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 * Blueprint drafting and approval fully complete last Monday; work items for everyone individually as well as the total number of work items are below or at the computed/agreed limit.
 * Unity (and related projects) tarmac/branch autolanding is now in effect. First actual tests are in place, although not a lot yet, and the Unity ones are currently failing.
 * Unity manual test plan started, making good progress. (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnityTests)
 * Landed Apport client-side crash signature/duplicate detection.
 * It has been decided to go with Rhythmbox as default music player now, and reevaluate the state of Banshee-GTK3 between alpha-3 and beta-1.
 * Ported session-installer to GTK 3 and dropped gnome-codec-install, getting rid of some old libraries.
 * Landed new Zeitgeist, now written in Vala instead of Python. Brings some nice speedups.		  * Didier has been sprinting in London with the #ps unity packagers to get them up to speed
 * The new unity SRU round has been prepared and should be uploaded soon
 * The decision has been taken to build unity with gcc-4.6 until the stl abi issues are resolved
 * work on update-manager refresh continued
 * duplicity got updated
 * GTK 3.5 and GNOME updated landed in quantal
 * Desktop updates
 * Bugs fixing and SRUs
 * Improvement to our tracking tools (versions)
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 * Nothing planned right now.  * The new GTK landing creates some theme related issues (visual bugs, combo boxes broken), #ps has little time and motiviation to deal with Ubuntu issues at the moment though
 
 * leftover from previous week:
 * the "one compiz source" compiz version should be uploaded next week
 * xorg-server 1.12 should be uploaded next week
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== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items == == Summary of bugs working on by team (reasonably reliable) ==
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 * Nothing right now.  * No specific list yet for quantal

== Dependencies on other teams to make deliverables, blocking items, release wide concerns? ==

 * The current upstream Unity team organisational changes makes it hard to know what will land and when for Ubuntu...
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https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+specs?searchtext=desktop-p- https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+specs?searchtext=desktop-q-
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 * For alpha-1: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-desktop-team-precise-alpha-1.html
 * Entire cycle: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-desktop-team.html		  * For alpha-2 milestone: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-quantal/canonical-desktop-team-quantal-alpha-2
 * Entire cycle: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-quantal/canonical-desktop-team.html
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 * Bug:851612 ''[Logging out from a FUS session does not reliably return to VT7]'': Race condition, no progress at figuring out the cause yet
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 * Bug:857153 ''[Needs to get accessibility settings from GSettings]'': Problem is clear, but has a workaround
 * Bug:805136 ''[accounts window doesn't fit on screen and no scrollbar to show hidden fields]'': No progress this week.
 * Bug:810721 ''[at-spi-registryd crashed with SIGSEGV in gconf_client_get_default()]'': Got fixed in at-spi2 (which is what we use now mostly); fix might be applicable to at-spi as well.
 * Bug:828623 ''[gnome control centre does not allow you to disable the laptop screen while leaving an external DisplayPort connected screen working]'': Only affects some systems, but great progress on debugging the cause this week.
 * Bug:790240 ''[at-spi needs demotion for precise]'': Some packages demoted, one left to fix.
 * Bug:786952 ''[Wacom Bamboo Pen - Pressure too sensitive]'': Kernel side should be fixed now in precise, leaving userspace driver fix.
 * Bug:712677 ''[Does not report crashes during "Install Ubuntu" installs]'': No progress this week.		  * Bug:932598 ''[Full hard drive causes xorg and lightdm to fail to load]'': Fixed mountall to create tmpfs /tmp on foll disk, as earlier Ubuntu releases used to do. lightdm still needs a fix.
 * Bug:870297 ''[lightdm logins not being logged in wtmp]'': there is a merge request which went through a first review round
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Patch available, needs testing/uploading: Fix committed, but not uploaded yet:
 * Bug:872701 ''[Keyboard layout doesn't change in screensaver lock dialog]'': there is a fix upstream, should be included in the next gtk upload
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fixed since last report: Fixed since last report:
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##* Details at [[Kubuntu/Todo]] <<Anchor(relnotes)>>

== Cumulative Desktop Release Notes ==
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== 2011-11-18 == === 2012-06-15 ===
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 * Blueprint drafting and approval almost complete (our target was today); work items are almost complete, and everyone individually as well as the total number of work items are below or at the computed/agreed limit.
 * Fixed a couple of bugs in autopkgtest, it's now possible to use for our purposes. Converted the first two packages to DEP-8/autopkgtest for continuous QA integration: upower, apport; more to come. Discussed with Jean-Baptiste how to run these on data center QA machines.
 * Worked on getting Unity test harness and tarmac setup ready to go. Also got 51 manual test cases for Unity acceptance criteria written as a draft, covering panel and launcher for now.
 * Cleanup of GNOME packages, we were able to coordinate with Debian, do a few updates there, and sync a lot.
 * Landed client-side crash signature/duplicate detection in Apport trunk, and discussed integration into Cassandra server with Evan.		  * Ongoing work on hybrid graphics support
 * X.org 1.12 is now available in ubuntu-x-swat/x-stagin
 * Continued on SRUs for precise
 * Updated GNOME a11y stack to latest unstable release
 * Uploaded PulseAudio 2.0 to quantal
 * The next SRU round for the unity stack is being prepared
 * Libreoffice 3.5.4 SRU has been uploaded and is waiting for SRU team review
 * The work on the system compositor advanced enough to start the lightdm work
 * The work for the ui redesign of the third party drivers started
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About to land:
 * By next Monday we decide about Banshee vs. Rhythmbox. That particularly affects U1. But porting U1 to GTK3 is already unblocked, as we won't go with a GTK2 Banshee in precise.		 === 2012-06-08 ===
Done:
 * firefox and thunderbird 13 have been updated for all supported ubuntu series, work started for the next versions in quantal
 * Libreoffice 3.6.0-beta1 is getting ready for quantal (in a ppa for the moment)
 * Update Manager got a slightly new look, more to come in the future
 * GNOME 3.5 updates in quantal
 * The team continued on merges and python3 porting
 * The system compositor work is seeing some good progresses
 * Unity build issues on quantal are being investigate (the build issue have fixes available but unity,nux segfaults when building with the new gcc, that's being investigated)
 * Some SRUs for precise
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Blockers:
 * Waiting for IS to put Unity tarmac setup into production.		 === 2012-06-01 ===

Done:

 * Specs writing is done
 * Continued on SRUs for precise
 * Good progresses on the third party drivers installation spec
 * New firefox (13) and thunderbird are ready for the coming release
 * Got firefox to build with the quantal toolchain
 * Libreoffice 3.5.4 SRU is ready for upload
 * Work on xorg for lts point release updates continued
 * compiz got refactored to be only one source rather than five, the packaging got updated and the new version is finally building

=== 2012-05-25 ===

Done:

 * Catchup after UDS
 * Specs writing
 * Started quantal work, merges, some updates
 * Some SRUs for precise

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

What was done engineering wise?

  • Didier has been sprinting in London with the #ps unity packagers to get them up to speed
  • The new unity SRU round has been prepared and should be uploaded soon
  • The decision has been taken to build unity with gcc-4.6 until the stl abi issues are resolved
  • work on update-manager refresh continued
  • duplicity got updated
  • GTK 3.5 and GNOME updated landed in quantal
  • Desktop updates
  • Bugs fixing and SRUs
  • Improvement to our tracking tools (versions)

What's about to land that might impact the other teams?

  • The new GTK landing creates some theme related issues (visual bugs, combo boxes broken), #ps has little time and motiviation to deal with Ubuntu issues at the moment though
  • leftover from previous week:
  • the "one compiz source" compiz version should be uploaded next week
  • xorg-server 1.12 should be uploaded next week

Summary of bugs working on by team (reasonably reliable)

  • No specific list yet for quantal

Dependencies on other teams to make deliverables, blocking items, release wide concerns?

  • The current upstream Unity team organisational changes makes it hard to know what will land and when for Ubuntu...

Blueprints

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/precise/+specs?searchtext=desktop-q-

Burndown and spec completion levels:

Release targetted bugs being worked on/monitored

under investigation:

triaged/in progress:

  • 932598 [Full hard drive causes xorg and lightdm to fail to load]: Fixed mountall to create tmpfs /tmp on foll disk, as earlier Ubuntu releases used to do. lightdm still needs a fix.

  • 870297 [lightdm logins not being logged in wtmp]: there is a merge request which went through a first review round

Fix committed, but not uploaded yet:

  • 872701 [Keyboard layout doesn't change in screensaver lock dialog]: there is a fix upstream, should be included in the next gtk upload

Fixed since last report:

Cumulative Desktop Release Notes

Archive of previous weekly summaries

2012-06-15

Done:

  • Ongoing work on hybrid graphics support
  • X.org 1.12 is now available in ubuntu-x-swat/x-stagin
  • Continued on SRUs for precise
  • Updated GNOME a11y stack to latest unstable release

  • Uploaded PulseAudio 2.0 to quantal

  • The next SRU round for the unity stack is being prepared
  • Libreoffice 3.5.4 SRU has been uploaded and is waiting for SRU team review
  • The work on the system compositor advanced enough to start the lightdm work
  • The work for the ui redesign of the third party drivers started

2012-06-08

Done:

  • firefox and thunderbird 13 have been updated for all supported ubuntu series, work started for the next versions in quantal
  • Libreoffice 3.6.0-beta1 is getting ready for quantal (in a ppa for the moment)
  • Update Manager got a slightly new look, more to come in the future
  • GNOME 3.5 updates in quantal
  • The team continued on merges and python3 porting
  • The system compositor work is seeing some good progresses
  • Unity build issues on quantal are being investigate (the build issue have fixes available but unity,nux segfaults when building with the new gcc, that's being investigated)
  • Some SRUs for precise

2012-06-01

Done:

  • Specs writing is done
  • Continued on SRUs for precise
  • Good progresses on the third party drivers installation spec
  • New firefox (13) and thunderbird are ready for the coming release
  • Got firefox to build with the quantal toolchain
  • Libreoffice 3.5.4 SRU is ready for upload
  • Work on xorg for lts point release updates continued
  • compiz got refactored to be only one source rather than five, the packaging got updated and the new version is finally building

2012-05-25

Done:

  • Catchup after UDS
  • Specs writing
  • Started quantal work, merges, some updates
  • Some SRUs for precise

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