmor2bye18:43
pedro_thanks18:43
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