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

What was done engineering wise?

  • Lots of bug fixing across the desktop.

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

Nothing.

Dependencies on other teams, blocking items

None.

Blueprints

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

Burndown and spec completion levels:

Release targetted bugs being worked on/monitored

under investigation:

  • 907818 [Bluetooth is not fully re-initialized when rfkill switch is toggled]: Debugging made some progress, no fix yet.

triaged/in progress:

  • 844044 [Unity Greeter - Add Network Login option]: Support for showing network login has landed in trunk, but not shown by default yet -- still going back and forth with design team

  • 872701 [Keyboard layout doesn't change in screensaver lock dialog]: No progress this week.

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

  • 870297 [lightdm logins not being logged in wtmp]: No progress this week.

  • 899858 [regression in gvfs to connect/browse using obex]: Debugging made progress, faulty version and patch identified. No fix yet.

Fixed since last report:

  • 868400 [Synaptics touchpad stops working - two syndaemon instances running]

  • 918791 qemu-kvm dies when using vmvga driver and unity in the guest

Cumulative Desktop Release Notes

  • There is a new way to quickly search and access any desktop application's and indicator's menu, called the "HUD". Tap the Alt key and enter some letters and words, and it will show the corresponding entries, including some fuzzy matching. Press enter to execute the action. This one is executed on the current focused application as well as all indicator facilities (like managing emails, sound list, quit…). Also it learns from your previous choices to make the search more and more accurate for you.
  • Until Ubuntu 11.10, the Unix group for administrators with root privileges through sudo had been admin. Starting with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, it is now sudo, for compatibility with Debian and sudo itself. However, for backwards compatibility, admin group members are still recognized as administrators.
  • Automatic Apport crash reporting has been enabled by default again to catch problems early on. It now checks for duplicates on the client side, which will avoid uploading debug data and creating Launchpad bug reports unnecessarily in many cases now.

  • The default music player has been switched to Rhythmbox, which again includes the UbuntuOne music store.

  • LibreOffice has been updated to 3.5 beta 2. Please report any regressions that you notice.

  • When installing new software through software-center, corresponding language support packages (translations, spell check modules particulat to that software, help files, etc.) are now installed along automatically. This removes the need to open "Language Support" after installing new software.

  • pm-utils now has two new scripts to power down USB and various PCI devices in battery mode. A number of desktop packages were fixed to wake up less often. Both of this reduces power consumption and thus battery lifetime.

  • DNS resolution is now done through dnsmasq, which should help split-DNS VPNs and faster DNS resolution.
  • Nautilus quicklist support has been added to Unity launcher.
  • The control-center's "User Interface" panel now allows users to easily configure some properties of Unity.
  • Remmina with FreeRDP is the new standard remote desktop client, replacing Vinagre and rdesktop.

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)

2012-01-06

Done:

  • 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.

About to land:

  • Nothing planned right now.

Blockers:

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

2012-01-13

Done:

  • Finished the new extensive pre-release testing for Unity, packages landing today. This showed that the manual testing is useful and comprehensive (we found some minor regressions) and rises our confidence in the new version.
  • dnsmasq server fixes landed (part of the IPv6 robustification).
  • Power usage improvements: Integrated Colin King's pm-utils script changes, fixed unnecessary wakeups in network-manager, debugged unnecessary wakeups in notify-osd, triaged/debugged some other power issues.
  • Libreoffice 3.5 beta 2 landed in precise, but currently causes archive uninstallability due to missing -l10n packages. Sorting this out ASAP.
  • Went through our work items, adjusted some priorities, and deferred/dropped a few. Closer to the trend line now, and enough fodder for dropping if necessary.

About to land:

  • Nothing planned right now.

Blockers:

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

2012-01-20

Done:

  • Landed LibreOffice 3.5beta2 for good; caused some more CD growth due to extra dependencies, will be fixed when Bjoern gets back from vacation.

  • Landed major changes to DNS resolution for the desktop; DNS resolution will now be done through dnsmasq, which should help split-DNS VPNs and faster DNS resolution.
  • Add Nautilus quicklist support in the Unity launcher.
  • New X.org 1.11 stack prepared and being smoketested, planned to land soon now.
  • Continued work on fixing processes with too many wakeups (power consumption).
  • Wrote scripts to test popular user configuration settings migration in a Lucid → Precise upgrade. Being integrated into Jenkins now.

About to land:

  • X.org server 1.11, with the input stack from 1.12

Blockers:

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

2012-01-27

Done:

  • New X.org 1.11 stack landed; the initial batch missed two nvidia packages, but these were fixed promptly. This went pretty smooth.
  • libindicator ABI change transition, went smoothly.
  • Land rewritten check-language-support, which is much faster and more robust. Create an aptdaemon plugin with it which now automatically installs corresponding language support together with newly installed software.

  • Create scripts to check system and user configuration migration in LTS->LTS updates, now integrated into Jenkins.

  • Land libgnome-keyring and libxklavier introspection.
  • Land fix for unnecessary notify-osd wakeups, through a libwnck API addition.
  • Lots of pm-utils bug fixes and further power consumption tweaks.
  • Update selected GNOME components to 3.3.2.
  • Land major new webkit version; this was tested pretty thoroughly with Ubiquity, software-center, and other software. Please yell if you see regressions in HTML rendering anywhere.
  • The first set of Unity configuration settings are now exposed in control-center.
  • Test and tweak Unity-2D for Qt 4.8, which landed recently.
  • Finished preparations for switching OpenJDK to the new at-spi2 stack.

  • Refine https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/ReleaseProcess

About to land:

  • New compiz release coming soon, was held back because of a startup crash and FTBFS.

Blockers: None.

2012-02-03

Done:

  • Land rewritten check-language-support, which is much faster and more robust. Create an aptdaemon plugin with it which now automatically installs corresponding language support together with newly installed software.

  • Fix gdm->lightdm autologin migration, so the Jenkins system/user configuration upgrade migration tests are much happier now.

  • Land new gnome-control-center UI to configure some Unity properties.
  • OpenJDK now finally switched to the ATK 2 stack.
  • New GTK/GLib stack. This is currently causing some theming regressions, some of which will be fixed by Unity 5.2 (planned to land today).

About to land:

  • Unity 5.2 stack. It was well tested in a PPA before, with formal test cases as well as every-day desktop tasks.

Blockers: None.

2012-02-10

Done:

  • New GTK changed the theme API slightly, the themes got updated but there are still a few issues to resolve.
  • Land music store for Rhythmbox.

  • accountsservice now writes user locale configuration to ~/.pam_environment instead of ~/.profile, to avoid having to touch an actual shell script, and ~/.profile to overwrite the PAM environment settings.

  • FreeRDP 1.0 hit precise. It's undergoing the final tweaks to pass our security review. Once it's in main, we'll update remmina and put it into main (MIR already approved), dropping the old and rather insecure rdesktop/vinagre.
  • Land new ALSA. Introduced a regression which was fixed quickly, should be good now.
  • Update to the latest pieces of the GNOME a11y stack in precise. Land network-manager, Unity launcher, and some other a11y fixes.

  • Add WhatProvides plugin support to PackageKit and aptdaemon, and add plugin for language support packages to language-selector. This allows upstream control-center's region panel to work on Ubuntu.

  • Lots of language-selector code cleanup and bug fixing.
  • XRandR library development progressing well.
  • Went over remaining precise work items, and moved a few blueprints to the Q cycle which will not make it.

About to land:

  • New compiz will be uploaded RSN (Didier has a first version being tested in his ppa). It shouldn't directly affect other teams, but if you notice window manager regressions, please tell us.

Blockers: None

2012-02-17

Done:

  • Land new compiz bug fix version, fixes armel build.
  • Land fatrace, tool to hunt down processes which keep waking up the disk.
  • Improve cups' USB backend to now work with bidirectional mode again and get along with usblp again, which should make the stack more robust and fix some bugs.
  • Evaluate and eventually land GNOME control-center and settings-daemon 3.3.5, with the intrusive changes reverted. This allows us to benefit from the bug fixes.
  • Re-land keyboard indicator for unity-greeter.
  • Extend unity-greeter to allow screen reader and high contrast accessibility options to be activated with keyboard shortcuts, control + S and control + h respectively, same as Ubiquity.
  • Test/compare dual-head functionality on Unity, Unity2D, Mint, classic gnome, xubuntu, lubuntu. Filed and gardened bug reports as appropriate. Now we are at 56% of bug reports closed (target is 60% for precise). Most remaining bug reports are low priority issues
  • Remaining FreeRDP security problems got fixed, now in main. Remmina/FreeRDP now replace the old Vinagre/rdesktop in Ubuntu.

About to land:

  • Unity release got delayed due to some last-minute regressions. We agree to rather landing a good version on Monday than crowbaring it in on FF day.

  • New Apport UI changes from Evan still need some work, will land in the next days. It doesn't change hooks API, mostly just UI, but it might affect e. g. the documentation team.

Blockers: None.

2012-02-24

Done:

  • Land Unity 5.4 with HUD and many bug fixes.

  • Got first LibreOffice build on armhf, many thanks to Jani Monoses for working on the patches! This resolved almost all of the remaining armhf uninstallability, the rest is not much of a concern for beta-1.

  • Land Activity-log-manager for better controlling zeitgeist.
  • Write and land script to debug/report power usage drains.
  • Review and land Evan's Apport GUI rewrite and whoopsie-daisy support.
  • Land Unity Greeter with keyboard indicator, startup sound, and multi-monitor support
  • Land the rest of ALSA 1.0.25.
  • Wrap up desktop-p-multi-monitor work. Most of the remaining issues are lower priority Unity or Gnome issues. There are a couple X issues which we'll follow up on. Unity still has some glitchy behaviors but multi-head works a lot better in precise than it did in oneiric.
  • The new nvidia-current 295.20 is available in the xorg-edgers PPA for precise, and x-updates PPA for earlier Ubuntu versions.

About to land:

  • Nothing planned for beta-1.

Blockers:

  • None

2012-03-02

Done:

  • Released new Unity Greeter with redesigned session chooser.
  • Built fresh language packs for Ubuntu 12.04 beta-1.
  • Packaged most of GNOME 3.3.90.
  • Archive reports now treat armhf as primary supported architecture, and armel as port.
  • Further work on fixing sound init problems for particular sound hardware, particularly the hardware used in VMWare guests.

About to land:

  • Unity 5.6/new compiz, see DX report.

Blockers:

  • None.

2012-03-09

Done:

  • Rebuilt all packages in the archive which had broken md5sums due to previous pkgbinarymangler versions.
  • Lots of Apport bug fixes. In particular, the random GUI crashes that started with the new UI design should be all gone now.
  • Update accessibility stack to current versions, tested qt-at-spi. Quicklists now work, but the HUD doesn't, likely a little work required on the unity-2d side, as the results are recognised as buttons, since the widget set is similar to the dash, bug filed.
  • Lots of bug fixing across the desktop.

About to land:

  • Unity 5.6/new compiz, see DX report.

Blockers: None.

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