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

What was done engineering wise?

• Switched precise over to Rhythmbox, dropped banshee/gbrainy/totem/Mono from CDs.
• More packages got DEP-8 autopkgtest control files now. We now have apport, jockey, upower, postgresql-common now.
• Update our desktop packages (polkit, accountsservice, jockey, language-selector, etc.) for the admin → sudo group migration. This is now the new preferred "administrator" group, but admin should still be recognized for backwards compatibility (for eternity).
• Multi-arch-ified GTK 3, so you can start multiarching plugins and dependencies.
• Started looking into the LightDM KDE greeter: fixed build of the new liblightdm-qt, currently packaging the KDE greeter.

• Wrote 107 manual Unity tests (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UnityTests), fully functionally covering panel, launcher, dash and alt + tab. Some window management interaction is covered as well.

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

• We will soon switch to a GLib/Gtk development version (2.31.x / 3.3.x). We'll test this thoroughly, but it might cause some disruption.

Dependencies on other teams, blocking items

• Nothing right now.

Blueprints

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

Burndown and spec completion levels:

• For alpha-2: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-desktop-team-precise-alpha-2.html

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

Release targetted bugs being worked on/monitored

under investigation:

• 851612 [Logging out from a FUS session does not reliably return to VT7]: Race condition, no progress at figuring out the cause yet

triaged/in progress:

• 857153 [Needs to get accessibility settings from GSettings]: Problem is clear, but has a workaround

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

• 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.

• 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; no progress this week

• 790240 [at-spi needs demotion for precise]: We need to flip openjdk-6/7 to the new at-spi2 adapter, blocker here is just to test whether this actually works. Once that's done, we can move the dependency and demote the rest.

• 712677 [Does not report crashes during "Install Ubuntu" installs]: No progress this week.

Patch available, needs testing/uploading:

fixed since last report:

• 786952 [Wacom Bamboo Pen - Pressure too sensitive]

Archive of previous weekly summaries

2011-11-18

Done:

• 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.

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.

Blockers:

• Waiting for IS to put Unity tarmac setup into production.

2011-11-25

Done:

• 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. Seed changes were applied and uploaded.
• 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.

About to land:

• For alpha-1 we'll switch to Rhythmbox and drop Tomboy/gbrainy from the CDs.

Blockers:

• Nothing right now.

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