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

What was done engineering wise?

• Staging PPA for X.org 1.11 is available; still needs a new Unity release for the new multi-touch stack, and has a nasty touchpad regression.
• Completed work to make indicator menus more accessible.

• Major multi-monitor bug review/triage of > 100 bugs: 1/3 reproduced, 1/3 now closed as resolved, 1/3 need more information.

• Started working on boot speed improvements.
• We lag behind alpha-2 work items after the holiday break more than anticipated, will clean up at the rally.

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

• Nothing planned right now.

Dependencies on other teams, blocking items

• Help from Kubuntu team to move soprano-daemon to unixodbc would be greatly appreciated. (901638)

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:

• 911813 [Lucid to Precise: debconf prompt about which DM to use during upgrade]: Was believed to be fixed in oneiric already, needs reproduction and analysis

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()]: No progress this week.

• 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.

• 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.

• 894263 [No log on information through lightdm-gtk-greeter]: No progress this week

• 868400 [Synaptics touchpad stops working - two syndaemon instances running]: No progress this week

Fix committed to bzr, but not uploaded yet:

• 850264 [given a foreign architecture of i386 on amd64 machine, and an outdated libc, apt tries to remove libc-bin]

• 907568 [software-center crashed with SIGSEGV in PyGILState_Ensure()]: It's also a bug in pygobject, but that part is not release critical.

• 905605 [software-center crashed with AttributeError in _decode_value(): 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'decode']

• 888669 [software-center crashed with IndexError in set_thumbnails_from_data(): list index out of range]

fixed since last report:

• 903475 [Failed to upgrade from Oneiric to Precise: E:Could not perform immediate configuration on 'openoffice.org-writer]

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.

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 850264

2012-12-16

Done:

• 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 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.

About to land:

• Nothing planned right now.

Blockers:

• Help from Kubuntu team to move soprano-daemon to unixodbc would be greatly appreciated. (901638)

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