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 * Landed GTK 3.3 development release, no major problems known.
 * Fixed several bugs which caused lucid->precise or oneiric->precise upgrades to fail. We had to revert Bug:901638 until soprano-daemon gets fixed (a first attempt was made to build soprano against unixodbc, but that fails at runtime).
 * Fixed remaining long-standing uninstallability in main.
 * poppler ABI transition/porting now fully done in main and universe. That took quite some porting work and reiterated a discussion how much mandays we should really spend on fixing every bit of universe, but it's done now.
 * Started improving accessibility functionality of the Unity greeter, adding keyboard shortcuts for screen reader, high contrast, and accessing the indicator menu bar.
 * 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
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 * Nothing planned right now.  * Nothing specific
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== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items == === Summary of bugs working on by team (reasonably reliable) ===
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 * Help from Kubuntu team to move soprano-daemon to unixodbc would be greatly appreciated. (Bug:901638)  * No specific list yet for quantal

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

 * None
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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-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
 * For alpha-1 milestone: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-quantal/canonical-desktop-team-quantal-alpha-1
 * Entire cycle: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-quantal/canonical-desktop-team.html
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 * Bug:902553 ''[package doc-base 0.10.3 failed to install/upgrade]'': This was believed to be fixed with Bug:89788, but got more confirmation; unreproducible for now, needs more debugging.
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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()]'': No progress this week.
 * 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; no progress this week
 * Bug: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.
 * Bug:712677 ''[Does not report crashes during "Install Ubuntu" installs]'': No progress this week.
 * Bug:850264 ''[given a foreign architecture of i386 on amd64 machine, and an outdated libc, apt tries to remove libc-bin]'': Martin provided a test case, Michael discovered that it's already fixed in trunk, will backport
 * Bug:901638 ''[Remove iodbc2 (causes upgrade failure from Oneiric to Precise)]'': We have a patch to fix the upgrade, but needed to revert it because soprano-daemon still needs the obsolete iodbc2 driver. Help appreciated.
 * 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:
 * Bug:903475 ''[Failed to upgrade from Oneiric to Precise: E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'openoffice.org-writer]'': This should be fixed, waiting on auto dist-upgrade tester to confirm
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:
 * Bug:902077 ''[lucid->precise upgrade holds back X.org video drivers]''
 * Bug:901572 ''[update-openoffice-dicts not present or executable]''
 * Bug:897880 ''[package doc-base 0.10.3 failed to install/upgrade]''
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 == === 2012-05-25 ===
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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.
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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.
 * Catchup after UDS
 * Specs writing
 * Started quantal work, merges, some updates
 * Some SRUs for precise
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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.

== 2011-12-02 ==
Done:
 * 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.

About to land:
 * 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.

Blockers:
 * Nothing right now.

== 2012-12-09 ==
Done:
 * Landed new glib development release 2.31. This caused some dozen packages to FTBFS, but was worked around. No other regressions known right now.
 * Set up http://ddebs.ubuntu.com for armhf.
 * Failsafe-X works again.
 * Improved archive consistency reports (component-mismatches, uninstallability, priority-mismatches) and drove uninstallable packages, priority-mismatches, and architecture-mismatches to zero. Let's keep it that way! All three are now integrated into Jenkins.
 * All unity projects now have working tests and are autolanding gracefully and pushed to the staging PPA (https://launchpad.net/~unity-team/+archive/staging).

About to land:
 * Nothing planned right now.

Blockers:
 * Nothing right now, but help greatly appreciated for Bug:850264

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

What was done engineering wise?

  • 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

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

  • Nothing specific

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?

  • None

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

2012-05-25

Done:

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


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