Re: Apologies for today's meeting

Hello, On 2015-12-08 06:55 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello all, > > I'd really like to attend a public event this evening, and since we > have no agenda for today's meeting I would like to excuse myself. > > Concerning that, in a meeting a few months ago we raised the idea of > cancelling the mee

Re: Call for nominations for the Technical Board

Hello, On 2016-01-05 12:56 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Ubuntu developers, > > The current 2-year term of the Technical Board [1] is over, and it's > time for electing a new one. For the next two weeks (until January 19) > we are collecting nominations, then our SABDFL will shortlist the > cand

Re: Call for nominations for the Technical Board

Hi Mark, On 2016-01-05 12:56 PM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Ubuntu developers, > > The current 2-year term of the Technical Board [1] is over, and it's > time for electing a new one. For the next two weeks (until January 19) > we are collecting nominations, then our SABDFL will shortlist the > ca

Re: tech board agenda item for bug 1585362

Hi Kevin, On 2016-07-13 03:38 PM, Kevin Gunn wrote: > Hi all - is there anyone monitoring this mail list for agenda items? or am I > in > the wrong place? or is there a different process from the one I'm following on > the wiki? > br,kg > Next meeting is 2016-07-19, 17:00 London time. I've add

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Re: Apologies

Hi, On 2016-08-16 08:18 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > Hi all, > > I can't attend today's meeting, my apologies. > > Marc. > While I did end up attending that meeting, I definitely won't be able to attend the meeting on 2016-08-30. Marc. -- technical-b

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Re: Help Getting Bug Reports in Issue Tracker

Hi, On 2017-05-26 10:42 AM, Mingyue Yang wrote: > Hello Ubuntu Technical Board, > > > I am a student from University of Toronto doing research. My research topic > is > to automatically detect security vulnerabilities using machine learning > techniques. As part of my research, I need to obta

Re: SRU exception for snapd-glib

Hi Robert, You need to ask the SRU team to approve the exception, not the Technical Board. Thanks, Marc. On 2017-06-01 12:59 AM, Robert Ancell wrote: > Any thoughts on this? > > On Thu, Jan 26, 2017 at 3:53 PM Robert Ancell > wrote: > > Hi all, > >

Re: Flatpak SRUs

Hi Adam, On 2017-10-02 08:19 PM, Adam Eveleigh wrote: > Hi Technical Board, > > What would be needed to be done to get Flatpak SRU'd in Ubuntu > ? Currently one has to add a > PPA > to get updated Flatpak in Ubuntu, which is unfortunate because Fla

Re: Ubuntu Budgie - LTS Application

On 2018-01-28 06:02 PM, Dustin Krysak wrote: > Good day everyone. I've added myself to the next technical board meeting > agenda, > however, I just wanted to let you know that I had added the Launchpad URLs as > Steve requested. > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBudgie/18.04/LTS-Proposal > > Tha

Re: Wayland security and graphical applications

Hi, On 2018-01-09 09:30 AM, bodhi zazen wrote: > Wayland is relatively new technology for Ubuntu and there are issues of > running > graphical applications with elevated privileges using sudo / gksu etc. > > This has resulted in frustration and at times heated debate in the community. > > I wou

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Re: voting procedure when number of nominees equals number of vacancies

Hi, On 2018-04-17 02:26 PM, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > Hi Tech Board, > > The initial deadline [1] for nominations for the Developer Membership > Board (DMB) just passed yesterday. The DMB is currently composed of 7 > members. Since the terms for 5 members are expiring, we have 5 > vacancies and we ha

Re: Call for nominations for the Technical Board

Hi, On 2018-05-23 02:19 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > Hello Ubuntu developers, > > The current 2-year term of the [Technical Board][1] is over, and it's > time for electing a new one. For the next two weeks (until 6 June 2018) > we are collecting nominations, then our SABDFL will shortlist the >

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Re: Poll: Ubuntu Technical Board election 2018

On 2018-10-05 04:52 AM, Robie Basak wrote: > On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 12:51:39AM -0400, Ubuntu Community Council (CIVS poll > supervisor) wrote: >> A special thank you goes out to Marc Deslauriers and Stéphane Graber who >> will both be stepping down. > > Marc is in the

Re: Poll: Ubuntu Technical Board election 2018

Hi, On 2018-10-05 01:27 PM, Walter Lapchynski wrote: > On 2018-10-05 01:52, Robie Basak wrote: >> On Fri, Oct 05, 2018 at 12:51:39AM -0400, Ubuntu Community Council >> (CIVS poll supervisor) wrote: >>> A special thank you goes out to Marc Deslauriers and Stéphane Grab

[Bug 1813968] Re: [TB/DMB] PPU for raharper

Done, thanks! ** Changed in: ubuntu-community Status: New => Fix Released -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Technical Board, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1813968 Title: [TB/DMB] PPU for raharper To manage

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Re: Proposal to update UbuntuSeededSnaps Policy

Hi, On 2020-04-20 6:59 p.m., Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > I would like to request the following updates to the UbuntuSeededSnaps > Policy https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSeededSnaps > > 7. Bases > Seeded snaps which use a base, must use "base: core18" or higher. > Existing snaps are grandfathered,

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Re: [TB/DMB] New packageset canonical-oem-metapackages

On 2020-08-11 9:01 a.m., Robie Basak wrote: > Filed: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-community/+bug/1891166 > > Please: > > for series in $(distro-info --supported); do > edit-acl -P canonical-oem-metapackages -S $series -p > developer-membership-board create > edit-acl -p canonical-oe

Re: Updating thunderbird from 68 to 78 in focal

On 2021-01-15 4:13 p.m., Olivier Tilloy wrote: > Hello, > > I am working on updating thunderbird in focal from version 68 to > version 78 (78.5.0 is currently in focal-proposed), because upstream > has ended support for the 68 series (bionic will follow). > This is a new major version that brings

Re: What is this list for?

On 2021-01-18 9:42 a.m., Robie Basak wrote: > There's some admin confusion on expectations around this list. José just > unsubscribed most people from this list thinking that only TB members > were supposed to be subscribed. But in my mind this has always been a > public list that exists to _reach_

Re: Track clarification in UbuntuSeededSnaps Policy

On 2020-08-12 9:31 a.m., Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > Currently https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuSeededSnaps does not specify > anything about tracks. > > Currently the status quo is to seed the default-track of the snap, aka > "latest". > > Recently we have been approached by LXD upstream to use a

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Re: Standing conflict with TB IRC meetings

On 2021-07-20 9:32 a.m., Steve Langasek wrote: > Hello, > > I've realized that I now have a standing conflict that will prevent me from > attending the Technical Board IRC meetings for the foreseeable future and > would like to propose that we move it to alternate weeks. > > Thanks, > > Fine w

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Apologies

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Stepping Down

Hi, After 8 years on the Technical Board, it is time for me to step down, and leave my place to someone else who is as passionate about Ubuntu as I am. I have immensely enjoyed my time on the Technical Board, and am leaving it in the capable hands of the other members who are all doing an excelle

Re: Stepping Down

On 2022-02-10 15:06, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Feb 10, 2022 at 10:28:10AM -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> Hi, > >> After 8 years on the Technical Board, it is time for me to step down, and >> leave >> my place to someone else who is as passionate abou

Re: Enable hibernation

On 14-01-06 04:32 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >> How about supporting the failure condition better? Add a dialog with >> instructions/warnings? At the very least the option should be able to be >> added back with a setting an adventurous user can set. > > I'm comfortable with the idea of this being

Re: Enable hibernation

On 14-01-06 03:35 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Jan 03, 2014 at 05:08:28PM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: >> On 1/3/2014 4:50 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >>> The hibernate menu option was disabled because it was exposed in >>> many cases where hibernate would not work reliably. Indeed, I was >>> r

Re: Enable hibernation

On 14-01-17 03:12 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > On Mon, Jan 06, 2014 at 04:56:27PM -0500, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> On 14-01-06 04:32 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: >>>> How about supporting the failure condition better? Add a dialog with >>>> instructions/warnings? At th

Re: MRE request: mysql-5.5

On 14-03-07 07:51 AM, James Page wrote: > Thanks for reviewing and approving the MRE for mysql-5.5; on the back > of this I'd also like to apply for a MRE for mysql-5.6. All of the > rationale for mysql-5.5 applies to mysql-5.6 as well. > > mysql-5.6 will be available in universe as a first GA r

Re: Request for Adding Ubuntu Kylin Archive

On 14-04-04 09:08 AM, jac...@ubuntukylin.com wrote: > Hi Steve, > > Thanks a lot for all your help to make Ubuntu Kylin better and better. See > bellow please. > > -- > Regards, > Jack Yu > UbuntuKylin Team > > > At 2014-04-04 09:39:36,"Steve Langasek" > wrote

Re: Request for Adding Ubuntu Kylin Archive

On 14-04-01 11:42 AM, jac...@ubuntukylin.com wrote: > I'm writing to request to add an archive for Ubuntu Kylin flavor. This archive > mainly includes Chinese commercial packages co-developed by Ubuntu Kylin team > and commercial companies. We also developed a software center client that > supports

Re: MRE for juju-core/juju-mongodb

Hi James, On 14-04-04 09:23 AM, James Page wrote: > 3) New juju-core packages > > In addition to maintaining the stable release version of juju-core in > 14.04, we’d also like to include new stable releases using versioned > packages. These would be aligned to each upstream stable release of >

Re: Request for Adding Ubuntu Kylin Archive

Hi Steve, On 14-04-04 03:56 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:14:05PM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >> On 14-04-01 11:42 AM, jac...@ubuntukylin.com wrote: >>> I'm writing to request to add an archive for Ubuntu Kylin flavor. This >>> arc

Re: Request for Adding Ubuntu Kylin Archive

On 14-04-04 05:34 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:26:54PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 02:09:07PM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: >>>>> However, it seems that the proposal being discussed here is to add a >>>>&

Re: Request for Adding Ubuntu Kylin Archive

On 14-04-07 08:40 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 05:34:38PM -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote: I think building the software in a private PPA, and then mirroring the signed PPA onto NUDT's infrastructure would be a reasonable way of achieving all the requirements. >

Re: Request for Adding Ubuntu Kylin Archive

On 14-04-07 08:47 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 09:07:10AM -0400, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > >>> I think we can at least set the following high level requirements: >>> - Uploaders must be Ubuntu members and have signed the CoC (I'd have >>&

Re: Request for Adding Ubuntu Kylin Archive

On 14-04-07 09:15 PM, Stéphane Graber wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2014 at 05:40:00PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 05:34:38PM -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote: > I think building the software in a private PPA, and then mirroring the > signed PPA onto NUDT's infrastructure

Re: Request for Adding Ubuntu Kylin Archive

On 14-04-08 08:02 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > Thanks for all the discussion. I think we're getting close to an agreement > here; at least the broad strokes seem to be agreed already, and we just have > a few points to fine-tune, so I've begun the process with Canonical IS to > get this archive bro

Re: Meeting time

On 14-05-08 10:09 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello again, > > Martin Pitt [2014-04-30 10:46 +0200]: >> http://doodle.com/zmi9m7gfwtyczg5s > > Now everyone added themselves. Unfortunately there's not a single time > when everybody is available, just some which are all-but-one: > > * Monday 19 to

Re: MRE request: mariadb-5.5

On 14-04-26 04:40 PM, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > I would like to apply for a micro release exception for MariaDB. > > MariaDB 5.5 is a binary compatible drop-in replacement of MySQL 5.5 > published by the MariaDB Foundation, an organization independent of > Oracle. > > MySQL has been approved for M

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Re: Standing SRU for new MAAS releases.

Hi, On 14-08-13 07:58 PM, Andres Rodriguez wrote: > Hi Martin, > > Sorry for the late reply. > > > >- Change DHCP Management in MAAS to make it robust. > >- Getting rid of moving parts (Getting rid of the usage of Celery, > >RabbitMQ, others) > > So none of those ar

Re: Standing SRU for new MAAS releases.

Hi, On 14-09-02 09:26 AM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > Hi, > > On 14-08-13 07:58 PM, Andres Rodriguez wrote: >> Hi Martin, >> >> Sorry for the late reply. >> >> >> >- Change DHCP Management in MAAS to make it robust. >> >-

Re: Standing SRU for new MAAS releases.

Hi Andres, On 14-09-25 03:45 PM, Andres Rodriguez wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Andres Rodriguez > wrote: > > Hi Marc, > > Sorry for a late reply, I missed your email. > > It's still unclear to me how you are going to make sure a m

Re: SRU IO Scheduler in Kubuntu 14.04

On 2014-10-14 11:08 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Harald, hello TB, > > Harald Sitter [2014-10-08 17:03 +0200]: >> I would like to kindly request the TBs input on a possible IO >> scheduler changing SRU for Kubuntu 14.04. > > I followed the discussion in the other thread (on u-devel@?). > >> As

Re: SRU IO Scheduler in Kubuntu 14.04

On 2014-10-15 03:48 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello all, > > Steve Langasek [2014-10-14 13:24 -0700]: >>> I don't agree with the "highly limited in impact", but I do agree with >>> the compromise of putting the udev rule into kubuntu-default-settings. >>> While this isn't an appropriate long-term s

Re: Proposed SRU policy amendment for package removals

Martin, On 2014-11-12 05:43 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello Chuck, > > Chuck Peters [2014-11-12 3:25 +]: >> Both tor and owncloud are recurring examples! > > tor was reintroduced explicitly two years after the removal > (https://launchpad.net/bugs/413657). If that is out of date again and >

Re: Policy For Sunsetting GPG Keys < 2048 Bits

On 2014-11-26 07:05 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > I think we should have the same policy for PPAs, and it should follow the > same timeline. Additionally, we should have LP reject uploading weak keys, > which could happens early in the transition timeline. The good news is newly created PPAs now use 4096

Re: Freetype patent problem.

Hello, On 2014-12-02 08:16 PM, Kouta Ikematsu wrote: > I think that freetype is non-free, It is patent problem. > > Package: freetype (affected Ubuntu and Ubuntu derived OS) > > Patent: ClearType Patent (Subpixel Rendering) > Are you the registered rights holder for those patents? Please see

Re: docker in 14.04

Hi Pat, On 2014-11-13 07:13 PM, Patricia Gaughen wrote: > Below is a proposal on how we'd like to bring the latest docker to the > Ubuntu Server 14.04 LTS. I wanted to get feedback, and then after the > feedback is resolved, support from the tech board on this proposal. As > we pulled this proposa

Re: Freetype patent problem.

Hello, On 2014-12-02 11:22 PM, Kouta Ikematsu wrote: > On Tue, 02 Dec 2014 21:22:04 -0500 > Marc Deslauriers wrote: > >> Are you the registered rights holder for those patents? > > No, I'm software developer, not patent holder, Sorry. > > I see "Developers

Re: Elections

On 2015-01-13 11:13 AM, Stéphane Graber wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 04:02:47PM +, Iain Lane wrote: >> Hi TB, >> >> Full quoting an email from the DMB's private list. >> >> tl;dr: Could you please extend the expirations of ~bdrung, ~laney, >> ~kitterman and ~stgraber to 2014-02-16? We need

Apologies for tomorrow's meeting

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Re: Community Council catchup - Ubuntu Technical Board

On 2015-02-05 02:37 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hey techboard, > > Elizabeth K. Joseph [2015-02-04 15:49 -0800]: >> Just a quick reminder that this is coming up tomorrow, Thursday February 5th. > > I'm afraid I'm AFK for the whole afternoon and evening for a long > appointment (I took off half day),

Re: Elections

On 2015-02-11 06:52 AM, Iain Lane wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 11:22:16AM -0500, Stéphane Graber wrote: >>> ACK for 2015-02-16. >>> >>> Marc. >> >> Done > > We didn't get enough nominees in time, can we have another 2 weeks > please? > > There *are* now enough nominees so I will start the ele

Re: MicroReleaseExceptions / reSIProcate package

Hi, On 2015-02-12 02:17 PM, Daniel Pocock wrote: > I was looking here: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates/MicroReleaseExceptions > > and I would kindly request that you add resiprocate to the micro release > exception list. > > Some justification for this request: > > - upstream

Re: docker in 14.04

On 2015-04-10 01:46 PM, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 06:19:57PM -0700, Nathan McCauley wrote: >> Thanks James for putting this proposal forward. > >> This proposal makes a lot of sense, especially due to the rapid rate >> of feature development on Docker. We're happy to support

Re: Proposal to help CC with potential conflicts of interest

On 2015-06-09 08:40 AM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > I am writing to see how you, as a representative TB, feel about the proposal. > If > you are comfortable with handling such discussions in the very unlikely event > they were to occur, that would be sufficient support for me to suggest it as a > g

Re: MRE: OpenStack Oslo libraries

On 2015-06-23 12:11 PM, James Page wrote: > Hi TB > > Alongside the core OpenStack packages already covered under a MRE for > stable updates, I'd like to include all of the Oslo libraries used by > these packages. > > Oslo is the shared library project for OpenStack, promoting re-use of > common

Re: Requesting Tor packages SRU micro version update exception

Hi Chuck, On 2015-07-17 05:56 PM, Chuck Peters wrote: > > I am requesting "SRU micro version update exception" for Tor packages. Tor > packages with security fixes appear to be maintained upstream at > TorProject.org and Debian. Most of the time I think the Debian packages will > resolve the

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Re: Generalizing SRU policy for special cases/MREs

On 2015-09-02 05:28 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Tuesday, September 01, 2015 04:42:26 PM Martin Pitt wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> over the years our SRU policy [1] has accumulated a fair amount of >> special cases [2] and exceptions for new microreleases [3]. There is a >> lot of commonality betwe

Re: Generalizing SRU policy for special cases/MREs

On 2015-09-01 10:42 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > Hello all, > > over the years our SRU policy [1] has accumulated a fair amount of > special cases [2] and exceptions for new microreleases [3]. There is a > lot of commonality between them, mostly related to automated testing. > Since most of these were

Re: SRU policy: Allow new features in LTSes under certain conditions

On 2015-09-15 11:48 AM, Stéphane Graber wrote: > On Tue, Sep 01, 2015 at 05:45:26PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> occasionaly we get a request to introduce a new package into LTSes. >> This is usually unproblematic as there is a miniscule chance to break >> existing installations (u