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

What was done engineering wise?

new libusb-based USB CUPS backend
Improved Plug'n'Print UDEV facility of system-config-printer
First printer driver packages using new libjbig are available now: foo2zjs, splix, c2esp
Got some quickly/python-distutils-extra fixes and support for the arb team during the app developer week
Work in progress on new gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-control-center
Continued work on the UI design for Additional Drivers in software-properties
Fixed chromium-browser (18.x) FTBFS in quantal
Worked on updating chromium-browser to latest in the stable channel, 20.x
Libreoffice 3.6 is getting ready for upload in quantal
Get a branch ready for merging into Unity, so that Unity uses libatk-bridge.
First round of indicators updates in quantal, including new session indicator
First round of unity 6 serie updates in quantal, not so many user visible changes but lot of bug fixing and foundation work
Working prototype of system compositor + intel driver
Experimental lightdm,system compositor work ready to test, see https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-desktop/2012-July/003890.html

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

Burndown and spec completion levels:

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:

Wrote some integration tests for different desktop components
Improved libusb-based USB CUPS backend a lot
A Software Updater redesign landed and the release upgrader was moved to its own package
Desktop SRUs for precise
Accessibility work unity and unity-panel-service
Unity 6.0 and Nux 3.0 release preparation (with the lenses transition).
New firefox,thunderbird beta version
Work on libreoffice 3.6 beta continued
Compiz on gsettings is getting ready
Uploaded x1.12 into ubuntu-x-swat/q-lts-backport
Working with debian on making libdrm_nouveau new and old abi parallel installable using f17's patch
Working upstream on dma-buf synchronisation problem
lightdm,system compositor work is ongoing
some GNOME updates
software-properties port to python3 got uploaded

Done: * libreoffice 3.6.0 beta2 pre-released in a ppa for precise and quantal

work on "ubuntu drivers" (jockey replacement) continued, including port to python3 (waiting for review)
gtk got updated, included new a11y libraries and accessibility on by default
xserver 1.12 got uploaded
compiz "one tree version" (i.e all the components merged in one source) got upload
work is on progress on orca-python3
GNOME 3.5 updates
update-manager work continued, included reviews and some of changes landing to trunk (should make their way to distro soon)
new firefox beta version in quantal including some fixes to our customization changes

Done:

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)

Done:

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

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

Done: