This page keeps track of the current release status of the Desktop Team.

Weekly summary

• Packaged final GNOME 3.2 release.
• Bug fixing.

Blueprints

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+specs?searchtext=desktop

Burndown and spec completion levels:

• For final: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-oneiric/canonical-desktop-team-ubuntu-11.10.html

• Entire cycle: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-oneiric/canonical-desktop-team.html

RC Bugs

under investigation:

• 772873 [Vino does not work with compositing]: No progress this week, and nobody to work on this (it's a long-standing issue). Pretty much a WONTFIX for oneiric.

• 830949 [[Intel N10 Graphics] Plugging in external monitor to VGA port makes both displays corrupted with thick slanted lines]: compiz bug, now in DX domain, no progress this week.

• 805311 [gnome-control-center crashed with SIGSEGV in g_type_instance_get_private() (device_services_changed)]: Reported upstream, got some debugging, no fix yet.

• 816950 [Oneiric shutdown : Tomboy not responding]: Forwarded upstream, got some debugging, no progress on a fix yet.

• 836250 [Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 poor networking, packet loss and very slow Lenovo X201 and T500 laptops]: New on the radar this week, being debugged

triaged/in progress:

• 849027 [lightdm does not provide an equivalent to the gdm guest session AppArmor profile]: Martin took this bug now, currently testing a fix

• 805136 [accounts window doesn't fit on screen and no scrollbar to show hidden fields]: No progress this week.

Patch available, needs testing/uploading:

• 804133 [Segmentation fault: nautilus_icon_container_search_entry_flush_timeout]: Fixed upstream, backported, waiting in unapproved

fixed since last report:

• 832603 [gnome-settings-daemon crashed with SIGSEGV in g_simple_async_result_complete()]

• 845549 [Do not ship /etc/lightdm/lightdm-gtk-greeter.conf]

• 805252 [appmenu shows nautilus menu when desktop is displayed]

• 831026 [greeter is in english after a non-english installation]

• 834933 [Clicking song/album in music lens loads in Banshee but does not focus on play queue]

• 787781 [Touch screen does not work with single finger touch, Lenovo x220 tablet]

• 831488 [Xubuntu should not call gnome-control-center]

Archive of previous weekly summaries

2011-05-26

• All desktop blueprints with work items are drafted and approved. The last BP missing is desktop-o-packaging-branches: This is just an informational workflow discussion about the style of our desktop-ish bzr branches. It was pretty much decided in the last desktop team meeting, but we want to give Robert a chance to respond, as he brought it up. Robert has also been down with Ubuflu, so we need to finish this next week.

• We landed a major chunk of GNOME 3 in oneiric now, so far it's holding together reasonably well for this early stage. The remainder is blocked on porting Unity and the indicators to GTK 3. Note that the latter is a major transition and will cause some uninstallability and trouble for a few days.

• Note that language-support-* metapackages are finally gone now, we now only use check-language-support dynamically. I updated all the seeds etc., but it might still break less obvious things somewhere.

• Unity 2D and Qt are on the daily images.
• CDs are currently 30 MB oversized, and that's not the end of it, as we'll still get the new gallium X.org drivers which will pull llvm. I don't think we'll be able to sort this out by alpha-1, so I propose we'll just release alpha-1 with documented oversizedness.

2011-06-11

• GNOME 3 is mostly in oneiric now, with the exception of smaller things like the system monitor; we still lack an Ubuntu-ish theme, but that's being developed by DX; some of it is also blocked by some MIRs like accountsservice
• Default login manager now switched to lightdm
• CD space situation: We worked hard on downsizing, and cut off 30 MB, so that most of the daily images are now within limits, except i386 alternate (705 MB); we expect 4.5 MB growth from new X.org gallium drivers with new LLVM, and potential growth of ~ 6 to 10 MB for thunderbird (not firmly decided yet)

2011-06-18

• Landed new X.org versions
• Landed the first bits of GNOME 3.1.x, starting with the lower-level libraries (GTK, etc.); we expect to start with, the UI bits in the next two weeks, now that we have a resonably stable GNOME 3.0 in oneiric.
• CD space situation: We are 5 (amd64) / 9 (i386 MB oversized again, due to the new Mono transition, new mesa GLES support, and an extra 1 MB due to the new CD format; we expect 4.5 MB growth from new X.org gallium drivers with LLVM, and potential growth of ~ 6 to 10 MB for thunderbird (not firmly decided yet). We already implemented many of the biggest space savings (removing icons, removing less important software), though. Completing the Mono transition will give us back some 2 MB, and we just discovered that we can free some 12 MB by dropping *.pyc files from the squashfs and regenerate them at install time.
• Slow progress on RC bugs, as we are concentrating on updating the platform and getting work items done in this period, and there are no real showstopper bugs right now.

2011-06-25

• We landed some more bits of the GNOME 3.1.x development versions, going well so far.
• We also got the indicator stack and unity ports for GTK3 mostly ready and in oneiric, remaining bits will land next week.

• Default umask for users with private user groups is now 0002. (umask-to-0002).

• Made a big push on alpha-2 work items, and got enough of them done to get us (almost) back to the trend line.
• This week the LLVM gallium X.org drivers and deja-dup landed, adding another 7 MB. Except for Thunderbird, we now have everything "big and new" on the CD that was planned for oneiric, so we are now looking at an upper bound of CD size.
• CD space situation: Colin landed the .pyc reduction (12 MB) and with some other small cleanup we are down to 6 MB(i386)/ 4 (amd64) oversizedness. There will be some more reduction in the next time due to obsolete library cleanup (Mono mostly), and dropping python 2.6 will buy us another couple of MB, so together with the projected 703 MB images the pain level is now pretty low again; Thunderbird size reduction/evaluation is still going on, though.
• Slow progress on RC bugs, as we are concentrating on updating the platform and getting work items done in this period, and there are no real showstopper bugs right now.

2011-07-01

• Unity and Indicators mostly ported to GTK 3 now.
• Work item status: got back on track for alpha-2, on track for final release. At the rallye we also identified a lot of BPs which can easily be postponed to the next cycle, to concentrate on bug fixing after alpha-3.
• CD space situation: amd64 desktop at 700 MB (yay!), i386 at 704 MB; we got a few reductions from dropping GTK 2 indicators, etc.
• Slow progress on RC bugs, as we are concentrating on updating the platform and getting work items done in this period, and there are no real showstopper bugs right now.

2011-07-09

• Thunderbird replaced Evolution as default email client on the CDs. This made the CDs explode again (~ 15 MB oversized), but we should now have all big new Oneiric things on the CDs.
• Unity and Indicators mostly ported to GTK 3 now.
• Great progress on Qt a11y patches; Unity 2D is now 80% accessible.
• Default umask is now 002 for private user groups, for easier data sharing.
• Work item status: some stragglers of alpha-2 moved to alpha-3; on track for final release. At the rallye we also identified a lot of BPs which can easily be postponed to the next cycle, to concentrate on bug fixing after alpha-3.
• Got a slush of new RC bugs with the switch to lightdm (not really unexpected), grinding through these now.
• Slow progress on RC bugs, as we are concentrating on updating the platform and getting work items done

2011-07-16

• Lots of time spent this week on cleaning up after the /run transition, which broke quite a lot.

• software-center port to GTK3 making great progress, should land for Alpha-3.
• Mathieu finished his C rewrite of usb_modeswitch, which will get us rid of Tcl; needs code review now
• Got sunpinyin and dependencies into main (new Chinese input support), now on the CDs.
• Work item status: falling a bit behind on alpha-3, but on track for final release. But we have a bunch of blueprints which can easily be postponed to the next cycle, to concentrate on bug fixing after alpha-3.

• Moderate progress on RC bugs; no serious alpha-3 breakers right now, but bug 806064 needs some attention for Edubuntu; will ask Robert about it next Monday

• CD size got 20 MB worse since alpha 2, mostly as the old Chinese input method ibus-pinyin is still on the CDs and in main for yet unknown reasons; to be investigated. Also, Firefox grew by 3.3 MB due to the switch from -Os to -O3; we have a nice potential fix, but currently fails to build on the buildds.

2011-07-22

• New compiz/unity releases this week. Compiz introduced some known performance and keybinding regressions, which are known and being worked on by DX.
• Landed python3-gobject in Debian sid and oneiric, which should help with adopting Python 3.
• software-center port to GTK3 making good progress, but will most probably miss oneiric; will land in time for the 12.04 LTS, though. Also, Shotwell and Firefox confirmed that they are working on GTK3 port, so we can hopefully drop GTK 3 in 12.04 LTS.

• desktop-o-cd-localization reached beta now: version 0.9 grew a mostly working image build script, plus the remaining required features. Now this only needs packaging of our syslinux theme, then it should be ready for more widespread testing.

• Work item status: a bit behind on alpha-3, but on track for final release. But we have a bunch of blueprints which can easily be postponed to the next cycle, to concentrate on bug fixing after alpha-3.
• RC bugs:
  • Moderate progress
  • no serious alpha-3 breakers right now

  • most important one is bug 806064; now discussed with Robert, and solution is clear, and on track for alpha-3

• CD size: back from 730 to 715 MB, by reverting back to ibus-pinyin; Chinese Edition will have sunpinyin, as well as online installations with the regular CD (pulled in by language-selector and ubiquity). Thunderbird grew by 3 MB, will be fixed in next upload again.

2011-07-29

• No compiz or unity updates yet but dx is planning on some for monday it seems
• GNOME 3.1.4 landed
• GNOME in shape for alpha3, unity and compiz are having issues though, dx is working on those but timing is tight for alpha3 it seems

2011-08-05

• Alpha3 is out, no real blocker issues but still quite some feature that didn't land yet
• Unity got some small updates this week but their feature work will land next week
• GNOME 3.1.4 is in Oneiric, no blocker issue
• Compiz gsettings still being worked by Dx but is not ready yet

2011-08-12

• Reduced activity during a part of the week due the desktop summit participation and holidays
• We got most of the feature landed before the feature freeze though
• New unity and indicator stack got uploaded on time for the freeze (with quite some bugs though)
• Compiz still pending from dx, will likely need a ffe
• GNOME 3.1.5 coming next week

2011-08-19

• GNOME 3.1.5 mostly landed except for three remaining packages.
• Landed some high-urgency fixes in unity which cause a lot of crashes and other grief on Friday.

• We currently have a harder decision to make about whether or not to update pygobject to 2.90 (i. e. future 3.0). See 828751 for details and pro/con.

• Lots of bug fixing this week.
• Still swamped by too many "last mile" work items for 90% done specs, and a large bug backlog.

2011-09-02

• Landed remaining bits of GNOME 3.1.5.
• New compiz/unity release, which should fix some annoying bugs.
• pygobject 2.90 transition/upgrade mostly complete, but found breakage with ubiquity at the last minute; problems were tracked down, and Martin proposed fixes. Once they land, we can do the update right after beta-1.
• Fresh language packs landed, bringing desktop CDs within size limit.
• Alternate seeds fixed, bringing alternate CDs within size limit.
• Lots of bug fixing, including some UI warts like the screen saver looking like gnome shell.
• Got apport retracers working again, and caught up with the backlog.
• Still swamped by too many "last mile" work items for 90% done specs, and a large bug backlog.

2011-09-09

• Updated GNOME to 3.1.91 (second beta). Just two packages (gnome-screensaver and gnome-user-docs) are behind still, updates in progress.
• New compiz/unity release with lots of rebuilds due to yet another libunity ABI break. This finally brings CJK support, works with Qt 4.7.4 (now also uploaded), and fixes two dozen bugs.
• pygobject 2.90 transition done, ubiquity fix merged. No known breakage from this any more.

• OneConf got broken due to switching software-center to the GTK 3 version, but Didier ported it over, so it's working again.

• Did some NBS transitions/portings/package removals to eliminate libpanel-applet2, libnotify1, libcamel-1.2-28, and libevent-1.4-2; waiting for arm/powerpc to catch up until we can fully remove them.
• We still have a number of open work items, but most of them are now the "ensure that..", "test that...", "talk to..", and "create blueprint for P..." kind

2011-09-16

• GNOME 3.1.92 is due on Monday; expected that most changes will be translation updates and minor bug fixes, so we will be careful with uploading these during the beta-2 freeze. glib and GTK were already updated on Thursday to the latest upstream fixes from git, to minimize potential breakage next Monday.

• Landed LibreOffice 3.4.3.

• Loots of good bug fixes this week.

• Investigated main culprits for boot speed regressions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/11.10/BootSpeedAnalysis; the biggest problem has a fix and is just waiting for an (unrelated) string freeze exception. The others are most probably P material.

• Cleaned up remaining work items; most of the remaining issues are now about testing, documenting, and planning for the next release, and there are a few small targets of opportunity left. Code/distro wise this is pretty much done now.

2011-09-23

• We got half of GNOME 3.1.92 in before the freeze, the rest is waiting in unapproved.
• Work items: The remaining issues are now about testing, documenting, and planning for the next release. There is one code-touching item left for firefox to not keep breaking ubuntu-defaults packages with every release.
• Bug fixing.

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