Re: Requesting help/no response to pings

2024-08-27 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Erich. I will of course handle the SRU, that is one of my priotity items for today. And I also noticed the inability of rebuilding studio, I saw the build being stuck on Rebuild. I will look into the tracker today as well. Sadly I am and will be working with limited capacity for a while with t

Re: Ubuntu Budgie August release duties for 22.04 and 24.04

2024-08-08 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey David! I can make sure that happens. However, I see that Mauro isn't part of the ubuntubudgie-dev. I would prefer if he was when picking up such responsibility. Cheers, On Thu, 8 Aug 2024 at 14:13, David Mohammed wrote: > > Hi all, > > this is a quicknote to say that fellow team members

Re: Lubuntu LTS Requalification: 24.04 Noble Numbat

2024-01-17 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Simon! Your LTS requalification application checks out so I'm fine with starting a Technical Board vote on this. My vote is of course +1. Other TB members please vote as well! Regarding your comments and concerns: I'm sorry you had to go through these various frustrating situations before en

Re: discontinuing source ISOs?

2024-01-04 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Michael! I basically +1 what Steve said. To add a bit more to this, the current source-iso machinery doesn't take snaps into consideration, so the resulting isos weren't fully compliant anyway - especially after we adopted so many snaps on our images. The source iso codebase was in general unm

Re: latest Ubuntu LTS download link

2023-12-04 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
at 1:04 PM Lukasz Zemczak > wrote: > > > > Hey Jeremy! > > > > We already have something like that. There are automatic redirects set > > up to > > https://releases.ubuntu.com//ubuntu--latest-desktop-amd64.iso > > on cdimage, for instance: > > >

Re: latest Ubuntu LTS download link

2023-12-04 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Jeremy! We already have something like that. There are automatic redirects set up to https://releases.ubuntu.com//ubuntu--latest-desktop-amd64.iso on cdimage, for instance: https://releases.ubuntu.com/jammy/ubuntu-22.04-latest-desktop-amd64.iso And every release sets up the -latest- redirec

Re: ubuntu-advantage-tools SRU exception policy review

2023-11-27 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
I have checked the newly added section regarding the Feature Freeze exception not applying (but other freezes, such as Beta Freeze, still do) and it all seems to make sense to me now. I think the wording is clear enough regarding the intentions. As I think Steve's concerns have been addressed, I'm

Re: Status of the Noble archive opening

2023-10-25 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Seb! I agree we should probably find a better way to make this process a bit more visible, maybe making sure that the engineer responsible for driving the opening gives regular updates somewhere. Maybe something like a tracking post on discourse, like what we have for releases. For now I reco

Mantic Minotaur (to be 23.10) Beta Freeze

2023-09-19 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
As of now, mantic has entered the Beta Freeze, with a goal of releasing Beta images sometime late Thursday. *From now until the Beta is released, please only upload updates for packages on any release images if you /need/ to get them into the Beta itself.* Please hold off with everything else until

Re: SRU bug references in upstream version bumps

2023-06-19 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
I must say that I was certainly inconsistent in my approach here, requesting one of 2) or 3) depending on the particular package in mention. I'd say that my personal preference would be 2), and this is what I in general tried to push for in some cases. If someone decides to backport a new upstream

Re: [Cpc-gcp] Re: Seeking new Stable Release Update exceptions for Google cloud image agent packages - further amendments

2023-04-11 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
ible, links to changelogs for the vendored packages are also present > in the SRU bug > > Would this be sufficient? > > Phil > > On Tue, 11 Apr 2023 at 16:07, Lukasz Zemczak > wrote: >> >> Hey Phil, Utkarsh, >> >> This feels sensible to me. Do you

Re: [Cpc-gcp] Re: Seeking new Stable Release Update exceptions for Google cloud image agent packages - further amendments

2023-04-11 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Phil, Utkarsh, This feels sensible to me. Do you have any proposal for the amendments to the MREs for the Google cloud packages? I think it would be good if we required outlining the vendored package version changes in the SRU template, at least for documentation purposes. At least listing the

Re: Ubuntu Cinnamon for Official Flavor Status

2023-03-28 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
r 16, 2023 at 04:29:29PM +0100, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Would it be possible for us to perform the vote online, via the ML? > > I'd appreciate TB members to participate here with questions or votes. > > From my side, as I already worked on the flavor bits from the > >

Re: Ubuntu Cinnamon for Official Flavor Status

2023-03-16 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Technical Board! Would it be possible for us to perform the vote online, via the ML? I'd appreciate TB members to participate here with questions or votes. From my side, as I already worked on the flavor bits from the release-team POV, I am +1 on Ubuntu Cinnamon joining the official flavors.

Re: oem-meta-packageset-sync broken and spamming devel-permissions@

2023-03-10 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey! This was reported to me on IRC a few hours ago and I have then disabled the job temporarily. The reason is related to the migration of snakefruit to another host (this is happening on the new host that we're migrating into). Cheers, On Fri, 10 Mar 2023 at 16:49, Robie Basak wrote: > > Doc

Re: MRE request for Bind9

2023-03-02 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
On Thu, 2023-03-02 at 09:46 +0100, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Hello Lena! > > > > Thank you for filling in the SRU MRE. I think your proposition makes > > sense, in general I do not object to having an MRE for this project. > > I > > do have some minor things I

Re: MRE request for Bind9

2023-03-02 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Lena! Thank you for filling in the SRU MRE. I think your proposition makes sense, in general I do not object to having an MRE for this project. I do have some minor things I'd like us to touch first before proceeding: 1) Does upstream have a schedule for point-releases for stable versions? W

Re: Ubuntu Cinnamon for Official Flavor Status

2023-01-31 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Joshua! Apologies for the longer wait. I was able to discuss it with some of the release team members and we seem to have an agreement. Welcome to the Ubuntu flavors! Initially at least I would like to be your point-of-contact - we'll see how it goes as we're not entirely compatible timezon

Re: plasma-distro-release-notifier

2022-09-12 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Erich! Basically my opinion is in line with Robie's - from the SRU POV it feels like something that would make a valid exception, but we'd probably want to know more details before giving a full +1. Which doesn't mean the info cannot be gathered in the SRU bug and the package uploaded to the j

Re: Call for testing: 20.04.5 release candidate images ready!

2022-08-31 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! Just a quick heads up: we respun most of the 20.04.5 images to fix the nvidia-390 driver situation (new kernel lrm). Please do some re-testing on the new images! Thank you! On Tue, 30 Aug 2022 at 00:02, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > We just finished

Call for testing: 20.04.5 release candidate images ready!

2022-08-29 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! We just finished building our first official set of 20.04.5 release candidate images. As always, those should be available via the ISO tracker below: http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/438/builds Please pick your favorite flavor and start testing! And be sure to report

Re: Call for testing: 22.04.1 release candidate images ready!

2022-08-09 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
/qatracker/milestones/437/builds The ones with "(re-building)" in the name are still building, but many have already finished. Let's give those as much testing as possible and, hopefully, we'll have a swift release on Thursday. Thank you, On Tue, 2 Aug 2022 at 00:57, L

Call for testing: 22.04.1 release candidate images ready!

2022-08-01 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! We just finished building our first official set of 22.04.1 release candidate images. From what we're seeing so far things seem to be looking quite nice, so fingers-crossed for those being our final ones! http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/437/builds Please pick your f

Re: Issue with Manual ISO Rebuilds

2022-06-30 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Simon! Interesting. Can you fill a bug under the https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-cdimage/ project? I'll investigate it now, since I think the rebuild gets queued but then something dies further in rebuild-requests. But a bug would be a welcome addition anyway. Cheers, On Thu, 30 Jun 2022 a

Re: MRE request for HAProxy

2022-06-27 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Lucas! Thanks for submitting the MRE. It looks decent, I'm willing to approve it as it is. Checking the upstream CI tests, I like it that they have so many different tests running on Ubuntu - that's a plus for sure. But I guess they're all running on focal, right? Do you know if they're run

Call for testing: 22.04 release candidate images ready!

2022-04-19 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! We are now finishing building our latest batch of 22.04 release candidate images to the iso-tracker. From what we're seeing so far things seem to be looking quite nice, so fingers-crossed for those being our final ones! http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/milestones/432/builds Ple

Re: FFe for livecd-rootfs to enable bootable arm64 buildd images

2022-04-12 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
It was approved by Steve I see + accepted by me into jammy-proposed. On Tue, 12 Apr 2022 at 11:40, Michał Sawicz wrote: > > May I please ask for a look at: > > [FFe] Update livecd-rootfs to add arm64 bootable buildd images Edit > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/livecd-rootfs/+bug/1966

Re: overlap or pre-announcement for point release ISO downloads

2022-03-02 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
It's as dann mentioned. This, of course, is only the case for our main Ubuntu flavor though. There is also an automatic redirect for http://releases.ubuntu.com/20.04.3/ to old-images. Cheers, On Wed, 2 Mar 2022 at 10:11, Anthony Kirby wrote: > > On Tue, 1 Mar 2022 at 19:09, dann frazier wrote:

Re: Call for testing: preliminary 20.04.4 release candidate images ready!

2022-02-21 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
, 19 Feb 2022 at 00:34, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Hello everyone! > > Some moments ago we published our first official release candidate > images for the 20.04.4 point-release. We seem to have most known > blocker issues out of the way, but these will not be final images - at &

Call for testing: preliminary 20.04.4 release candidate images ready!

2022-02-18 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! Some moments ago we published our first official release candidate images for the 20.04.4 point-release. We seem to have most known blocker issues out of the way, but these will not be final images - at least not for the desktop variants (we're waiting for some OEM kernel work to h

Call for testing: 20.04.3 release candidate images ready!

2021-08-19 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! Some moments ago we published our first official release candidate images for the 20.04.3 point-release. We seem to have all critical blockers resolved, so my hope is that these images will be the final ones we'll be releasing next week. http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/mileston

Re: Ubuntu 20.04.3 delayed until August 26th

2021-08-10 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
... and the footnotes for the earlier e-mail: [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/shim/+bug/1937115 [2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-riscv/+bug/1934548 On Tue, 10 Aug 2021 at 10:30, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Hello, > > While working towards the 20.04.3 m

Ubuntu 20.04.3 delayed until August 26th

2021-08-10 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello, While working towards the 20.04.3 milestone, we received reports of the currently available shim package causing daily builds of our installation media to fail to boot on some devices[1]. A fix for that is now in progress, but as we would like to make sure the new version of the package is

Re: fwupd SRU policy update request.

2021-07-01 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello! I had a quick look at the draft proposal - I have made a few small corrections here and there. That being said, one other change I did and that I would like to propose is to simply do the full QA process for *every* fwupd release. First of all, it's easier to remember which steps are needed

Re: Handling upload queues of a new stable release

2021-04-26 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Robie! What I think is usually done so early in the cycle is a forward binary-copy to the devel series when such an SRU is accepted. As for the NEW packages - since I've been working on these recently, I'll take care of them. Those are source syncs from a PPA so they will not be forgotten. C

Hirsute Hippo (21.04) Beta Freeze

2021-03-29 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
As of a short while ago, hirsute has entered the Beta Freeze, with a goal of releasing Beta images sometime late Thursday. *From now until the beta is released, please only upload updates for packages on any release images if you /need/ to get them into the beta itself.* Please hold off with everyt

Improvements to the point-release release process - stricter processes for fixes

2021-02-25 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, In an attempt to improve our processes and quality of the LTS point-release images, starting with 20.04.3 (in August) we will be trying a bit of a safer approach. Basically the main noticeable change is that we will now be following the SRU procedures even for any release blockers

Call for testing: 20.04.2 release candidate images ready!

2021-02-02 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone! I'm only sending this e-mail now as previously we were still resolving some unexpected issues regarding the .2 point-release. After a rough start, we now have a *hopefully* stable set of 20.04.2 release candidate images built and published on the .2 milestone: http://iso.qa.ubuntu

Re: [SRU discussion] Renaming the 'Regression Potential' section

2020-11-05 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Thank you for bringing this up again Seb, Iain. You brought it up at the right moment as I just encountered the aforementioned problem while reviewing an SRU in the queue. Laney: I glimpsed through your proposition and this sound sane to me. The section name isn't super pretty, but at least it's

Groovy Gorilla (20.10) Beta Freeze

2020-09-28 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
As of a short while ago, groovy has entered the beta freeze, with a goal of releasing Beta images sometime late Thursday. *From now until the beta is released, please only upload updates for packages on any release images if you /need/ to get them into the beta itself.* Please hold off with everyth

Re: Request : Sosreport - SRU Special Cases

2020-06-25 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Thanks for the exception! We'll probably make it a bit more shiny, but it's good as it is. Exception approved! On Mon, 22 Jun 2020 at 20:00, Eric Desrochers wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to request an SRU special case for the Sosreport project: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SosreportUpdates > > Regards

Re: [Proposals] Consult with Flavor Leads before Beta Freeze / Flavors Underrepresented

2020-03-31 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Erich! Sorry to hear that you are not satisfied with the release process so far. The last thing I, and possibly all other release team members, would want is for flavors and flavor leads to feel underrepresented and ignored. With most releases (point-releases) I tend to always check with fla

18.04.4 release date postponed by a week

2020-02-06 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, First of all, big thanks to everyone involved in this week's 18.04.4 point-release candidate image testing! All the classic ISOs and images seem to look good and ready for release. That being said, due to some issues noticed during our final rounds of testing of the Ubuntu Core 18

Call for testing: fresh RCs for 18.04.4

2020-02-03 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, We have just built our first release candidate images for 18.04.4 and posted them to the ISO tracker [1]. Those are all fully-prepared, with all base-files and label thingies in place, with hopes of no actual re-spins required. Fingers crossed that these will be the images released

Ubuntu 14.04.6 RC images for testing

2019-03-05 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, Following last week's xenial 16.04.6 security-oriented point-release, we are now preparing a similar release for trusty this week. The target date is 7th of March. We have now built the first set of RC images - hopefully there will be no re-spins needed [1]. The situation is a bit

Re: Ubuntu 16.04.6 RC images for testing

2019-02-26 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
/milestones/400/builds Cheers, On Fri, 22 Feb 2019 at 15:29, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > In the light of the recently discovered and fixed apt vulnerability, > we have decided to re-build all our supported isos that could be > potentially affected. We did

Ubuntu 16.04.6 RC images for testing

2019-02-22 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, In the light of the recently discovered and fixed apt vulnerability, we have decided to re-build all our supported isos that could be potentially affected. We did not plan for another xenial point-release but oh well, what can you do. Security is important. We prepared the first s

Re: Non-final, but very testable (hint, hint) Cosmic RC builds

2018-10-15 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
On it. https://media.giphy.com/media/JIX9t2j0ZTN9S/giphy.gif On Sun, 14 Oct 2018 at 01:32, Adam Conrad wrote: > > Over the next few hours, builds will start popping on the Cosmic Final > milestone page[1] on the ISO tracker. These builds are not final. > We're still waiting on a few more fixes,

Re: Please lift aging requirement on gce-compute-image-packages in the stable release exception

2018-08-08 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello, In my humble opinion, for this particular case I would be inclined toward lifting the aging requirement. Yes, it's not a completely straightforward thing, even though I usually approved of releasing early of this package before after validation was performed. From my point of view a strong

Re: First set of 16.04.5 RC images ready for testing

2018-07-31 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey! On 31 July 2018 at 06:33, flocculant wrote: > On 31/07/18 02:19, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> The first set of official working builds for the upcoming xenial >> 16.04.5 point release (due this Thursday, August 2nd) have been ad

First set of 16.04.5 RC images ready for testing

2018-07-30 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, The first set of official working builds for the upcoming xenial 16.04.5 point release (due this Thursday, August 2nd) have been added to the tracker [1] for all supported flavours. We had a few images for this milestone already but had to re-spin due to quickly spotted regressions

Re: Releasing systemd 237-3ubuntu10.2 bionic SRU

2018-07-19 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Dimitri, Noted, I will be releasing the package soon. Since the systemd/armhf is a known failure that should be ignore, I will also be updating the hints for it so that it doesn't pop up all the time - but please remember to fix it with the next upload. Cheers, On 19 July 2018 at 11:43, Dimi

Ubuntu base language-pack refresh for 18.04.1

2018-07-17 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, For the first upcoming point-release for bionic we have decided to do a full base language-pack refresh for all languages. We already did a similar thing for xenial 16.04.1 so it's not anything completely new and unusual, but it's worth noting as the usual steps for upgrading trans

Re: Please document & announce merge proposals workflow for the ProposedMigration hints

2018-06-20 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hey Dimitri, I agree we should potentially be more informative about what to do in the uncommon case of tests needing being ignored and packages hinted in because of, let's say, some other package in the archive introducing a regression what went unnoticed, thus blocking package migration (requiri

Re: SRUs solely for dep8 updates

2018-03-26 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Usually, whenever I see an SRU that only attempts to fix an autopkgtest regression, I first check how frequently the given package receives regular updates. If I see the package is really 'popular' and gets a lot of love for the stable series, I reach out to the uploader for him/her to consider bun

Re: Xenial 16.04.4 Call For Testing (All Flavours)

2018-02-28 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
. Please wait for the builds to finish (should only take a little while) and then resume testing. Thank you! On 28 February 2018 at 19:30, Ian Bruntlett wrote: > Hi Lukasz, > > On 23 February 2018 at 22:33, Lukasz Zemczak > wrote: >> >> Hello everyone, >> >> Some

Re: Xenial 16.04.4 Call For Testing (All Flavours)

2018-02-28 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
ease > carry over test results from the previous RC where needed. > > Thanks, > > On 23 February 2018 at 23:33, Lukasz Zemczak > wrote: >> Hello everyone, >> >> Some time ago our first release candidate builds for all flavours that >> released with x

Re: Xenial 16.04.4 Call For Testing (All Flavours)

2018-02-26 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
the previous RC where needed. Thanks, On 23 February 2018 at 23:33, Lukasz Zemczak wrote: > Hello everyone, > > Some time ago our first release candidate builds for all flavours that > released with xenial have been posted to the ISO tracker [1] into the > 16.04.4 milestone. &

Xenial 16.04.4 Call For Testing (All Flavours)

2018-02-23 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello everyone, Some time ago our first release candidate builds for all flavours that released with xenial have been posted to the ISO tracker [1] into the 16.04.4 milestone. As with each point-release, we would need volunteers to grab the ISOs of their flavour/flavours of choice and perform gen

Re: Requesting DPDK MRE

2018-02-14 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Hello Christian! As you can see on the SRU policy page [1] the MRE for DPDK has been already approved some time ago. I thought I communicated that on IRC, but maybe I should have been more explicit. Sorry for that. Cheers, [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#DPDK On 4 January 2018

New 16.04.4 point release date: 1st of March

2018-02-14 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
As announced previously the release of the 16.04.4 point release has been delayed. Seeing that things are now settling in, we have set the 1st of March as the new planned date release date. We expect to have all the required pieces available in the archive by that time and will provide images with

16.04.4 point release delayed; new date TBD

2018-01-26 Thread Lukasz Zemczak
Due to the ongoing evolution of the fixes for the recently announced Meltdown and Spectre security vulnerabilities [1], we are delaying the 16.04.4 point release, originally scheduled for the week of February 15. We intend that, when it is released, 16.04.4 will include kernels which mitigate thes