[Desktop] Release Meeting 2012-08-24

[Sebastien Bacher]

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

  * Progress on getting the remote-login feature landed: 
remote-login-service and thin-client-config-agent both hit the archive. 
Patches to enable them are approved, but winding their way into the archive.
  * Sync dnsmasq 2.63 (and update NM), for proper DBus DNS modifications 
support; dnsmasq introducing a way to specify a custom DBus name for the 
instance spawned by NetworkManager
  * Tweaked the accessibility indicator in ubiquity such that it appears 
for all startup conditions except for being run from the desktop.
  * GNOME 3.5.90 updates
  * indicators stack update
  * got web-credential stack promoted, enabled support in gwibber, 
empathy and shotwell
  * libreoffice support for install-on-demand and unity-app-menus
  * compiz-gsettings transition done
  * landed new sync-indicator
  * updated the unity lenses stack


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

So quite some dxteam features didn't land on time and will need to go 
through FFe:

  * compiz GLES landing to compiz-trunk, needs to be tested and released
  * unity coverflow views and previews landed to trunk, unity needs to 
be updated at the same time as compiz (GLES)
  * webapp support in unity (still to land in trunk by ready for review)
  * indicator-messages transition to libmessaging-menu, tracked on 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1040259 (being working in a ppa, almost ready)
  * gwibber lens work
  * firefox integration for webapp (blocked on mozilla to comment)
  * remote login work need to be finished, tracked in 
https://launchpad.net/bugs/1040221
  * llvmpipe improvements
  * stategy for low end machines and arm installs

We hope to have a good part of those ready during the new week (at least 
the 6 first items)


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

* None, focussing on the feature freeze

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

* foundation's XDG_RUNTIME_DIR support still didn't land
* The dropping of unity-2d creates issues, especially on arm (still not 
3d drivers for the pandaboard) that need to be sorted out