[Desktop] Release Meeting 2012-08-10

[seb128]

=== What was done engineering wise? ===

  * First tests of CUPS 1.6.0 and fixed most urgent Avahi/DNS-SD bugs. 
Printer sharing via Avahi and AirPrint 
<https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AirPrint> works now. Also fixed a regression in 
the last CUPS SRU for Precise which made all Canon inkjets not printing 
the job's last page completely. Pushed the fix through in one day as SRU 
freeze exception for 12.04.1. Reported all these bug and patches upstream.
  * Helped the ARB team with reviewing some softwares for the 
appshowdown contest
  * Quickly Reboot announced, hangouts and discussion coming around 
about our default community developer tooling
  * Focussed on NetworkManager <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManager> 
dnsmasq integration bug fixing; mainly for 12.04.1, more precisely, 
having dnsmasq be restarted less often and updated via DBus instead.
  * Preparing NetworkManager <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManager> to 
ship the Vala bindings it now builds
  * Evolution stack updates and finishing NBS transitions
  * Added/fixed AutoPkgTest <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoPkgTest> tests 
for Evolution-Data-Server
  * Got all bits sorted to get grade 2/contracted braille working again 
with Orca/Brltty
  * Updated orca and at-spi2 stack for latest GNOME 3.5 releases.
  * More pulse 2.1 testing.
  * New Unity release in preparation this week
  * The g-c-c patches are still blocked on taking a decision about llvmpipe.
  * Nothing new, still upstreaming dma-fence/dma-buf-mgr
  * Xorg 1.13 is close to landing and been baking in -proposed.
  * Xorg 1.13 -proposed snapshot is available for propose in 
ppa:ubuntu-x-swat/q-lts-backports

=== What's about to land that might impact the other teams and release 
as a whole? ===

  * xorg 1.13

=== Summary of bugs working on by team (reasonably reliable) ===

* None

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

  * None
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