[DX] Release meeting 2011-12-16

[David Barth]

== What was done engineering wise? ==

  * More bug and usability fixing on the new 5.0 branch, with 31 tasks finished so far. See https://launchpad.net/unity/+milestone/5.0.0

  * Coverity Sprint finishing this week, to complement the capabilities of the test platform.
  * Pending resolution of the AP bug, the test suite still does not run automatically
  * Good progresses on the Compiz test sutie with a lot new tests finally implemented

  * And last but not least, an SRU release has been wrapped for both Unity and Compiz. See https://launchpad.net/unity/4.0/4.26.0 for details of the bug fixes. Those 2 releases are being uploaded into the destkop-team/ppa for testing, but won't go into proposed to avoid problems during the end of year break.

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

  * Nothing this week
  * Unity updates for Precise will now land in the PPA up to the 1st week of January, where a release is planned, just prior to the Budapest Rally.

== Dependencies on other teams, blocking items ==

  * None

== Blueprints ==

  * New blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-p-multi-monitor (tracking items shared between DX and Desktop/Platform)
  * New blueprint: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/dx-p-unity-enhancements, which is provisioned with bugs on the DX/Design radar at http://people.canonical.com/~platform/design/upstream.html

Burndown and spec completion levels:

  * For alpha-2: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-dx-team-precise-alpha-2.html
  * Entire cycle: http://status.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-precise/canonical-dx-team.html

== Release targetted bugs being worked on/monitored ==

23 unity-distro-priority bugs fixed so far.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity-distro-priority for referenc


-- 
David Barth
Engineering Manager, Desktop Experience Team

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